Baby, It's Cold Outside!

We spent our first couple of days back at school learning about dressing for the weather.  We loved playing "What's In The Bag?" and matching items to the type of weather it was appropriate for.  In addition to learning about what to wear during different types of weather, we also spent the two days getting back in our routine.  Teachers and students went over their new learning tasks in their personalized boxes.  This week we will be learning about manners!  I know it is going to be a wonderful week!

New Year, New Resolutions

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!  I so enjoyed our little break, but I am very happy to be back and getting on a schedule.  My classroom new year's resolution is to get better at keeping my blog updated.  If I fall behind you all will just have to send me a reminder! 

This week we will be learning about dressing for the weather.  I hope everyone has a great start to the semester!
--B. McKee

Giving Thanks

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. I had so much fun celebrating Thanksgiving during our last two days of school.  It was so refreshing to talk about things we are thankful for.  See the yummy chocolate turkeys that we enjoyed below!                                                                                                                                                                               Our classroom has something very special to be thankful for:  Cullman Church of Christ Youth Group raised money especially for our classroom!  We are going to be able to purchase a projector for our classroom.  I am so excited by this news, and I know it will enhance our students' learning experience.  I am hoping this new equipment will encourage our students to learn several new skills! 

Just VOTE!

This week we have spent our time learning about our govenment and voting.  Tuesday we held a classroom election and voted with our own privacy shields and ballots.  We also learned about past presidents and our current president.  We read and used an Alabama sample ballot.  For our Friday activity we had a very special treat:  We were able to vote for all of our activities for the day!  It was also a perfect lead into the upcoming study on PATRIOTISM.  Don't forget that next week is a short week-- we celebrate Veterans' Day on Monday!  I will see everyone's smiling faces on Tuesday. :)

H-A-double L O W double E N (spells Halloween!)

After a week of camping lessons, I failed and forgot to update our blog!  Our camping week was wonderful.  We were able to make a tent and had smores at the end of the week for our treat.

That brings us to this week, we learned all about the holiday at hand, Halloween.  We read 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffery, had a Halloween party on Wednesday, and decorated Halloween treat bags.  We had a great week celebrating this unique holiday.  We are preparing for the upcoming election this week by learning all about VOTING.  we will be taking a vote for our classroom.  I will be sure to keep everyone updated!

Have a happy week and don't forget to VOTE on Tuesday!!!

Farm Animals Galore

Before getting to what all we did last week, I have some GREAT news!  We reached our goal, and our classroom will be getting an electronic tablet to use for communication and learning other skills!

Last week we had a great time learning about different farm animals!  We made construction paper horse faces, sang Old Macdonald, matched different animals, AND did a felt activity with The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly.  We picked out each animal that lives on a farm.  We heard different animal sounds, and we also were able to see some real-life farm pictures one of our students brought to share.  This week we will be learning about camping--Looking forward to all of the spooky camping stories.  Please send any if you would like to share!

**Remember:  This week is homecoming week.  Dress up to show your school spirit!** 

Pumpkin Season!

Last week we learned about pumpkins.  We were able to paint the pumpkins, make pumpkin prints, dissect pumpkins, and count pumpkin seeds.  We also got to try pumpkin seeds-- yum!  Everyone loved this special snack.  To finish off the week, we got to read AND watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Friday was a very special day because we also celebrated Retts Awareness month.  We are so proud of our students with Retts Syndrome.  Enjoy the link below of our student with the Prattville Mayor!

http://www.prattvilleal.gov/News/october-is-rett-syndrome-month.html#.UGyjEicZCFk.gmail

This week we will be learning about farm animals, so look forward to lots of animal art!