Room 1 News!

Hello Families! Hope everyone had a great week! We are currently reading an adapted version of Frog and Toad Are Friends. It's one of my favorites and also a Caldecott medal book too; which is awarded  to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children! Above is a sample of how the stories are presented to the students. I have simplified the story to just include the most important concepts and details from the story to ensure their understanding. Each word/sentence is composed of picture symbols to support their reading and word identification. While reading, I'll often stop in the middle of the sentences to have students read the words or identify the pictures. My friends that are visually impaired have objects to represent the characters and also switches to be able to participate and identify key characters.  Important Dates to Remember: SSELAC ( Smithfield Special Education Local Advisory Commit...

Hello Families! Happy Valentine's Day!  💝  Room 1 received a special valentine all the way from Indianapolis from K9 Lando and Officer Molly Groce! I made copies of the back of the card for each student so that they were able to reply to Lando. Everyone agreed to be his Valentine- no surprise there! I sent all the replies was sent back to Lando & Molly along with pictures of the students participating in the activity!     This week was Spirit Week I was able to capture friends dressed in their pjs! We had a great week together! I hope everyone has a great February break!!! Miss Feeley

Hello Families and Friends! I hope everyone had a great week! This week we added on some new activities to our morning meeting to directly correlate with what is occurring in the different grade level classes.  We now have a blank calendar that the students will write the number "day" on to practice  fine motor and writing numbers.  Next the students record and graph the weather each day. Some friends have tactile symbols to represent the weather to create understanding. They also have adapted graphs where they put on raised textured stickers.  Then, the students identify what our daily special is. Some students use symbols, while other friends are using tactile symbols to represent  each of our four specials.  Friday afternoons we have our 5th grade peers come into our classroom for reverse inclusion. The 5th graders come in to read to us. We sit together as a big group and each 5th grader takes a turn reading a page an...

Hello Families! We've had a fun week full of smiles and learning too and I was lucky enough to be able to capture a few of these moments.  This week News-2-You had an adapted article about the Super Bowl! The students were all very engaged and enjoyed coming up to circle important key words. Everyone did an excellent job on their comprehension questions too.  I hope everyone has a great weekend!!! Miss Feeley