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  Hello Families! We started our week by finishing up learning about polar bears. We completed our comprehension check-ins to reinforce vocabulary, PECs, following simple directions and overall comprehension. Then in the afternoon we made a polar bear craft! This craft touched on many skills such as: fine motor, following simple directions, "pulling" with their finger tips to break apart the cotton balls, squeezing the liquid glue, using their visual attention to place the different pieces in the correct spot. Both OT & Speech joined us for this group session to support both the functional and communication needs.  On Tuesday we started to learn about penguins! We read a story, completed our vocabulary in our journal, read a Scholastic News article and labeled the different parts of a penguin. Everyone did a great job with their communication, speaking in full sentences, identifying the correct picture to answer questions, identifying colors and more! We read a Scholastic...

  Hello Families! This week we learned all about Polar Bears! The students were so engaged, they really love learning about all different kinds of animals. We started a "Animals That Live In The Cold" journal where they'll showcase the different activities we do and the animals we learn about. This week we started off with our vocabulary page, a Scholastic News article about polar bears, and labeling the different parts of a polar bear.  Our Scholastic News article reinforced the new vocabulary introduced earlier in the week. Everyone took turns pointing out different parts of the pictures and key words.  After we projected the article we re-read a paper copy. We glued on pictures to describe each fact presented in the article. We learned that polar bears are great swimmers, they can walk on ice, and they have dens to sleep and keep warm and there's sometimes cubs inside too! We practiced our simple graphing skills. We counted the different polar animals and then made...