Maize Maze.

The ABC School students, teachers, and families once again took a field trip to the Corn Maze.  This is definitely a highlight of the year.  The kids were able to do many activities, such as walking through a corn maze, riding a cow train, playing in a giant shed filled with corn kernels, riding oversized trikes, pumping water for duckie races, and many more.

Fall-ing in love with learning.

Apple tree for Fun Friday.

Can you tell by these smiles that Fun Friday really is FUN?

Library time with Ms. Amrita.

Playing a game in library time.

Scarecrow Fun Friday.

I don't think this tasty scarecrow will keep the birds away...

...it sure didn't keep these students from munching theirs.

We "be-leaf" fall is the best!

Raking leaves helps with gross motor skills - and teamwork skills.

This is harder than it looks!

Raking leaves is fun!

Ms. Sharon (our OT), helping a student balance

his way to the pumpkin.

 

Mr. Pumpkin has his hat back!

 

An apple a day, keeps us happy at play.

"Leaping into Fall!"

Sharing a favorite apple book.

Look, we can spell "apple"!

This boy brought in a bunch of apples to share.

This boy is reading his own apple story.

Why bring an apple, when you can bring apple pie!

There's a new teacher in town.

The kids love music time.

Singing is fun!

"We're nuts about ABC School"

Apple Fun Friday.

Almost every Friday, ABC teachers set up "Fun Friday" for the students. This is a special time for the students to have fun making their own snacks with different kinds of food - and then they get to eat them! The teachers make Fun Friday creative: a Twinkie "school bus", mini-caramel apples, and animal-shaped grilled cheese sandwiches are a few of the snacks made this year. The goal of Fun Friday is to encourage kids to try new foods. By allowing the students to "cook" the snack themselves, they get a chance to get up close and personal with different textures, colors, smells, and tastes that they may typically avoid.

 

What is our Fun Friday for our apple theme? Why "candy" apples, of course!

 

Mmm - chocolate, marshmallow fluff, and caramel!

Chocolate apples are the best!

Eating apples isn't hard when they're "candied".

Just look at that happy face.

 

 

 

October Newsletter

 

 

 

The first month of school was a great success!  We are now finishing up with our “All About Apples” theme and will move onto our “Fall” theme.  We have been incorporating the themes into our every day academic and language groups.  Ms. Sharon has also followed our theme in her OT sessions! The learning concepts that we have been focusing on are following directions, descriptions, classification and sequencing as well as the core concepts of colors, numbers, counting, letters, phonics and sight words.

We are gearing up for our field trip to the corn  maze (be sure to get your permission slip in!) and are excited about our “Orange Lunch” that will take place at the end of the month (details to follow).

Our October themes are Fall, Leaves, Pumpkins and Halloween!

Mark Your Calendar

 

October 8^th- No school, Columbus Day

October 16^th- Parent Night – 6:00pm

October 18^th – Ms. Amrita (librarian) here

October 26^th- No School – Teacher Work Day

October 23^rd – Field Trip to Corn Maze

October 30^th – Orange Lunch (Details to follow)

 

 

Things To Do At Home:

      We have been exploring with different sensory items and textures: shaving cream, beans, rice and nuts. You can continue to do this as well at home!

      Use the communication sheets to talk to students about how well they are doing or things that they can work on for the next day.

 

Friendly Reminders -

 

ü  If you are running late or your child will be out of school for the day, it would be helpful to our staff if you could notify us as soon as possible at 704-443-2990

 ü  It is starting to get cooler, so you may want to send in alternative extra clothes.  Please be sure to label clothing and jackets J

 

Notables:

* Remember you may communicate with the     staff by using our email address

abcschoolstaff@gmail.com

We encourage parents to share other  professional’s reports (i.e. neurologist, therapists-speech, OT, PT, ABA, or specialists) as it is very helpful to us to better understand your child.  All reports will be kept confidential.

Thank you,

Linda, Laura, Jacqueline, Robin,

and Sharon