This week, we started to learn about Winter Holidays.  We learned a little about Hanukkah.  We read the books Hanukkah Pajamakahs and The Count's Hanukkah Countdown.  Here's what we learned: 

• Hanukkah is a Winter Holiday that some people celebrate.

• Hanukkah lasts 8 nights and the people who celebrate it get a gift each night.

• A candle is lit each night of Hanukkah. The candles that stand together are called a menorah.

• People who celebrate Hanukkah play a game with a dreidel.  A dreidel spins. 

• There are gold coins called gelt.

• Some people who celebrate eat latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly donuts).

• Hanukkah is called the Festival of Lights.

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school. 

      You can find photos from our horseback riding trips to Camp Cheerful here.

     Next week, we will learn about more Winter Holidays. We will mostly learn more about Kwanzaa which starts on December 26. If your family celebrates Kwanzaa, please let me know! We would love to hear about it from a more authentic viewpoint.  We will also start to make gifts for people in our school (like our bus drivers, bus aides, and therapists). 

     On December 15, we will have our annual B106 GRINCH DAY!  This is a super fun day where everything we do is green or "Grinch-themed!"  We hope your child will wear green or something grinchy that day! 

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, 3D shapes (cone, cube, cylinder, pyramid, sphere, rectangular prism), matching

Other: practicing "wait" time, Winter Holidays

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, WH questions, irregular vowel teams - review oi, oy, and ow as in "cow" and ou as in "out"

Math Focus: Addition, Skip Counting by 5s, Counting groups of silver coins

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, Winter Holidays

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Beginning Sounds, Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple, pink, introduce "white"

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Place Value (ones and tens), counting on from 10

Other: Winter Holidays, starting to complete 1-2 tasks independently as "independent work"

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds, sorting, counting aloud and telling "how many," naming 3D shapes

Other: Winter Holidays

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Reading: first sounds, blending sounds into words, sight words one, two, three, the, a, blue, yellow, look, words starting with consonant clusters

Math: addition and subtraction, 2D and 3D shapes

Other: Winter Holidays

Dates to Know:

Dec. 6- PSO Book Fair and Holiday Shoppe

Dec. 15- GRINCH DAY!

Dec. 16- Pajama Day

Dec. 17- Candy Cane Day

Dec. 18- Holiday Hat Day, Last Horseback Riding Session for the year, party with Mrs. Carvell's and Miss Ruth's classes

Dec. 19- Deck the Halls Day, Winter Parties in homeroom classrooms!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

Jan. 5- Back to School!

Jan. 12- No School! Teacher Work Day

Jan. 19- No School for MLK, Jr. Day!

Jan. 23- Kolis out at district meetings all day

Feb. 4 - Third Grade Field Trip to Playhouse Square

Feb. 13- Valentine's Day parties

     This week, we did a LOT of Thanksgiving projects!  We read Turkey Trouble, Bear Says Thanks, and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey!  We made so many different versions of a turkey and can't wait for you to see them all! We had a great session in art therapy painting with corn cobs and a fun session in music therapy with the big blue scarf!

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school. 

      You can find photos from our horseback riding trips to Camp Cheerful here.

     In the next week, we hope you find time to relax and enjoy your kids!  We are so lucky and thankful that you share them with us each day!  We continue to be amazed at the progress we are making this year and are so thankful for each of your families!  Happy Thanksgiving!

     After the break, we will start to talk about holidays that happen in the winter months like Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, and Chinese New Year!  If there is another holiday that your family celebrates that you'd like us to learn about, please let me know!

     On December 15, we will have our annual B106 GRINCH DAY!  This is a super fun day where everything we do is green or "Grinch-themed!"  We hope your child will wear green or something grinchy that day! 

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, 3D shapes (cone, cube, cylinder, pyramid, sphere, rectangular prism), matching

Other: practicing "wait" time, Winter Holidays

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, WH questions, irregular vowel teams (review oi, oy, and ow as in "cow") then introduce ou as in "out"

Math Focus: Addition, Skip Counting by 5s, Counting groups of silver coins

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, Winter Holidays

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Beginning Sounds, Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple, pink (coming up after break: white)

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Place Value (ones and tens), counting on from 10

Other: Winter Holidays, starting to complete 1-2 tasks independently as "independent work"

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds, sorting, counting aloud and telling "how many"

Other: Winter Holidays

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Reading: first sounds, blending sounds into words, sight words one, two, three, the, a, blue, yellow, look

Math: addition and subtraction, 2D and 3D shapes

Other: Winter Holidays

Dates to Know:

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 6- PSO Book Fair and Holiday Shoppe

Dec. 15- GRINCH DAY!

Dec. 18- Last Horseback Riding Session for the year

Dec. 19- Winter Parties in homeroom classrooms!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

Jan. 5- Back to School!

      I need to send a special THANK YOU to Mrs. P, Miss Alex, and Mrs. Vertosick for holding things down on Monday and Tuesday when I was out.  Our kids could not have been in better hands!

      This week, we started off with some U.S. Symbols and learning about Veterans' Day. Later in the week, we started into Thanksgiving activities and what we might eat and do on Thanksgiving.  If your family has a non-traditional Thanksgiving, please share that and we can work it in (for example: I always bring pizza on Thanksgiving instead of something "traditional."). 

      Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school. 

      You can find photos from our horseback riding trips to Camp Cheerful here.

     Next week, we will continue to engage in Thanksgiving activities that center around family traditions, what we might do and eat on Thanksgiving, and fun turkey crafts.  We will look forward to our week off in November and start thinking about the three weeks we will have before our Winter Break.

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, 3D shapes (cone, cube, cylinder, pyramid, sphere, rectangular prism)

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, Thanksgiving foods and turkeys

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, WH questions

Math Focus: Addition

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, Thanksgiving foods and turkeys

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Beginning Sounds, Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple, pink (coming up after break: white)

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Place Value (ones and tens), counting on from 10

Other: characteristics of Fall, Thanksgiving foods and turkeys

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds

Other: characteristics of Fall, Thanksgiving foods and turkeys

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Reading: first sounds, blending sounds into words, sight words one, two, three, the, a, blue, yellow

Math: 2D Shapes, flat sides, vertices

Other: characteristics of Fall, Thanksgiving foods and turkeys

Dates to Know:

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 6- PSO Book Fair and Holiday Shoppe

Dec. 18- Last Horseback Riding Session for the year

Dec. 19- Winter Parties in homeroom classrooms!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

Jan. 5- Back to School!

     This week, we revisited some apple and pumpkin activities while also starting to learn more about Election Day, U.S. Symbols, and Veterans' Day.  We read Pumpkin Jack and started tracking the changes in our decomposing pumpkin.  We also read Hero Mom in preparation for our Veterans' Day activities.

      Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school. 

     You can find photos from our horseback riding trips to Camp Cheerful here. 

      Next week, we will use a theme of Veterans' Day before we move into Thanksgiving activities.  We will read Hero Dad and Hugs for Daddy before moving into family traditions and Thanksgiving dinner options.

      November 13 is Picture Re-take Day! PLEASE let me know if you want to have your child's photo re-taken that day!

Note: I will be out on Nov 10 and 11. Mrs. Gdovicak will be our sub.  Please note that you will not get an emailed daily report on those days. I will keep in touch if there are things that happen that are out of the ordinary.  The plan for both days includes activities centered around Veterans' Day. 

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, 3D shapes (cone, cube, cylinder, pyramid, sphere, rectangular prism)

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, U.S. Symbols, Veterans' Day

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, finding facts in nonfiction text, irregular vowel teams oi and oy

Math Focus: Addition

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, U.S. Symbols, Veterans' Day

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Beginning Sounds, Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple, pink

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Place Value (ones and tens), counting on from 10

Other: characteristics of Fall, U.S. Symbols, Veterans' Day

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds

Other: characteristics of Fall, U.S. Symbols, Veterans' Day

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Reading: first sounds, blending sounds into words, sight words one, two, three, the, a, blue

Math: 3D Shapes, heavy and light, writing numbers 

Other: characteristics of Fall, U.S. Symbols, Veterans' Day

Dates to Know:

Nov. 10 and 11- Miss Kolis out (Sub: Mrs. Gdoviciak)

Nov. 11- Primary School (grade 2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 13- Picture Retake day! 

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

Jan. 3- Back to School!

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, introduction to 3D shapes (cone, cube, cylinder, pyramid, sphere, rectangular prism)

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, Election Day, U.S. Symbols

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, finding facts in nonfiction text, Intro. to Irregular Vowel Teams that make alternate sounds -oy- as in loyal

Math Focus: Addition

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, Election Day, U.S. Symbols

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Beginning Sounds, Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple. New word: pink (I think we will actually get to it this week!)

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Place Value (ones and tens), counting on from 10

Other: characteristics of Fall, Election Day, U.S. Symbols

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds

Other: characteristics of Fall, Election Day, U.S. Symbols

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Reading: first sounds, blending sounds into words, sight words one, two, three, the, a

Math: 3D Shapes, heavy and light, writing numbers 

Other: characteristics of Fall, Election Day, U.S. Symbols

Dates to Know:

Nov. 10 and 11- Miss Kolis out (Sub: Mrs. Gdoviciak)

Nov. 11- Primary School (grade 2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 13- Picture Retake day!

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

Jan. 3- Back to School!

     This week, we used the theme of pumpkins.  We had a fun week making many different pumpkin crafts and ended the week getting to learn the parts and life cycle of a pumpkin. We heard the books Spookley the Square Pumpkin, and Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins.  

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school.

     You can find photos from our horseback riding trips to Camp Cheerful here.   

     Next week, we will continue with pumpkins. We will explore real pumpkins and scoop out the insides as a great sensory experience!  We will read a book called Pumpkin Jack and will learn more about the life cycle of a pumpkin.  We will also engage in some Halloween activities leading up to the Halloween parties on Friday, Oct. 31.  Each student will go to their homeroom class for the parties. A social story about your child's party will come home soon!

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, Does it Sink or Float?

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, pumpkins, Halloween

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, finding facts in nonfiction text, Intro. to Irregular Vowel Teams that make alternate sounds (continue with oi as in boil and then move to oy as in loyal). 

Math Focus: Continue with our re-introduction to addition

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, Does it Sink or Float?, pumpkins,  Halloween

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Beginning Sounds, Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple. New word: pink

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Place Value (ones and tens).

Other: characteristics of Fall, Does it Sink or Float?, pumpkins, Halloween

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds, number words one, two, three

Other: characteristics of Fall, pumpkins, Halloween

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Focus: handwriting book, first sounds, blending sounds to make words, number words one, two, three

Other: characteristics of Fall, pumpkins, Halloween

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Oct. 24- PSO's Trunk or Treat, starting at 5:30pm

Oct. 31- Halloween Parties in homerooms

Nov. 10- Miss Kolis out (Sub: Mrs. Gdoviciak)

Nov. 11- Primary School (grade 2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

Jan. 3- Back to School!

     This week, we used the theme of scarecrows.  We had a fun week making many different scarecrows and hearing stories about scarecrows like The Little Scarecrow Boy and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves.  We got a chance to make our very own "share-crow" to draw birds to our garden rather than deter them. We placed it right outside our classroom window so that we could watch to see if any birds come to our feast!  Thank you to our families who donated for our project and to Mr. Hartland for making the share-crow frame!  Thanks to Mr. Hartland and Mrs. Toth for joining us too!

     We also got to enjoy a really fun annual assembly from Jim "Basketball" Jones!  We have been delighting in his presentations for over 20 years and he is STILL entertaining to both kids and adults!  Basketball Jones talks about his experience in school and how you have to keep trying! He spoke of "patient listening" where you have to think about what someone has just told you. He also shares that it's okay to make mistakes as long as you keep trying!

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school.

     You can find photos from our horseback riding trips to Camp Cheerful here.   

      Next week, we will use the theme of pumpkins! We will use our five senses to do pumpkin investigations, learn about the parts of a pumpkin, label diagrams of pumpkins, and have some pumpkin fun! Do pumpkins sink or float?

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, Does it Sink or Float?

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, pumpkins

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, finding facts in nonfiction text, Intro. to Vowel Teams that make alternate sounds (oi as in boil). 

Math Focus: Re-intro. to addition

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, Does it Sink or Float?, pumpkins

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple. New word: pink

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Counting groups of 1-20 objects with 1:1 correspondence, Place Value (ones and tens).

Other: characteristics of Fall, Does it Sink or Float?, pumpkins

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds, number words one, two, three

Other: characteristics of Fall, pumpkins

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Focus: handwriting book, first sounds, blending sounds to make words, number words one, two, three

Other: characteristics of Fall, pumpkins

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day), Happy Birthday Cayden! Donuts tomorrow!!! 

Oct. 24- PSO's Trunk or Treat

Oct. 31- Halloween Parties in homerooms

Nov. 10- Miss Kolis out (Sub: Mrs. Gdoviciak)

Nov. 11- Primary School (grade 2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

Jan. 3- Back to School!

     This week, we finished up our theme of apples and moved on to a few days of horses!  We also really enjoyed our first day of therapeutic horseback riding for the 2025 school year!  You can find photos from our horseback riding trips to Camp Cheerful here.   

      Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school.

     Next week, we will use the theme of scarecrows!  We will read books like The Little Scarecrow Boy , There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves, and The Not So Scary Scarecrow.  We will make our very own "share" crow for our garden later in the week!

      Also this week, we will work on collecting the rest of our IEP data for the first quarter of the 25-26 school year.  This data will be reported to you during the last week of October. 

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, sorting, shapes and colors

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, scarecrows

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, finding facts in nonfiction text, review words with the vowel teams ai, ay, oa, ea, ee, ow (long o sound). 

Math Focus: Counting groups of silver coins (Q, D, N), re-intro. to addition

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, scarecrows

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple.

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Counting groups of 1-20 objects with 1:1 correspondence, naming/choosing 2D shapes, concepts of big/small, more/less, tall/short (coming soon- Skip Counting by 2s, Place Value blocks). 

Other: characteristics of Fall, scarecrows

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, first sounds in words paired with pictures, matching capital and lowercase letters, letter sounds, number words one, two, three

Other: characteristics of Fall, scarecrows

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Focus: handwriting book, first sounds, blending sounds to make words, number words one, two, three

Other: characteristics of Fall, scarecrows

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 17- Jim "Basketball" Jones assemblies, last day of the first quarter!

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day), Happy Birthday Cayden! Donuts tomorrow!!! 

Oct. 24- PSO's Trunk or Treat

Oct. 31- Halloween Parties in homerooms

Nov. 10- Miss Kolis out (Sub: Mrs. Gdoviciak)

Nov. 11- Primary School (grade 2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

    This week, we did many activities about apples.  We used lots of science skills like looking at and labeling diagrams, making observations, and using our five senses. We also used lots of math and fine motor skills as we sorted, cut, glued, counted, and described apples.  We read books like Ten Apples Up on Top, Bad Apple, and the Biggest Apple Ever. 

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school.

     Next week, we will finish up our apple theme and then we will spend some time talking about what to expect at our first Therapeutic Horsemanship Program session on Oct. 9.  We will get a social story to help us visualize what Camp Cheerful looks like and be prepared for what to expect. 

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, taller/shorter, sorting 

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, apples, horseback riding

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Fiction vs. nonfiction text, finding facts in nonfiction text, words with the vowel team "ow" such as "mow, row, grow, bow, blow, glow, snow."

Math Focus: Counting groups of silver coins (Q, D, N), re-intro. to addition

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, apples, horseback riding

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple.

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Counting groups of 1-20 objects with 1:1 correspondence, naming/choosing 2D shapes, concepts of big/small, more/less, tall/short (coming soon- Skip Counting by 2s, Place Value blocks). 

Other: characteristics of Fall, apples, horseback riding

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (RA): 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, handwriting book, concepts of measurement like more/less, big/small, taller/shorter, first sounds, sorting by category

Other: characteristics of Fall, apples, horseback riding

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom (CJ): 

Focus: handwriting book, concepts of measurement like more/less, big/small, taller/shorter, first sounds, sorting by category

Other: characteristics of Fall, apples, horseback riding

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Oct. 7- Happy Birthday, Joey!  Donuts!!!

Oct. 7- Miss Kolis out at district-level meetings today. (Sub TBA)

Oct. 7- Grade 3 Walking Field Trip (Hayden)

Oct. 9- First Day of Therapeutic Horsemanship Program!

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 17- Jim "Basketball" Jones assemblies

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day), Happy Birthday Cayden! Donuts tomorrow!!!

Oct. 24- PSO's Trunk or Treat

Oct. 31- Halloween Parties in homerooms

Nov. 10- Miss Kolis out. (Sub TBA)

Nov. 11- Primary School (grade 2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 22- Jan. 2- Winter Break!

Dec. 29- Happy Birthday, Easton!

     This week, we continued to talk about the characteristics of Fall.  We read the books Leaf Man, Pete the Cat Falling for Autumn, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, and The Leaf Thief.  We practiced sorting leaves by color.  We also talked about how the weather will start to change soon and how the days will get shorter.  We continued to review the Zones of Regulation and practiced our first calming strategy: Taking a deep breath. 

      We also got out to the garden this week to plant some mums in our raised beds! We wanted to make sure that we are ready for fall in Project Grow: Planting for a Purpose.

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school.

     Next week, we will enjoy an apple theme.  We will get to taste apples, sort them by colors, observe them, and use our five senses to describe them.  We will read books like Apples, Apples, Apples, The Biggest Apple Ever, Bad Apple, and Ten Apples Up On Top!  We will make apple scented play-dough using apple-scented conditioner and cornstarch. 

      Also next week, we will start to incorporate the Unified Sports activities from Young Athletes and Junior Athletes.  We will start with rolling and trapping. As a Unified Sports School (sponsored by Special Olympics Ohio), we will practice at least 8 different activities throughout the year and host a "Showcase" in March of 2026!

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, more/less and big/small, taller/shorter

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall, apples

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Focus on the questions "where" and "what are they doing?" after reading/ listening to text (settings, action words), words with the vowel team "ay" such as today, tray, gray, hay, May, play, player, sway, clay

Math Focus: Counting groups of silver coins (Q, D, N), concepts of more/less, big/small, taller/shorter, sorting in different ways (shape, color, category)

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall, apples

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Introduce a new color word: purple, Review red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown.

Decoding- "tapping out" the sounds in a word, blending the word, matching the picture to the word.

Math Focus: Counting groups of 1-20 objects with 1:1 correspondence, naming/choosing 2D shapes, concepts of big/small, more/less, tall/short

Other: characteristics of Fall, apples

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom: 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, start handwriting book, concepts of measurement like more/less, big/small, taller/shorter, first sounds, sorting by category

Other: characteristics of Fall, apples

Next week, we start the PSO's No Fuss Fundraiser. We will celebrate by participating in Spirit week.  See below for any themes you might want your child to participate in!

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Week of Sept. 29th- The PSO's No Fuss Fundraiser with themed days (see below).

Oct. 7- Happy Birthday, Joey!

Oct. 7- Miss Kolis out at district-level meetings today. (Sub TBA)

Oct. 7- Grade 3 Walking Field Trip (Hayden)

Oct. 9- First Day of Therapeutic Horsemanship Program!

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day), Happy Birthday Cayden! 

Oct. 24- PSO's Trunk or Treat

Oct. 31- Halloween Parties in homerooms

Nov. 11- Primary School (K-2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

      This week, we started off with finishing our lessons on feelings.  We read The Boy with Big, Big Feelings and The Pout Pout Fish and the Mad, Mad Day.  As we move throughout the school year, we will introduce different "Calm Down Strategies" that we can use to stay in the green zone ("calm and ready to learn").  We also stress that "all feelings are okay, but we TRY to stay in the green zone during the school day."

     In the second half of the week, we started to talk about the upcoming season of Fall.  We did a short introduction to what may start happening now that fall is coming such as the leaves turning colors, the days getting shorter, and the temperature getting colder. We read Fall Leaves Fall and The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Fall.  We will continue with this theme next week.  

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school.

     Next week, we will read the books Leaf Man, Pete the Cat Falling for Autumn, The Leaf Thief, and Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn.  We will continue to talk about the signs of fall. 

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, matching identical and non-identical pictures, sorting by color and shape, naming shapes, more/less and big/small

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Focus on the questions "who" and "where" after reading/ listening to text (main characters and settings), words with the vowel team 'ea' such as eat, heat, seat, dream, team, please, cream

Math Focus: Counting groups of silver coins (Q, D, N), concepts of more/less, big/small, taller/shorter

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Introduce a new color word: brown, Review red, blue, green, yellow, and orange.

Decodable Words- words with short a- can, man, pan, fan, ran, tan

Math Focus: Counting with 1:1 correspondence groups of 1-15 objects, naming 2D shapes, concepts of big/small, more/less, tall/short

Other: characteristics of Fall

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom: 

Focus:  prewriting strokes, start handwriting book, concepts of measurement like more/less, big/small, taller/shorter, letter names and their sounds, sorting by color and shape

Other: characteristics of Fall

     We will start our therapeutic horsemanship sessions on Thursday, Oct. 9th.  We will take a bus from BBHES to Camp Cheerful in Strongsville.  We will leave school at approximately 9:30am on Thursdays and return back to school at approximately 11:30am.  We will adjust our days to make sure that everyone is able to get in lunch and recess.  No other therapies will be missed during this time.

What is Therapeutic Horsemanship?

The Therapeutic Horsemanship Program at Camp Cheerful provides a unique and healing environment for both children and adults in an outdoor, nature-based setting. Interacting with horses creates space for participants to experience mental, physical, and emotional growth through professionally facilitated equine-based activities.  You can find more information here.

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Sept. 23- Picture Day Grades K-1

Sept. 24- Picture Day Grades 2-3

Sept. 25- Picture Day for Grades 4-5

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Oct. 7- Happy Birthday, Joey!

Oct. 7- Miss Kolis out at district-level meetings today. (Sub TBA)

Oct. 9- Happy Birthday, Cayden!

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day)

Oct. 24- PSO's Trunk or Treat

Oct. 31- Halloween Parties in homerooms

Nov. 11- Primary School (K-2) Veterans' Day program

Nov. 24- 28- No School!  Happy Thanksgiving!

     This week, we focused on the Zones of Regulation and the blue and yellow zones.  In Blue, you would feel sad, bored, or sick.  In Yellow, you would feel nervous, scared, frustrated, or silly!   We read some great books like When I'm Feeling Sad, My Friend is Sad, When I'm Feeling Scared, and The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too!

     Also this week, we were able to welcome 3 of our 4 homeroom classes in to check out our space. We hope to have the last class come in next week to see what B106 is all about.  We loved sharing our desk areas, sharing the swing, and telling about how we learn differently (as does everyone!) in B106! We try to do this every year to help the other students get to know us better! 

     Click here to see photos of our last few weeks of school.

     Next week, we will continue to talk about the Zones and feelings for a few days, and then we will use a theme of the upcoming season of Autumn (Fall). We will start to talk about the changes in weather we will see in the Fall and what we will see outside in the Fall (leaves, pumpkins, acorns, windy weather). 

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, matching identical and non-identical pictures, sorting by color and shape, doing "jobs"

Other: practicing "wait" time, characteristics of Fall

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Focus on the questions "who" and "where" after reading/ listening to text (main characters and settings), words with the vowel team 'ai' such as mail, tail, main, pain, chain, paint, raining, brain

Math Focus: Name the dime and quarter, counting by 5s

Other: completing 5 work tasks independently, characteristics of Fall

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Introduce a new color word: orange, review red, blue, green, and yellow

Decodable Words- words with short a- can, man, pan, fan, ran, tan

Math Focus: Counting with 1:1 correspondence groups of 1-10 objects, naming (and choosing) the square, circle, rectangle, triangle, oval, heart, start

Other: characteristics of Fall

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom: 

Focus:  Continue iReady Math Diagnostics, naming feelings, sorting feelings into the Zones, prewriting strokes

Other: characteristics of Fall

We will have Music Therapy each week on Wednesdays this year.  We will have Art Therapy each week on Mondays this year.

What is Music Therapy?

Music therapy uses music as the therapeutic stimulus to achieve non-musical treatment goals, for example: 

• Increased attention

• Improved cognitive functioning

• Increased socialization and improved behavior

• Successful and safe self expression

• Enhanced auditory processing

• Improved communication or verbal skills

The purpose of music therapy is to provide the individual with an initial assist using melodic and rhythmic strategies, followed by fading of musical cues to aid in generalization and transfer to other environments. (Beyond Words Center)

What is Art Therapy?

Art Therapy is the therapeutic use of the creative process in art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of an individual. In art therapy, individuals are encouraged to explore their feelings, thoughts and perceptions through various art materials and techniques. This therapeutic approach provides a safe and supportive environment. For individuals that have difficulty with social and verbal communication, art therapy provides a non-verbal means of communication and self-expression. 

Art therapists are trained to assess the whole individual through the art making process while developing a treatment plan with action steps. Art Therapy targets non-artistic goals such as:

• Emotional regulation

• Self expression

• Sensory integration and regulation

• Leisure skills

• Social skills

• Coping skills

• Developmental growth

• Visual/spatial skills

• Imagination/abstract thinking

(Beyond Words Center)

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Sept. 17- Happy Birthday, Mrs. P!

Sept. 23- Picture Day Grades K-1

Sept. 24- Picture Day Grades 2-3

Sept. 25- Picture Day for Grades 4-5

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Oct. 7- Happy Birthday, Joey!

Oct. 7- Miss Kolis out at district-level meetings today. (Sub TBA)

Oct. 9- Happy Birthday, Cayden!

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day)

     This week, we worked on the theme of feelings. We focused on what feelings we would see in the green and red zones.  We heard many different songs about feelings and talked about which zone each feeling would go in.  We read The Color Monster, When I'm Feeling Happy and When I'm Feeling Angry.

     Our older students also got out to the garden this week to water our plants.  The season for our plants is winding down, but we are still getting some good tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, basil, and pickling cucumbers. We are so pleased with the sign that we received thanks to Angel Printing and the Hairston family.

       Click here to see some photos of our first weeks together!

     Next week, we will use a theme of feelings again. We will focus on reviewing the green and red zones and then learn about the blue and yellow zones.  We will practice sorting pictures of the feelings into different zones. We will read books like When I'm Feeling Sad, My Friend is Sad, When I'm Feeling Scared, Sticks, and Stones.

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, matching identical and non-identical pictures, sorting by color and shape, doing "jobs"

Other: Blue zone and Yellow zone feelings, practicing "wait" time

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Focus on the question "who" and "where" after reading/ listening to text, continue words with the vowel team 'oa' such as coat, boat, soap, toast, roast, coach, throat

Math Focus: name the nickel and dime, counting by 5s, start iReady Math lessons

Other: Blue zone and Yellow zone feelings, completing 5 work tasks independently

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Review red, blue, yellow and green

Decodable Words- words with short a- cat, hat, mat, pat, sat, fat, bat, rat

Math Focus: Shapes- name shapes and sort by shape- circle, triangle, square, rectangle, Continue the iReady Math Diagnostic

Other: Blue zone and Yellow zone feelings

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom: 

Focus:  Continuing to get to know mastered skills, writing or constructing first names, completing iReady Math assessments

Other: Blue zone and Yellow zone feelings, fine motor skills

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Sept. 5- Elementary Football Night

Sept. 17- Happy Birthday, Mrs. P!

Sept. 23- Picture Day Grades K-1

Sept. 24- Picture Day Grades 2-3

Sept. 25- Picture Day for Grades 4-5

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Oct. 7- Happy Birthday, Joey!

Oct. 7- Miss Kolis out at district-level meetings today. (Sub TBA)

Oct. 9- Happy Birthday, Cayden!

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day)

    This week, we got to know our new Kindergarten friends and focused on the rules at school.  Our classroom has four rules: 

1. Walking Feet.

2. Quiet Voice. (We talk about how some friends make noises and that is okay. SCREAMING or YELLING, however, is not okay.)

3. Listening Ears.

4. Safe Hands. 

     We read the books How Dinosaurs Go to School, No, David!, Clark the Shark, and Turkey Goes to School. 

     Click here to see some photos of our first days together!

     A note on report cards this year for students in grades K-2.  Please note: You will STILL RECEIVE an IEP Progress Report after the first quarter of school.  There is an explanation below from Mrs. Toth:

Report Cards and Conferences

This year at the K-2 level, there will be a slight change to our reporting process for first quarter. Instead of sending home a report card to families, teachers will share student progress during conferences. This shift allows for more meaningful conversations with K-2 families and provides teachers the opportunity to highlight each child’s growth and goals in a personal way. Conference nights are held on the following evenings:

October 23rd: Grades 1 and 2

November 6th: Kindergarten

November 13th: Grades K-2

Additional conferences may be held on October 20th. Your child's classroom teacher will send home a schedule as we get closer. Students in grades K-2 will receive their first report card at the end of the second quarter. Please reach out to your child's teacher should you have any questions about your child's progress anytime throughout the school year. We are partners in your child's learning.

     Typically, we ask that you do NOT sign up for a conference time on these nights because the time slots do not allow for our whole team to be present. If you would like to call a team meeting at any time, please let me know.  

     If you have questions about the change above, please let me know.

     Next week, we will use a theme of feelings and learn about the Zones of Regulation. Some students will be reviewing the Zones and others will be learning about the Zones for the first time!  We will focus on the green zone and red zone next week.  In the green zone, we feel "calm and ready to learn" OR "happy."  In the red zone, we feel "angry" or "mad" or "ready to explode."  We stress that ALL feelings are okay, but at school, we try to get back to green ("calm and ready to learn"). 

     Next week, we will read the books When I'm Feeling Happy, A Little Spot of Happiness, When I'm Feeling Angry, A Little Spot of Anger, and The Color Monster.

What else will we be working on next week?

Students in Miss Crawford's Homeroom: 

Work Focus: first and last name, counting 1-5, matching identical and non-identical pictures, sorting

Other: Green Zone and Red Zone feelings, practicing "wait" time

Students in Mrs. Hayden's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Focus on the question "who" after reading/ listening to text, words with the vowel team 'oa' such as coat, boat, soap, toast, roast, coach, throat

Math Focus: Finish the iReady Math Diagnostic, name the penny and nickel, counting by 5s

Other: Green Zone and Red Zone feelings, completing work independently

Students in Mrs. Jean's Homeroom: 

ELA Focus: Color Words- Review red, blue, yellow and green

Decodable Words- words with short a- cat, hat, mat, pat, sat, fat, bat, rat

Math Focus: Shapes- name shapes and sort by shape- circle, triangle, square, rectangle, Start the iReady Math Diagnostic

Other: Green Zone and Red Zone feelings

Students in Mrs. Mulac's Homeroom: 

Focus:  Continuing to get to know mastered skills, naming letters, identifying sounds, counting groups of objects

Other: Green Zone and Red Zone feelings, fine motor skills

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Sept. 1- No School for Labor Day!

Sept. 5- Elementary Football Night, Miss Kolis out in the AM for a transition meeting (Sub TBA)

Sept. 17- Happy Birthday, Mrs. P!

Sept. 23- Picture Day Grades K-1

Sept. 24- Picture Day Grades 2-3

Sept. 25- Picture Day for Grades 4-5

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Oct. 7- Happy Birthday, Joey!

Oct. 7- Miss Kolis out at district-level meetings today. (Sub TBA)

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 20- No School! (Teacher Work Day)

      I think we were all looking forward to getting back to our routines!  I know I was!  We will be excited to welcome our Kindergarten friends full-time next week!  This week, we read the books The Day We Begin and  The Pigeon HAS TO Go to School. We talked about the start of the school year and what to expect.

     Next week, we will use a theme of following the rules and being a good citizen.  This ties in nicely to our social studies standards.  We will talk about the rules in B106 and the rules when we are outside of B106.   We will read books like Clark the Shark, How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? and No, David!

     Check out this link! Our garden has grown! And grown and grown!  And we got a new sign!  We are so lucky to have the support of so many awesome families and businesses that have helped with this!

     Check out photos from our first week at school!

     Click on this link for Parent Recommendations for Autism-Friendly Places and Spaces (including dentists, doctors, barbers/stylists, and more!)

Newsletters from Our Principals

For grades K-2, please see Mrs. Toth's Weekly Newsletter here.

For grades 3-5, please see Mr. Magyar's Weekly Newsletter here.

Please Join PSO!

You can sign up for PSO here.  Once you do that, you will get a Weekly Newsletter (on Thursdays) and you will get access to the BBHES Facebook Page that posts information about school regularly!

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Aug. 22- PSO Welcome Back Party! (TODAY!)

Aug. 25- First Full Day for Kindergarten

Sept. 5- Elementary Football Night, Miss Kolis out in the AM for a transition meeting (Sub TBA)

Sept. 17- Happy Birthday, Mrs. P!

Sept. 23- Picture Day Grades K-1

Sept. 24- Picture Day Grades 2-3

Sept. 25- Picture Day for Grades 4-5

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

      We have been busy preparing for your child to come back to school!  We can't wait to see your child again and see how they have grown over the summer!

     What questions do you have?  What can we answer for you that would help you be more comfortable with the start of the school year?

     Here's some GREAT news to share!  Thanks to the BBH Schools Foundation, we will officially have Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Therapeutic Horsemanship, AND the Unified Sports program again this year!  We cannot wait to see our friends from Camp Cheerful and Beyond Words again!

Newsletters from Our Principals

For grades K-2, please see Mrs. Toth's Weekly Newsletter here.

For grades 3-5, please see Mr. Magyar's Weekly Newsletter here.

Please Join PSO!

You can sign up for PSO here.  Once you do that, you will get a Weekly Newsletter (on Thursdays) and you will get access to the BBHES Facebook Page that posts information about school regularly!

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Aug. 18- Grades 1 and 2 Meet and Greet - 10am or time  depending on your letter of the alphabet*

Aug. 19- Grade 3 Meet and Greet at 4pm*

Aug. 19- Grade 4 Meet and Greet at 5pm*

**Please do not feel like you need to attend these events, especially if we have already seen you before these events occur.

Aug. 20- First Day of School for grades 1-5.

Aug. 21- Kindergarten Phase In (9:30 to 2pm)

Aug. 22- PSO Welcome Back Party!

Aug. 25- First Full Day for Kindergarten

Sept. 5- Elementary Football Night

Sept. 17- Happy Birthday, Mrs. P!

Sept. 23- Picture Day Grades K-1

Sept. 24- Picture Day Grades 2-3

Sept. 25- Picture Day for Grades 4-5

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

     Posting lots of information for you below!  Please click on any links you need!  Thanks!

Modified Supply Lists for '25-'26 School Year (As you know, this was also emailed to you along with a social story about the upcoming year!)

Grade 4 (JT)

Grade 3 (EH)

Grade 2 (JC)

Grade K (RA and CJ)

     In addition to the supplies above, we like to keep at least one change of clothes at school for your child, just in case.  Please label the clothes with your child's name if possible. We have containers for each student in our bathroom cabinet. Thank you!

Newsletters from Our Principals

For grades K-2, please see Mrs. Toth's Weekly Newsletter here.

For grades 3-5, please see Mr. Magyar's Weekly Newsletter here.

Please Join PSO!

You can sign up for PSO here.  Once you do that, you will get a Weekly Newsletter (on Thursdays) and you will get access to the BBHES Facebook Page that posts information about school regularly!

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Aug. 13- New Family Orientation at 6pm

Aug. 18- Grades 1 and 2 Meet and Greet - 10am or time  depending on your letter of the alphabet

Aug. 19- Grade 3 Meet and Greet at 4pm

Aug. 19- Grade 4 Meet and Greet at 5pm

**Please note, If I have not already, I will be reaching out to you SOON to schedule a time when you might come to school to meet us and see the classrooms before these dates.

Aug. 20- First Day of School for grades 1-5.

Aug. 20-22- Kindergarten Phase In (Please be sure you have signed up for one day!)

Aug. 22- PSO Welcome Back Party!

Aug. 25- First Full Day for Kindergarten

Sept. 5- Elementary Football Night

Sept. 17- Happy Birthday, Mrs. P!

Sept. 23- Picture Day Grades K-1

Sept. 24- Picture Day Grades 2-3

Sept. 25- Picture Day for Grades 4-5

Sept. 29- Happy Birthday, Ryan!

ESY in B106- June 30 to July 24

Teacher - Darla Weisman- weismand@bbhcsd.org

RBT (Registered Behavior Technician)- Alex Hutton

Other therapists and aides will be communicated as the date gets closer. 

Modified Supply Lists for '25-'26 School Year

Grade 4 (JT)

Grade 3 (NS)

Grade 3 (EH)

Grade 2 (JC)

Grade K (RA and CJ)

Dates to Know for Fall 2025

Primary School Back to School Info

New Family Orientation- Aug. 13 at 6pm

Kindergarten Phase In Days- (You will get more information from your homeroom teacher and me once this gets closer.)

Grades 1 and 2 Meet and Greet- Aug. 18

Grade 3 Meet and Greet- Aug. 19 at 4pm

Grade 4 Meet and Greet- Aug. 19 at 5pm

**Please note, I will be reaching out to you in August to schedule a time when you might come to school to meet us and see the classrooms before these dates. 

And that's a wrap!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU for another successful school year!

We are so grateful to you for sharing your children with us! Have a happy and safe summer! 

    Check out our photos here.

      Check out photos of our garden here.

    Click here to check out photos from Field Day 2025.

     Click here to check out photos from our "Day at the Beach!" 

     This week, we had a beach of a week! With all of the schedule changes and excitement about summer break, we survived and thrived!  We all made it through field trips, field days, and enjoyed a day at the beach on Friday afternoon!  

     Click here to check out photos from Field Day 2025.

     Click here to check out photos from our "Day at the Beach!" 

     We started a new tradition in B106 this week!  Check out the photos page to see if you can spot it! (But, sssshhh! Don't tell!)

     If you haven't already, please return the ESY form (flip to the back, sign, and return). Thank you!

     Check out our photos here.

     Check out photos of our garden here.

     Next week, we will finish up any lingering projects or work that we haven't completed yet.  We will have our end-of-year parties in our homerooms and then remain as calm and regulated as possible in B106.  

     Although other students will NOT be bringing bookbags and lunch bags on Tuesday, PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD WITH A BOOKBAG on Monday and Tuesday next week!  We will have things to send home on both days that will require a bag!  Thank you!

     What a successful year!  I cannot remember a year in the recent past that has gone so quickly!  Please take a moment to look back in our photos and see how far your child has come and how much they have grown this year!  I am so proud of these students!

     Another THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS to Mrs. Barb Vajda!  After 25 years, Mrs. Vajda has decided to retire as a special education aide and we could not be more grateful for the time we've spent together!  Special Education aides that are now at the high school (but were previously with me in elementary) who are also retiring are Deb Eschweiler and Gayle Cartledge. I am SO HAPPY for all three of these ladies!  We are so blessed to have had time with them!

     Lastly, due to a variety of reasons, caseloads/ classroom rosters for next year have not yet been confirmed.  AS SOON AS I KNOW who your child's teacher is for the next school year, YOU WILL KNOW.  I will also then send you a modified supply list.

Dates to Know:

June 2nd- Second Grade EOY party 1:30 to 3pm, Third Grade EOY party 9:30- 11am, Last day of Art Therapy

June 3rd- Kindergarten (11:30-1pm) and First Grade (10 to 11:30) EOY parties, SCHOOL ENDS AT 1:30 PM.

June 30- July 24- ESY

Thank you for a great year!

     Only 6 more days of school for the 2024-2025 school year!  Where have the days gone?

     This week, we learned about the life cycle of a frog while also finishing up end-of-year assessments.  We are proud to say that we have finished all of those assessments (or will finish on Monday) and are ready for what's next! We've had a great week and look forward to the next six days!

     Some highlights of this year: 

• One friend has already shown that he knows 6 color WORDS even though it is a new IEP goal!

• One friend has mastered matching from a field of 2, 3, 4, and 5!

• One friend has mastered double digit addition with regrouping!

• One friend is showing he is able to count well past 20 when playing with cars and puzzles!

• One friend is able to show us he can count by 5s on his talker!

• One friend is able to show us what he doesn't want consistently without aggressive behaviors!

• At least two friends are now able to use the toilet who weren't doing that before!

• Several friends have made genuine connections with those in their general education classrooms and have been invited to play dates and birthday parties!

• ALL of our friends made it successfully through the Unified Sports Showcase day, which was very ambitious for us!

• WE ALL learned many things this year including (but not limited to) learning how to care for horses and what horses eat, how to engage with art in a therapeutic way, coping strategies like deep breathing and counting back from 10 to get back to the green zone ("Calm and Ready to Learn"), the life cycle of a plant and a frog, and how to care for plants in a garden. This is just a VERY small sampling of what we have learned this year!

     Check out our photos here.

     Check out photos of our garden here.

     Next week, we will use a theme of ocean animals! We will spend some time at the "beach." We are looking forward to doing nothing but fun activities now that all of our data has been collected! We will, however, be trying to keep our schedule as "normal" as possible. The energy in the school is enough to let us all know it's the end of the year!

     Gifts are never necessary, but I want to include a list of names of those who have helped students in B106 in case you need them (at several parents' requests): 

• Mrs. Vajda (special education aide in our room, retiring after 25 years with BBHCSD and 16 years with Miss Kolis!)

• Mrs. Philopos (Mrs. P- special education aide in our room)

• Ms. Alex (RBT in our room, joined us on 5-16-25)

• Mrs. Nur, Mrs. Pitts, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. Bober (special ed. aides who help with MC for lunch, recess, and specials)

• Mrs. Uhlir (special education aide who helps out with KE)

• Mrs. Konstas (SLP for JT, KE, EH, KE, and MC)

• Mrs. Hodgson (SLP for JC)

• Mrs. Storme (OT for MC, JC, EH, and NS)

• Mrs. Spiccia (COTA for JC and NS)

• Mrs. Fedor (OT for JT)

• Mrs. Kenyon (PT for JT, NS, EH, JC)

• Mrs. Wells (PTA for JT, EH, JC)

• Mrs. Harper (our BCBA, contracted from ABA Outreach)

• Mrs. Toth and Mr. Hartland (primary school principals)

• Mr. Magyar and Mrs. McCauley (intermediate school principals)

• Officer Mark (school resource officer)

     Please complete this parent survey. This will help me to continue to provide great programming for your child. Only one parent has filled this out so far; I REALLY AM interested in your thoughts and opinions!

Dates to Know:

May 26- No School!

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch), Grade 2 Field Day in the PM (Mrs. Jean's class will wear tie-dye colors, Mrs. Pagel's class will wear white.  Miss Janko's class will wear red.) We will have a wagon with snacks, water, and sensory tools for when we need a break. :) Last day of OT for the year.

May 29- Grades K and 1 Field Day in the PM (Mrs. Makuch's class will wear green. Miss Robatin's class will wear black. We will have a wagon with snacks, water, and sensory tools for when we need a break!), last day of Music Therapy. Last Day of PT for the year.

May 30- Miss Kolis out today for a district meeting in the PM, Last day of speech therapy for this year.

June 2nd- Second Grade EOY party 1:30 to 3pm, Third Grade EOY party 9:30- 11am, Last day of Art Therapy

June 3rd- Kindergarten (11:30-1pm) and First Grade (10 to 11:30) EOY parties, SCHOOL ENDS AT 1:30 PM.

June 30- July 24- ESY

     Please complete this parent survey. This will help me to continue to provide great programming for your child. 

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching first and last names with different and similar first letters, counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number to it

More topics:  matching by animal, color and shape on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color and shape sorting, May Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: frogs and toads

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number, choosing first name from a group of other names

More Topics: Sorting by colors and shapes, matching by color and shape on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, May Errorless Task Boxes

Other: frogs and toads

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Writing TWO sentences about a picture with capitals and periods.  Answering questions about a text read aloud.

Word Work: Review words with irregular vowel teams like ow (as in cow), ou (as in out), oi (as in coin) and oy (as in boy). 

Spelling Words: No more spelling words this year!

Math: measurement

Other: frogs and toads

Second Graders in Mrs. Jean's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: Review words we've learned with vowel teams like ai (as in train) and ay (as in day). 

Spelling Words: No more spelling words this year!

Math: Skip counting by 5s, naming coins, measurement

Other: frogs and toads

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Decoding short a words: tapping out the sounds and blending the word, matching a picture to a short a word.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat) and in -an (pan, man, fan, can). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, naming 2D Shapes, making a choice from 2 shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square).

Other: frogs and toads

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Language Arts Focus: Decoding short a words: tapping out the sounds and blending the word, matching a picture to a short a word.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat) and in -an (pan, man, fan, can). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, naming 2D Shapes, making a choice from 2 shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square).

Other: frogs and toads

Dates to Know:

May 21- Mrs. Pagel's Author's Tea

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko), Miss Kolis will have a sub on this day in order to attend the field trip.

May 26- No School!

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch), Grade 2 Field Day in the PM (Mrs. Jean's class will wear tie-dye colors, Mrs. Pagel's class will wear white.  Miss Janko's class will wear red.)

May 29- Grades K and 1 Field Day in the PM (Mrs. Makuch's class will wear green. Miss Robatin's class will wear black.), last day of Music Therapy

May 30- Miss Kolis out today for a district meeting in the PM.

June 2nd- Second Grade EOY party 1:30 to 3pm, Third Grade EOY party 9:30- 11am, Last day of Art Therapy

June 3rd- Kindergarten (11:30-1pm) and First Grade (10 to 11:30) EOY parties, SCHOOL ENDS AT 1:30 PM.

June 30- July 24- ESY

      This week, we had a TON of FUN in our garden!  We planted yellow marigolds in each raised bed. Then, in our two raised beds, we planted tomato plants, cucumber plants, and green bean plants!  We also planted some more sunflower seeds, hoping they will grow this time! We can't wait to see what the other teachers plant in their beds!  

Check out more of our photos from April here.

Check out our photos from May here.

     Next week, we will continue with the garden theme and talk more about the parts of a plant and what a plant needs to survive.  We will also be practicing for the Unified Sports Showcase on May 9.  If you have not RSVP'd yes, but would still like to come, just let me know!

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What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching first and last names with different and similar first letters, counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number to it

More topics:  matching by animal, color and shape on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color and shape sorting, May Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden, plant life cycle, parts of a plant

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number, choosing first name from a group of other names

More Topics: Sorting by colors and shapes, matching by color and shape on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, May Errorless Task Boxes

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden, plant life cycle, parts of a plant

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Writing TWO sentences about a picture with capitals and periods.  Answering questions about a text read aloud.

Word Work: words with the oi vowel team

Spelling Words: soil, boil, join, coin, point, joint 

Math: Comparing two numbers, measurement

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden, plant life cycle, parts of a plant

Second Graders in Mrs. Jean's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: introduce vowel teams. Start with the vowel team "ai."

Spelling Words: pain, grain, plain, stain, brain, drain 

Math: Skip counting by 5s, naming coins

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden, plant life cycle, parts of a plant

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Decoding short a words: tapping out the sounds and blending the word, matching a picture to a short a word.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat) and in -an (pan, man, fan, can). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, naming 2D Shapes, making a choice from 2 shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square).

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden, plant life cycle, parts of a plant

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Language Arts Focus: Decoding short a words: tapping out the sounds and blending the word, matching a picture to a short a word.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat) and in -an (pan, man, fan, can). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, naming 2D Shapes, making a choice from 2 shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square).

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden, plant life cycle, parts of a plant

Dates to Know:

May 7- Third Grade Walking Trip

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 12- First Grade Walking Trip

May 21- Mrs. Pagel's Author's Tea

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 26- No School!

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch), Grade 2 Field Day in the PM

May 29- Grades K and 1 Field Day, last day of Music Therapy

May 30- Miss Kolis out today for a district meeting.

June 2nd- Second Grade EOY party 1:30 to 3pm, Third Grade EOY party 9:30- 11am, Last day of Art Therapy

June 3rd- Kindergarten (11:30-1pm) and First Grade (10 to 11:30) EOY parties 

June 30- July 24- ESY

     This week, we used an Earth Week theme and heard some great books like Earth Day Every Day, How the Crayons Saved Earth, and The Earth Book!  There were Earth Day activities happening on the playground that we stopped at each day as well.  We started to talk about our garden again and we are looking forward to getting our hands in the soil.

Check out more of our photos here.

     Next week, we will continue with a garden theme!  We will plant seedlings in our garden and label our plants.  We will also watch seeds grow inside (from our very own window!).  

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What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching first and last names with different and similar first letters, counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number to it

More topics:  matching by animal, color and shape on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color and shape sorting, May Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden!

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number, choosing first name from a group of other names

More Topics: Sorting by colors and shapes, matching by color and shape on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, May Errorless Task Boxes

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden!

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Writing TWO sentences about a picture with capitals and periods.  Answering questions about a text read aloud.

Word Work: words with the ou vowel team

Spelling Words: out, pout, loud, south, cloud, sound 

Math: Comparing two numbers, measurement

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden!

Second Graders in Mrs. Jean's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: introduce vowel teams. Start with the vowel team "ai."

Spelling Words: mail, pail, wait, main, rain, train 

Math: Skip counting by 5s, naming coins

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden!

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Decoding short a words: tapping out the sounds and blending the word, matching a picture to a short a word.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat) and in -an (pan, man, fan, can). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, naming 2D Shapes, making a choice from 2 shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square).

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden!

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Language Arts Focus: Decoding short a words: tapping out the sounds and blending the word, matching a picture to a short a word.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat) and in -an (pan, man, fan, can). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, naming 2D Shapes, making a choice from 2 shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square).

Other: Unified Sports moves, planting in our garden!

Dates to Know:

April 29- Miss Kolis out for a meeting day.

April 30- Miss Kolis out for school tours.

May 1- Miss Kolis out in the PM for school tours.

May 7- Third Grade Walking Trip

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 26- No School!

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch), Grade 2 Field Day in the PM

May 29- Grades K and 1 Field Day

May 30- Miss Kolis out today for a district meeting.

June 2nd- Second Grade EOY party 1:30 to 3pm

June 3rd- Kindergarten (11:30-1pm) and First Grade (10 to 11:30) EOY parties 

June 30- July 24- ESY

Neurodiversity Week has been so much fun!  Moving on to our next four day week!

     This week, we learned about the word "neurodiversity."  We defined this as "different people have different brains."  We read the books Arnie and His School Tools and A Day with No Words.  We also watched some great videos (see links below).  We talked about similarities between some of the main characters and friends in our class.  It was so fun to have the whole school learn more about neurodiversity this week!  Books and videos were shared with the whole school daily and many teachers sent emails about what great discussions their classes were having!  Here are just a few of the videos we watched and shared:

See Dyslexia Differently

Let's Talk about ADHD

Sesame Street: Meet Julia

Sesame Street and Autism: We're Amazing 123

What is Neurodiversity?

Amazing Things Happen

      Check out more of our photos here.

     Next week, we will have fun with EGGS!  We will read The Good Egg and learn about some animals that lay eggs.  We hope to have a nice, light four-day week!

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching first and last names with different and similar first letters, counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number to it

More topics:  matching by animal, color and shape on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color and shape sorting, April Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number, choosing first name from a group of other names

More Topics: Sorting by colors and shapes, matching by color and shape on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, April Errorless Task Boxes

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Review writing a sentence about a picture. Introduce writing TWO sentences about a picture.

Word Work: words with the ow vowel team

Spelling Words: cow, brown, town, frown, now, gown 

Math: Answering questions about bar graphs, "greater than" and "less than," comparing two numbers

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Second Graders in Mrs. Jean's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: Review cvce words.

Spelling Words: Review list with cvce words: make, name, like, line, home, cone, cute, use

Math: Skip counting by 5s, naming coins

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Color words. Number words. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, introduce adding numbers with touch points

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories, collecting baseline data for new IEP

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Color words and number words.. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words, introduce addition with numbers 1-5 with touch points

Word Work: Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat). 

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Dates to Know:

April 15- Jungle Terry Assemblies

April 17- Dress like a skunk day!

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

June 2nd- Second Grade EOY party 1:30 to 3pm

June 3rd- Kindergarten (11:30-1pm) and First Grade (10 to 11:30) EOY parties 

     This week, we survived a VERY busy week after our relaxing spring breaks!  We reviewed our school rules and our class calming strategies upon returning.  We also talked about the signs of spring, although we are not seeing many of them yet.  We are all looking forward to some warmer temperatures!

     Our second grade friends went on a field trip to the Great Lakes Science Center.  We had a fantastic time there!  Please click here to see photos from our day!  We also celebrated World Autism Day on Wednesday!  

     Check out more of our photos here.

     Next week, we will celebrate Neurodiversity Spirit Week here at school!  We were also get a chance to read some great books about differences such as A Day with No Words, Too Much, Arnie and His School Tools, and Jeffrey Loves Blue. 

What else will we be working on after spring break?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching first and last names with different and similar first letters, counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number to it

More topics:  matching by color and shape on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color and shape sorting, April Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number, choosing first name from a group of other names

More Topics: Sorting by colors and shapes, matching by color and shape on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, April Errorless Task Boxes

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Write a sentence to answer a variety of questions: What is this?  What are they doing? What is he doing? What is she doing? Do you like this?

Word Work: words with oo as in book, review contractions and compound words

Spelling Words: book, took, hook, look good, wood

Math: Answering questions about bar graphs, "greater than" and "less than"

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Second Graders in Mrs. Jean's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: contractions

Spelling Words: Review cvc words: nut, hug, bag, pin, hop, gum 

Math: Skip counting by 5s, naming coins

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Color words. Number words. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat). 

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, introduce adding numbers with touch points

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories, collecting baseline data for new IEP

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Color words and number words.. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words, introduce addition with numbers 1-5 with touch points

Word Work: Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two, words with short a ending in -at (cat, hat, sat, pat, rat, bat, mat, fat). 

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends, Unified Sports moves

Dates to Know:

April 7-11- Neurodiversity Spirit Week! (See photo above.)

April 15- Jungle Terry Assemblies

April 17- Dress like a skunk day!

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

June 2nd- Second Grade EOY party 1:30 to 3pm

June 3rd- Kindergarten (11:30-1pm) and First Grade (10 to 11:30) EOY parties 

We did it!  We made it to spring break!

     This week, we started to talk about spring!  We got to spend a few days observing the changing of the seasons as the weather permitted.  We saw a great example of spring rain today as well. Hopefully there will be more signs of spring in the next week that you can check out at home!

     Please check out our photos from March here!

     After spring break, we will start by reviewing our school rules, the Zones of Regulation, and our calming strategies AND start into the theme of "friends."  We have noticed that our students have started to take notice of one another and are in need of some instruction on interacting with peers (i.e. how to appropriately play with someone else, how to parallel play, or how to get attention from another person).  We are hoping to cover those topics in the first few weeks after spring break.

     Remember that April is Neurodiversity Month and we will also be reading some books about topics like autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, and being "different."  We have a great selection of books to share about these topics!  

     April 2nd is World Autism Day and we will celebrate by wearing RED or BLUE that day.  We are also working on a special art installation in the school to celebrate all of the neurodiversity within our school. 

What else will we be working on after spring break?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching first and last names with different and similar first letters, counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number to it

More topics:  matching by color and shape on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color and shape sorting, April Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: counting groups of up to 5 objects and matching the number, choosing first name from a group of other names

More Topics: Sorting by colors and shapes, matching by color and shape on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, April Errorless Task Boxes

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Write a sentence to answer a variety of questions: What is this?  What are they doing? What is he doing? What is she doing? Do you like this?

Word Work: contractions, words with oo as in food

Spelling Words: food, too, loop, boot, moon, spoon

Math: Adding double digit numbers with and without regrouping, "greater than"

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends

Second Graders in Mrs. Jean's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: contractions

Spelling Words: Review List: hat, nap, sit, hip, hot, mop

Math: Strategies of addition and subtraction, pair with tens frames

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Color words. Number words. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, introduce adding numbers with touch points

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Color words and number words.. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words, introduce addition with numbers 1-5 with touch points

Word Work: Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two

Other: Review Zones of Regulation, how to get attention from a friend, playing with friends

Dates to Know:

March 21- No School! Expect 3rd quarter progress reports in your email when we return from spring break!

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes) Miss Kolis on the field trip (Mrs. Hunt is our sub.)

April 2- World Autism Day!  Wear blue or red!

April 3- Miss Kolis out for a training (Mrs. Hunt is our sub.)

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

     This week, we started the week learning about scientist, Jane Goodall and ended the week singing and dancing to some St. Patrick's songs. In a week with the time change and the full blood moon, we really just worked on successfully getting through our days together. :) 

     Please check out our photos from March here!

     Next week, we will start to talk about the season of Spring!  What will happen to the weather?  What will change about the clothes we wear? What might start to happen in our garden?

     On March 20, we will celebrate World Down Syndrome day (3/21).  Every B106 student and adult will bring home mismatching socks from the Down Syndrome Society of Northeast Ohio. Wear these or two other mismatched socks to celebrate and show support for our friends with Down syndrome.

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching numbers 1-10, matching numerals to groups of 1-5 objects, matching shapes, sorting by shape

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, March Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: address and phone number, Spring

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, March Errorless Task Boxes, completing 5 tasks, matching shapes

Other: address and phone number, Spring

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Write a sentence to answer a variety of questions: What is this?  What are they doing? What is he doing? What is she doing? Do you like this?

Word Work: Words ending in -ff, contractions

Spelling Words: puff, stuff, cuff, off, sniff 

Math: Word problems with larger numbers, Adding two digit numbers with regrouping (We did not get to this last week.)

Other: address and phone number, Spring

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: Words ending in -ff, contractions

Spelling Words: puff, stuff, cuff, off, sniff 

Math: Strategies of addition and subtraction, pair with tens frames

Other: address and phone number, Spring

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Color words. Number words. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, introduce adding numbers with touch points

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories

Other: address and phone number, Spring

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Color words and number words.. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words, introduce addition with numbers 1-5 with touch points

Word Work: Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one, two

Other: address and phone number, Spring

Dates to Know:

March 20- Last Day of Quarter 3, Miss Kolis out in the AM for IEP meetings (Mrs. Hunt is our sub). 

March 20- Rock Your Socks Day! Wear mismatching socks to support our friends with Down syndrome!

March 21- No School! Expect 3rd quarter progress reports in your email soon!

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes) Miss Kolis on the field trip (Mrs. Hunt is our sub.)

April 2- World Autism Day!  Wear blue or red!

April 3- Miss Kolis out for a training (Mrs. Hunt is our sub.)

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

It was so great to see all of you at the birthday party last weekend! What a fun time for us all!

      This week, we spent time reviewing the life cycle of a plant. What happens when we plant a seed?  Are we ready to start a garden?  We planted several seeds (tomatoes, cucumbers, sunflowers) to get our garden started and placed them in our classroom window.  We can't wait to see them start to grow as seedlings before we put them outside in our raised garden beds (fingers crossed the sun can warm the window sills in the coming weeks!). 

      Also this week, we started to talk about Women's History Month.  We learned about the history of Women's History Month and about some Women in Sports like Simone Biles. 

      Please check out some photos of our week here.

      Next week, we will talk more about some important women in history like Amelia Earhart and Jane Goodall. We will also move on to some fun activities to go along with St. Patrick's Day!  

     There will be no weekly homework sheets moving forward.  If you need homework (as this is part of your daily schedule), please reach out to me. :) I am happy to make homework packets for anyone who wants them moving forward.

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching numbers 1-10, matching numerals to groups of 1-5 objects, matching shapes, sorting by shape

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, March Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: address and phone number, Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day fun

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name,, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching basic body parts ("show me"), matching identical and nonidentical pictures, March Errorless Task Boxes, completing 5 tasks, matching shapes

Other: address and phone number, Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day fun

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Continue writing a sentence to answer the question "Do you like this?" about a picture.

Word Work: Words ending in -ss, intro. to contractions

Spelling Words: pass, miss, kiss, less, mess, loss, boss

Math: Word problems with larger numbers, Adding two digit numbers with regrouping (We did not get to this last week.)

Other: address and phone number, Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day fun

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Hearing a text read aloud to you and answering questions about the text

Word Work: Words ending in -ss, intro to contractions

Spelling Words: pass, miss, kiss, less, mess, loss, boss

Math: Start over with strategies of addition and subtraction, pair with tens frames

Other: address and phone number, Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day fun

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Color words. Number words. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Sight word: two. Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one.

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, adding numbers with touch points (We did not get to this yet.)

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories

Other: address and phone number, Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day fun

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Color words and number words.. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words, Addition with numbers 1-5 with touch points (We did not get to this yet.)

Word Work: Sight words: two, Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one

Other: address and phone number, Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day fun

Dates to Know:

March 12-14: Book Swap (Bring home used "new to you" books!)

March 14- Jump Rope for Heart assembly

March 20- Last Day of Quarter 3, Miss Kolis out in the AM for IEP meetings (Mrs. Hunt is our sub). 

March 20- Rock Your Socks Day! Wear mismatching socks to support our friends with Down syndrome!

March 21- No School! Expect 3rd quarter progress reports soon!

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes) Miss Kolis on the field trip (Mrs. Hunt is our sub.)

April 2- World Autism Day!  Wear blue or red!

April 3- Miss Kolis out for a training (Mrs. Hunt is our sub.)

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

We've made it through February!

     This week, we finished up our conversations about Black History Month by learning about Rosa Parks and reading Ada Twist, Scientist.  Ada Twist had a Garden Party which helps us transition into next week where we will do some planting of seeds to get our garden started!

     Please check out some photos of our week here.

     Next week, we will do some pre-planting for our garden and also work on "Women's History Month" by learning about some important females in our history like Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, Hellen Keller, and Amelia Earhart.

     There will be no homework next week. Miss Kolis needs a break and so do you!  If you REALLY need homework (as this is part of your daily schedule), please reach out to me. :) 

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching numbers 1-10, matching numerals to groups of 1-5 objects, matching shapes

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, March Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: address and phone number, starting to grow a garden

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name- practice letter S, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, March Errorless Task Boxes, completing 5 tasks, matching shapes

Other: address and phone number, starting to grow a garden

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Intro. writing a sentence to answer the question "Do you like this?"

Word Work: Words ending in -ll

Spelling Words: Bell, tell, well, fell, fill, hill, pull, full, bull, tall, call, fall, ball, wall, roll (over the next 2-3 weeks)

Math: Word problems with larger numbers, Adding two digit numbers with regrouping

Other: address and phone number, starting to grow a garden

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Decoding and Encoding (What do you already know?)

Word Work: Words ending in -ll

Spelling Words: Bell, tell, well, fell, fill, hill, pull, full, bull, tall, call, fall, ball, wall, roll (over the next 2-3 weeks)

Math: Start over with strategies of addition, pair addition with tens frames

Other: address and phone number, starting to grow a garden

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Color words. Number words. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Sight word: two. Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one.

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, adding numbers with touch points

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories

Other: address and phone number, starting to grow a garden

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Color words and number words.. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words, Addition with numbers 1-5 with touch points.

Word Work: Sight words: two, Review: red, blue, yellow, green, one

Other: address and phone number, starting to grow a garden

Dates to Know:

March 20- Last Day of Quarter 3, Miss Kolis out in the AM for IEP meetings (Mrs. Hunt is our sub). 

March 21- No School! 

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

     This week, we learned about some figures in Black History for Black History Month.  We learned about Ruby Bridges, Mae Jemison, and Rosa Parks.  We heard some Black History Month songs and watched some Brain Pop Jr. videos about these important people in our history.

     Please check out some photos of our week here.

     Next week, we will continue to hear about some more important people in our history while still focusing on our goals and ADLs (Activities of Daily Living).  We will keep looking forward to spring and the warmer months ahead!  We will start to look ahead for things we could be planting now to get ready for our class garden!

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching numbers 1-10, matching numerals to groups of 1-5 objects, matching shapes

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, February Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name- practice letter S, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, February Errorless Task Boxes, completing 5 tasks, matching shapes

Other:  address and phone number, Black History Month

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Intro. writing a sentence to answer the question "Do you like this?"

Word Work: Words ending in -ll

Spelling Words: Bell, tell, well, fell, fill, hill, pull, full, bull, tall, call, fall, ball, wall, roll (over the next 2-3 weeks)

Math: Word problems, Adding two digit numbers with regrouping

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Decoding and Encoding (What do you already know?)

Word Work: Words ending in -ll

Spelling Words: Bell, tell, well, fell, fill, hill, pull, full, bull, tall, call, fall, ball, wall, roll (over the next 2-3 weeks)

Math: Start over with strategies of addition, pair addition with tens frames

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Color words. Number words. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Sight word: one. Review: red, blue, yellow, green

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Color words and number words.. Match color words to their corresponding color and number words to their corresponding number. Tapping out the sounds in words

Word Work: Sight words: one, Review: red, blue, yellow, green

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Dates to Know:

Feb. 27- Nicholas's Birthday!  Miss Kolis out today for a training (Mrs. Hunt is the sub). 

March 21- No School! Last Day of Quarter 3

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm (Breakfast 10-10:45, Activities 11-1pm). 

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

Happy Valentine's Day to you!

     This week, we used the theme of Valentine's Day!  We read some great books about LOVE; love for our parents, our friends, our teachers, and more!  We had fun practicing our fine motor skills to go with this theme as well.  We continue to push forward with our IEP goals and objectives as well as our activities of daily living (ADLs). 

Check out our photos from February here.

     Next week, we will use the theme of Black History Month.  We will learn about a few of the many important figures in our U.S. history.  We will read some great books and continue to work on our goals and objectives as well as ADLs. 

     Do you ever wonder what benefits we are getting out of our daily sensory activities and sensory bins?  Linked here is an article discussing "loose parts play" which is very similar. 

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching numbers 1-10, matching numerals to groups of 1-5 objects

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, February Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name- Intro. letter S, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, February Errorless Task Boxes, completing 5 tasks, matching shapes

Other:  address and phone number, Black History Month

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions: What is this?  What do you see?  What is he/she doing? What are they doing?

Word Work: Review words with vowel teams

Spelling Words: None this week! Take a break!

Math: Word problems, Adding two digit numbers without regrouping, adding three single-digit numbers

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions: What is this?  What do you see?  What is he/she doing? What are they doing?

Word Work: Review words with silent e, words with beginning blends

Spelling Words: None this week! Take a break!

Math: Start over with strategies of addition, pair addition with tens frames

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Sight words: green.  Review: red, blue, yellow

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Tapping out the sounds in words, Counting with 1:1 correspondence and matching the number in print.

Word Work: Sight words: green, Review: red, blue, yellow

Other: address and phone number, Black History Month

Dates to Know:

Feb. 14- Valentine's Day Parties

Feb. 17- No School!

Feb. 18- Mrs. Vajda's Birthday!

Feb. 27- Nicholas's Birthday!  Miss Kolis out today for a training (Mrs. Hunt is the sub). 

March 21- No School! Last Day of Quarter 3

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

Thankful for a bonus day off this week!

     This week, we focused on learning about what an emergency is and when to call 911.  We used templates of a phone to practice touching 9-1-1-send.  We also started to work on learning our own addresses and phone numbers.  We will keep revisiting this topic weekly to ensure understanding.

     Check out our photos from February here.

     Next week, we will use the theme of Valentine's Day (my favorite holiday!). I am excited to talk about LOVE and how you can love your family, friends, and classmates!  We will end the week with Valentine's Day parties in our homerooms.  Social stories coming soon!

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching numbers 1-10, matching numerals to groups of 1-5 objects

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, February Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: address and phone number, Valentine's Day

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, February Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  address and phone number, Valentine's Day

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions: What is this?  What do you see?  What is he/she doing? What are they doing?

Word Work: Practice words with vowel teams and beginning blends, verbs ending in -ing

Spelling Words: Review of vowel teams with beginning blends list- plain, staying, please, street, floating, slow

Math: Word problems, Intro to adding two digit numbers

Other: address and phone number, Valentine's Day

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions: What is this?  What do you see?  What is he/she doing? What are they doing?

Word Work: Words with long vowel sounds, silent e, and beginning blends

Spelling Words: trade, grape, bride, slime, slope 

Math: Start over with strategies of addition

Other: address and phone number, Valentine's Day

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Tapping out the sounds in words.

Word Work:  Sight words: yellow.  Review: red, blue

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into three and four categories

Other: address and phone number, Valentine's Day

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Tapping out the sounds in words, Counting with 1:1 correspondence and matching the number in print.

Word Work: Sight words: yellow, Review: red, blue

Other: address and phone number, Valentine's Day

Dates to Know:

Feb. 14- Valentine's Day Parties

Feb. 17- No School!

Feb. 18- Mrs. Vajda's Birthday!

Feb. 27- Nicholas's Birthday!  Miss Kolis out today for a training (Mrs. Hunt is the sub). 

March 21- No School! Last Day of Quarter 3

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

April 18 and 21 - No School for Easter!

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm

May 23- Third Grade Field Trip (Janko)

May 28- Kindergarten Field Trip (Makuch)

     This week, we learned about community helpers.  We specifically learned about what police officers, firefighters, and paramedics do.  We talked about how "helpers" will be wearing a uniform or a badge. This is how you know who to ask for help.  We also started to learn about what the word "emergency" means.  Some of our friends also worked on the iReady Diagnostic Assessments this week (either in math or reading or both).

     Check out our great photos from January 2025.

     Next week, we will focus on what to do in an emergency: Stay calm.  Call 911.  Ask for help.  We will also learn our phone numbers and addresses.  Please email me with the primary phone number you would like your child to learn (i.e. Would it be mom's phone or dad's phone or do you still have a house phone?). Thanks!

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Matching numbers 1-10, matching numerals to groups of 1-5 objects

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, February Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, February Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What is he/she doing?" "What are they doing?" 

Word Work: Practice words with vowel teams- ai, ay, ea, ee, oa, introduce ow.

Spelling Words: Review of vowel teams list- brain, player, eating, keep, throat, flow

Math: Word problems, Telling time to the minute, matching analog and digital clocks

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Enjoy your vacation!!!  See you on the 10th!

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds. 

Word Work:  Sight words: red, blue, yellow

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds. Counting with 1:1 correspondence and matching the number in print.

Word Work: Sight words: red, blue, yellow

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Dates to Know:

Feb. 14- Valentine's Day Parties

Feb. 17- No School!

Feb. 18- Mrs. Vajda's Birthday!

Feb. 27- Nicholas's Birthday!  Miss Kolis out today for a training (Mrs. Hunt is the sub). 

March 21- No School! Last Day of Quarter 3

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10am-1pm

A two day week!?!?  Weird, but we'll take it!

     In our two-day week, we were able to briefly get an introduction to some community helpers so that next week, we will be ready to jump right in!

     Next week, we plan to learn about community helpers and then emergencies.  What is an emergency? Who do I call?  What do I do?  What is our address?  What is my mom's or dad's phone number? What should I do if a police officer wants to help me? Is it an emergency if I don't get my favorite snacks?  Is it an emergency if we get in a car accident?

     Last week, your child's second-quarter IEP Progress Report was emailed home to you.  Please let me know if you have questions about this.  Your child's report card is available today on PowerSchool.

     At this time, everyone should have an annual IEP meeting on the calendar.  If you do not, or you have misplaced the date, please contact me ASAP. Thank you!

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Review letters in your name (matching with choices of 3 or 4 letters), Matching numbers 1-5, Counting 1-5 items

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, January Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, January Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What is he/she doing?" "What are they doing?" 

Word Work: Practice words with vowel teams- ai, ay, ea, ee, oa, introduce ow.

Spelling Words: Mow, row, grow, bow, glow, blow, snow 

Math: Word problems, Telling time to the half hour, telling time to the :15

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading:  Construct a sentence about a picture to answer the question "What is this?"  Read or listen to a story and practice identifying the main idea.

Word Work: Long vowel words with silent e, review digraphs

Spelling Words: back, sick, when, what, white, why 

Math: Telling time to the half hour, start over with strategies of addition

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds. 

Word Work:  Sight words: red, blue

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds. Counting with 1:1 correspondence and matching the number in print.

Word Work: Sight words: red, blue

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Dates to Know:

Jan. 28- Miss Kolis out for a meeting. Mrs. Hunt is the sub.

Feb. 14- Valentine's Day Parties

Feb. 17- No School!

Feb. 18- Mrs. Vajda's Birthday!

Feb. 27- Nicholas's Birthday!  Miss Kolis out today for a training (Mrs. Hunt is the sub). 

March 21- No School! Last Day of Quarter 3

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10:30am

A Warm Welcome to Mrs. Wolters! It was a great week!

     I am happy to report that Mrs. Wolters's transition to our room has been seamless.  Fingers crossed this continues! We are so pleased to have Mrs. Wolters join our class and look forward to the second half of the year!

     This week, we learned and reviewed the characteristics of winter and the clothes we would need to wear during the winter.  The weather outside our own windows has cooperated with this theme and we have gotten a good view of what the season of winter looks like in Ohio! We are hopeful for warmer weather so that we can get outside to play again sometime soon!  We have had 9 straight days of indoor recess!

      Please click here to check out some photos from B106 this week.

     Next week, we plan to learn about community helpers and emergencies.  What is an emergency? Who do I call?  What do I do?  What is our address?  What is my mom's or dad's phone number? What should I do if a police officer wants to help me? Is it an emergency if I don't get my favorite snacks?  Is it an emergency if we get in a car accident?

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Review letters in your name (matching with choices of 3 or 4 letters), Matching numbers 1-5, Counting 1-5 items

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, January Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5, counting 1-5 objects

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, January Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What is he/she doing?" "What are they doing?" 

Word Work: Practice words with vowel teams- ai, ay, ea, ee, oa, introduce ow.

Spelling Words: Mow, row, grow, bow, glow, blow, snow 

Math: Word problems, Telling time to the half hour, telling time to the :15

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading:  Construct a sentence about a picture to answer the question "What is this?"  Read or listen to a story and practice identifying the main idea.

Word Work: Long vowel words with silent e, review digraphs

Spelling Words: back, sick, when, what, white, why 

Math: Telling time to the half hour, start over with strategies of addition

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds. 

Word Work:  Sight words: red, blue

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Kindergartener in Mrs. Makuch's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds. Counting with 1:1 correspondence and matching the letter in print.

Word Work: Sight words: red, blue

Other: Community Helpers and Emergencies, address and phone number

Dates to Know:

Jan. 20- No School!

Jan. 23 and 24- PSO BINGO Nights

Jan. 28- Miss Kolis out for a meeting. Mrs. Hunt is the sub.

Feb. 14- Valentine's Day Parties

Feb. 17- No School!

Feb. 18- Mrs. Vajda's Birthday!

Feb. 27- Nicholas's Birthday!  Miss Kolis out today for a training (Mrs. Hunt is the sub). 

March 21- No School! Last Day of Quarter 3

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

May 9- Unified Sports Showcase tentatively 10:30am

      This week, we reviewed our classroom rules and calming strategies each day.  We wanted to be sure to reinforce all of our positive behaviors like quiet voices, safe hands, walking feet, and listening ears.  Our friends all did a great job this week following those rules!

     Today, we said goodbye to Mrs. Rizkala as one of our B106 special education assistants.  We gave lots of hugs at the end of the day and promised we will keep in touch with her as she is right down the hall in Kindergarten.  Mrs. Rizkala has been with me for the last four and half years and I could not be more appreciative of the time she spent with me at Highland and in B106 at the new building.  She will surely be missed!  The preschool will be so lucky to have her!

     Please click here to check out some photos from B106 this week.

     On Monday, we will welcome Mrs. Wolters to our classroom.  We will be ready and excited to get to know Mrs. Wolters.  A social story will be send home soon about Mrs. Wolters joining our room.  Please see the email that was sent to you about the aide who will primarily be working with your child moving forward and let me know if you have questions.  

     Next week, we will talk about the season of winter. What are the weather changes?  What has happened to the plants and animals? How should we dress in the winter? What other holidays are still on the horizon?

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Review letters in your name, Learning the touch points on numbers 1-5, matching numbers 1-5.

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks and shoebox tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, matching letters in name, January Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines, the season of winter

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Learning the touch points on numbers 1-5, Matching letters in your name and matching numbers 1-5

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, January Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines, the season of winter

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What do you see?" and "What is this?"  Read or listen to text and identify the main idea.

Word Work: Practice words with vowel teams- ai, ay, ea, ee, introduce oa.

Spelling Words: boat, coat, goat, throat, soap, goal 

Math: Word problems, Telling time to the half hour

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines, the season of winter

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading:  Construct a sentence about a picture to answer the question "What do you see?"  Read or listen to a story and practice identifying the main idea.

Word Work: Long vowel words with silent e

Math: Addition, Subtraction, Telling time to the half hour

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines, the season of winter

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds.

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines, the season of winter

Kindergartener in Mrs. Koziol's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds. Skip Counting by tens, naming/matching shapes.

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines, the season of winter

Dates to Know:

Jan. 13- Mrs. Wolter's first day, Mrs. Vajda out today.

Jan. 14- No School for Students! End of Quarter 2.

Jan. 16- Mrs. Rizkala's Birthday!

Jan. 20- No School!

Jan. 28- Miss Kolis out for a meeting. Mrs. Hunt is the sub.

Feb. 14- Valentine's Day Parties

Feb. 17- No School!

Feb. 18- Mrs. Vajda's Birthday!

Feb. 27- Nicholas's Birthday!  Miss Kolis out today for a training (Mrs. Hunt is the sub). 

March 21- No School! Last Day of Quarter 3

March 24-March 28- Spring Break! No School!

April 2- Field Trip for Second Grade (Jean's and Pagel's classes)

Happy New Years!  Here's to 2025!

     We hope you've had two wonderful weeks at home with your family and friends, and we hope you're ready to come back!  We miss our friends!

     If you haven't already, please consider completing the B106 Winter Project.  Feel free to complete this with your child at any time throughout the year, if you weren't able to do it during break.

     Some bittersweet news to share:  Mrs. Rizkala has accepted a position at the preschool. While we will still see her in the building, this is a HUGE loss for B106. Mrs. Rizkala has been with me for the last 4 and half school years and we are all very sad to see her go.  Having said that, we are so happy that another group of students will get to know her too!  Mrs. Rizkala's last day in B106 will be Friday, Jan. 10.  

     We are hopeful that we will have a permanent replacement by Jan. 13.  At that time, Mrs. Vajda, Mrs. P and the new person will have some schedule changes.  I will keep you posted on those as they develop.

     Next week, we will start off the week reminding ourselves about our rules at school. We will slowly work back into our routines and review the Zones of Regulation.  We will talk about behaviors that are "okay" and "not okay" while reviewing our calming strategies.

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Review letters in your name, Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence.

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, matching letters in name, January Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence.

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, January Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What do you see?" and "What is this?"  Read or listen to text and identify the main idea.

Word Work: Practice words with vowel teams- ai, ay, ea, Introduce the vowel team "ee."

Spelling Words: see, meet, feet, sleep, jeep, feel

Math: Word problems, Skip Counting by 5s, Count combos of dimes, nickels, and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading:  Construct a sentence about a picture to answer the question "What do you see?"  Read or listen to a story and practice identifying the main idea.

Word Work: Words with long vowel sounds and silent e

Spelling words: cute, mute, cube, tube, use 

Math: Addition, Subtraction, Skip Counting by 5s, counting combos of dimes, nickels, and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds.

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, identifying numbers 0-10

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines

Kindergartener in Mrs. Koziol's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds, count with 1:1 correspondence, tell 'how many?'

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, rules and routines

Dates to Know:

Jan. 6- Back to School!

Jan. 10- Mrs. Rizkala's last day in B106

Jan. 13- Miss Kolis will be out at a training. Mrs. Hunt is our sub.

Jan. 14- No School for Students! End of Quarter 2.

Jan. 16- Mrs. Rizkala's Birthday!

Jan. 20- No School!

Jan. 28- Miss Kolis out for a meeting. Mrs. Hunt is the sub.

We made it!  Merry Christmas to all!  Happy Winter Break!

     This week, we had a ton of fun!  We read books like Gingerbread Friends!, Turkey Claus and Bear Stays Up Late for Christmas.  We also had a great party with Mrs. Shingleton's class and went to our homeroom class parties too!  Wow!  It's been a week!  

     Please click here to check out some more photos from B106 in December including pictures from our party!

     After break, we will talk more about the actual season of Winter, winter clothing choices, and more winter holidays.  We will also spend time reviewing our rules and our calming strategies when we get back to school!  

     From all of us in B106 and at BBHES, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Dates to Know:

Dec. 23 through Jan. 3- Winter Break! No School! Happy Holidays!

Dec. 29- Easton's Birthday!

Jan. 6- Back to School!

Jan. 13- Miss Kolis will be out at a training. Mrs. Hunt is our sub.

Jan. 14- No School for Students! End of Quarter 2.

Jan. 16- Mrs. Rizkala's Birthday!

Jan. 20- No School!

Jan. 28- Miss Kolis out for a meeting. Mrs. Hunt is the sub.

      This week, we continued to learn about winter holidays.  We finished up Hanukkah and talked about the Lunar New Year (coming in January 2025) and Kwanzaa (starting Dec. 26).  We noticed that all of the winter holidays use some sort of light source, usually candles, as a way to celebrate.  Hanukkah has the menorah; Lunar New Year has the lanterns; Diwali has the dias and fireworks, and Kwanzaa has the kinara.  Next week, we'll see that Christmas also uses candles as a way to celebrate the holiday. 

     Please click here to check out some more photos from B106 in December.

     Please click here to see our photos from our sessions at Therapeutic Horseback Riding at Camp Cheerful.  We had a great time!

     Next week, we will talk about Christmas and family traditions!  We will celebrate the season with lots of fun activities.  On Monday, we will hold our fifth annual Grinch Day! This will be a day full of green!!! On Wednesday, we will enjoy a party with our friends from Mrs. Shingleton's room.  On Thursday, we will get to enjoy a short concert from the BBHHS show choir and on Friday, we will have party time with our homerooms! 

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Review letters in your name, Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence.

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, matching letters in name, December Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name, Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence.

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, December Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What do you see?" and "What is this?"  Read or listen to text and identify the main idea.

Word Work: Practice words with vowel teams- ai, ay, ea

Spelling Words: No new words this week!

Math: Word problems, Skip Counting by 5s, Count combos of dimes, nickels, and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading:  Construct a sentence about a picture to answer the question "What do you see?"  Read or listen to a story and practice identifying the main idea.

Word Work: Words with long vowel sounds and silent e

Spelling words: No new words this week!

Math: Addition, Subtraction, Skip Counting by 5s, counting combos of dimes, nickels, and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds.

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, identifying numbers 0-10

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Kindergartener in Mrs. Koziol's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds, count with 1:1 correspondence, tell 'how many?'

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Dates to Know:

Dec. 16- B106 GRINCH DAY! Wear Grinch or Green!

Dec. 17- "White Out" Day

Dec. 18- B106 Holiday Party with Mrs. Shingleton's class, Comfy Clothes/PJ Day, Visit from the BBHHS Music in Motion (grades 3-5)

Dec. 19- Visit from the BBHHS Music in Motion (grades K-2), "Deck the Halls" Day

Dec. 20- Holiday Parties in class, Holiday Colors Day

Dec. 23 through Jan. 3- Winter Break! No School! Happy Holidays!

Dec. 29- Easton's Birthday!

Jan. 6- Back to School!

Jan. 13- Miss Kolis will be out at a training. Mrs. Hunt is our sub.

Jan. 14- No School for Students!

Jan. 16- Mrs. Rizkala's Birthday!

Jan. 20- No School!

Jan. 28- Miss Kolis out for a meeting. Mrs. Hunt is the sub.

A birthday AND a bonus day off!?!?!

     This week, we started to talk about winter holidays. We briefly gave an overview of all the various winter holidays; there are many!  Then, we learned a little about Diwali (although already passed on Oct. 31).  We started to talk more about Hanukkah today.  We also have integrated many themes into our sensory bin time with a snowy day bin, a Hanukkah bin, and a Christmas themed bin. 

Please click here to check out some more photos from B106 in December.

     Next week, we will continue with Hanukkah, Lunar New Year, and Kwanzaa! We will start to work on cards for our bus drivers and aides as well.  Next week will also be our last week of Therapeutic Horseback Riding.

     Also next week, in your child's homework packet, there will be a 2 page document to complete together as a family.   It is about family and traditions.  This can be as simple or as in depth as you make it.  

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Review letters in your name, work on letter Oo. Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence.

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, matching letters in name, December Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name. Work on letter Ll- matching, writing, choosing, Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence.

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, December Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What do you see?" and "What is this?"  Read or listen to text and identify the main idea.

Word Work: Introduce words with the ea vowel team.

Spelling Words: heat, seat, meat, lean, bean, mean 

Math: Word problems, Skip Counting by 5s, Count combos of dimes, nickels, and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading:  Construct a sentence about a picture to answer the question "What do you see?"  Read or listen to a story and practice identifying the main idea.

Word Work: Words with long vowel sounds and silent e

Spelling words: make, came, like, home, use 

Math: Addition, Subtraction, Skip Counting by 5s, counting combos of dimes, nickels, and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds.

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, identifying numbers 0-10

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Kindergartener in Mrs. Koziol's room: 

Work Focus: Learn color words. Match color words to their corresponding color. Start learning about first sounds, count with 1:1 correspondence, tell 'how many?'

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Dates to Know:

Dec. 7- Holiday Shoppe and Book Fair

Dec. 12- LAST Horseback Riding

Dec. 16- B106 GRINCH DAY! Wear Grinch or Green!

Dec. 16-20- Holiday Spirit Week

Dec. 19- B106 Holiday Party with Mrs. Shingleton's class

Dec. 20- Holiday Parties in class

Dec. 23 through Jan. 3- Winter Break! No School!

Dec. 29- Easton's Birthday

Jan. 6- Back to School!

We made it to Thanksgiving Break!

     This week, we talked about the holiday of Thanksgiving and spent time noticing and talking about what people might be eating and doing on Thanksgiving day.  We read Turkey Trouble, Happy Thanksgiving Biscuit, and Bear Says Thanks! this week.  We also made turkey cookies!

     Please click here to check out some more photos from B106!

     Next week, there is no school for students! I hope you have a restful and wonderful holiday week!  We are so thankful to each and every one of you for sharing your children with us. 

     Please see below for messages from the Yuletide Hunger Drive and our new event "DASH for the holidays!" 

     In the week after Thanksgiving, we will start to talk about some winter holidays.  Some of the holidays we will learn about include Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Winter Solstice, Lunar New Year, and New Year's Day. 

     Please click here to see the photos from 2024 HB Riding!

What else will we be working on next week?

Third graders in Miss Janko's Room: 

Work Focus: Review letters in your name, Intro. letter Oo. Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence

More topics:  matching by color on file folder tasks, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, color sorting, matching letters in name, December Errorless Task Boxes, sorting different items in different ways

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Grader in Mrs. Pagel's Room (NS): 

Work Focus: Review the letters in your name. Start on letter Ll- matching, writing, choosing, Counting up to 5 objects with one to one correspondence

More Topics: Sorting by colors, matching by color on file folder tasks, touching and choosing basic body parts, matching identical and nonidentical pictures, December Errorless Task Boxes

Other:  Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Graders in Mrs. Pagel's Room (KE): 

Reading/ Language Arts: Practice writing a sentence about a picture to answer the questions "What do you see?" and "What is this?"  Read or listen to text and identify the character and setting.

Word Work: Review words with the ay vowel team.

Spelling Words: bay, May, away, tray, Monday, Friday 

Math: Word problems, Skip Counting by 5s, Count combos of dimes and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Second Graders in Mrs. Jeans's Room (EH): 

Reading:  Construct a sentence about a picture to answer the question "What do you see?"  Read or listen to a story and practice identifying the characters and setting.

Word Work: Words with long vowel sounds and silent e

Spelling words: cute, mute, cube, tube, use 

Math: Addition, Subtraction, Skip Counting by 5s, counting combos of dimes and pennies

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

First Grader in Miss Robatin's Room: 

Language Arts Focus: Review letters in your name, put them in order with and without a model. Continue matching capital and lowercase letters.  Make a choice of letter given the sound.

Math Focus: counting with 1:1 correspondence, groups of 10 or less, identifying numbers 0-10

More Topics: matching and sorting with identical and nonidentical pictures, sorting into four categories

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Kindergartener in Mrs. Koziol's room: 

Work Focus: Match capital and lowercase letters.  Make a choice of 2 by pointing. Follow the visual schedule. Sorting by color and shape, try to identify letters by sound, count with 1:1 correspondence, tell 'how many?'

Other: Zones of Regulation- feelings and strategies, winter holidays

Dates to Know:

Nov. 25 thru 29- No School for Students! Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 3- Kali's Birthday!

Dec. 5- Horseback Riding

Dec. 6- DASH for the Holidays Fun Run at school

Dec. 7- Holiday Shoppe and Book Fair

Dec. 12- Horseback Riding

Dec. 16- B106 GRINCH DAY! Wear Grinch or Green!

Dec. 16-20- Holiday Spirit Week

Dec. 20- Holiday Parties in class

Dec. 23 through Jan. 3- Winter Break! No School!

Dec. 29- Easton's Birthday

Jan. 6- Back to School!

DASH for the Holidays - FUN RUN

Staff at BBHES have a long tradition of raising money for school families that might need a little extra help this time of year. 

Donations can be made through this online link or sent to school or dropped off at the main entrance by Friday, December 6th.

Cash or Checks should be made out to "BBHES" and sent directly to school.  Attn: DASH Donations, Toth/Magyar

If you have any questions, please email Mrs. Toth or Mr. Magyar.

To celebrate this season of giving, all of our PreK through 5th-grade students will participate in a DASH for the Holidays - a Fun Run around BBHES on December 6th. Stay tuned for more information to come!

Yuletide Hunger Drive

     The BBHCSD through the district PSO will be helping our local cities collect food for the Yuletide Hunger Drive starting 11/13 through 12/5. The elementary school will be collecting the following items:

• Toilet Paper

• Bar Soap

• Paper Towels

• Dish Soap

• Kleenex

• Toothpaste