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Movie Time!!!

10/27/2015

 
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Come see a sensory considerate movie hosted by The Twin Hearts Autism Foundation!!!

  • What: The Peanuts Movie
  • When: Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 10:00 am
  • Where: Marcus Theaters - Orland Park


**Please RSVP by November 2nd on The Twin Hearts Autism Foundation website        http://www.twinheartsautismfoundation.org/

 **When arriving to the movie please make sure you tell them that you are there for the Special Needs movie and Twin Hearts Autism Foundation will be paying for your movie. 
   

Kerkstra Room 18 Visits Odyssey Fun Farm!

10/18/2015

 
Room 18 at Kerkstra Elementary visited Odyssey Fun Farm last week.  The students had a blast learning about the autumn season while practicing safety skills in the community!  The students especially enjoyed playing in the sensory corn pit and feeding the goats at the petting zoo.  At the end of the day, each student received a pumpkin to take back to class.  The next day the students used the pumpkins for a language-based pumpkin decorating activity.  We love autumn!

Get Fit for Autism!!!

10/5/2015

 
Hi Fellow CD Program Parents and Families,

We are Tricia Butcher and Katie Larocca, parents of two students in CD at Andrew High School.  We are putting together a fundraiser to benefit our wonderful program and would love your help. It is a two hour fitness and fun event at the HF Racquet and Fitness Club in Homewood on Saturday, November 7, from 3 to 5 pm. We are hoping to raise awareness for our kids and of course, money for the program.  Please see the attached flyer for all the information and/or visit the eventbrite.com site, which makes sign up easy for your families and friends.  We encourage those of you into social media to post the flyer on your pages.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact either of us, our information is on the flyer as well as the eventbrite.com page.  Thanks for your time and lets promote the heck out of November 7th :)



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A101 Loves Yoga!

10/4/2015

 
This month Mrs. Berngen and Ms. Bryar's room started using daily yoga to incorporate stretch breaks throughout the day.  We are learning a lot of new poses!  

Some of the poses we are working on are: 
  1.  The Crescent Moon Pose because the days are getting shorter.
  2. The Tree Pose because the tree leaves change color
  3. Warrior III Pose because the birds fly south for warmer weather
  4. Chair Pose because farmers harvest their crops before the frost.  

We also have started Cosmic Kids Yoga on Fridays to utilize technology and the ability to give a model for each pose.  
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Oakwood CD is having a SPOOKtacular month!

10/1/2015

 
Our little Oakwood goblins are having tons of fun in the month of October! This month we are playing dress up with Halloween costumes (pretend play), dancing to the Monster Mash with our friends (social skills), practicing trick or treating (expected behaviors), and carving  pumpkins (sensory)!  When practicing trick or treating inside the school, we will use our PBIS visuals to reiterate the 3 B’s in CD:
Be Responsible (carry your own bag, cleanup your candy wrappers)
Be respectful (using a nice voice to ask for a treat, saying thank you)
Be Safe (walking, staying with the group) 
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Apples in September

10/1/2015

 
Over the last month Room 22 has been working and learning about apples.  We read the story Johnny Appleseed, measured our apples, taste tested them, weighed them and learned that apples float when in water.  To end our awesome journey through everything apples, we made homemade applesauce in the crock-pot at school.  The students loved it and the classroom smelled amazing.

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