Blog Archives

Ridge Recycling Program to Start in the New Year!

12/19/2014

Next semester CD Students at Ridge will begin collecting items for their recycling center! Students and staff from Ridge School may bring in recyclable items and drop them off at the center which will be located in the Ridge teacher lounge.

At the end of each week, our students will sort and count aluminum, plastic, and paper items. Then the students will graph our progress.

The program will be called "Trash for Change". Not only will our efforts to recycle help "change" our earth, but the students will also be earning "change" for each item counted (nickel for each item recycled). At the end of each quarter, we will count our change and donate it to help protect endangered species.

December and January Sensory Considerate Movies

12/15/2014

Marcus Theater's December sensory considerate movie is Night at the Museum 3 on Saturday, December 20 at 10:00am. If you plan on attending please email Pam Lorenz at pmsl365@sbcglobal.net the number of people coming by Wednesday, December 17 so she can notify Marcus Theater the amount of people that will be attending.

January's movie will be Paddington Bear on Saturday, January 3 at 10:00am. If
you know you will be going to this movie also, please let Mrs. Lorenz know by Wednesday, December 17 and just specify which movie or both movies.

Please remember, the movies will start promptly at 10:00am with no previews.

Ridge Train Trip

12/12/2014

Ridge students recently took a trip on the Metra train to Union Station. Students got to experience a train ride, meet the train conductor, and eat at the Union Station McDonalds downtown! This was an exciting trip for all the students who attended and they can't wait to go again! Taking these trips into the community helps the students practice their social skills in real life situations.

Ridge Visits Pump it Up!

12/11/2014

Recently the students in Mrs. Owens-Hendrickson and Mrs. Ford's classroom took a field trip to Pump it Up. Pump it Up is a facility with hundreds of inflatable play structures all meant for imaginative play. Kids love to run, jump and play on these bouncy jungle gyms and our students were no exception! They had a great time exploring new places and ways to play and got lots of exercise at the same time!

Kerkstra Holiday Program

12/11/2014

The staff and students of the CD and Destiny programs would like to invite everyone to the annual Holiday Program taking place on Thursday, December 18th in the Kerkstra Cafeteria at 1:20 pm. Students will be singing and dancing along to everyone's favorite holiday classics, we can't wait to see you there!

December Sensory Considerate Movie at Marcus Theater

12/1/2014

Marcus Theater's next sensory considerate movie is The Penguins of Madagascar on Saturday, December 6 at 10:00am. If you plan on attending please email Pam Lorenz at pmsl365@sbcglobal.net the number of people coming by Wednesday, December 3 so she can notify Marcus Theater the amount of people that will be attending.

Please remember, the movie starts promptly at 10:00am with no previews.

CD Andrew Food Drive

12/1/2014

Mrs. Nagy headed our collection efforts with our CD Andrew students for the Cooperative’s annual Thanksgiving food drive sponsored by Braun Educational Center. As a group of 26 people (staff and students), we collected 320 food items to donate! The students earned a pizza party for their generosity. We would like to thank Mrs. Nagy for coordinating the efforts here at Andrew and dropping off all the food at Braun Educational Center.