Wednesday, December 7, 2011

December 2011

We are getting ready for Christmas in Schnabel's room!  The classroom tree, although small, is decorated and festive!  The students have been busy making Christmas presents in art class.  We have been singing Christmas songs and listening to Christmas stories. 
I made a new book for the students to read and already the parents have been working with their children on the new vocab. pictures/words. They are doing so well.  This is a list of the vocabulary words we are targeting in our WINTER book:
dark, night, moon, window, time, mittens, bed, morning, friends, my, eat, breakfast, pancakes, surprise, boots, walk, winter, snow, out, door
We continue to work on Skill Streaming with the speech teacher once a week.  We have been talking about "Accepting Consequences" and using a kind, not a "snooty" voice.
We have SPOT group with speech and OT once a week.   This month, the fiirst week: we made pancakes for snack,  2nd week: sensory motor (moved around the room.) The last 2 weeks we will make cinnamon ornaments and reindeer snacks.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas!
-Debbie Schnabel's classroom