Plants and a Play!

On Monday we arrived to find that many of our seeds had sprouted over the weekend! We know that plants need dirt, air, sun and water to grow. We observed that some of our bigger bean sprouts grew towards the sunny window. We continued to talk about trees and apples - we ended our week by making some wonderful, homemade applesauce.

Our Social Skills lessons were focused on using a coping skill to get work done or when we hear an answer we don't like. A good coping skill for school work is "one step at a time". We can focus on completing one task first before moving on to the next one. We understand that we don't have to get them all done right away, just the one we are working on. Good coping skills to use when we don't hear the answer we like are "deep breathing", "self talk" and  "bump it out" - we can breathe to feel calmer, and then tell ourselves that we can still have fun or have a good day even when everything doesn't go our way. You can create some opportunities for practice at home or model for your child how you might use some of those coping skills to get work done or to handle disappointment when things don't go your way. 

We have been working on a little Halloween play that we plan to present to our families on Tuesday, October 29 at 2:00 in our classroom. We hope that many of you will be able to come! After our play, we'll visit and have donuts and cider.

Miss Marlowe came on Tuesday for our music therapy time. We are happy that she will be with us every week on Tuesday mornings!