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December/January Edition

The Elm Wood Park Zoo’s traveling zoo came to Marshall Street Elementary with a Blue

Tongue Skink! The students loved being able to learn and touch our scaly friend!

Websites of the Month

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ -National Geographic Kids has a lot of fun and entertaining information. Kids can watch videos, play games, and best of all, learn about animals, nature and the world around them.

https://www.getepic.com/- over 35,000 children’s books at your fingertips. Free trials available.

Inclusion Opportunities

In January, students at PV West began attending a Family and Consumer Science class. The students will learn skills to prepare, cook, measure and serve meals.

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Students started a new unit in Reading Wonders on How Families and Friends help each other. We made a word web and have started reading a variety of realistic fiction and informational texts relating to the theme. Students are practicing ways they can be a dependable and kind friend.

Last month, the MCIU classrooms at Evans gathered for a Thanksgiving luncheon! Staff and students enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving meal and students enjoyed the feast and playing games with one another after.

With the colder weather approaching we have been finding new and fun ways to implement movement breaks and opportunities in the classroom. This week the students had a blast having an indoor “snowball fight.”

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Technology tip of the month

Copy & Paste. You simply highlight to text that you want to copy, right click with your mouse, and

choose the option to copy or you can use the shortcut key which is Ctrl + C

Then move your cursor to the area where you want to put the info you just copied, right click on your

mouse and choose the option to paste, or you can use the shortcut key Ctrl + V.

Staff Highlights

We are so thankful for Ms. Terry Lewadowski and all of her support as the new floating sub. She has made an incredible effort to get to know each student and always brings along a special craft for the students when she is in subbing. J

Therapist tip of the month

Be sure to get up and keep moving! Practice range of motion and use your braces when you are at home

Mrs. Marino’s class worked on several fine motor art activities related to career readiness and

direction following.

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Room 115 at Evans Elementary rang in the New Year with a new teacher, Mrs. Julie Ortlieb! Mrs. Ortlieb enjoyed getting to know the students and having fun with New Year’s activities like painting fireworks and practicing 2020 using AT, bingo dabbers, and confetti. They also explored the topic of plants and gardening. The students enjoyed a fun book called “Secrets of the Apple Tree” in which you shine a flashlight behind each page to reveal a surprise! Then we sorted red & green apples (ping pong balls) into red & green “trees.”

Mrs. Lynch’s class had fun getting their pictures taken and painting snow scenes (making snowflakes out of their fingerprints) for snow globe decorations! The best part? All the glitter! They sparkled for weeks!