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….to be getting new students. One little boy started a few weeks ago, and this is his first experience in school. He is doing pretty well, actually. He learned how to walk in a line, how to sit in the meeting area, and how to keep his hands to himself,
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Today Crow hit a little girl at the beginning of the morning, at journal time. It came out of nowhere. I put him in the take-a-break chair. “Crow, did you hit her?” He nodded. “Why did you hit her?” He looked blank and nodded again. I started to think,
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Almost every day, I have been sitting in the block corner at centers time with my little blocks-challenged friend. (On the days when I haven’t been there with him, my special ed teacher has been.) And each day, he has learned a little bit more. Let’s
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One of my developmentally delayed sweethearts is a little boy who knows all the letters, and a lot of sounds. He knows numbers, colors, shapes, and that sort of thing. It’s obvious that he has difficulty with verbal communication — he will repeat what
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I haven’t named any of my students so far this year, with the exception of Little One with her large personality, so it is high time. I will start telling tales about this year’s class, and will name them all after colors. When I arrived this morning,
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Today was a hard day. We have a little student, the one who screams sometimes, who seems like she is not going to make it in my classroom. Yesterday she had the special ed teacher one-on-one with her all morning (and it’s not like the special ed teacher
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At art class today, the children were asked to make bugs out of a variety of construction paper shapes. They did pretty well with it, and the resulting mural is just lovely. I hope the art teacher puts it up in the hall near our classroom so we can enjoy
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So I’ve got two students receiving special education services, one of whom also receives speech. I’ve got another student who is about to start receiving special education services, and she also receives counseling (we have an on-site counseling center).
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Dear Monkey, I love you, and I am happy you are in my class. When I think that you are the most difficult child in my class, it makes me feel lucky, because you are nowhere near as difficult as some of my sweeties in the past. You don’t know it, but you
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In the last two days I got three new kids. One of them was flagged as probably needing a referral for possible special ed services, another probably needs to be referred for speech services, and the third doesn’t speak any English, acts as if rules don’t
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They do seem so young to me, but perhaps that’s just in comparison to last year’s group, whom I remember as they were in June. But still….only two of the kids just turned four, but several others also seem like they were three not very long ago. I’ve
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This article in the NYTimes is a thoughtful look at how inclusion can work. It’s worth a read. I’ve had an autistic child in my class almost every year for the past six, and it really is a successful model. I love the way the other children in the article
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There is a child in my class with sort of “off” behaviors. It just occurred to me today for the first time that this child might be on the autism spectrum. Sigh. Now I have to figure out what to do about it.
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This was the conference I was most concerned about, and that I thought about the most. I rehearsed in my head over and over what I would say to her. As it turned out, she was very open to what I had to say, and she even said, “I feel relieved that I’m
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We went to the library for preschool storytime on Wednesday. I’d forgotten to give Miss Nelson advance notice, so when she came in she got tense. Then she said she wouldn’t go — and would keep her four early childhood special ed students back, too! She
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