….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, most of the time.  His academic skills are quite low, as are his communication skills.  I ...

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 you say, or repeat one phrase over and over, and he doesn’t always know how to answer a ...

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, late, I looked through my classroom window and saw a meeting taking place.  Oh yes, I was ...

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 doesn’t have other students to see), and my little one only spent about 10% of the morning ...

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 it. Monkey struggled with it, without ever knowing he was struggling.  He found a circle ...

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 left the room right after that. When she returned, I told her I ...