Our week began with a fun music class involving families! Thank you to everyone who was able to join Miss Jenn and the students, they truly enjoyed it! We also learned about peaceful yoga and managing stress from the Wood County Hospital presentation, and practiced methods of meditation. We continued fall-themed practical life lessons this...Read More

We began the week celebrating Miss Brenda’s birthday! Students used our golden bead material to build and discover her age as she traveled around the sun! Many works this week reflected practical life skills leading into our community gathering and feast. These works included silverware sorting, rolling napkins, table setting, using a baster, and folding...Read More

We are in the final weeks of November and Fall is in the air. Anticipation for the upcoming holidays, family gatherings and hopefully some relaxation is right around the corner. We hope to see you this Saturday for the downtown holiday parade;) In the classroom, we have narrowed our focus from Insects to Bees on our Zoology shelf....Read More

This week in the Adolescent Program we are keeping incredibly busy. We went on a student-designed field trip to the Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor. The goal was to see the process that the coffee goes through before it reaches the consumer. We got so much more than that! Steve was enthusiastic about the whole process...Read More

We cannot believe the first couple of months of the school year have come and gone! The students continue to learn new things every day and remain working hard in the classroom. This week the students were introduced to a couple new units. For word study, the students received a lesson on ABC order. This...Read More

Sensory experiences were a big part of our work this week! The Sound/No Sound unit was added to our sensorial shelf. This work aims to refine the sense of sound while students explore matching sound cylinders, mystery bags of differing sounds, and using a quiet rug.  The quiet rug is a special work in the classroom where...Read More

We cannot believe the first couple of months of the school year have come and gone! The students continue to learn new things every day and remain working hard in the classroom. This week the students were introduced to a couple new units. For word study, the students received a lesson on ABC order. This...Read More

Early Childhood West began the week discussing Veterans day and read a book about it. In Practical Life this week we began cutting and slicing wooden fruits and vegetables. Lacing boards were also added which prepares for the skill of sewing. Our new Sensorial unit was about big and little. Students explored this vocabulary through...Read More

The children were so excited to see her! We also introduced a new math unit on fractions! Children learn parts of a whole up to one-fourth. Our first food preparation work was grape plucking. Using hands as our prepared tools first, children plucked grapes off the vine and enjoyed eating them. We used the corn...Read More

What a beautiful fall week in EC East! We began the week with a new math unit exploring greater than, less than and equal to. Our first food prep lesson was shared with the students – grape plucking. This work is part of our practical life curriculum and allows the student to understand the process...Read More