Conferences

Parents,
In the next 2 weeks, you should be getting a sign up for parent teacher conferences.  Please sign up with your child's general education teacher.  I will try to attend all of the conferences for the students that I work with but this is time for you to meet with their teachers and understand how they are doing in their classroom. 
If your student has an IEP meeting in October, you do not need to sign up for conferences unless you want to. 

TARVER CARNIVAL

Tarver Carnival is on Friday NIGHT

The Tarver Carnival is a great, fun, family time. All kids can get involved. There are activities for all skill levels. If you come early it isn't as busy. I truly encourage everyone to give it a try. There will be bouncy castles, a cake walk, a Ninja course, and carnival games with prizes.  Please think about coming!

Math- Counting

 All of the students are working on counting this month. We are working on moving items and counting. Older kids are working on counting to 100 and skip counting and the younger guys are working on counting to 10 or 20. 

Counting is an important skill. Help your student by making movement with counting. Make sure they go slow and that when they are done the tell you how many they counted. (Often when kids finish counting 5 items- they tell me there are 6 things because that is the next number in the pattern) 

Here are some ideas of things to count:

• steps going up or down. (remember not to count until they touch the step.
• pennies- pull the pennies across the table in front of their body to get their whole brain involved
• silverware- Take it out and put it away count it when it gets placed in the drawer
• Count the people coming to dinner (great for when you are out at a restaurant to tell waiter) 

For kids counting large quantities- They often struggle with crossing the decade marks.. like 28 29 30 or 49 50 51
Here are some videos we use in class to help us count and see the numbers.