We had a devil, a 
ballerina, a pumpkin, Superman, a doctor, and a princess come to our class! Thirty-five classes invited us to come to their door. Each of our students presssed the single switch, which activated the voice output message, "Trick or Treat!" We had a great time on Halloween!
We've had a fun week! Check out our Power Point Presentation - Download pumpkin_pie.ppt
Reminders:
*Tuesday is Halloween and our class will be trick-or-treating throughout the halls of Dowell. Your child can wear or bring their costume. Over 30 classrooms and school offices have invited us to come knock on their door!
*November 7th is election day and a student school holiday.
*November 9th is our next CBI. If it's open, we'll go to the new Wal-Mart on Powder Springs Road.
We would like to welcome Sondra Malandro and Kete Jackson as new paraprofessionals for our class. Both of these ladies have been substitutes in our class several times and work wonderfully with your children! They will be job sharing.
Mrs. Kete will be working Tuesdays, Thursdays, and every other Friday. She and her husband, Jeff, have two children, who are both students at Dowell.
Mrs. Sondra will be working Mondays, Wednesdays, every other Friday and ASP on some days. Sondra and Steve Malandro have three children, one in college and two in high school.
We had a great time decorating our pumpkins ~ turning them into jack-o-lanterns! Each child
decorated their own miniature pumpkin with eyes, nose, and mouth stickers . 
On October 31st, we will be Trick-or-Treating throughout the halls of Dowell. Our class will use switches to access voice output messages. Please send some type of costume for your child to wear for this fun activity!
Math Night at Publix will also be Spirit Night! Wear your Dowell shirts to Math Night Thursday night, October 19th! Dowell Spirit Team Members will be roaming the aisles randomly awarding prizes for those attired in Dowell spirit wear.If you don't have your shirt yet, you can buy one Monday - Thursday morning before school near the front foyer for $10 each.
Our CBI trip to Kennesaw Mountain, this Thursday, October 12th, has been changed, due to rain in the forecast. We will be going to Home Depot on Dallas Highway to see all of the beautiful fall flowers - inside! Hopefully, we will be able to reschedule our trip to Kennsaw Mountain for this spring.
Our Reading Buddies are two 5th graders. They come to our class to read to us!
We always enjoy when brothers and sisters come to our class to visit!
(Marissa and brother Nathan)
We worked together to make pudding!
1. Gather your supplies - Mrs. Lea Anne's job
2. Open the box of pudding- Mrs. Lea Anne's job
3. Pour the pudding mix into the blender - Olivia's job
4. Throw away the trash - Olivia's and Kelly's jobs
5. Measure two cups of milk - Mrs. Lea Anne's job
6. Pour the milk into the blender - Jaylah's job
7. Mix the pudding by pressing the single switch - Kelly's and Alexai's jobs
8. Pour the pudding into the serving bowl - Jacob's and Mrs. Linda's jobs
9. Taste the pudding - Jaylah's, Olivia's, and Kelly's jobs
Our first Community Based Instruction was to Target on the corner of Dallas Highway and Barrett Parkway. We enjoyed seeing lots of colors, feeling many textures, smelling popcorn, hearing crazy turtles and frogs sing to us, and best of all - riding the buses! Olivia and Jaylah took on the jobs of tour guides, since they obviously knew there way around each and every department! Jacob and Marissa helped Mrs. Lea Anne make sure that we got the right size of batteries. Malik volunteered for toy quality control inspector and Kelly taste tested the popcorn. We were all very thankful that Mrs. Lisa (our Occupational Therapist) and Mrs. Sondra (one of our new paraprofessionals) were able to join us. Mrs. Linda and Mrs. Lea Anne were most thankful for a few more hands!
Linda Bosch has been a paraprofessional with special needs students for 11 years. Her love for the children is evident and she works extremely well with them. Mrs. Linda and her husband, Ed, have two children. April is a junior at North Georgia college in Dahlonega, where she is studying to be a teacher. Timothy enjoys driving his truck and playing trumpet in his school marching band. He is a senior at Osbourn High School. Mrs. Linda teaches 2 and 3 year olds at church and loves to travel.
REMINDER: Wednesday, 9/20, is Early Release Day. Your child will be dismissed at 12:10, rather than 2:10.
Ms. Cathy Smith is our Apapted Physical Education Teacher. She has been teaching students with mental and/or physical disabilities since 1981. Ms. Cathy volunteers as a Special Olympics ski coach in Cobb County. She always has something fun planned for us! Bocce, Parachute play, horseshoes, basketball, soccer, batons, square dance, and streamers are a just a few of our favorites!
C.B.I. begins next week ~ Our first trip will be to Target on Dallas Highway at Barrett Parkway.
Brenda Anderson is our Speech and Language Pathologist this year. Even though this is her first year with Cobb County Schools, she has alot of experience from other systems. Brenda is originally from Canada. She and her husband have three children. Brenda enjoys playing softball and tennis, when she can find the time! We celebrated her birthday last week, along with two of our other therapists, Lisa Clark, OT, and Lori Reisig, PT. You will learn more about them in future editions of Mrs. Hammond's Herald.
Marissa's smile tells the story of our great school year!
Jaylah enjoys our parachute play~
Malik is bright eyed, watching everything and everybody in his new class!
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