Phew....

Well, okay!

1. If anyone is looking for a general practioner who is great with everyone and anyone ( I know that a friend of mine takes her child who has Autism to see him and I just saw him myself today), I can highly recommend Dr. Chambers in the Bull Run practice by the hospital. They take all different kinds of insurance (my friend has Kaiser and I have Anthem)....almost the entire staff of Weems goes there. Our school nurse's husband is also a doctor there. Anyway, he's my top pick of doctors ever, and I'm really picky about doctors!

That being said and out of the way, conferences are coming up. Do you have a time already? If you do and need reminding, just me let know.

I had the conversation yesterday and now I need to know as parents where it rates on your scale. Many of the goals in the IEPs of the boys talks about making them use eye contact to have a conversation. I argued yesterday that some times, you don't have to use eye contact to show that you are indeed paying attention. Most people that I know with some degree of Autism in fact don't look at whatever it is that is the focal point for most other people but can tell you exactly what you're talking about. I didn't know if eye contact is something that you expect from your children. Do they show you that they are listening without it?

I filled out the referrals for APE today. If you didn't hear about it, your child doesn't need it.

Try fitting the word "above" in at home. It's something that we're focusing on at school and it's quite a difficult word for them to understand because typically, it's not something that we use everyday.

We talked about Christopher Columbus today. I believe that it went over most of their heads. It was the end of the day (our first with our new schedule) and I tried teaching until almost 3 o'clock and they were fried.

Darius lost another tooth today! Two in two weeks! We can now see straight into his belly when he smiles!

During PE today (we're walking "to China" to help the homeless) Grant walked and ran the entire time. He was one of the only kindergarteners to do it. He stopped for a moment because it appeared that he walked funny on his ankle, but then he "shook it out" and kept right on going. I was so impressed that he kept his own pace no matter what other kids tried to get him to do. He did exactly what he was told to do by the teacher and he did it well!

We started our fire-education-week. In speech, we discussed what firefighters wear and what is on their truck. Then we added a new poem to our personal readers.

David, Patrick and Luis had a fantastic time in Ms. Albert's room today and just as they started to get fidgety, it was time for specials. A huge improvement from last week where they needed a break a half hour and sometimes forty five minutes beforehand!

We put the marble racer together again (and followed the directions this time instead of trying our own way) and had a great time with that as a class downtime.

Book orders should be going home, I'm hoping tomorrow if everyone shows up. I really do recommend them compared to Barnes and Noble which is where I was tonight. However, if you enjoy Barnes and Noble and have a membership card, there are great books in their kids bargain section with letters, numbers, colors, and more that have magic pictures. Also, in their main section of bargin there is another section of bargin books with holiday books for kids. I know, it's hard to think of the holidays when Halloween isn't even here, but they are there.

Should we have a Halloween party in the class? We haven't heard yet about the approval of the field trip which should be on the 30th. Then we'd have a party on the 31st. Is it too much? What are your thoughts?

Alright, I should go find my suitcase and contemplate packing....enjoy your night!