Learning About Our Armed Forces

We were so excited to see Miss Cushing again this week, but this time she brought Army Specialist Aaron Lewis with her! Specialist Lewis has just returned from a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan. 

In November, for Veterans Day, our classes wrote letters to Specialist Lewis to support his efforts in protecting our country. He said the letters meant a lot to him and that he shared them with other soldiers. 

It was such a treat for everyone to meet him in person and to get to talk with him.

The students were very respectful and asked great questions. They learned what it is like to be deployed so far from home and some of the jobs in the Army. They also learned that a lot goes into keeping our country safe and that real people are putting their lives on the line for this safety every day. 

Specialist Lewis is returning to Kentucky shortly and soon after he (and his new fianc'ee Miss Cushing) will be moving to Colorado. 

We wish them both the best of luck!

A Visit from the Cromwell Institute

Earlier in March someone from the Cromwell Institute came to our school to teach us about different kinds of disabilities and how we should treat kids or adults with them. These are some of the disabilities and what they are like.

A.D.H.D is when you have trouble learning because, you focus on everything that is going on around you.

OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is when other things get in the way of your important things and you think you have to do those before you do your other things (Justin Timberlake has OCD).

Autism is when you have trouble controlling yourself and trouble communicating and getting relationships with other people.

Dyslexia is when you have specific learning disabilities such as seeing letters upside down, backwards, and sideways.

It is very important to treat people with disabilities the way that you would want to be treated.

By:

Allison and Kayleigh 

Here are some pictures of the activities we did.