Happy Halloween!

Have a safe night of Trick-or-Treating tonight!!!

Thank you parents for coming to Parent Teacher Conferences and Annual Review meetings.  It was great to see you all and brag about the awesome things your child is doing in the TRAILS program!  :)

TRAILS has been talking about nouns for a few weeks.  The students are able to tell me that a noun is a person, place, or thing.  For something fun, we made Noun Pizzas!  The students cut a person, place, and thing out of a magazine and glued those onto the pizza as the pepperoni!

What a busy week we've had at CCIS!  Monday was the start of Fire Safety Week.  Tuesday the CC Firefighters came to school to talk to our students about Kitchen Fire Safety.  Today, the CC Firefighters came back to school with firetrucks and ambulances to show our students the vehicles, what they have, and what they do.

Today was also a cooking day for the TRAILS program.  When we went to Berkots 2 weeks ago, our shopping list included apples, marshmallow fluff, caramel, and peanut butter.  Today was a yummy day of taste testing all these delicious dips with our apples.  The results of our taste test are as follows:

Marshmallow Fluff: 2
Peanut Butter: 2
Caramel: 5

Caramel was the top winner among the students/teachers in the TRAILS program.

Tomorrow finishes up this busy week.  Enjoy this 3 day weekend.  I hope the students enjoy the weather, get some rest, and come back to school on Tuesday ready to rock and roll!! :)

Today TRAILS went to the HS to see the MS production of Annie.  What a show!  The MS/HS students were AWESOME!!!  Nothing to do this weekend, take your family to see Annie at the HS....you won't be disappointed!! :)

Last week TRAILS had some cooking fun!  Hand washing, apple washing, supply identification, preparation, tasting, and clean-up were all part of our cooking class.  All of the food we used we bought at Berkots on our community trip a few weeks ago.

We did some apple taste testing: red, green, and yellow.  The students know there are 3 colors of apples, but had they ever tasted them?

Have you ever wondered about Special Olympics?  Students can start participating in SO at age 8.  We have several students from Coal City who are active in SO sports/activities through Special Connections of Grundy County.   If you and/or your child are interested in participating in Special Olympics, please look at Special Connections of Grundy County.

http://specialconnections.org/