Boulton Elementary

For those of you who don't know, I work in the Functional Skills class at Boulton Elementary. I work with the BEST teacher! Her name is Mary and today was her birthday, so I wanted to take pictures. The girl with the red bandana on is her daughter, Maura, who is a 4th grader there.
I've been doing this for 7 years now. 5 years at Meadowbrook Elementary and this is my 2nd year at Boulton. The benefits are wonderful. So, while I'm at work,Elizabeth and Sydney go to pre-school at Bountiful High School. Elizabeth has been going there since she was 2 months old...and then same with Sydney. It's great because our schools are right next to eachother, so I'm just down the street. I miss them SO MUCH during the day, but, I know they're getting the very best care and doing so many fun things.I'll do a post on the pre-school later on...I could talk about it for days!
In my class, we have 8 kids. 7 with Austism and 1 Down-Syndrome. All the kids have their own unique personalities. They are all so different. I just love them all so much. And Mary and Kim...(Kim is the other girl that works with me)
We do so many fun things everyday. I do art on Tuesdays. Of course right now we are doing Halloween crafts. Painting pumpkins and stuff like that.
It's a good school. There's a lot of great teachers and the other students are so awesome with our kids. Mary has set up the "buddy system" where the kids from their homerooms can sign up to be that person's buddy for the day. That means they come get them out of our classroom and help them with some of their work or help them at lunch or recess or an assembly...or just whatever is going on. It's made them all so outgoing and gives the other students a real insight on who these kids really are and makes it so they're not afraid of them or think that they're different. They find out that they're just like them!