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We have a building full of learners at Hand-In-Hand - little and lifelong!

Every week during nap, our teachers and support teachers are busy learning, too! Our Instructional Coach, Kylene VanHeiningen and our Behavior Interventionist, Kelly Parramore, have both shared lots of great information during our professional development meetings these past several weeks. These trainings provide support to our teachers by modeling good teaching strategies and sharing ideas and resources.

We are so thankful for the experts among us and for a school system that ensures each school has this amazing level of support in their buildings full time!

Ms. Laura is our media center specialist and has a scheduled visit with all of the classes once a week as a specials rotation. In addition to reading books to the students every week, students use this time to check out a new book with Ms. Laura. We ask parents to make sure their child has turned in their library book by their "library" day so they are able to check out a new book every week! Stuents are very disappointed if they aren't able to get a new book on their class' scheduled day because they haven't turned their book in. It is extremely important to read to children, and Ms. Laura's time with the students adds another book to the list of books being read to them. Her visits are engaging and fun and remind students that reading is such a joy! 

Mrs. Amber is Hand-In-Hand's STEAM teacher. STEAM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Most of the time, the students call their time with Mrs. Amber "art," but there is a lot more to her time with them throughout the school year than art alone.

The kindergarten students started specials the first week of school and our PreK students started the second week. Students use coloring tools as well as scissors. One huge piece of learning that happens in PreK, and is reinforced in Kindergarten, is working on fine motor skills. Coloring and cutting is a great (and fun) way for this age students to get practice in their fine motor skills. The students are very engaged in the activity, learning to sit at the table and work independently, and having opportunities to interact socially with their peers by talking at their tables.