One of our classes, the Awesome Axolotls, reached their toy drive goals! Thank you so much to all the parents who have donated to the SafePlace Toy Drive so far. The end of the toy drive will be next Tuesday, December 7th. I’ll drive the toys to the SafePlace warehouse on Wednesday afternoon.

The lesson you see in a few of the pictures featuring a clear, plastic tissue box and throwing scarves was inspired by my observations of some of our younger students rushing to the tissue box and ripping out as many white tissues as their little hands could hold, as quickly as their little hands could do it. Now we have a less wasteful way of engaging their senses and meeting that physical need to manipulate soft, flat cloth while also simultaneously allowing them to yank the scarves out of a small opening!

Have an enjoyable, relaxing, and safe weekend!