APRIL 2016

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. - George Evans

Happy Birthday wishes go to:

Dear Parents,

April is here, and with it comes Spring, a time all the students will surely enjoy. March was a fun and busy month for our students as they celebrat-ed St. Patrick’s Day, East-er and they also had a special visit from the “cat in the hat” to celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday.

Everyone had a great time during all these wonderful celebrations!

We would like to invite

Emergency forms

In case of an emergency, the

school office needs to contact parents or guardians. Please make sure that we have up-to-dated emergency numbers in your child’s file.

Medication

Medication may only be ad-ministered by our staff if it is in its original container, la-beled clearly with the child’s name, dosages and times. Medicine should never be placed in a child’s lunch box or backpack. The medication will be stored in the secured medicine box provided by the school. Thank you for your cooperation.

Ann Solamo 4/27

Gaby Orozco 4/29

Students

Jasmin White 4/1

Bryan Padilla 4/7

Amirah Muhammad 4/10

Pablo Iniguez 4/15

Jesus Santos 4/18

Alex Bracamontes 4/19

Natalie Rodriguez 4/24

Staff

Patricia Gonzalez 4/2

Ruben Herrera 4/11

Alyssa Nilam-Hall 4/14

Cecilia Maravilla 4/16

Inside this issue:

General Information 2

Mr. Lester’s Class 3

Mr. Edsel’s Class 4

Ms. Cecil’s Class 5

Mr. Juan’s Class 6

Mr. Kelvin’s Class

Mr. John’s Class

basis. Please make sure your child

has snack and/or lunch sent to

school every day, if applicable.

Make sure all of your child’s be-

longings are clearly labeled in

order to prevent items from getting

misplaced or lost. If your child has

toileting needs, please make sure

you send enough toiletries to last

the day. As always, thank you for

all your cooperation and support!

Yours truly,

Mr. Lester & Ms. Jo-

hanne

It’s time to spring into the splen-

did month of April! This month we will be

celebrating Earth Day! In the continuation

of learning embedded with music, we have

prepared an array of wonderful lessons for

our students. Our themes for this month

are as follows: Plants, Animals and Life

Cycles; To Market, To Market; Needs/

Wants and Community Workers.

For our Language Arts time we

will be reading: “A Birthday Gift For

Mother, Needs Before Wants, You Don’t

Need It, Jose’s Choice” Also for Lan-

guage Arts we are engaging the students

with the reading program “Reader Rabbit”

and “Starfall.” For this month our goal is

that at the end of the lesson, students will

be able to listen to the stories in “Reader

Rabbit,” and Starfall, answer questions

about each story, write vocabulary words

legibly, and read word families. Our stu-

dents really enjoy these programs and have

a lot of fun with them.

In Social Studies our class will be

exploring our community workers. We

will be reading “All Around the Town” and

“Where Do They Work.” We will also be

playing vocabulary BINGO to help in-

crease our students’ site words involving

community workers and buildings! Our

objective is that at the end of this lesson,

our students will be able to recognize and

become more familiar with the many com-

munity workers around them.

For our Science lessons we will

be investigating Natural & Manmade Re-

sources! We will be learning how

things change form like from Blos-

som to Honey, Cacao Bean to Choc-

olate and Lemon to Lemonade!

As for math we will con-

tinue using “Mighty Math Count-

down and Zoo Zillions.” However

we will be focusing on colors and

reading books such as Planting a

Rainbow, and Brown Bear, what do

you see? Also in continuance of

counting the single digit numbers to

ten, our objective is that by the end

of the lesson the students will be

able to identify and match the colors

of the rainbow, and the numbers 1-

10.

We are so happy to an-

nounce that our student of the

month is Jaiden Cooper!!! He has

made tremendous progress while at

Carousel. He is doing well with

listening to and following instruc-

tions. We are so proud of him!

Here are a few friendly

reminders, for the month of April.

On the 22nd we will be celebrating

Earth Day.

We also want to remind

our wonderful parents to please

check your child’s back pack every-

day for any school notes that need to

be read, returned, and/or signed.

Please check your home school

communication notebook on a daily

Mr. Lester’s Class

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Mr. Edsel’s Class

Ms. Cecil’s Class

For the month of April , our theme for the In-termediate Unique curricu-lum is “Economics: Explores wants and needs, producers and consumers, and produc-tion of goods.” It is also the Autism month and we will be having an Art Exhibition. Carousel School will be hav-ing a State Review on the 3rd week of April. Parents and Teachers Conference will be held on the last week of April.

Thank you for all your support in classroom – Room 1.

Mr. Edse & Ms. Mical

Dear Parents/Guardians:

To celebrate St. Pat-rick’s Day, Carousel School had a door Decorating Con-test. Our Classroom won the 2nd Place for the NPS category gathering 353 votes. Thank you for “liking” the classroom door picture of St. Patrick in the Carousel School Facebook page. It was so fun. Staff, students and parents were busy asking “friends of Carou-sel” to vote for their favorite classroom. St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated on March 17 – Thursday. The students and staff had a wonderful time dancing at the playground with loud speakers installed

for the music. Our classroom was decorated with St. Pat-rick’s Day theme. Other themes for the month of March was “Physical Science” as “Energy Around Us” as the theme from the Unique Cur-riculum of LAUSD. We had the “Cat in the Hat” theme on the first week of March, Spring activities on the second week, Easter theme on the third week, and Spring Break (NO SCHOOL) for the last week. We also had Food Prep-aration: waffles 1st Friday, chicken nuggets 2nd Friday, chocolate covered waffles 3rd Friday, and fruit parfait 4th Friday.

pictures on our Facebook

account Carousel. Check on

Carousel ADP and Westside

Childcare for the latest on

specially designed programs and

interventions. Enjoy watching

April blooms everyone!

Room 4 Ms.Cecilia / Ms.Erica /

Ms.Gabi / Mr.Jefte

Dear Community of Learners,

The marvelous month of

March just ended. Readers

joined the Poetry Recitation

Contest last March 3.

Students dentists from UCLA

gave a talk about oral hygiene

last March 9. The door

decoration contest and the

Day Dance during St.

Patrick’s Day were a blast.

Our classroom(#4) WON,

having the most likes on

Facebook! That was a great

Spring Break!

APRIL is AUTISM

Awareness Month. Unique is

about Economics and

exploring the difference

between needs and wants. For

Language Arts, the student’s

comprehensions are

challenged by reading the ff.

stories: “You Don’t Need It”,

“Consumers and Producers”,

and “Needs and

Wants”.Math time is using

logical reasoning for number

sense, time, money and

Touch Math. Social Science

is about “Made to Sell”.The

experiment during Science

time is called “Penny Drop”.

Please call the numbers (310)

645-9222 for your inquiries.

Have fun exploring our

website Carousel and like the

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“ Teaching is not a profession; it’s a

passion.” -Unknown

Dear Parents/ Guardians,

April has arrived, we can

spend more time out-

doors!

For this month, our theme

is about "What to Do,

What to Do" which cen-

ters on Personal

Life. Specifically, we

will present to the stu-

dents, a process for mak-

ing effective decisions.

There will still be the reg-

ular Carwash Tuesdays &

Thursdays, folding-

clothes activity, self-help

skills, writing skills and

Community-Based In-

struction (CBI) trips.

We wish you a beautiful

Spring!

Sincerely,

Mr. Victor, Mr. Jose,

Mr. Paul & Ms. Brittan-

ny

Mr. Victor’s Class

Mr. John’s Class

Room 8 had a wonderful month in March. We continued to learn about staying healthy by eating the

right foods, taking care of our appearance, and cleaning our teeth. All of our class participated wonderfully

and thoroughly enjoyed the learning process!

We enjoyed our community based instruction at the Flight Path Museum at Los Angeles International

Airport. There, we saw aviation history as well as met a working police dog named Mattie. Our second

community based instruction trip of the month saw us go to Chuck E. Cheese’s. We demonstrated great

social skills by eating appropriately and by taking turns ordering, getting drinks, and filling our plates with

food. A good time was had by all!

Mr. John

Mr. Juan’s Class

Dear Parents,

Yes, as we approach the middle of the year, 2016, Room 6 would like to thank all family

and friends for their continuous support. The students continue to make progress, both socially

and academically. Room 6 will continue to identify means and ways to insure that the students de-

velop both verbally, socially, and improve their basic academic skills. We value their efforts and we

use every educational strategy to help improve some of the challenges they face, as well as develop

their strengths. We ask, that all of state holders continue to challenge the students with activities

that are relevant to their social/academic development. We can assure that at Carousel all the staff

put the safety of our students as a priority and we always make sure that we strive to meet their

goals. We ask parents to continue to provide Room 6 with your continuous support as the year

continues to move along. Thank you from all the staff in Room 6 for entrusting us with your

son/daughter’s education.

Mr. Juan, Mr. Brian, Ms. Brittany

This month Room 9 welcomes back the return of spring. This month we visited once again visited

Kenneth Hahn Park to hold a community based instruction trip. There the students practiced their

food handling skills as they enjoyed various foods provided by our staff. Carne asada, hamburg-

ers, hot dogs, and homemade salsa were just some of the foods that were provided. In addition to

the food, we held various sporting activities to get our students acquainted with guidelines within

a public setting. Soccer, dodgeball, and the always enjoyed water balloon toss were some of the

activities our students participated in.

In curriculum, the onset of spring is the perfect time to learn about science. We started off the

month learning about different energy types and how they fuel our lives. From energy we transi-

tioned over to plants and their importance in our lives. Topping off the month of science the stu-

dents grew their own plant to demonstrate the use of solar energy in plant photosynthesis.

Mr. Kelvin

Mr. Kelvin’s Class