First Outing

This morning started out with a great morning circle! It was really exciting to see the new student fitting in and working on making new friends. Building Bridges is a behavioral school, so the students' are all used to various behaviors that are seen throughout the day and this morning one of the students start screaming. With this students great needs (he is on the Autism Spectrum) he needs to be restrained and have his head held back so he is unable to bite. This morning he needed to be restrained twice which is a great improvement from the four that he needed on Thursday. The children all had a successful morning of school.

Every Wednesday and Friday we going on an outing somewhere. Today we went to a park by our old school. The children did great taking the bus and we arrived at the park. That is when things really started going downhill for us. One of the students was playing with other children and they had squirt guns. The Building Bridges child was not paying attention to where he was squirting and ended up hitting one of the other boy's father in the face. I took the squirt gun away from the child and he started screaming extremely loud. We have a rule at Building Bridges that if we are playing with a toy, we pay attention to our surroundings. This child knew this rule and decided to break it anyway. This created great problems at the park because of the loud horrible sounds that he makes when he is angry, so he was taken away from the park by one of my co-teachers to be removed from the situation. We are really trying to work on this child's attitude throughout the day and his social skills.

I have had so many great experiences so far that they are hard to remember them all, and I cannot wait to have more!