Sensory House!

On Halloween, our students had a great opportunity to give back to our Brooks community, and practice some great, real life skills at the same time! We put on a Sensory House, with a Halloween theme! We had See, Hear, Smell and Touch. Students were greeted with a Jack O Lantern that was turned on with a switch, along with some scary music, and a recorded message that said 'Welcome to our Sensory house"! Then they went to the smell station. They had to smell 3 different boxes and tell us what they thought they were. We had perfume, fish and sauerkraut! Next was our touch station! We had sticky blood, brains, eyeballs, and bloody hands. Next people signed our banner, then moved onto a corn hole game. It was a lot of fun!

Life Skills

We are happy to announce that our life skills elective has gotten off with a bang. We do something different each and every day. We are contributing to our school community on a daily basis. We have jobs to complete around the school, from helping to wipe down the gym equipment, to watering plants in the library. We are also providing a pencil sharpening service. Ms. LaBarbera donated a large number of pencil boxes, which our students labeled and have passed out to teachers. Teachers will fill them with pencils, and we will collect them, sharpen the pencils and return them. Teachers have claimed that this will be a big help, and pencil sharpeners are often out of service, and make noise during class time. We hope to be of service during ISATs as well! We are also creating grocery lists from chosen recipes, and then waking to the store each week to buy the groceries. We invite parents of students in the DD/DLP program to send a simple grocery list and extra money to pick items up for home.

Ms. Diehl? Or Mrs. Seitzinger?

Yes, it did happen! Ms. Diehl became Mrs. Seitzinger on June 30th, 2007. She married Mr. Michael Seitzinger, formerly a member of the GBMS staff. It was a beautiful day, followed by a beautiful honeymoon in Hawaii. Look around the site for a few pictures. Many former students were in attendance, and made the day even more special. If it wasn't for our students, we never would have met!

Welcome to the 2007-2008 School Year

Welcome to everyone for the 2007-2008 school year! GBMS is happy to welcome the DLP program to our school! Ms. Chilton and her students are a wonderfully welcome addition to the GBMS family. Ms. Chilton joins Ms. Seitzinger's DD program at GBMS. The two low incidence classrooms are happily collaborating on a daily basis. Read further for more details on the the collaboration of both classrooms.