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Nat · Posted: July 28 2008, 5:45 PM Post subject: letter to teacher

With kindergarten starting soon, I keep telling myself, I can do this, I can do this....... so, I have a question. Did you all send a special letter to the special ed. teacher as well as the reg. ed teacher ? If so, what things , other than personal info, did you let them know about ?? Thanks so much for your help !! Natalie

Renee Lacey's mom · Posted: July 28 2008, 5:55 PM Post subject:

We disclosed everything in the IEP meeting!! But if you didn't do that then you could right a letter or go have a meeting with the staff.. Good luck~~

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ecki · Posted: July 28 2008, 6:08 PM Post subject:

I have a great booklet that I got from A (Russell's mom) called "All About Me" from the Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City. It's in PDF format so I can email it to you if you want to print it out.

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briarsmom · Posted: July 28 2008, 8:47 PM Post subject:

We have open house before school actually starts and I try to take care of things there. However I usually end up in tears cause I HATE sending my baby to school. Is your child going to have a aid? My son has had an aid and most of the important stuff I tell her cause she will more likely remember it better than the teacher will.
Letters are good too. If it makes you feel better I would go for it.
The special ed teacher did not work with Briar during kindergarten so I hardly ever talked to her.

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Nat · Posted: July 29 2008, 10:19 AM Post subject:

Thanks Ecki, that would be great ! I sent you my e mail address. Our open house is a few days before school starts. No, Lily will not have an aide, pulled out for resource, a couple times a day. I know I will cry and it will be crazy for the teacher, so I thought I would leave her a note and now a booklet. Natalie

ecki · Posted: July 30 2008, 1:39 PM Post subject:

Hmmm, I didn't get the email. But if you, or anyone else wants to download it, I put it online here:

http://www.ecki.com/kayla/AllAboutMe.pdf

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momofrussell · Posted: July 30 2008, 4:54 PM Post subject:

THANK YOU ECKI!!! I was just going to suggest the ALL ABOUT ME packet! It's an AWESOME tool and it houses so much info that you don't really need to THINK about what to say Wink

A.

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Nat · Posted: July 30 2008, 7:09 PM Post subject:

Thank you so much. I will download and print it out. I actually asked a kindergarten teacher today about it and she said she would love to have something like that. I don't know what went wrong, I probably did something. I am not very good with the computer. After 5 years of beinga member, I still cannot post pictures ! Natalie

LovelyKennedy · Posted: August 01 2008, 10:25 AM Post subject:

Yay...thanks for the link...i was going to post about this as I somehow misplaced my original copy. I think it will definitely help Kennedy's new teacher(s) understand her right from the beginning.

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