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ESPS Parent Coffee
8:30 a.m. - Great Room
(See below for more information)
Tuesday, February 14
Spirit Day!
Friday, February 17
Dress Down Day!
Monday, February 20
President's Day
K-8 and Little Creek Closed
Thursday, February 23
Little Creek Open House
6:00-7:00 p.m.
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY!
Each week, we will be highlighting one of our programs or offering resources for parents to illustrate The Radcliffe Way!
Occupational therapy at Radcliffe is a movement-based therapy to help students develop and refine gross motor skills, fine motor skills, as well as self-regulation and sensory integration. When a child participates in therapy sessions, they complete activities that involve intense movement through activities like swinging, "crashing" (use of a therapy matt to provide proprioceptive input), climbing, and more! Activities with movement are then integrated with specific skills that each individual child is working on. This can include improving core strength, upper body strength, reflex integration, coordination, motor planning, balance, visual motor skills, visual perceptual skills, self-calming or awakening, fine motor skills such as dexterity and manipulation, strength and finger isolation for proper pencil grasp, and self-care skills. The combination of movement and skills is essential for self-regulation - for both during and after sessions, as well as creating the right attention level to work on necessary skills that are not yet age appropriate. The images below depict a typical therapy session that combines skills and movement into fun, motivating, play-based tasks for every child.
Colin and Caden use the swings to work on core strength and upper body strength while receiving vestibular input for self regulation and sensory integration. Colin is making the platform swing move using his arms, which is an incorporation of motor coordination and motor planning as well.
Tommy uses the squeeze machine to receive deep pressure (proprioceptive input) for self-regulation, as well as upper body strength to pull himself through. After, he works on self-care skills to utilize a spoon properly in order to "feed the monster."
Zoe uses the scooter board down the hallway to work on core and upper body strength, as well as receiving "heavy work" for self-regulation. She brings down one of her sight words, and blows a pom pom into a letter cup to spell out the word. Incorporating blowing using a straw is very calming and provides increased oral input to the mouth. This activity also has her utilize her visual skills to scan and coordinate her eyes together.
Brock and Charlie use Legos to individually build an image, and then describe it to the other person. They are working on visual perceptual skills and understanding/describing directionality, as well as fine motor strength and manipulation to push the pieces together.
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EASTERN SHORE PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
COFFEE REMINDER
Eastern Shore Psychological Services, LLC (ESPS) has announced the expansion of its adult and child behavioral health services to Kent County. ESPS is a behavioral wellness company providing individual, family and group behavioral health services for children, youth, and adults across the Eastern Shore. In the next few weeks, they will begin offering their services to Radcliffe Creek students, which include the following:
Services will be provided at Radcliffe Creek School.
Dr. Ben Kohl, ESPS Director of Programs, will be available to meet with parents and provide more information about the services that ESPS can offer your families during a morning coffee at Radcliffe Creek's Great Room on February 13 at 8:30 a.m. Please email Debbie Cohee-Wright if you are interested in attending, or if you have any questions.
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TODDLER ROOM NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Little Creek's Toddler Room is in need of a small refrigerator. If you have one you can donate, please contact
Meg McClary.
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BOX TOPS REMINDER!
 Please send in your Box Tops as soon as possible. The Box Tops program enables us to purchase wonderful supplies for our teachers and classrooms. Thank you!
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AROUND THE CREEK
Owen, Eli, and Anthony use watercolors and crayons to work on blending their sounds in Ms. Rybas' class.
Connor and Sarah cook up some GOOP to create a model of the setting of the novel Lord of the Flies.
Little Creek's Three's room is currently learning all about construction. Students had a lot of fun constructing towers and pretending to be carpenters and engineers in the dramatic play center.
Ms. Fish's Social Thinking class works on a cooperative activity to "see" inhalations and exhalations.
Little Creek's Four's Room celebrated the Little Creek 100th day of school by building a dinosaur cave out of 100 cups!
Little Creek and the K-8 Program took advantage of this week's beautiful weather to get classes moving and outside! Click here to check out a video of Mrs. Babylon's Music Class (pictured above) learning jump rope songs this week.
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