The Hagedorn Little Village School News

THE HAGEDORN LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL JACK JOEL CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN March

2015 www.littlevillage.org

Giving Hope Network Donates to Little Village

Pictured above are (left to right): Joe Torres , Executive Board Member of GHN, Moish Tov, Board of Trustees Member of GHN, Dr. Jon Feingold, Executive Director of Little Village, and Bev Rosella, Board of Trustees Member of GHN, Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, and Leader of the Hear Me Now project. Pictured below are Little Village students using iPads at school.

Little Village would like to thank the Giving Hope Network (GHN) for their very generous donation of 15 iPads, cases and stands. The mission of the Giving Hope Network is to develop shared solutions for large, complex societal challenges by inspiring and mobilizing a passionate and capable community committed to making a big difference in people’s lives. Hear Me Now is a major project of the GHN which is an effort to assist people with autism spectrum disorders, especially young children. We would also like to recognize Jennifer Muccioli, parent of Little Village student, Olivia Kunkel, who intro-duced Little Village to the Giving Hope Network. The children, parents and staff of Little Village are extremely thankful to the Giving Hope Network and Jennifer for thinking of and supporting Little Village.

Celebrating Read Across America and Dr. Suess

Teacher Ilene DeMarco and the students from Room 10 celebrate Dr. Suess’ birthday by reading an all time favorite, One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish.

Read Across America in Room 20 Teacher Jessica Cavolo and the students in Room 20 participated in Read Across America Week during the week of March 2nd through March 6th. Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2nd, the birthday

of beloved author, Dr. Suess. The class made special projects and dressed up when they read “The Cat in the Hat” and “Wacky

Wednesday”. The children loved dressing up and making Dr. Suess crafts.

Inn at New Hyde Park • April 30, 2015 Contact Janet Mouliere at 516-520-6067

for more information or to purchase tickets

“Ten Apples on Top”

Teacher Kristy Richko and the children in Room 11 read the Dr. Suess book, Ten Apples On Top. After the book, the students rolled dice and based on the num-ber that was rolled, placed apples on the top of their classmate’s heads. Given those awesome smiles, the children had a great time!

New York Section—Society of Plastics Engineers

ANNUAL GOLF OUTING

SAVE THE DATE! Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Clearview Park Golf Course

This event benefits several worthy causes including Little Village

More details and registration information to follow!

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MacArthur High School’s 3rd Annual

Lacrosse For Autism Event Save the Date—April 9, 2015

MacArthur High School will be hosting their 3rd Annual "Lax for Autism" Event on April 9th, 2015! All

proceeds from this event will benefit The Hagedorn Little Village School. Please help support the event

and contact Jennifer Kirincic at Little Village at 520-6043 for more information about the event.

Student Spotlight — Kristopher Cerciello

Kristopher Cerciello is a fun, loving,

energetic 4 year old little boy. Kristo-

pher has been at Little Village for

three years and he has come such

along way. When he first started

School he was very frustrated with

language and focusing on an activity. With the help of all his

teachers and therapists along the way, he is ready to enter

Kindergarten next year.

Kristopher loves playing on the playground at Little Village

and running around in gym with all his classmates. From the

moment he is dropped off to the time he is picked up Kristo-

pher is smiling and laughing with his friends.

Kristopher is an amazing little brother to his sister Mia and is

setting a great example for his baby brother Robbie. Kristo-

pher's experience at Little Village School has helped him

evolve to the sweetest, kindest most outgoing little boy.

We are so proud of Kristopher and all his accomplishments

and look forward to his bright future.

Room 21 Celebrates the 100th Day of School

Save the Date! ASHA Conference at Little Village

We are excited to announce the topic and date for our next ASHA Conference. Please join us on Friday, April 17, 2015 for:

Pre-Chaining and Food Chaining Therapy: T is for Treatment

.6 ASHA CEUs offered

Presenters:

Cheri Fraker, CCC/SLP, CLC & Laura Walbert, CCC/SLP, CLC The Center for Selective Eating and Pediatric Feeding Disorders

and SIU-Koke Mill Pediatric Swallowing Clinic

Springfield, Illinois

Register on-line at www.littlevillage.org For more information contact:

Jessica Resnick or Kimberly Neary at 516-520-6076

Or by email at: ASHACE@littlevillage.org

Teacher Erin Gruosso and the students in Room 21 have been counting to the 100th day of school from the start of the school year. To celebrate the 100th day, the children designed their own t-shirts using dot markers and then used food to count to 100 on a 100s chart.

The students also had a "ball" making their own 100 gumball machine. Happy 100th day!!