Special Ed. Sympathy Cards...

On Thanksgiving Day, the sister of the tutor that I work with passed away after a very long battle with cancer.  So today, during my resource period, I had my students create sympathy cards for her for when she returns to work.

One of my students with autism wrote: "If your sister ate more vegetables, she wouldn't have gotten cancer."

My other student with autism drew a huge picture of a tombstone with "RIP" on the front of the card and on the inside wrote, "Please pray to your sister and tell her I said hi."

Needless to say, I won't be giving all of the cards to her right away...  

Haven't updated in a week because we haven't had school in a week.  Mother Nature decided to rear her hideous head and gave us a snow storm... in October.  And, because all of the leaves were still on all of the trees, all of the branches snapped off of those trees and took down all of the power lines. Which in turn means (you guessed it!) no heat and no electricity for the week either.  It's been awful.  They (being the incompetent electrical company for the state) ended up restoring power to the high school I teach at and the town was able to make it into a shelter.  So yes, this happened, and yes, that is my desk and my stuff:

Now that's what I call... dedication.