Shortly before Halloween, Aberdeen Elementary School hosted a Harvest festival for students from Lincoln Developmental Center. Students from both schools met each other and introduced themselves with their autobiographies. They then rotated within four groups: adapted bowling, Mad Libs, reading and crafts. Aberdeen fifth-grade teacher Emma Witkovsky and LDC teacher Jessie Rodgers worked together to prepare activities for the students.
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Aberdeen student Kwin’Nya Roberts provides sensory tools for Tanner Woods while Clara Zonavetch reads ‘There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves’
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Aberdeen students Clara Zonavetch, second from left, and Kayla Painter, right, help LDC students Tanner Woods, left, and Kai Morris with pumpkin-painting
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Aberdeen students Jonathan Munoz, left, and Alexi McKenzie, right. celebrate along with physical therapist Cathy Ripmaster after LDC student Buster Griffin bowls a strike
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Aberdeen fifth-graders (from left) Zyere Witherspoon, Jonathan Munoz and Alexi McKenzie help LDC student Buster Griffin, center, with adapted bowling, as physical therapist Cathy Ripmaster looks on
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Aberdeen fifth-grader Xavier Garcia, in red, supplies sensory tools during a storytelling activity with LDC teacher Jessie Rogers and students Trenton Pickem and Malek Crenshaw
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Jonathan Munoz, left, listens to Zyere Witherspoon read her autobiography as the fifth-graders at Aberdeen introduced themselves to the visiting LDC students