Kjersti Jones is a technician in Tasha's class and she is VERY talented.  She brought her violin and played for the students.  Needless to say both staff and students LOVED it!

Christopher is a student in Tasha Lewis’ class.  He writes by using a tool called, a braille notebook. This is like a computer without the monitor.  He is able to write not just words of sentences, but full papers and stories.  It also allows him to save his work so that if needs be he can come back to it.  

There are even more new faces here at Oakridge.  An additional technician was hired on for each individual classroom.  We are excited to have them join our Oakridge team and continue in making this year great!!

Field trips are always fun!  Recently Oakridge went on a field trip to BYU where some of the students were able to swim with BYU students while others had open gym time and one on one time with a BYU student.  These BYU students participate in a program called “Gym Kids”.  This is a great opportunity for the students to be social, play, and just be themselves. 

Gym time is loved by all students.  It gives the students, technicians, and teachers time out of the classroom.  It also helps everyone get their wiggles out!  Recently Oakridge was able to use one of the gyms at Springville High School, where there was plenty of room to play volleyball and play with the parachute.

This week our students read books about bugs, more specifically spiders, during one of our planning times.  Each student made a hat of a spider and had a fun time showing them off.  Creepy, crawly legs and all! 

There are many specialists that work closely with our teachers and staff to help our students develop and improve certain skills and capabilities.  We are so grateful for all their work!!

Daily scheduled group lessons allow the teacher to have “planning time”.  One teacher will prepare a lesson or activity, and teach it to all the students from all the classes.  This allows the students to interact with each other outside of their typical day to day routine. It is also a time that the students can get out of the classroom and enjoy some sunshine at the park! Planning time gives the other teachers time to focus on preparing and organizing lessons for the upcoming days and weeks that best fit the needs of the students.

Each of the three classrooms as well as the gym recieved new audio systems this year.

We are so excited for another school year here at Oakridge School!  There are several new faces here at Oakridge.  Listed below are their smiling faces!   We as faculty and staff look forward to working with students, both new and returning, to make this year the best one yet.