Boyle's Beauties: November

So alot has happened since our last post. Here are some highlights of all the fun and hard work !

The Rochester Amerks came and played a hockey game with some of our consumers and staff!

Cody is saying hello to some of the players.

After the game, some of our students got to meet the Amerks and get an autograph.
It was a great day.

Nathan was so excited to get his sticker signed! Yeah!!

Some of our teachers and consumers played on our Holy Childhood team!

Of course Holy Childhood won the game! Yeah...............

On November 15th, Janel's sister, Rakay, came in to talk about being a vet in honor of Veterans' day.

Our students had some questions to ask about what she does and where she has been. The kids were able to hold and look at the patches she earned while doing her military service !

Rakay told us that she is a truck driver for the National Guard,a wife and mother, a debt collector,and a respiratory therapist. We learned that she also has a "life" outside the National Guard.

We also found out that her boss is President Barack Obama, and that she went to Afganistan, and just came back from NYC . She told us how she was halling water for people who needed it in regards to Hurricane Sandy.

We give a big thanks to both the Amerks and Rakay for coming in the last couple of weeks. Our students have had a blast.

We continued to work hard on the cafe and academics. We have been baking our own bread to sell at the Sunrise Cafe as well. We are now getting ready for Thanksgiving break. Here is a look at what we made to decorate our table for our Thanksgiving feast.

We made our famous placemats. We decided to learn how to set a table setting. Then we decided what we were thankful for and cut out those pictures for our placemats. We then placed the pictures with the kinds of food we might see on our plate during our meal.

This turkey was fun for the kids to make. The body is a styrofoam ball painted brown. The feathers are painted popsicle sticks. The head, neck, and feet are printed off the internet and cut out.

In health, we are learning about manners. When we talked about manners at the table, we also talked about table settings and we felt that the kids needed some more instruction on how we set a table.