art show

July 17, 2013
Our class has been working on some art projects for an up coming art show.  I made a picture using markers.  We titled it electricity because it looked like what electricity looks like to me.  Our class also made  sun catchers by melting beads in a pan.  We hung them in our windows in class.

UPDATES FROM THE GABESTER

Dear World,

I want you to meet Suzan.  She is the newest addition to my team and I am very happy about that.  Suzan and I have something in common---She has a son named Gabe!   Her Gabe is a year younger than me.  Suzan is very kind and nice.  We have a lot of fun.  We listen to a lot of music.  Yesterday we were singing the National Anthem and I was singing at the top of my lungs.  Everyone in our building could hear me sing.  At work we have been studying about hurricanes.  My hurricane advice?  Get out of Dodge!!!

My friend, Mark, who was featured in my first book, is doing well.  I have plans to see him on the 4th of July.  We are going to have a Good Luck Hurricane Party! 

Till we meet again.

Your friend, 
Cool Gabe

Memorial Day Fun

Hello World.

     How was your Memorial Day weekend?  Remember that Memorial day is when everyone remembers the soldiers who fought in different wars who gave their lives for our country.

     Our class along with other classrooms and other departments had a cookout on Friday May 24th.  We had  hamburgers, macaroni salad, potato salad,and baked beans. Boy, the food was great. We also had watermelon.

   I had some relatives that came to visit my family from Coral Springs. My  Aunt Jane and my cousins Ashley and Ethan came to see us and we all had lots of fun.


Your friend,
CoolGabe
   

GARDENING AND MAY ACTIVITES

Hello World,


May is the time when everyone works in the yard or the garden., plant flowers, and celebrates  Mother's and Memorial Day.  Our class has been talking about gardening and mother's day so far. We planted some plants in a pot for that someone special for mother's day. We started planting some flowers and veggies in a big yellow dish in the court yard.

I went to a park to participate in the relay for life and sang in  the the choir. Boy did I have fun.

singing my heart out

with my buddies

the choir group

Our class will be talking about fruits and Memorial Day, indy 500 and other special events.

WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOUR MOTHER'S DAY AND WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR MEMORIAL DAY? 

Your Friend,
Cool Gabe,

SPRING TIME IS HERE

Hello world,

       It's been awhile since my last blog, We finished up discussing about musical instruments. We made some homemade instruments such box guitar, a drum, kazoos. xylophones, maracas and  things that shake.

   Spring is here in Florida. warm weather and sunshine has arrive. Spring is time when flowers bloom, birds sing, people go to parks and have picnics, and spring cleaning.   We will be talking about spring activities, planting a garden, and spend more time outside.  We will start doing more things in the next few weeks. Hopefully we will do some planting in the court yard.


Your Friend
Cool Gabe

Happy Birthday, Saint Patrick's Day, and Easter

Hello World,

Guess what today is for me. It's my birthday!   So Happy Birthday to me!!  Also Saint Patrick's Day is coming up in a few days, followed by Easter. What a lot of things to celebrate in the next few weeks.

Our class is is ready for Saint Patrick's day. We learned about who Saint Patrick was, the history of, leprechauns, shamrocks, and pot of gold as well as  Ireland, the traditions, wearing green, and the luck of the Irish.  We learned quite a bit about the Irish people and who they are.It was really interesting.    Easter is coming up soon and we will be getting ready for the holiday. I'm looking forward to a special Easter basket and lots of crafts.
Here are some of my birthday pictures

HAPPY SAINT PAT'S DAY

MY BIRTHDAY CAKE

HOLDING MY CAKE

YUMMY CAKE

CHALLENGE QUESTION:  WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SAINT PAT'S DAY AND EASTER?

Your Friend,
CoolGabe

Happy Valentine's Day

Hello World

HAPPY VALENTIN'S DAY!!

 Happy Valentines Day!!!!  Love is in the air. This day is a special day for someone special to be someones valentine. Our class has been decorating the room with hearts and other valentine stuff. We made cards for that someone special in our lives. My driver, Mark, who picks me up and brings me home, had a birthday this past week. We even had cake to celebrate his birthday in the classroom. So I hope everyone had a great valentine day with someone special.

MY FRIEND MARK

CHALLENGING QUESTION:  WHO IS YOU SPECIAL VALENTINE? 
WHAT DID YOU DO ON VALENTINE'S DAY? 

YOUR FRIEND
COOLGABE

new year, new adventures

Hello World

   I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.  New year brings new beginnings, new ideas, and a  way to start a new chapter in our lives.
    This month  our classroom is talking about food and nutrition and exercise. So far we have talked about the food groups, and vitamins. We also talked about the importance of good nutrition and the vitamins that is  in our diet.  We will talking about minerals and exercising later this month..  New year is when everyone starts to do some major cleaning in their house or some changes in their lives or home..

CHALLENGING QUESTION: HOW ARE YOU GOING TO  CHANGE IN YOUR LIVES?

Your Friend
Cool Gabe

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

The year has come to the end and a new year will begin. This will be the last blog for the year until after the new year.
 Our class has been talking about Christmas this month.We put up some Christmas decorations in our classroom and on the bulletin board.   So far we learned  about trees and the significance of the trees. This week we are talking about snow and what we can do in the snow. Later this month we will talk about the true meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, his reindeers  and the new year. Christmas is when everyone has a wish list of things they want for Christmas. On my wish list is a mp3 player so I can listen to my own music. Christmas is also when people travel to see family in other places.

me in front of the hand tree

the hand tree

Your Friend
CoolGabe

CHALLENGING QUESTIONS
WHAT DOES CHRISTMAS MEAN TO YOU?
WHAT IS ON YOUR WISH LIST?

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello World

Boy, I have been busy this month. Our class has been talking about Thanksgiving this month. We learned about the first Thanksgiving where the indians and the pilgrims got togrther after a long hard winter to celebrate what they were thankful for . The celebration lasted 3 days. We made indians, pilgrims, hats, bands and turkeys. We talked about what people have for thanksgiving dinner. Everyone has something diffrerent to eat for dinner. We talked about pumpkin pies also. Now the weather is getting cooler, low in the upper 50s and high in the low 70s.  Is everyone ready for christmas? We already went to the festival of lights. Each trees was  decorate with different themes and lights!  It was pretty cool and we all had a great time.  We especially liked the gingerbread village that was on display....oh, the idea of eating all of the display was overwhelming.

WHAT ARE YOU HAVING FOR THANKSGIVING?

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING
Your friend,
CoolGabe

Happy Halloween

Hello World

       It has been awhile since I did a blog. There has been quite a few changes in our agency. The access to a computer is limited and schedule conflicts. I will try to write a blog at least twice a month.

      This month our class has been talking about Halloween and making spooky Halloween stuff. I went to the pumpkin  patch with a group. I saw lots of pumpkins that day. Our classroom has been busy making mask, pumpkins, ghost, witches, spiders, oh my. We decorated our classroom with the things we made. We will pretend to bob for apples and experience what will be like to bob for apples.  Here is a mask that I made.

my mask   call me Cool Gabe

cool mask    hi there

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

• QUESTION ---WHAT ARE YOU GOING AS FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHT?

Your Friend

Cool Gabe 

 

               Have a Happy and save   Halloween

FALL FUN TIME

Hello World,

         It has been awhile since I written on my blog. I have been busy with fall activities this month. Fall season is here and I have been learning new things about what happens in the Autumn. Autumn is a another name  for fall. Weather changes, types of clothing, and trees and leaves.  Do you know when the trees lose thier leaves, they getting redy to rest for the winter?. Fall is also the time for fun activities that we all like to do such as hayrides, bonfires, football games, and festivals. Depending  where you live, there is some type of harvest festival  planned in the area.   I hope everyone is having a great fall season.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT FALL SEASON AND WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FUN ACTIVITIES YOU LIKE TO DO?


       Recently a story about me was featured on the cover of  of the Sebastian  Chamber of Commerce September newsletter

Gabe on the cover of Sebastian Chamber of Commerce

Your Friend
Cool Gabe

All About Horses

Hello World,
   
      Our class is still talking about farm aninmals. This week we are talking about horses. There was a lot that I learned about horses during our lesson. I learned what they eat, what types of riding movements, and where they live. In computer lab our class watched some videos of horse races, horse shows, and other interesting videos. Does anyone remember an old tv show called Mr. Ed, the talking horse?   We watched some video clips from the show when Mr Ed was singing the blues. That was a funny clip to watch. Next week we will be finishing up our study on farm animals and moving on to a new lesson on fall season.


    Flordia is in the hurricane season this fall. There is a storm coming on the west side of Flordia name Issac.
Everyone should be prepare for a hurricane when it apptoaches it's destination.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE ARRIVES IN YOUR AREA?

Your Friend
Cool Gabe

Learning about the farm

    Hello World,
   
    I hope everyone had a good summer and enjoyed the time off  with the warm temperrtures.  As the summer season comes to an end and fall season is just around the corner. We will have lots of changes coming our way.   Weather tempertures become cooler, Fall festivals are planned, and kids go back to school.

    Our class has been talking about farm animals, so far I learned about pigs, chickens,and cows.  I have learned what food comes from each animal. This week our class learned how a dairy cows produce milk and how the farmers use machines to extract milk from the cows. We learned that the milk goes to the dairy factory to be processed, then put into milk containers, and then to the stores for us to by and drink.

     Next week    we  will be talking about horses


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE  FARM ANIMAL?

YOUR FRIEND
COOL GABE

Zoo Time

Hello World

Summertime is when prople like to go to the zoo. Our class is just finishing studing zoo animals. Zoo is a place to see diffrent animals from diffrernt places. I learned about sarfrai animals like elephants, zebras, lions and tigers, oh my. This week otters, penguins, and birds. In the computer lab I listened to diffrerent animal sounds from each of the zooanimals.  We will be talking about farm animals for our next lesson plan. There will be alot to talk about being on a farm. 


WHAT DO TOU LIKE ABOUT VISITING A ZOO?

Your Friend

Cool Gabe

Summertime Fun!!!

Hello World,

I suppose everyone wants to know where I have been for the past 2 months. Well, I've been very busy with my adventures with my family. Summer time is when people take vacations to exciting places.  I have had a really busy summer so far.  My family and I went to Lion Country Safari  to see differrent kinds of safari animals. I went to a place called Joes Place in a town called Micco to listen to music. Boy, I  had a blast!! I went to visit my aunts in a town called Haines City and my cousin from Indiana was here to visit. My family and I went to SeaWorld  and we? had a family 4th of July celebration.

Question? WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER FORVACATION?

Learning New Topics

Hello World

 I have been busy in my classroom for the last couple of weeks finishing up our discussion on sea animals. I learned a lot about dolphins, manatees, sharks, squids and octopus. There are quite a few interesting creatures we have in our sea.
     
Our garden is growing quite well. The vegetable plants are getting bigger each week. Soon we will have some blooms on the plants that will become veggies. I will keep you posted on the progress of the garden.

       Our new lesson plan starts next week on different safety issues that we need to know about. Fire safety will be the first issue to learn about. Summer time is around the corner and  that means warm weather and long days. We need to learn to be safe during the summer. We will talk more about safety next time.

Your Friend
CoolGabe

Plants, animals and me oh my

Hello World,

the corn

I have been busy the last couple of weeks. My classroom wrapped up the lesson on our garden and we move on to our next lesson on sea animals. I have some pictures of me holding some vegetables that we planted. The vegetable are growing very well and thriving.

the green peppers

the tomatoes

Our classroom is learning about sea animals. I discovered that there are quite a few interesting little creatures in the ocean. Our class talked about crabs, lobsters, jellyfish and hermit crabs, oh my.  Then we discussed about fishing. We made fishing poles and pretend we went fishing. This week we learned about seals and whales.

Here is a question for you,  Has anyone ever seen a white orca whale?

Your friend
Cool Gabe

busy, busy with Cool Gabe

Hello World,

I have been busy for the past few weeks. I have been accomplishing a lot of fun activities. I hope everyone had a great Easter a few weeks ago. I  helped color eggs in my classroom. Boy that was fun dipping the eggs into a cup and watch the eggs change color. I even took an egg home with me.

My classroom finished talking about spring time and gardening. We have green peppers planted and and they are growing quite well. We have corn and tomatoes growing also. We are trying to grow some lettuce and hopefully the lettuce  will start growing soon. I will have some pictures coming when the vegetable start to get big. We also learned about growing different types of fruit  and trees that can grow in the garden. The fruits that I learned that can grow in the garden are strawberries, grapes, orange trees, apple trees and many other types of fruit trees.

Last weekend I participated in the Relay For Life at Riverside Park. I sang in the choir with my peers from ARC. I had a great time being part of this event.

Now our class is learning about sea animals. We will explore  what is under the sea. We looked at crabs, lobsters, jelly fish, turtles, and hermit crabs. It will be fun to explore what is under the sea.There are a lot of  interesting sea creatures and plants that are in the sea that needs to explored.



CHALLENGING QUESTION:
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS UNDER THE SEA?

Your friend,
Cool Gabe

WHATS NEW WITH COOL GABE

Hello World

The last few weeks have been busy for me. There have been a lot of new and exciting adventures that have been happening these past few weeks. Remember  that I mentioned about Christopher Coleman, who empowers people through his life story. I met him when he visited ARC one day. We had a great time visiting with each other.

My Mom took me to the high school where he was telling about his life story. My mom and I were moved by his testimony and amazed by what he had to say. If you are interested about Christopher Coleman, you can visit his web site.  Christopher Coleman.net.

Another new and exciting news that  happened, I finally received my new wheelchair. My chair is blue with custom made cushion seat that fits  my body shape. I also had a birthday last week. What a great birthday gift I received. I was so happy to have my new chair.

Springtime is here in Sebastian/Vero Beach area. In our classroom, we have been talking about springtime and gardening. I helped planted lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, corn, and bell peppers. The  bell peppers and corn  are sprouting a little bit. We been talking how to plant a garden this week.

CHALLENGE QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK


WHAT EXCITING NEW THINGS AND/OR PROJECTS YOU WILL BE DOING THIS SPRING?
WHAT IS IN YOUR GARDEN?


Your Friend
Cool Gabe