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’

Aberdeen students Clara Zonavetch, second from left, and Kayla Painter, right, help LDC students Tanner Woods, left, and Kai Morris with pumpkin-painting

Aberdeen students Jonathan Munoz, left, and Alexi McKenzie, right. celebrate along with physical therapist Cathy Ripmaster after LDC student Buster Griffin bowls a strike

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

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

Jonathan Munoz, left, listens to Zyere Witherspoon read her autobiography as the fifth-graders at Aberdeen introduced themselves to the visiting LDC students