This has been an awesome week for all of us in B8. We have continued to work on money and adding numbers with touch points.
One of the reading groups is completing Prince and the Pauper while another is reading stories in Milestone Readers. We have spent time after lunch doing prevocational skills such as learning personal identification and being able to spell family member names. In social skills we did some mock activities that showed the correct and the incorrect way to approach the door of a neighbor as you Trick or Treat. We did a lot of discussing the reasons not to go into the home of someone as they go and get candy for you. It was fun giving each student a chance to role play going to the door and trick or treating. In Art the pumpkins are almost ready to go home. Perhaps after one more coat of paint these pumpkins can find permanent homes with the various students that constructed them. While we are talking about messy classroom activities, I must mention the spelling class that took place this week. In an attempt to offer some sensory input into spelling, we covered the desks with shaving gel and then students wrote the spelling words on their lists on the shaving cream. It was fun seeing the class beg for another word and another chance to write in the mess. The highlight of the week was definitely our bus trip to Memphis on Thursday. The class went to purchase pumpkins. Everyone was asked to bring their own money and use it to individually purchase a pumpkin. Students were able to practice the lifeskill of counting money as they paid for the pumpkin of their choice. We went to Eden's Garden located inside of the Agricenter. The students all loved the various displays and the variety of pumpkins. I have never seen a gray pumpkin until this trip! There was even a gift shop there with Christmas items displayed. The owner of Eden's treated all of us to the best Apple Cider. This Cider was so good that I had to go back and purchase some for my family. We visited about three more booths and saw all kinds of things from fruits to seafood. Everyone was so nice and each student was given a free small pumpkin and a beautiful gourd. Later on one of the vendors made sure that everyone left with an apple and banana. Of course this prompted our own Lottie to burst out in song about "Apples and Bananas!" We may have had cloudy skies and a light rain but it certainly did not dampen the joy that this trip brought to the Community Based Class
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
We started off the month of October decorating the classroom with all of our Halloween Decorations. The class had a blast as they went through the box of decorations. We decided that we needed to add to the decor so everyone made their own bats from hand prints. Later in the week we did a hygiene unit on hands and all of the girls were given manicures. Everyone participated in a game of labeling the correct items used in taking care of ones nails. On Wednesday the class used the skill of ABC order to look up homecoming nominees in the yearbook and then vote on the candidate of their choice. This provided an excellent opportunity to showcase the need to learn ABC order. Lottie showed everyone her recent skills at using the guide words to look up information in the dictionary. She is truly taking this ABC order thing to the next level!
We have been working on bowling techniques in the room rather than go to the gym. This has worked out well as they are not having activities in gym due to the resurfacing of the gym floor for basketball season. We are using this down time to ready ourselves for the Olympics that take place on November 5th. Another big physical education activity that we participated in was the walk a thon that took place county wide on the 7th. We walked to the middle school and visited with Mrs. Grandi's Class. It was fun to see old friends and meet the students that will be joining us next year. Later in the week we had a surprise visit from Thomas Hall that was a volunteer in our room last year, Thomas briefly talked to the class about the importance of goal setting and told how it worked for him. He set his goal to attend MS math Institute and is enjoying his first year there. The class love hearing about his experiences so far this year, Friday proved to be the best day of the week. Mrs. Fields had promised the class a "fun day" if everyone mastered tying shoes. Now that everyone can tie their shoes we had to live up to the promise!!! (Moms this means that you should never tie another shoe!) Our day was a bit different. Times were written on the dry erase board and class went as usual. The catch was that when the time on the board came everyone was to grab a scarf and tie something in the room. The first person to make the tie was given 5 cents. This helped us work on time and money in a fun way. The funniest thing was 4th period when Derrick walked in and the time matched the time on the board...everyone tied up Derrick. What a fun time!!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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