February 1, 2010

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This has been a busy week in B8. We have worked on reading the nutritional labels from various cans and boxes that we selected from our mock grocery. This is a new skill so we will be working on it for a bit longer. I was however pleased at the way that the students were reading the price of various grocery products. We also practiced restocking items once we had read the labels. We concentrated on discussions about serving sizes and also worked with measurements. This week we began making Valentines in art class utilizing some therapeutic movements that involved rolling tissue paper and then using the wrap to glue the tissue to the valentine. We also had a surprise visit by Mrs. Casio's art class later in the week. Several of her students worked one on one with the community based class in the creation of Valentines for friends.
We studied Emotions and learned how to read various expressions that people use to let us know what they are thinking. The class worked in pairs as they selected pictures from magazines that showed the expression their group was assigned. The class then glued the pictures into categories on a huge poster to hang in our class,
During our cooking class this week everyone worked on setting the microwave to 30 seconds in order to melt chocolate used in the delicious Strawberry Fudge that we made. We hope to share the fudge with teachers on our hall as a Valentine Treat. The class also had a discussion about the benefits of using plastic utensils rather than glass. We worked at measuring and reading fractional cup measurements.
One group did a reading story this week about beginning blends in words such as (sm, sp, sk, sl) The group loved reading the new story about Dee and her Skates. The other group is finishing the Book Call of the Wild.
The Civitans will be selling Cookie Bags during lunch next week with the sales benefiting St. Jude. This is a monthly community involvement project. Members of the class will work making change and counting money as they work shifts to help in the selling of this product next week during lunch.