Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Mrs. O's Tribe of Native Americans


Cindy working hard on her pattern.

Native Americans used beads to make patterns


Friday, July 26, 2013





Creating our COMMUNITY Restaurant LOGO 2013




 
 Mrs. O's Class
 This summer we have 2 new learning units:
 
1. Community Information-
    - locating places to go in the community to get information.
    - jobs in the community and where to look.
   -researching the community of Henrietta and                            Holy Childhood  School
    - Communicating with community helpers
    - Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities
    - Local Farms and Shopping areas.
 
2. "COMMUNITY Restaurant
     - How to set-up, clean-up, serve and cook at a restaurant
     - Healthy Eating/ Shopping trips to Wegmans
     - Applications, shopping lists, cooking directions
...and SO MUCH MORE!
 
 







 
We prepared and served salads to all the students; to introduce the school to our healthy eating program! We socialized with different classes in the school. We are very proud of the students!


We had a dance party to celebrate our school restaurant and our half way point in summer school! We wore different costumes, listen to music and had a great time!


 
We made our own classroom salad bar and tried some new vegetables!



 
We went on walks in the community and found different logos and community signs.




 
We worked with our Speech teacher KATE and our OT DEBBIE to help shop and cut and prepare vegetables!


 
We would set-up and clean-up at the end of each meal- here is our hostess stand!







 
We even found a truck in the community named after one of our students!
 
A video from our weekly news provider & student: Kenny!


Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Presidential Election and Mrs. O's Class 2012


On our way to Wegmans to recycle for our
in-school job!

 
Our classroom is working hard on meeting IEP goals!  The students like working with Mrs. Stephanie (TA) and Ms. Kate (Speech) .
Debbie (OT) is always willing to lend an hand!

 
We worked with the Community Classroom to run our: VOTER REGISTRATION and PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION for the entire school! I am so proud my students!

Debbie was our 1st VOTER!
 


"ID PLEASE!" Great job Nic and Emily!

"SIGN HERE!" Jon and Rebecca working together!

 After each person votes Amber and Teale helped pass out a "I VOTED TODAY" sticker and a piece of candy that we used in our Halloween Vote: STARBURST won!



We had a SENATOR visit the classroom during our election
- he was VERY impressed with our class!



  Mrs. Moore's class came to vote!

Nic is signing in each student.


All of our students rotated election/ registration jobs and worked together!


Our voting booth!

Mrs. Schnabel's class came to vote!


We had a colorful classroom full of:
Letters to the candidates,
 registration sign-up and even election coffee cups!


We differentiated our voting experience by adding larger print and candidate pictures!



Our vice principal Kathy wore her sticker that Anah gave her;
when she was done voting!


Rebecca, Nic and Teale worked together to register Mr. McGough's class!




Mrs. Greco's and Mrs. Kovall's classes both reigstered to vote!
Video of our classroom election announcement to the school!

Mrs. P's class came to vote!
  


The last person to vote was our very own CEO Donna Dedee!



 
 We kept up with our election news by reading the newspaper and watching videos from:
www.brainpopjr.com, www.pbskids.org, and scholastic election coverage.
(Our students pass out newspapers for their in-school job; as part of our Transition Program)

 
Jon is working with Mrs. Stephanie on our classes' 16 Election Sight Words:
white house, veto, president, ballot, vice president, candidate, policy, cabinet, nominate, bill, first lady, vote, election, treaty, armed forces and government

 Here is our hand-painted mural outside of our classroom!
Each week we learn the definition of a new word and we do an investigation all week long to learn how it connects our class to the election.
 
Here is our picture of one of our connection from president to money. 
Amber is writing in her schedule; this is how we keep parents involved in what we are learning about in our in-school election!