Mrs. Johnson's Class Room 203: Mrs. Johnson's Class Room 203

I hope this new blog finds you well. This is just a different format that I will be using. It will allow you to go back and look at the older posts without having to save the emails, it will allow everyone to write a comment and hopefully no more email and spam issues! It took some time to get up and running but it's worth it! I hope you enjoy.

Our All-Star Student

Stephen was chosen as the All-Star student.

Look Who Celebrated a Birthday!

ELA

The students have been working hard on going back into the text, passage, graph or schedule to find the information they need to answer questions.

Math

They SHOULD be proud!!! They work so hard in group. Great job girls!

Important Information

Recently I sent home a Parent Questionnaire that was sent home for the 8th Graders Level 1 Vocational Assessment. This information will be used to determine of a student's vocational skills, aptitudes, and interests and will be considered at the review of an Individualized Education Program .

Field Trip to Stop n Shop

The students all shopped for the ingredients in the Thanksgiving feast we prepared. We visited Stop and Shop in Smithtown. They had a wonderful time navigating the store and shopping the sales!

Buying ingredients and price checking to make sure we get the best deal!

Checking to see if they eggs are good! Mrs. Johnson and Matthew

Matthew S likes the good stuff! Ghirardelli chocolate!

Preparing for our Thanksgiving Feast

The students joined forces with Miss Lazio's class to make turkey sandwiches with bacon, mashed potatoes, brownies, and cornbread.

Ryan was in charge of the cooking the bacon

Kiersten is one of the students in charge of making the gluten free brownies

Matthew adding butter to the cornbread

Enoying the Feast!

It's the Simple Things in Life

Some of us have worked ourselves off the token board and are now receiving tickets throughout the day for hard work. The tickets earn different activities throughout the day. Each student was individually interviewed on things that they would be interested in working for and would love to earn. Some of the things they chose....

* Helping Mrs. Johnson teach a lesson

* Making a phone call to another classroom

* Sitting at the teacher's desk for one lesson

* Teacher's helper

* Listening to music

* Smelling fruit flavors (This is from a lab we did and they loved it)

* Super sticker

* Dominoes

* 3 minute walk

* Visit the library

* Writing an email to mom or dad to say hello

* Positive phone call or email home

* Bubbles

The boys really loved such a simple thing...was great to see them laugh at them popping...especially when on my head!

Unique Learning System

Dear Parents and Family,

Your child’s classroom is using Unique Learning System® as the classroom curriculum. The curriculum program has been designed specifically for children with special learning needs. While the foundation of Unique is the academic content standards (reading, writing, math, science and social studies), the lessons are modified to make sure that all children have a way to participate and learn. There is a strong emphasis on life skills that are embedded in each lesson. Unique Learning System provides monthly units that teachers are able to download from the Unique website. Each month there is a new topic built around a science or social studies theme. There are six grade bands; Preschool, Elementary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School and Transition, so learning is new as children progress through the years. Your child’s teacher has selected the grade level band that matches the ages and grades of the children in his/her classroom. There is also a three-year cycle of new units for each grade band. In that way, your child will have new learning materials even if he or she is in the same classroom setting next year. Teachers who have worked with special learners have created all of Unique’s lessons and materials. Lessons include stories, chapter books, comprehension activities, writing activities, math lessons for time, money, counting and problem solving, as well as recipes, craft projects and science experiments. Many of the materials are designed in three levels so children of various abilities can actively participate. Materials have been created with SymbolStix™, which is a graphic library of symbols to help children who learn best with picture supports. These pictures can also be seen in books available on our online library called the n2y Library. These books can be used to help support the theme of the monthly unit, to help build your child’s reading skill or for enjoyment. Unique Learning System has several tools that will help the classroom teacher monitor your child’s progress within classroom learning.

The primary goal of Unique is to give each child a way to participate, learn and succeed in the classroom.

Mrs. Johnson's Class Room 203

Thursday, December 1, 2016