Vegetable Soup

To close our vegetable theme this month, students made vegetable soup. The class discussed how you should always have an adults help when trying to make something. To make our vegetable soup we needed: 1 large can of tomato juice, 2 cans of Veg-all (drain water), 1 can of corn (drain water), 1 chopped up potato, salt and pepper. (We also added hamburger meat to our soup).  The students helped open the cans and pour in the ingredients. Students also counted out loud to see how many cans they needed to add to their soup.  Once the soup had been prepared, Miss Massey placed the soup on the crockpot so it could cook while the class began their work.

Instead of going to the cafeteria for lunch, the class had a special picnic outside by our garden. We ate our vegetable soup with grilled cheese. It was really good! The class enjoyed being outside!! :)



 

Getting Ready For Fall

 

Our garden is looking beautiful! This week we planted mums for the fall season. Gabe and Nurse Kathy enjoyed helping and sitting outside in this nice weather.

Friday, September 20th

 

These pictures are from Friday, September 20th when the class made ants on a log.

September 16th-20th

 

     

Miss Ball brought her dog, Duke, in last week. Duke is currently being trained to be a service dog for children with special needs. The students in the class did not know what to think about Duke at first. The class had mixed reactions. By the end of the day, students were enjoying having Duke around.  Duke will continue to visit our classroom throughtout this semester.

As part of our vegetable theme this month, Miss Ball helped students make ant on a log (Celery with peanut butter and raisins). Students preferred to eat all of the peanut butter and some of the raisins, rather than eat the celery.  This week we will be closing out this months vegetable theme by making vegetable soup and having a picnic lunch on Friday. I am very excited about this!!!

 

 

*** I am pleased to announce that Miss Ball, our teacher candidate from Austin Peay, will not be leaving us October 18th. Instead, she will complete her second placement here at Watt Hardison. Miss Ball will be with us until December 6th. We are very happy to have her as part of our classroom family!***

 



Starting off the year....

The 2013-2014 school year has already started off to be an exciting yet busy time. Since the first day of school we have added 2 new assistants , 4 new students , and 1 student teacher to our classroom family. Mrs. Brooke Capps and Mrs. Melissa Christy will be helping your child make progress on their academic goals, as well as, helping them participate during related arts with their general education class. Gabriel (3rd grade) and Thomas (4th grade) joined us at the beginning of the school year. Isela (5th grade) and Cayden (Kindergartner) will be joining our class this week. Miss Casey Ball, a teacher candidate from Austin Peay State University, will be with our classroom until mid- October. We are super excited to have these students, teachers, and their families as part of our group.

We have already been working hard on our goals for the year.  I can see progress being made. Students have really enjoyed having classroom jobs. Jobs for the classroom include: attendance helper, story helper, fish feeder, table cleaner, gardener, dishes washer, line leader, calendar helper, classroom assistant, and snack helper.
As attendance helper, students go from room to room and ask the teacher or students for their attendance please. Non-verbal students use a large red recorded button to make the same request. By doing this job, we are working on making eye contact, appropriate mannerisms, and completing a task. Students also love watering the garden. At the beginning of the school year we had one bed of pumpkins and gourds and another bed of flowers. We have sadly lost the pumpkins and gourds but the flowers are blooming and doing great! Students are so excited when they learn what their job is for the day.

Each month we have a different theme. Then on Friday we complete an activity about the theme. Last month our theme was fruits.  We made fruit dip, smoothies, apples with caramel, and strawberry shortcake.  This month our theme is vegetables. We have already made mashed potatoes and green bean casserole.  When we do these activities we talk about the appropriate way to cook. (i.e. washing hands, getting ingredients out,  having adult supervision and help, reading and following directions, etc.) Students like being able to pour and mix ingredients.

I cannot wait to see what this school year holds. I am very sorry that I have not updated our website in almost a year. I will try to be better at this. Please let me know if you have any ideas for our monthly theme or if you would like to come volunteer (i.e. read a story or lead group activity). Our door is always open! :)