Miss Shenae's EES Blog

 Hello all!  Hope everyone had a great week. This week was filled with happiness, joy and smiles. As a class, we had a lot of fun, and worked hard on our transition routine. This week, we had the opportunity to carve pumpkins as a class! Students loved this, and participated in carving/ cleaning the pumpkin. We also attended the pumpkin patch, and we loved all of the creativity in what the other classes in our school did! We were so impressed.                                                                                                                                       ...

Hello all! I hope everyone had a fantastic week. This week was filled with success and growth. In math, we worked on telling time. However, students cannot begin to tell time until they are able to identify and recognize numbers from 1-12. We stepped on the breaks, and decided to practice our counting using the classroom clock. We did many Boom Learning activities on the smart board which engaged the students throughout the week!  In LA, we continued our predictable writing. This week, we decided to switch it up a bit, and did a song themed reading approach, instead of a read aloud. The chosen song was "Hickory, Dicory, Dock!" Students took turns at the smartbaord, listening to the song, and pulling the animal up and down the clock. Check out the photos above of students being involved in this activity.  Additionally, we have started to have sensory play in the classroom environment. Who does not like sensory play?! Yes, it can get messy, but teachers and students LOVES messy...

  Hello all!  Another great buy busy week! There were lots of learning this with recognizing the Canadian coins, transitions, and sentence structures.  First, let us talk about how successful numeracy was this week. Students were introduced to the coins of Canada. We first introduced the $2 coin, $1 coin, 5c, 10c, and 25c coins as well. We played and enjoyed many kinds of interactive activities throughout the 3 weeks to help with the understanding of each coin and the differences between them.  As a big event, with the help of our support staff, we created a Tim Hortons shop in our cafeteria where students had the opportunity to order donuts or Timbits using the Canadian coins. Students who are non-verbal successfully pointed at the picture of the item they would like to order to communicate to the cashier on the donut they would like. Students who are verbal successfully used their words and said "I want ___ please." They all did extremely well, and I am so exc...