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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Zoo!

We went to the Oregon Zoo!

It was an amazing field trip. Luckily the rain held off until we returned safely and soundly to Sexton Mountain. We all saw many animals and wrote about them in our zoo notebook.

Here are some pictures of our fantastic field trip!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

It's Been Awhile...

Hello again!

So much has happened since November.

Here's a quick recap:

December

Our class participated in a gift exchange with Miss Ashlee's class. We all sat around the holiday tree singing holiday tunes. We created a handwritten card and a handmade gift for each student in Miss Ashlee's class. We worked on turn taking, waiting your turn, and creating a gift for someone else. It was tons of fun!

January

This month we... I'm going to be honest. I don't have any pictures of January. I'm sure we had a great time learning, creating, imagining, playing, and did I mention learning?! :)

February

We went BOWLING! I'm sure you heard the students chatting endlessly about our fantastic bowling field trip! We took a Trimet bus to Sunset Lanes. It involved lots of walking, a few minutes of bowling, a short time eating, and more walking! We were very lucky it was a nice day!

March

March started out with Dr. Seuss' birthday. On March 2nd we ate...green eggs and ham! Yum! It was truly a wonderful surprise! Each student was offered a bowl full of green eggs and green ham. Most students at least attempted to eat this exciting snack. A few students posed for pictures, then promptly dumped the eggs and ham into the garbage! Regardless of the outcome, it was a great language opportunity for all students. They continue to talk about it to this day!

Soon April will be upon us!

Hopefully Spring weather will be upon us soon. When we have a beautiful, sunny day we may take a leisurely stroll around the track!

We're looking forward to a field trip to the Zoo in April, the Special Education Track and Field events in May, and then the end of the school year in June. Wow! Time sure flies when you're having fun.

:) Miss Amanda

Sunday, November 20, 2011

November Update

Time flies when you're having fun and November is certainly flying by!

We've been up to great things in the Upper SRC.

Cooking!

Last week we made Wobble Gobble Cookies! It was a great time had by all. We followed a visual recipe to make our fantastic creations!

Wagon!

Thanks to the wonderful website Donorschoose.org our classroom has a wagon! It is tradition at Sexton Mountain for the general education classes to roll their wagons full of lunch boxes to the cafeteria. Now the Upper SRC can partake in this fun tradition! We are practicing walking slowly with the wagon and navigating sharp turns!

Pepsi Refresh Grant

Our fabulous speech pathologist, Jessi Lynch, wrote a grant proposal for the Pepsi Refresh Project! If we win, we could get a SMART board! How do we win? Simply by voting! Every day!

Here’s how:

1. Go to the LINK http://www.refresheverything.com/smartboards-for-special-education

2. Click on the "Vote for this idea" button, and create an account through Pepsi, or you can login through Facebook.

3. Now just remember to go back every day to vote for us!!

The grant is through the Pepsi Refresh Project and we need your votes to be in the top 20 in order to get funded. Every person gets to vote every day for 5 different projects. Please make sure ours is one of them!! The voting only lasts for the month of November, so please start now and keep going through Thanksgiving. These SMART boards are amazing and will make an incredible difference! And all it will take is a minute of your time every day!

We're currently in 15th place!!! Let's keep up the voting through the end of November! Thank you all for your votes!

Thanksgiving

It will be upon us before we know it! In class we have been talking a lot about our favorite Thanksgiving food. Macaroni and cheese is the clear winner! We have also been discussing what we are thankful for. The answers from the students are incredible. We've had responses range from, "Mac and cheese" all the way to "Grandma." Sometimes we just sit back and let their responses sink in. It brings tears to our eyes. :)

Happy November! It will be Winter Break before we know it!

Miss Amanda

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Pumpkin Patch!!

We had a fantastic time at our pumpkin patch field trip! We took a school bus from Sexton Mountain to the Plumper Pumpkin Patch.

The bus had a very calming effect on us!

Once we got to the pumpkin patch we learned all about the different types of pumpkins and squash they grow on site. We were able to touch the different pumpkins and feel if the skin was bumpy or smooth! Then we went on a hay ride to see the grounds.

The hay ride was fun!

Miss Jessi came with us too!

After the hay ride we ate lunch in a green house that had a cover. It was sprinkling rain, so we were grateful for the roof over our heads!

We were so hungry!

After lunch it was on to the slide, corn maze, and petting zoo! We all had a great time sliding down a huge slide, running through the maze, and petting donkeys, baby cows, goats, and even a llama.

So many animals!

Waiting patiently for the big slide.

Watching friends taking turns sliding down the slide.

So high up! So much fun!

Definitely not lost in the corn maze. :)

Oh yeah, there was bowling too!

Waiting with a heavy bowling ball!

Then if was off to the U-Pick pumpkin patch! Picking our own pumpkins was very fun. We had to make sure we could carry our own pumpkins. So we made sure that each pumpkin wasn't too heavy!

The Patch.

All smiles!

Some of the pumpkins were heavy.

We all carried our own pumpkins!

We had a great time at Plumper Pumpkin Patch!

Thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped make this field trip a success. We had an incredible time. We learned about pumpkins and squash, we took turns and waited patiently, and picked out our own pumpkins independently. All in all, the pumpkin patch was a success!!

Miss Amanda