Daily Report Monday March 31, 2014

Today’s Date: Monday March 31, 2014 The Weather Today was: Sunny, cold

High today is 11*

Low today is 2*   

Season: Spring

In Class Today: Supply Teacher

                                   Mr. Banks

Period 1: Briefly talked about our weekend. We viewed on the Smart board, information about amount of sugar in a can of pop. Coca Cola has 9 teaspoons of sugar. It therefore is not a good idea to drink pop every day of the week. It is not healthy to drink too much pop because of the sugar content.

At 9:30, we went upstairs to Yoga with Mr.Tipoff.

Period 2: Experiment: Showing how the acid in Coca Cola can dissolved plastic spoons & forks and make them stick together.

Work Sheet on our feelings by looking at peoples expressions, we did a match up exercise.

Period 3: Personal Hygiene: Brushing teeth

Classroom duties. Practice “King Of the Road song”. Typed up our Daily Report! and ended with Meditation.

Period 4: The weather was so nice today so we went outside for a spring scavenger hunt.

Tomorrow we will:

Daily Report Friday March 28, 2014

Today’s Date: Friday March 28, 2014

The Weather Today was: Cloudy/Rainy, cold

High today is 11*

Low today is 3*

P.O.P 60%  

Season: Spring- Trees and flowers start to grow as the temperature gets warmer and there is more sunlight. April showers bring May flowers.

In Class Today: Supply Teacher

                                   Mr. Banks

Period 1: We prepped for our lunch program. Curtis & Jessica set the table. Arqum chopped tomatoes & lettuce. Spencer sliced cucumbers & grated cheese. Taylor & Megan grated & chopped carrots. Julian washed the lettuce. Ms. Danette made & cooked the ground beef. Mr. Banks supervised.

Period 2: Work Sheet: Wellness Contract- Questions answered by all students. Each student signed their own contract.

Students made their own tacos for lunch. They were so very hungry they ate lunch at 11 o’clock and the food looked so delicious. It was so good. Everyone clean up after eating lunch.

Period 3: Dessert was Jello and ice cream. Brushed teeth. Classroom jobs. Practice singing “King of the road”. Did the daily report. We had a skillful mediation.

Period 4: We participated in Earth hour. We turn off all the lights. We played three rounds of table hockey. We went for a walk around the school. Ended the day with a discussion on our plans for the weekend.

Tomorrow we will: Monday No YMCA.

Daily Report Thursday March 27 2014

In Class Today: Supply Teacher

                                   Mr. Banks

Period 1:. Mental Health Workshop in library:

                              Meaning of Resilience- bounce back

                              Partnership Room: Fun activity

  Bouncing ball activity to show meaning of

  Resilience. Mr. Bean movie clip to show how to   make someone bounce back to feel good.

Period 2: Drama: Game- musical chairs, hot potato and

                                                       animal charades, free time.  

Period 3: Hygiene: Brushing teeth, classroom clean up,

daily report Star fall activity on the Smart Board     (Promethean)  and Meditation.

                                

                               

Period 4: We talk about dangerous things to look for like,

Broken or damage cords, water that’s too close to electrically wires and too many things plugged into one socket. Did a coloring sheet on overloaded outlets, with too many plugs.

Tomorrow we will:

Daily Report Wednesday March 26 2014

Today’s Date: Wednesday March 26 , 2014

The Weather Today was: sunny and cold.

High is -10*

Low is -6*

In Class Today: Supply Teacher                                Mr. Banks

Period 1: Morning circle – talked about our evening

We went upstairs to do Yoga

Washroom Break

Period 2: Current events and presentations: Students chose a story from the Metro News and cut out a picture. They wrote about their picture and story.

Also they wrote on a leaf something they are grateful for and makes them happy!

We did the lunch menu for Friday.

Tacos, Vanilla ice cream and raspberry jello

Apple juice

Period 3: Meditation, daily report, classroom jobs

Period 4:

We did our Safety booklet, we discussed safety with electricity and we worked on our safety video

Tomorrow we will: Bring lunch tomorrow. Cooking Tacos on Friday.

Daily Report Tuesday March 25 2014

Today’s Date: Tuesday March 25, 2014

The Weather Today was: Sunny/cloudy, windy & cold

High today is 0*

Low today is -11*  

Season: Spring

In Class Today: Supply Teacher

                                   Mr. Banks

Period 1: Discuss what we did last night.

Period 2: Mental Health Week: Meaning of the word                    Resilience by watching Harry Potter movie clip. Work Sheet: What makes us happy?    

Period 3: Hygiene: Brushing teeth after eating lunch. Classroom jobs. Leaves-things that make you happy. Fill in daily report. Short Meditation.

Period 4: We did an electricity worksheet and discussed ways we can save electricity. We did a craft for Earth Hour.

Tomorrow we will:

Have a regular day.

Daily Report Monday March 24.2014

Today’s Date:  2014

The Weather Today was:  

Colder than it should be but a bit sunny.

In Class Today:

Period 1:

Today was a short day because of the staff meeting. We watched Happy feet!

Period 2:

Still watching Happy Feet

Period 3:

We did classroom jobs

Period 4:

We talked about electricity, electrical safety and saving electricity. We watched a Spiderman Earth Hour video.  It is Earth Hour week. Friday we will turn out all the lights at 2pm for Earth Hour.

Tomorrow we will:

Have a regular day J

Daily Report for Friday March 21st. 2014

Today’s Date:

 Friday March, 21^st. 2014

The Weather Today was:  

Sunny and cool, High: 4% Low: -2  P.O.P.: 40%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We prepared our Lunch Program lunch. Taylor and Arqum cut up garnish for the Green Salad.

 Jessica and Curtis set the table. Curtis also prepared the Tomato Soup. Julian, the Lettuce Man, washed and spun the lettuce. Megan unwrapped the cheese, which required a high degree of fine motor skills !

Today was the day we had our Graduation pictures taken. Curtis, Julian and Taylor dressed appropriately for the event. They all looked very sharp !

Period 2: We continued with our meal prep with everybody getting a chance to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Then at 11:00 we sat down to enjoy our meal.

Period 3: During Lunch period we got the chance to make “Happiness Baskets” so were a little late getting back to class. When we got there we sat down to eat our dessert of freshly baked peanut butter cookies and vanilla ice cream.

Then we did or classroom jobs and filled in the Daily Report. This left us just enough time for a skillful sit.   

Period 4: It’s fun Friday, so after we cleaned the water fountain we got to play some games.

On Monday we will: Because it is Staff Meeting short day schedule we will be watching a movie in class.

Daily Report Thursday March 20 2014

Today’s Date:

 Thursday March, 20 2014

The Weather Today was:  

Cloudy, cold, rainy L

In Class Today:

First day of Spring!

Period 1:

Today was international day of Happiness. Our supply teacher’s name was Ms. Kathy. We danced and played the Happy song. We talked about things that make us feel happy. We watched a video on people laughing and being happy.

Period 2:

We did a sheet on feelings and afterwards we acted them out in groups of 2. Then we played Bingo.

Period 3:

We brushed our teeth and we finished our classroom jobs. We didn’t have time for meditation because we went to the library for a Mental Health Workshop.

Period 4:

We watched the new edited version of our safety video. Then we did our fountain cleaning job and went to the computer lab to work on our resumes.

Tomorrow we will:

Cook lunch with Mr. Wilkens.

Daily Report Wednesday March 19 2014

  Today’s Date: Wed, March 19, 2014

The Weather Today was: Cold and raining, High 5 and the low 0  

In Class Today:

Period 1: We discussed what we did last night and we talked about special Olympic. Mr. Q, the supply teacher introduced himself after the morning discussion. After the discussion we went to the yoga room with Mr. Tipoff class.

Period 2: We did Starfall activities on the smart board by doing calendar, head and shoulder exercise, and math addition and subtraction. After that we did some drama activities including musical chairs. We also did hot potato dance and animal charades.  

Period 3: We brushed our teeth after lunch and did our classroom jobs. We practiced singing King of the Road. We filled our daily report and ended off with daily meditation.

Period 4:

In period 4 we are worked on hobbies and interests for our resumes and we continued with work safety,  ‘Trips and Falls’ and our safety video.  

Tomorrow we will: Please bring your lunch. Cooking Program on Friday.

Daily Report for Monday March 17th 2014

Today’s Date:

Monday March 17^th 2014

The Weather Today was:  

Overcast, cold  High: -5  Low: -14 P.O.P.: 20%

In Class Today:

We went to the Scarborough YMCA for our usual Monday Fitness trip. There were only three students in class today so it was a small group. When we got to the Y we started out by walking around the indoor track. As usual, Curtis showed his initiative by running for a number of laps. Then we went downstairs to work out on the treadmill machines. We then went to Scarborough Town Centre to eat lunch in the Food Court. We took the TTC back to school and got back just in time for our World of Work class.

Period 4: We began class by doing our usual cleaning of the special drinking fountain in the front foyer. Then we went to Ms. Manning’s classroom to make St, Patrick’s day rainbows.

Tomorrow we will: Curtis, Julian Taylor and Jessica will be going to the Special Olympics’ Track Meet at Variety Village. The rest of the class will be joining Ms. Appleton’s class for the day.

Note to Parents: Please see Field Trip forms in the communication books.

Daily Report for Thursday March 6th. 2014

Today’s Date:

Thursday March 6^th  2014

The Weather Today was:  

Partly Sunny, Cold   High: -4 Low: -7 P.O.P.: 10%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We started out by beginning the food prep for our Lunch Program Lunch. Today we had Hamburgers, French Fries, and in an attempt to be a little healthy, Garden Salad. Arqum and Taylor cut up the carrots, pepper and celery for the salad. Julian, our lettuce man, did his usual fine job of washing the lettuce and Jessica and Spencer set the table. Curtis made a batch of Cherry Jello. Megan helped to set up the burgers. We had to put our meal prep on hold though because we had to go to a mental Health workshop in the Library. We learned some more about anxiety and ways to cope with this not so good feeling. We also got make Worry Stones, which we can use when we are felling anxious or sad to make us feel better. Here is a picture of the stones we made.

Period 2: For the first part of the period we finished up the workshop by having a group dance ! Then we went back to the classroom to finish our meal prep. We had our lunch at 11:00,and it was quite tasty. Here is a picture of one of the Burgers…

Here is a picture of us enjoying our lunch…

Period 3: We had dessert . We had Cinnamon Buns, courtesy of Taylor’s Mom, and ice cream. Curtis got to enjoy the Cherry Jello that he had made earlier. We did our classroom jobs then filled in the daily report. To end off the period we had a skillful sit.

Period 4: We went to the computer lab to work on our resumes. Curtis and Taylor helped to clean the filter in the Special Water dispenser.

Tomorrow we will: Start March Break !!!!!!