Jennifer's Class
Office Hours every Monday-Friday
11:00-12:00
Message from Miss Jennifer
On this page I will provide instructional resources, explanations, and pictures to help support you as you support your student in their education!
This is new to everyone, so I appreciate your support and dedication during this time.
I encourage you to look around and become familiar with our website, resources, and materials. If you have any questions please fill the "Parent/Guardian Question" form (located above) and I will get back to you quickly.
I will post a question of the day, our lesson, videos, and possible other materials.
Love, Mrs. Best
IMG_5604.MOVhello monday!
(Please don't judge the video too much)
My favorite people ever! I wanted to say hello to you in person (looking very put together in this high quality video)
I miss you all!
Love,
Mrs. Jennifer
3/30/20 Hello
Hello class! I hope you are all staying happy and healthy! I miss you all and hope we can return to school quickly! I hope you and your families are doing well and even though we are not at school I am still here to help in anyway!
Here is a brief summary of what we will be learning for the month of April
April 1-3: Manners/Etiquette
April 6-10: Spring Break!
April 13-17 Components of Friendship/Sportsmanship
April 20-24: Positive Qualities
April 27-May 1:Sorting Clothes
*Don't forget to check out Lizzie's Life Skills videos and Jane's reading!
Update-3/25/2020
Miss Lizzie has posted a video on making microwave popcorn and banana bread!
Miss Jane has also read 3 chapters of our book "My Side of the Mountain"
Online learning Schedule
March 18-20 - Eating out at a restaurant
We will be using a booklet to bring together academic and functional life skills routines and understanding of community outings.
Click the link below and it guide you do the PDF form we will be learning from:
March 23-27 - Food preparation
Using an adapted book we will identify kitchen appliances and their use
Daily Routine and schedule
I will provide a brief daily schedule. I will also provide a link for a home daily visual routine. Also, if you need any help with a home routine or visuals don't hesitate to ask!
Monday - Room Service - consisted of making a treat for the school and delivering those treats (and water/soda). Then cleaning after ourselves
Tuesday - Community Outing for half of the class. The other half of the class would work on IEP goals.
Wednesday - In the morning we would have music provided by a volunteer. She would choose a genre, play the piano, and sing for our students in the music room. Afterwards we would go to the little kitchen and have cooking.
Thursday - In the morning's high school volunteers would come and we would practice social skills, leisure activities, recycle, and do laundry. After lunch and seminary we would then do Adapted Physical Education (A.P.E)
Friday - Half of the class would go on a Community Outing and the other half would work on IEP goals. We would continue to practice cooking, social skills, and work on a leisure activity (art, lesson on understanding how to play games, read aloud skills)
Rules and Procedures
When we begin our morning meeting, lessons, and IEP goals, we review the rules and procedures.
Follow directions
Eyes on teacher (parent/guardian/caregiver)
Stay in desk (chair, etc.)
Stay together
Morning Meeting
Morning Meeting happened before we started our day. We went over the following:
Classroom rules (listed above), how would you like to greet someone, how do you feel, the calendar (days of the week, month, season), question of the day, and then our daily schedule.
brain dance.pdfBrain Dance: Helps students/individuals prepare their minds for learning! Begin lessons with the Brain Dance
Pick a Greeting
Each student is given different options to choose how they would like to greet someone every morning.
How do you feel?
Each student is given an array of emotions to show how they feel.
Reward systems
Here are links to reward system (token economy) used in my classroom when working on IEP goals and during group lessons.
This link is a FIRST-THEN board. It has visuals for your student the item you will be doing first (cooking, laundry, etc. and then what will happen next)
Task Analysis
A task analysis is breaking down a skill into smaller steps.
Here are examples below
Cooking
Cooking is a life skill that we worked on with our students weekly!
Here are visual recipes to continue to work on with your student!
Laundry
Visual strip to follow laundry steps and a laundry booklet to read with students.
Virtual Field trips
Star Atlas - explore over 60,000 stars, locate planets, and watch sunrises and solar eclipses.
Nature Works Everywhere - 11 virtual field trips that allow students to do everything from exploring a coastal rainforest while in a canoe to unlocking the secrets of coral reefs in the Dominican Republic. Each video is about 45 minutes long.
The Smithsonian - A variety of different tours