Week 7: Sept 21-25
This week is homecoming week: Wednesday is the parade after school and the carnival. Dance is Saturday.
We've wrapped up TX History and still working on our Maps with Hemispheres, Longitude and Latitude. Reading Secret Garden still and working on our functional, real-world math skills: $$, budgeting, cost comparison, shopping/inventory, etc...Working on finishing matter and beginning "weather" projects.
**October 8th: Pumpkin Patch: Please bring $25 for the patch and Pizza lunch afterwards.
Students started their Sunshine Cart business last week and it was a huge success! :)
~Mrs. Morrison
Week 6: Sept 14-18
Busy week this week and next week. We have been shopping for our Sunshine Cart work based learning business and will begin selling our drinks this Friday on the 18th in 3rd period.
For our functional academics: Secret Garden reading still, States of Matter, Hemishperes of the earth, Longitude/Latitude, Functional Math: Budgeting, $$$, paystubs, cost comparison, menu math, pre-algebra and geometry. We will be making Banana Splits in our Intro to Culinary on Friday to practice cutting and following directions (we use safety knives in here) and we are learing about paychecks in our 7th period Vocational classes.
We need notebook paper and glue sticks, and elmer's glue please. Running very low from last year.
Mondays are our off campus wbl activities for 2 of our older students and so far, that has been a success. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns :)
~Mrs. Morrison
Week 5: Sept 7-11
Shorter week this week but packed full of activities!! We are still picking up recycling for a job on Tuesday mornings during and after Talon Time on our 4 main academic hallways.
Wednesdays- we are practicing our Bowling for Sp. Olympics.
Thursdays, starting this week, we will begin our Community Based Instructional Outings after Talon Time. We will shop for drinks to sell and possible cooking ingredients.
We will be starting our Sunshine Cart this Friday if we can or will begin next Friday selling beverages to students and staff for profits to turn back into our Business and classroom supply budget.
ELA: Reading Secret Garden still: CH 7/8, working on vocab words from those chapters, editing sentences and working on writing prompts.
Math: Functional $$ math, grocery store budgeting and cost comparison, paystub math, menu math, pre-algebra and Geometry, etc...Functional real-world math skills
Science: Finishing our Electricity packets and working with a circuit board to build different circuits, etc... We will attempt to create a potato battery also. :)
History: We have finished our TX history with a re-creation of The Alamo out of sugar cubes this week. So far, today, on Tuesday, the cubes are not sticking together like we hoped, but we will prevail and find another source of glue....students will have fun building their Alamos.
Culinary: Still learning about Kitchen Safety, practicing reading recipes, making quesadillas again on Friday as several students were absent last Friday. Students rotate jobs in the kitchen: some cook, some do dishes, some sweep, etc....
Vocational: Working on our Transition Binders and appropriate work based job etiquette, following a checklist, etc...
More news to come about our off campus work based learning for our older students. Not all students will be able to participate in that as we are limited in the spots to drive them there with all 3 classrooms needing to participate. So far, we will have 2-3 students participating on a rotating basis from our class.
Check out our Help Us tab on this site for items we routinely use and need to purchase consistently, and we would love some help from time to time to get those items supplied! :) Thank you!
~Mrs. Morrison
Week 4: Aug 21-Sept 4
Happy 4th week of school.
Ela: Secret Garden this week in CH 5-6- comprehension, vocab words and sentences/editing, writing prompts
Math: Grocery Store Math, packets and menu math, $$, functional math skills
Science: Wrapping up Electricity and will build a circuit this week and next week
History: TX Alamo history- will be building a model of the Alamo with sugar cubes.
Vocational: Job etiquette, classroom jobs, recycling job on Tuesday, learning about why we work, appropriate skills, etc...
Culinary: Kitchen Safety and planning for Friday cooking
Next week, we will begin our community based instruction and possbile off campus work based learning opportunity. More details to come. CBI outings will probably be on Monday mornings.
~MRS. MORRISON
Week 3: Aug 24-28
Happy 3rd Week of school! We are wrapping up all of our beginning of year routine adjustments, getting permission forms sent back in, planning our community based instructional outings, etc...
This week on Tuesdays: our class will begin collecting recycle bins from staff to dump into our big collection containers. What a cool job for our teens to help the campus with each week. :) They did great today!
Please check your parent emails for the Special Olympic Registration link that we need completed. Bowling practice begins next week each Wednesday until our tournament in October. We do this as a class and will be gone most of the day at practice. I also need all of my class permission forms, release forms, etc...sent back in this week please. We cannot go out into the community or do any instructional outings without those forms sent back in.
This week in class:
English: we are listening to the audiobook, "Secret Garden," and answering comprehension questions each week per chapter, learning vocab words for each chapter read and enjoying class discussions. We wil be doing writing prompts weekly unrelated to our book studies and practice writing sentences, editing mistakes, etc...
Math: Grocery store math, comparison shopping, pre-algebra, geometry and tons of $$ skills practiced weekly along with Menu Math, interpreting paystubs, budgeting, etc...Functional, real-world skills are a priority.
Science: We have been discussing various things since school started: Cells- the building blocks of all life, labeling, understanding the functions. We are starting our Electricity segment right now, learning about how it is created, differences between conductors and insulators, etc...we will be using a circuit snap board to practice our learning about circuits later in the week.
Social Studies: It's all about TX last week and this week: Students created a rubric with TX facts, drew names for a famous Texan and have worked on their Texan Poster following the class rubric. We will then learn about the Alamo, TX history facts, etc...
Functional, Culinary: In our Intro to Culinary- we will be cooking Grilled Cheese Sandwiches on Friday. This week, we are still discussing Safety in the Kitchen after finishing our item labeling for kitchen supplies. We discuss the recipe each week, create a list of needed items and have rotating jobs to cook, do the dishes, and sweep, wipe counters, etc...
Vocational: We are still working on understanding jobs, why we need to practice job skills, and why do we need to learn how to work? We are discussing Job Etiquette, manners, taking online job interest surveys, etc...
We are well established with our Job Board in the classroom and students will be getting paid next week with my classroom money. My store is not completely stocked up yet, but it will be very soon.
Community schedules should start next week!!! Get those forms sent back in for permission and complete Sp. Olympic registrations. Happy Tuesday!
~Mrs. Morrison
Week 2: Aug 17-21
Happy 2nd week!
ELA-We are reading Secret Garden for the next few weeks, will be answering comprehension questions, learning a few new vocabulary words and we use an audiobook version so we can all complete chapters at the same time. Link will be in my Library tab. We also will be completing writing prompts, working on grammar, etc...
Math: Grocery Store Math and Menu Math with math packets focusing on functional, practical math activities: shopping, money skills, measuring, etc...
Science: Intro to Cells and the building blocks of all living things.
Social Studies: After discussing personal addresses, city, state and nation last week, we will be learning more about TX facts, symbols, flag, etc...
Culinary: Labeling kitchen items to prep for our Kitchen inventory. We will be cooking Friday each week. Last week, we made easy cookies and popcorn. :)
Vocational: We have Transition Binders that are full of Functional, vocational activities, including personal information, job ettiquette, appropriate behavior on a job site, etc...and leanring about areas of interest.
** We will be starting our Community Based Instruction either next week or week 4. More details to come. Work Based learning will begin at that time also.
~MRS. MORRISON
Week 1: Aug 12th:
Reminders: return the signed rule contract and parent questionnaire by Friday for students to receive their $5 bonus in their classroom wallet. We will always try to get out to the pick up line by 3:50. Today was a good day. Students are already learning the routine and doing great!
Week 1: Aug 11-14
WECOME BACK EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO OUR NEW STUDENTS!!!
We will have a great year this year and I look forward to getting to know our new students and starting our journey for the 2026/2027 school year. Any questions, reach out and let me know. We will be learning our campus, rules, expectations, schedules, etc...mostly this week. Starting off with our academics will primarily be me getting to know how much we've forgotten over the summer and to pick up where we left off. Excited for this week!
~Mrs. Morrison