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 * Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 Red Ribbon Week!**

It's Drug-Free Awareness Week! There was red everywhere in campus! I wore my red bandana on my wrist as support.

Highlight of the day was when Ms. Stribling, the principal came in my morning 3rd grade group, observed and said that my small group is too large. (I had 6 students in one small room) As a result, Ms. Wright and I, with the 3d grade teacher Ms. Johnson and the principal had a meeting at the end of the school day to discuss the best situation for our group. We are taking out the non-ESE kids and giving priority to those ESE kids when we come to do our Push In model for that class.


 * Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 ESE Team Meeting**

The ESE Team met in Ms. Linman's class to talk about doing FAIR testing for the students with more moderate disabilities and the effort to get them tested by this Friday. I helped facilitate and provide accommodations when they were taking it later today in the computer lab.

My 3rd grade morning **group changed once again!** Taking all the ESE students back and taking out the non-ESE students. The boy with autism did really well with a smaller group compared to when there was 6 of them.

I took the 5th graders down to Rm. 206 to **provide them with their Topic 5 test accommodations**. They all finished in time and based on results did very well on expressions and equations!

In 3rd grade pm group, I **placed test** a student who came back to Bonneville last week. I tested to place him in Reading Mastery Plus 3 while the others were finishing their Test 1 (Lessons 1-10).


 * Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 Pajama Day**

Today's theme for the Red Ribbon Drug-Free Awareness Week is Pajama Day and although it was cute to see students and some staff in pj's, it's funny how **the way you dress somehow affects the way you act**. I noticed that the kids seemed to be more lax and playful with their pj's and fuzzy slippers on.

Anyway, our (again) new 3rd grade group having only ESE kids seem to be working. Ofcourse, it's only our 2nd day with that set up. However, I do think it's more condusive to helping out the ESE kids specifically a boy that has ASD who 'stims' alot and who seem to get lost very easily in a large group.

I bought a **new tool** as part of my **intervention for my Child Case Study**. It's a **Visual Desk Helper** where the student I'm working with, can see a visual number line and manipulate it to her aid in adding and subtracting. I wanted her not to always rely on hands on manipulatives which she won't always have but atleast the visual desk helper is something that she can carry with her like a bookmark.

In 5th grade, Ms. Drewery is so pleased with her students' test results on Topic 5 (Expressions and Equations). This is the topic that majority of kids really grasped. I think it also greatly helps that the ESE students are **provided with their test accommodations** including **small group testing and extended time**.

In 1st grade Math, I helped **administer their Topic 4 Test (Addition)** and specifically put priority in helping the ESE kids, prompting and re-directing them to each item.

At the end of the day, I **volunteered and helped set up the school's Scholastic Book Fair** :) Something I love to do!


 * Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 Fall Festival!**

Today, was full of fun! I helped operate different Fall-related Centers during the Fall Festival in Kinder:
 * Sizing Pumpkins
 * Making Dirt
 * Spider Hats
 * Candy corn Twist

It was more tiring than I thought! The kids dressed as their favorite book character. I dressed as Ladybug Girl from the Ladybug Girl picture book series!

Later in the morning, I helped the Book Fair viewing when 3 Kindergarten classes walked through the Media Center which was a challenge because they couldn't touch and could only whisper! Everything went pretty smoothly though! We had them hold hands while circling through the books and Level 1 voice which is whisper :)

Then early afternoon, I checked my 1st graders in their In School Field Trip at the Multipurpose Room. They were exploring magnets and having lots of fun!

I had my 3rd grade Reading Mastery students finish their test.

My last class, 1st grade Reading Mastery is whizzing through their lessons which is good because it means they're catching on :)


 * Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 Teacher Workday!**

Picked up breakfast for Ms. Wright and I. We started talking about our ESE kids whose IEP meetings are coming up! Then I went to the Media Center to create a Wish List for Ms. Wright for the Book Fair. I have 9 books I'm getting for my personal future classroom collection! I'm such a big fan of Children's Literature!

I had a **CPR training** from 12-3. So many cycles of compression! But now glad that I'm trained! Plus it was free!

I finished preparing for the next week doing my lesson plans in the afternoon before going home.