OUR CLASS PREPARES FOR 100 DAY CELEBRATION!

Ellen is helping to load the candy prize bags!

Our number line at the halfway mark.

Hamza proudly holding a few of our 100 candy prize bags.

Janelle makes a school announcement about our 100 day activities, including our

'Hidden 100 Bills' around the school.

Which jar of candy has 100?

Jeena, Jasmine and Kat prepare candy prize bags.

Maryam and Kat take some student guesses in front our display case.

Students trace 5 footprints and tape them around our classroom for 100 Steps Around the Room.  Melanie decided to walk along the door window.

Mr. Neufeld and Caitlin put the last candy into the candy prize bags.

The number line reaches close to 100, with Sukhjit's guess at the 95th day.

Our display case with Jar 1, Jar 2 and Jar 3 of candies.  Which one has 100 candies? 

WE HAVE A NEW ADDITION TO OUR BLOG; TEACHER'S CORNER, for BASES Teaching Staff to share the MAGIC and the MOMENTS that we experience, on a daily 'basis'.

Reflections of a Lesson Taught

An ongoing theme in our classroom is a focus on words and language and communication, both written and verbal. I have a background in linguistics and a personal love and almost a sense of wonder for words.  Therefore, “Words are Wonderful” is a common phrase in the BASES classroom, as we focus on rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms and homophones.  We have created lists and students are continually adding to them as they make their own discoveries, particularly homophones. 

      One particular day, we began the morning by brainstorming all the homophones that we could think of.  Before long, we had filled the white board.  With such an array of verbal and cognitive abilities in our class, it isn’t always evident or easy to assess whether or not a lesson has been learned and absorbed by every student.  Nevertheless, we had compiled a list and students wrote the words on our homophone list on the wall.

      After lunch, long after our homophone brainstorm, one of our SEAs, Joanne Smith, hurried from the other classroom.

      “You have to see this”, she said excitedly. 

She was holding Brandon’s response journal. 

      “Remember that lesson you were teaching this morning on homophones?” she asked.

      She put Brandon’s duotang down in front of me.  He and another student had been working on their ‘Chocolate Fever’ novel study.  She points to the 2 circles at the bottom of the page where students are to compare 2 of the novel’s characters.  Brandon had written I - Eye.

      “He got it!”  Joanne exclaimed.

Indeed he had.  Brandon is autistic, with very limited verbal skills.  In his own time, he processed that lesson and came up with a homophone that had not been written on the white board that morning.

Joanne and I were filled with pride as we asked Brandon to add his 2 words to our class homophone list. 

The MAGIC of learning- it is at our own pace, in our own time. 

Brandon reminded me of that!

Every time I look at our list, I-Eye makes me SMILE!

Written by:  Sue Fuller

BASES students have been busy these past few weeks!  With Semester 2 turnaround, Valentine's Day and 100 Days of School ALL arriving within weeks of each other, there is never a dull moment!

Students helped put together a Beautiful Valentine's display in our Display case outside our classroom.  They made Valentine's Day cards for one of our community Seniors Centres. 

It was baking week so Chocolate Fudge Heart Brownies were a natural selection.  We made 3 trays of brownies and then made individual heart-shaped brownies.  Students chose from blue, pink or bright pink for their icing.  Some even chose to top their brownie with multi-colored sprinkles!

Mrs. Becker and Student council stored several buckets of beautiful red roses in our freezer.  Our students took much interest in the delivery of these roses to fellow Sullivan students.
Mr. Bucci made use of our kitchen for the Annual Valentine Pancake Breakfast in the HUB!

ALWAYS smells YUMMY in our Kitchen!

As usual, our classroom was a BUZZ of Activity!

Tune in for the next BLOG post on ALL the 100 Day Activiites BASES students have been working on.

Semester 2

*As hard as it is to believe, Semester 1 and 89 DAYS of school has come to an end!  Students were busy wrapping up their assignments, projects and enjoying final blocks with their teachers and peers

 

*Some BASES students participated in the Sullivan Dance Show on January 19

*Students received their Semester 2 schedules and are settling into their new classes

*BASES Teaching staff for Semester 2 will include Sue Fuller, Shawn Stroh, Ryan Neufeld and Robert Dewinetz

*Alyssa Becker is leaving BASES, for Semester 2, and will be teaching Math, Science and Yearbook.  We will miss her contributions to the BASES program but hope that she will continue to visit our class.  Students were asked to reflect and write about their Semester 1 Highlights and write a personal message to Mrs. Becker

*in keeping with Sullivan Heights, its school-wide use of technology and the Enormous success of our class BLOG, we will continue with our BLOG.  We look forward to continued communication with our followers for the remainder of the school year. 

Semester One Highlights

**I enjoyed PE10 with Mr. Hepting and Chris for the past 6 months and there Awesome dudes and Alisha and Melanie and Mrs. D join the club as well:

I also Enjoyed BASES with Ms. Fuller learning new Subjects like French, Science and Postcards.

I also Enjoyed Dance with Ms. Yahn and meeting this new girl from Germany and sorry I chickened out in dance performances.

I also Enjoyed BASES again with Stroh and Becker and There is something about Ms Becker because Next Semester.  She is out of BASES and hopefully see her Next Year.

By:  Shiv

**In Semester 1, I walked a lot in my walker.  My friends in BASES encouraged me to walk quickly.  I walked all the way to the staffroom.

What I would like to say to Mrs. Becker is I LOVED the cooking!  I watched the students in the kitchen.  I laughed watching Saved by the Bell. 

By:  Arman

**Thank you Mrs. Becker for teaching the BASES class this semester.  Thank you for teaching us to use IPads and the postcards exchange.  I liked the class when you came to the class and had fun with BASES.

I enjoyed the wood The wood shop, and all the equipment and machines.  I learning about making things out wood at the wood shop.

By:  Jayden

**What I am going to miss is social study because I had so much fun meeting new people and I wish that next sem I will have class with them again.

What I would like to say to Mrs. Becker is that she really nice.  She help us with cooking and my favourite dish is macaroni, cauliflower and cheese.  And what I like to see is the show save by the bells.

By:  Fatima

**I will miss my Dance class But I will always Dance in Bases.  I had a great time in sewing because I made lots of things.  I can’t wait for SEMSTER 2!

I can’t wait to see Mrs. Becker in the Hallways and talk to her and give her a Big Hug.  I would say to her that I miss her and the Great lunch repies!

By:  Katarina

 **I will miss watching saved by the bell it was a funny show, I will also miss cooking on Thursdays I want to do more science experiments with Mrs. Fuller they are so fun! 

I want to thank Mrs. Becker for all the nice things she’s done for the class I will miss her cooking program My favourite dish was macaroni and cauliflower pasta it was my favourite

By:  Raheel

**Semester 1 is finished.  I learned Math Reading Journal Mrs. Procter Foods orange cake chicken breast

I would like to tell Mrs. Becker thank you lunch macaroni and cheese was Favorite

By:  Brandon

**What I would like to say Mrs. Becker I like the thankfull to for lunch and post crossing and We will miss you a lot.  I like chocolate chip cookies.  I take food.  I like working with Mrs. Becker.  I am getting 80% percent in foods and 72.7% percent in Infotech.

By: Hamza

**In semester 1, I had dance and I will miss it because in the classroom we performed in front of Ms. Yahn.  We did a lot of different types of styles like musical theatre, Jazz, Hip-Hop.  I will miss Ms. Yahn in semester 2.

Some specific thoughts I will miss about Mrs. Becker is about cooking. She told me to be careful with knife, being careful with the hot stove and etc. My favourite dish was the mashed potato soup.  Goodbye, Mrs. Becker we hope to see you around.

By:  Jeena

**I had lunch with my friends.  I liked the mac and cheese.  I helped with baking.  I made cookies with Ms. Jackson.

By:  Caitlin

**I would tell Mrs. Becker the cooking, I kinda like the macaroni and cheese party and also, the cauliflower part which it was so delicious, and tastes good as well!  And, the postcards mrs. Becker always deliveres postcards to the classroom because they know where they live! 

By:  Nolan

STAY TUNED for Semester 2 BASES Adventures!

We are PARTICULARLY EXCITED about our 100 DAY CELEBRATION on Tuesday, February 21!

75 Days!

HAPPY NEW YEAR to our BASES students, their Families and to All our Subscribers!  We have been at school for 75 DAYS! 

Our students translated that number to be,  in money terms:

3 quarters OR

7 dimes and 5 pennies OR

 7 dimes and 1 nickel OR

14 nickels and 5 pennies

In his school announcement before leaving for Christmas vacation, Mr. Hayes; our principal asked students to take some time to reflect on the work that they had accomplished thus far and reminded them to continue to show introspection by setting forth a plan to continue in the direction they would like in 2012.  I decided to pose similar questions to our BASES students.  They were asked,  “What have you learned in 75 days at school and what do you plan to do in the coming days at school?”

Students responded:

• I have learned to do hip-hop.  I plan to work at Playland.  By:  Alisha
• I have learned many cooking skills.  Just today I learned to make garlic bread.  I’ve also learned how to bake muffins.  I have learned lots of Math and multiplication on the chart.  I plan to work harder on my Reading Response.  By:  Jeena
• I have learned Math and adding money.  I plan to have more answers.  By:  Sukhjit
• I have learned to play songs with the guitar.  I plan to learn money and timetable.  By:  Maryam
• I have learned Dance.  I learned the lyrical, Hiphop and Jazzical for Dance.  I’ve learned lots of moves from the past year and I’m getting better at it.  I’ve learned Guitar.  I learned how to hold it and play certain songs.  I learned the frets.  I am certain that I will learn more by the end of the first semester.  I learned Math.  I learned all different kinds of stuff like money and the number chart.  I learned the timestable so I know how to do multiplication now.  I plan to learn more difficult stuff during the year.  By:   Janelle
• I have learned count money.  I plan to focus on learning say about Brandon.  By:  Brandon
• I have learned how to paint and I’m getting bette at it.  I plan to get better in Math and Reading.  By:  Jasmine
• I have learned to count money.  I plan to learn more about the wood shop, computers and electronics.  By: Jayden
• I have learned all about money.  I plan to count money.  By:  Melanie

There is so much eagerness to learn in our class. So far in 2012, the students have:

• begun choosing topics from our Journal Jar
• continued with our number line, money facts, computation and a new unit on reading menus and information on charts to answer Math questions
• students have chosen an Endangered Species for an individual project
• on Thursday, students cooked a Delicious meal of macaroni and cheese with cauliflower, garlic bread with strawberries and bananas for dessert

Events in the Coming Weeks:

• planning for our School Community Garden, with proceeds generously donated by our TERRIFIC PAC.  We are very excited to begin this project and plan to tend to it with a lot of BASES love and attention!
• the end of Semester 1 and the beginning of Semester 2! 

Written by:  Sue Fuller, BASES Teacher

The Journal Jar

In the class we have started a journal jar - every student pulls out a topic and then writes about it.  Sometimes it's personal, like drawing on an emotion or memory, and sometimes it's asking them to try and explain things that happen in the world around them.  Regardless the topic, the responses are always excellent.

Why does the ocean have a tide?

The moon does something wried and then the tide ghost stop the moon and the tide ghost mabe tide in the ocean then the moon start to be mad, then the moon stop the tide because it was morning.

By:  Katarina

How make you cry and happy?

What make me cry is watching a very sad movie is about a dog Died very end of the movie.  What makes me happy is when the dog being born that is beautiful.  I watch a movie before and I rhead a Book before.

By:  Ellen

Where do I see myself in the Future?

So far as my goals, personal development, residence or job in 5 years and do I have a plan to arrive at the destination?  When I’m 20 years old, I will be at an apartment and home again!  And I will find a job, but, I will do job experiences!

By:  Nolan

Students Speak: My Winter Break

On my winter Break, I went to my cousins house with my cousins.  I went to the theatre on Wednesday with my cousins.  On Christmas I got ipod case and chocolate and headphones and necks.  I went with my cousin together.  She was a good driver.

I went to Walmart with my cousin and I stayed Home.

By: Sukhjit

I went to buy a $200 Toshiba HD 19 Inch TV and 3 New PS3 Games Gran Turismo 5, MLB 2K10 and NBA and waiting for 2 more games NHL 11 and Madden 11. I also got $100 for Christmas spend it on the PS3 Games.  Also my cousin Marvin from Sydney Australia. And my Uncle Jay from Ridgewood NJ show up and the New Years Eve party got cancelled because of the weather. I also went to my program for Job Readyness. I went to Willowbrook Mall for Eating and Browsing and the bus ride was fun and some return from a 2 Month Vacation Askar return on the last day before Schools back and the Rangers 3 and the Flyers 2 in Philly in Citizens Bank Park in the the NHL Winter Classic of 2012.

By:  Shiv

I eat turkey and I eat pumpkin pie.  I stad up and watched TV.  I went to bed.

By:  Alisha

I watched TV shows Spider Riders it is so powerful on hunter steele I merry Christmas body about Santa Claus it happy new year Brandon minott not really is parsents on tree virtual fighter 4 will have to eat turkey and stove top family Brandon’s dad Justin’s I like song Stand my me.

By:  Brandon

During the break I went for a sleep over at Granma’s.  We went for a long walk to the mall.  We also went for coffee and juice.

By:  Caitlin

I stayed home spent time with family.  I slept in everyday I watched a lot of Christmas movies on tv.  I watched Home Alone 1, home alone 2, I had a nice family dinner.  I went on the computer.  I played games on the computer.  I went for a nice car ride and I watched the fireworks on New Year Day and I had hot chocolate with cookies on.  On Christmas day over the break I helped with the house chores I cleaned the house I had the best time ever. My New’s resolution is to exercise and eat healty.

By:  Raheel

On Friday December 16, my dad went to a tournament so there’s mom, riley and me!  My dad came back from the tournament.  Then we cleaned up so that someone is coming.  On Wednesday, I went to the computer looking at the photos, did Tiny Toons Adventures, Happy holidays.  It was completed just in time, I did 2 on them.  On Thursdays, I completed Wanda, the January 2012 issue.  On Friday, baba, riley and I went shopping .  On Saturday December 24 on Christmas eve, I went to bed very early! On Sunday December 25, I riley opened up gifts.  Later on, It was Baba’s Birthday after this, I watched the Grinch on ABC, Tim Carrey is so funny to everyone But not for me!  On Monday December 26, I went to value village to buy books and videos!  On Thursday, uncle Blair and aunt Sonia everyone came over.  On Fridays went to see riley’s tournament.  On Saturday, December 31, I went to Riley’s tournament again after this I went on the computer to finda  new photo.  For dinner, I had Dominos pizza!  I did Tiny Toon Adventures Happy New Year I did C on them!  It was completed just in time Riley tournament at 9AM, another game at 5pm. 

By:  Nolan