About+Gill

[|Introducing our Class Mascot, Gill the Goldfish!]
Gill, the Goldfish is the class mascot of our small special education class that we lovingly refer to as Gill-Ville. Each student in our class has taken a picture of Gill somewhere in our classroom and would like to tell you a little about us and our learning day at school with Gill! Gill is in "complete trust". || Gill the Goldfish is looking at our trust chart. The higher up the trust chart you are, the most trust you have, and the more privileges you earn. If you are in complete trust you are trusted to choose activities on your own and get to do special jobs. If you make choices that move you down the trust chart you have less choices and more direct supervision until you can earn back trust. You earn trust by making good choices and showing integrity. (contributed by Braydan) || Weekly Goal Setting || Gill the Goldfish sets academic, respect, teamwork, and leadership goals each week. At the beginning of the week, Gill uses sticky notes to write our new goals and post them on the chart. He checks in at the end of each day and we decide if we earned a level 1, 2, 3, or 4. If we get all 1′s on a goal during one week, we try again. If we earn all level 4′s we might earn a sundae party! Gill the Goldfish loves when we try to be the best we can be! (contributed by Mathew) || Classroom Kitchen || In our classroom we use the sink to wash our hands before touching food and for washing our fruits and vegetables like carrots and celery. When we are finished cooking classes and preparing snacks, we use the sink to wash the dishes. Thank goodness Gill likes to swim! (contributed by Jacob) || Weekly cooking preparations and safety classes! || Gill the Goldfish likes to learn about cooking during our cooking classes. Gill is pretending to cook in this picture. We have made things like “Bugs on a Log”, a birthday cake, and maple syrup taffy. We have a cooking class every Thursday. Once a month we also go to a professional kitchen for a gourmet cooking class! (contributed by Zachary) || We love to blog! || Gill the Goldfish likes to blog on our classroom computers. He comments on posts and types really fast. He clicks on the mouse to make his own blog. Here you can see Gill listening to a livescribe pencast of a friend reading. He is getting ready to leave them a comment about all the amazing reading strategies he heard them using. (contributed by Kara) ||
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Creating Puppet Show Retells on the iPad || Gill can do lots of great things on the iPad and iPod Touch devices we have in our classroom. He can play games, learn math facts, create puppet plays, and create music with instruments apps. Here you see Gill creating a puppet play using an app called Puppet Pals. The puppets are retelling information about a story they read for homework. We love using mobile devices to share our learning! (contributed by Austin) || Gill Reading Aloud || Here’s Gill the Goldfish reading. Sometimes we sit in this rocking chair when we’re reading aloud or we use the hand microphone for our class sound system. We also practice reading most days after second nutrition break for at least 10 minutes. We get to choose the book we want to read and we like to share the stories with each other. (contributed by Mac) || Math Strategies || This is Gill looking at a daily math chart. He’s looking for his job. On the math chart there are strategies like ten frames, 100s charts, base ten blocks, and empty number lines. We practice using different strategies each day. Gill likes to know that there is more than one way to solve a problem! (contributed by Rachel) || Daily Tweeter! Follow us on Twitter: @Gill_Villeans! || Every day students take turns “tweeting” about our day on Twitter. Sometimes we chat with other classes on twitter. We also share links to websites and pictures we are sharing with others. You can follow us on twitter and learn what we are doing each day. We’re the @Gill_Villeans! (contributed by Logan) ||
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