On Monday April 20, 2009 our students visited the Honeywell Center and watched the Junie B. Jones program. I was a great day and the the program was wonderful. To prepare the DHH students, I first visited the Honeywell website and read about the program. (The stories the program was going to feature) Then I shared info. with his DHH teacher. We then checked out the books. being preformed and read over them. We used pictures to help students understand what was going to happen in the program. This was very sucessful and the students knew what to expect and enjoyed the program. Watching Junie B. come to life was very educational and a great way to encourage reading. This particular Junie B. program had an educational twist by encouraging students to keep a Journal. Our DHH students started to keep their journals before watching the program, and then seeing it come to life on stage really helped the students relate to their journal keeping. Our DHH students will continue to keep their journals until the end of the year! They are really enjoy keeping a Journal.

We're back from spring break and ready to work!! The students are now in a unit of study with poems... We are reading many kinds of poems to learn the different styles. We are creating our own poems after each style is modeled. Today we read a story " The Listening Walk" by Paul Showers. Then we took a listening walk of your own. This is where my job gets interesting...as an interpreter...I can tell the student/students that "The bird is singing" etc. But I seem to always have my digital camera with me so...we took a "SEEING" walk and I took many pictures of what the students see on the walk. When we went back to write the poem, the pictures were a great thing to have to stimulate memory. The student also could go more into depth about what was in the picture. The poems were really good!!

In the second picture...it is a jet in the sky, when the student didn't hear it, I took a picture of it. When the student saw the picture... the student got very excited and told me all about the jet. It is true!! A picture is worth a thousand words.