8:30 - 8:50 Welcome!

Vocational: Review jobs and classroom procedures, attendance, review schedule 8:50 - 9:00 Assembly Recreation and leisure: Participate in daily campus wide assembly 9:00 - 9:15 Breakfast Domestic, community: Breakfast, self help, wash face, brush teeth 9:15 - 9:30 Kickball Recreation/Leisure: Following directions, team work, appropriate peer interaction. 9:15 - 9:45 Calendar Functional academics: Days of the week, months of the year, counting, ABC, weather 10:00 - 11:00 Math centers Functional academics: IEP Goals, couting, adding, subtraction, time, money. 10:50 - 12:15 Recess/lunch Recreation and leisure and domestic: Socially appropriate behavior, washing hands, manners 12:15 - 12:30 Educational Video Functional academics: Phonics, math, vocational 1:00 - 2:00 Phonics games/Activities for aspergers Functional academics: Rhyming, decoding, segmentation. Sensory experiences. 2:00 - 3:00 English and Language Arts Functional academics: sight words, reading comprehension, writing process 3:00 - 3:15 Recess Recreation and leisure: Socially appropriate behavior 3:00 - 3:30 Closure Community and vocational: Weekly jobs and clean up. Restrooms, backpacks, line up and dismissal

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I am a second year teacher of Claremont Graduate Universitys (CGU) Teacher Education Internship Program. I am earning my credential to teach children with moderate/severe disabilities, as well as my masters in special education. I earned my bachelors from Chapman University: a small, liberal arts school in Orange County. I have four years experience working directly with exceptional students; I have been an in-home ABA therapist for children with Autism, a 1:1 aide and a classroom aide. I love this snazzy group of kids more than life itself and Im excited to begin my career as a teacher with you and your family!

Hi! Im Janelle!

ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY

Upper Grade Special Day Class

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I spend my free time with my two year old daughter who just started school for the first time ever! She and I enjoy the outdoors, I also love to run and journal.

Led by Janelle Maluenda 2011-2012 1554 North Garner Avenue, San Bernardino 626-825-3602 | Room: S-4

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Classroom: S-4
Email: janelle.maluenda@sbcusd.k12.ca.us

Cell: 626-825-3602

All students demonstrate the potential to learn when provided appropriate resources and positive learning opportunities. Though many students goals are very unique, below are goals our class aims to accomplish.
Functional Academics: The purpose of the Functional Academics Domain is to stress academic skills necessary to participate in everyday life with goals for maximum independence. To be functional, these skills must be related to some real activity that the student encounters in daily living. Functional academic skills are learned and applied in a variety of environments. Instruction occurs in both classroom and community settings. Course Description: Infuses academic areas into functional activities such as functional math, survival reading, local geography, current events and their applications to the community. Domestic Domain: The purpose of instruction in the Domestic Domain is to prepare the student to become as independent as possible in his/her living environment. Included in instruction are personal care, food preparation, and housekeeping skills. Our class includes bathrooms, a full kitchen with a sink, fridge and stove and oven, as well as a washer and dryer. Community Domain: The purpose of the Community Domain is to prepare the student to access and use community environments as independently and completely as possible. Instruction in the areas of shopping, travel, eating out, and use of public services are included in this domain. Our class will build up to participating in walking field trips throughout our local community. Vocational Domain: The purpose of instruction in the Vocational Domain is to increase the likelihood of students functioning as contributing adults within our society and increase opportunities of obtaining employment. The Vocational Domain includes instruction in work related skills, job-seeking skills, and job skill training. Our class jobs function to earn rewards and participate in positive reinforcement activities.

Here is what I teach...

Praise the best, ignore the rest!

Here is what I think about behavior...

Positive reinforcement is the most effective way to teach children appropriate behavior. It communicates what we want them to do more of. Problematic behavior often has a function that, as a team, we must identify and address. I encourage parents to become involved in the behavior intervention programs in place in our classroom. Below are a few examples of the strategies I implement.
Conscious discipline teaches the child to take deep breaths when upset

Course Description: Includes skills necessary to allow the student more independence in home/personal management. Focus on personal health care, responsibility, home management, family/ social life, sexuality and their applications to the community.

Course Description: Includes skills necessary for the individuals to participate in campus, neighborhood, and community environments with successful interdependence. Mobility skills, access to community services, purchasing skills and their applications to the community.

Course Description: Includes skills necessary for individuals to attain employment and perform meaningful work. Activities include on-campus career occupation experience and training, employment skills, access to Transition and the off-campus work experience program and their applications to the community.

Simple class rules anchor the students throughout the day.

Recreation and Leisure The purpose of the Recreation Leisure Domain is to enable students to engage in constructive and personal satisfying leisure activities in school, home, and the community. Course Description: Includes games, puzzles, arts, crafts, music, social gatherings, hobbies, self-regulating interactive behaviors, accessing public interests, and their applications to the community.

HOMEWORK: Homework packes are sent out on Monday and should be returned on Friday. Please let me know if you feel your child is not receiving an appropriate amount and level of homework.

I use a variety of social stories to address the function of behavior