Days 18-22 — So Much Going On!

I’ve got to get better at blogging regularly, but my big excuse this week is that I suddenly got sick, and missed a day and a half of school. It was very strange….a massive, blinding headache on Tuesday, after a nice lunch out with a friend. I had to go home…migraine territory. The next morning, I felt fine, but on the way to school, suddenly started feeling really sick. Sweaty and nauseous. Arranged for a supply teacher and went home to sleep the day away. Blah. I’m mostly back to normal now!

Thursday afternoon was fun — we baked pumpkin pie in honour of Canadian Thanksgiving, which is this weekend! I had never made it before, but found a super easy recipe online, and we headed off to the family studies room to bake. The kids loved it! A very sensory experience, with everyone smelling all ingredients. They especially loved the ‘cimmanon’ and all wanted to smell it again and again. After the baking, we enjoyed slightly warm pumpkin pie,  which the class declared ‘delicious’.

On Friday, it was our annual D/HH picnic. This is an event which the children eagerly anticipate every year, as they see old friends and teachers, and basically have lots of free time to roam around and play together. It was a crazy hot day, and the bus/subway/bus/walk travel was fine on the way there, but brutally sweaty on the way back with tired kids. They had a great time playing with everyone, and posing in our favourite tree for our annual class picture in the park. We had some new friends come from the Catholic board of education. We’ve been invited to their picnic in June, which I hear is quite the affair. Clowns, RCMP horses, police cars and sirens, bouncy castles. Our picnic is nothing like that. We just all meet up in a park and hang out. I think that we could do a lot to improve this picnic, and get more people to attend. ALL the D/HH kids should come – not just those in the self-contained classes. The ‘mainstreamed’ kids actually need this event more than our kids do, as they are often the only deaf child in their school. They have no community and the picnic could help them connect with others. Maybe next year.