Friday, October 4, 2013

September 2014

                                                       Fall is my FAVORITE time of year!
                     So for this month I focued on the season of fall and my favorite sport...FOOTBALL!
I am a die hard ravens fan :) Born and Raised

THEMES- FALL
Some of the activities didn't have pictures b/c well I'm a slacker and I forgot, but here are a few from fall



                  We worked on sequencing from the amazing story of Apple Trouble! My favorite Fall book!
                              Looking through old magazine working on our cutting and gluing skills!
            Our fall vocabulary had a little bit of Thanksgiving and Halloween in there but it works ha-ha
                                           Thank you http://pocketfulofcenters.blogspot.com
 Spin Art is another favorite of our kids. Thanks to adaptive switches they can turn on the spin art machine and turn it off. Working on their grip we were able to let them pour the paint of these beautiful fall leaves :)





THEME: Sports


While I may have been a little too one sided on my sports selection for the kids, I just LOVE football!!! We had a lot of fun playing sports as well as many sports activities. I slacked and participated in these activities rather than taking pictures but here are a few of the places where I got the activities!!!






Now remember, if it involved writing of anykind we didn't participate in that activity, but what we ded was modify using the pictures for bingo, picture match, word match, or graphing.

August 2013

AUGUST

THEMES- ALL ABOUT ME

Being that our class is severe and profound for the entire district, we keep the same kids every year until they turn twetny-one. So each year I try and find new things to do each month, but sometimes you have to go with old faithful!





                                            THEME- ALL ABOUT MY ENVIRONMENT



    I love puffy paint!   


Since the kids live all over the district, we decided to learn about the city the school was in and work on our map skills. 


THEME- ALL ABOUT MY FAMILY
THEME- ALL ABOUT MY FRIENDS

For these two themes, it was really hard to take picture of these activities and blur out every picture so I'll just tell you about them instead lol

For the all about my family, *we played family bingo with cards that had names of moms, dads, grandmothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, whatever we had.

*We also made our own little family tree! This was my favorite because we again used puffy paint for the base of the tree and the green top. Once the puffy paint was dry we added pictures to our trees. By pictures I mean we made photo copies of picture they sent to us so we wouldn't hurt their actual pictures.

For all about my friends we learned about our class mates! We made a fun book. Each day we took different people in the class and focused all of our attention on them for the day. We learned about their families (info kept from the week before), what city they lived in (we found it on a map and worked on map skills), What they looked like (we used yarn, markers, and paint to draw our friends), and what grade they were in!!!



Through out this month we also had countless IEP meetings, welcome back open houses, Alternate assessments, and LOTS of welcome back hugs and kisses!! This is going to be a super fun year :)

Sunday, August 18, 2013

It's that time again ya'll!

School is back and WOOO it's been a world wind! I loved this daily devotion I was given on the first day of school :)

We started off the year with the same old meetings. Most of you teachers know the ones where the superintendents come out and try to encourage you to have a great year and bring out a great speaker who has sass and tries to keep you awake by telling you stories of when they were in school or working in education. All while knowing in the back of your mind all you can think of is where am I going for lunch and what do I have left on my to do list in my room. This year, I can say was much different. While I had issues arise during the summer with who my assistant would be and which children I would get in my room, I was pretty stoked to go from a first year "fairy tale" and "save the world" teacher to a much more realistic second year warrior. 
 And might I add, I looked fabulous for it too! :)






We had our normal district wide meeting and then broke off into our department meetings. Little did I know the surprise that would be waiting for me there! If you have not seen, heard, or watched these two individuals PLEASE do yourself a favor and get to know their story! I saw this video two years ago when I worked with a different district. This year I got the blessing of meeting these beautiful individuals in PERSON! Their story is overwhelmingly emotional and is much better in person. No matter what you teach, they can bring light to children you think you know how to handle. 

This is the story of Ms. P and Mr. Batiste :)


I'm excited to say that the class of Hardy's Hotwheels has gotten a whole new make over! We went from a fun and girl garden to a fast and functional race track! We also added a new friend to the class :) Meet Yoshi!

 I went with a red, yellow, and green theme (stop light) for each door to help promote color recognition. Daily schedule posted on the back of the door! (random pirate ship is left over from halloween costumes so just look over that ha ha)

 I got excited and decorated some clip boards lol. I got tired of trying to prop the clip boards up and couldn't find the already made clip things so I just got crafty with some stuff from lowes.
The plastic checker board patterned table cover worked GREAT as a mess cover on my book shelf! lol John Cena is just pretty. He works as a great support system/eye candy for bad days!  ha ha!
 

We used some dollar tree floaties to make the changing beds look like tire for our "Pit Row" station!

 The "Fan Grandstand" is where we will put the work the kids do to show off their awesomeness!
 

 Quick moment of bragging!
My nephew started kindergarten this year, and got his picture in the paper for being so handsome!


Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Earth Day!!

We had such a fun week! Earth week is always one of my favorites ha ha, probably because I love baking cupcakes! Thanks to pinterest that's exactly what we did. Ha ha.

We discussed recycling and reusing, our planet Earth and keeping it clean, patterns, shapes, etc. The more hand over hand cutting, coloring, and gluing we can do to build their muscles the better!

I'm updating from my phone so it will be a little while before I can post the tpt sites I got these wonderful activity print outs from, but please know they are coming!

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Gardening and explosions.

This was a very trying and emotional week for everyone I'm sure. We did not do a lot in class, but we tried very hard to keep with schedule. During our day we have many Therapists come to our building and work one on one with our students. We have an AMAZING set of therapists. One therapist in particular is an avid runner. Unlucky for us she likes to run more places than just little old Mississippi. She decided to go to the Boston Marthathon this year.

Unless you live under a rock, you know what happened at the Marathon this year. Lord be praised, because our girl finished nine minutes before the bomb went off. She was unharmed and thankfully able to walk away physically unhurt, emotionally however she has been wrecked and heart broken.


This news report is an account of runners from our town in tha marathon. The "best friend" mentioned in the interviewed was our therapist.


The plan was to discuss and experiment with Gardening and tools and learning to grow things. Instead we came together as a family, loving and strong, to spend quality time together; appreciating the things that matter most.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Farm and theme!

This is the first time i am loading from a phone so bare with me. This was a super fun week. We talked about the farm and the animals that live on farms! My husbands parent live on a cow farm so finding inspiration was pretty easy.
For our students repetition is an amazing tool. So throughout the week we made an "Old MacDonald Farm" book that I found on tpt, puffy paint pig (which my kids LOVED getting messy), classic cotton ball sheep, spinning for farm animals from tpt, and of course counting animals from tpt.
We used our assisted scissors so they could help cut out the animals using hand over hand help, Of course our favorite spinner, and of course glue.
A special thanks to the following tpt sites...
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farm-Friends-Activity-Pack
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Marlene-Ortiz