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 :)

Some of the other activities include: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Graphing-Fun-370726

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Leaves-Letter-Match-File-Folder-167428

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!!!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Football-Prefixes-or-Suffixes-143360

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sports-Words-for-Writing-684537

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sports-Graph-freebie-622733

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sports-Rhyme-Time-Game-137602

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 :)