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Autism Awareness Blog Hop Giveaway

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:00:00 GMT

I hope you all have been enjoying the blog hop and all of the great stories (a few tear jerkers out there) and freebies. Just in case you missed any of the posts, below is a list that will take you directly to each stop.

Don't forget to stop by Teaching Through Turbulence where Heather has a fantastic giveaway set up. There is a $25 Amazon Gift Cards and a a surprise item from Therapy Shoppe (Check out this post for a hint. Shhh don't tell anyone I told you.)!

Autism Awareness Blog Hop

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:30:00 GMT

Welcome to the first stop on a special blog hop for Autism Awareness and the Special Educators who dedicate their time and talents working with students on the spectrum. Today being the official day for Light it up Blue & World Wide Autism Awareness Day that is sponsored yearly by Autism Speaks we thought it would be a great day to start this hop. There a lots of great bloggers participating and I hope you find lots of great information in the linked up posts. The last day of the hop will stop at Teaching Through Turbulence where Heather will feature a giveaway. You will have a chance to win a great prize from Therapy Shoppe or Amazon Gift Card! (I am crossing my fingers for the Therapy Shoppe one!)

Some of you may already know that I am a parent to a child diagnosed with PDD-NOS. My son is 6 years old and helps (along with his 2 brothers) to keep my husband and I on our toes. He is technology geek ~~just like his mamma~~ and could probably teach anyone how to use a computer. I recently explained to A about Autism and how it is something he is diagnosed with. To help him understand I used this great video that I discovered a few months ago.

Great right? Anyway, I have been teaching in special education for 8 years now and if you follow my blog, you know that it is my love. I decided to share some of my teacher, student and data collection forms with you as a freebie!

Click here to go to the Google Doc to check them out and to download them. I hope you find these documents as useful as I do and if you have any comments or questions please leave me a note below.

In addition to the freebie, I am also throwing a sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers and Teacher's Notebook store. Everything is 15% off!! This will be from April 2 -5.

Make sure you hop on over to The Resource(ful) Room tomorrow to check out what Amy has in store!!

PEEPS Freebie!

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:10:00 GMT

I am giving PEEPS pops to some of the staff and students tomorrow. I whipped up some quick tags to add to them and wanted to share. I hope you can use them! Click on the picture or here..

Bunny craft!!

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:30:00 GMT

I try to do at least one fun cut and past activity a week. (or at least, I think it is fun, some of my kiddos may beg to differ) This week since we are getting ready for Spring Break and Easter I decided that a bunny would be appropriate. I found this cute craftivity at I dream of First Grade and tried it out. Sarah has everything all ready to go, all the kids need to do is color and glue to make a super cute bunny. The best part, it is free!!! You can find her templates by clicking here. We did use a paper plate instead of cutting out the circles to help quicken the pace and reduce some of the cutting. The kids worked *** this and I think it came out super cute.

Oh no freebie!!

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:59:00 GMT

I had a special request from the wonderful paraprofessionals that I work with to make a version of oh no! that is not seasonal and that has both the upper and lowercase letters on the cards. So this is what I came up with. What do you think?

To get your own copy head on over to my TPT store and download it. Please please leave feedback and a rating. I love feedback because it lets me know if there is something I can improve on.

Sight Words: games

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:00 GMT

If you Google sight word game you will literally come up with hundreds of ideas. Some of our class favorites include CandyLand, (we write our words on the cards and read the word before we move a space), Oh No!, Word Shapes.

Oh no! is a game one of my wonderful co-workers introduced me to a few years ago. Words are written on cards and then put into a container. I usually try to use a seasonal container such as a stocking in December, a pumpkin in October, etc. One or two of the cards say Oh No!or some variation of it (Oh Snow!, Oh pumpkin!, Oh turkey!). Students take turns drawing and reading the cards. If they get the word correct, they get to keep the card. If they draw Oh no! the student must put all of their cards back. You can get some of these games for free by checking out these blog posts.

I also just added Oh Snow! to Teachers pay Teachers as my first payed item. It is only $1.50 and it is snowman themed. You can check that out here.

To play Word Shapes we have our words written on various shapes depending on the time of year. For example, in March, the words were written on shamrocks. We then spread the shamrocks on the floor and when the teacher calls out the word the students has to find it. Depending on the motor skills of the child they may just stand on it, pick it up, use a flashlight to point to it, or use a pointer to point to it.

Hurricane Sandy means no school and a freebie!

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:12:00 GMT

Color by the code

Well, I am home due to hurricane Sandy. The little corner of our town that my family and I live in does not flood, however, I can't say that for the rest of the town. I never experienced a flood day until I started teaching here. It is amazing how some of the town families have lived her for a 100 years and even after all of the floods they have experienced will never leave. Small town living is that awesome.

Since I am home I thought I would work on something I have been planning in my head. This is an activity to practice sight words or numbers (although really we could add math facts, etc to it also). Students color the squares by the code to reveal the answer to a question or riddle. I started because I want to continue working on numbers with my student that I made the monster cover up for. (If you missed it, click here to get your freebie!) This quick activity then spiraled into covering some of the sight words that our first grade students are working on.
I used Clip Art from my new favorite place for FREE graphics, .

I also used a new font called What the teacher wants from Kimberly Geswein Fonts. It was created with the input from another fantastic blog, What the Teacher Wants.

Please let me know what you think and if this works for your students. If the kiddos like them I will make more. Click the link below the picture to get your copy. Hope you are all staying safe and dry!

Oh turkey! (Revisit)

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:00:00 GMT

I have gained a lot of new followers since I posted this last year. I thought we should revisit Oh Turkey! so all of the new comers to check it out also (and those of you who missed it or forgot you had it can get it also!).

Here is the description from my TPT store: This 15 page document includes various versions of the game "Oh Turkey!" for your students to enjoy. The first set is all of the upper and lowercase letters. The second set is numbers 1-20 along with turkeys programmed with dots for numbers 1 -10 so that students can also practice 1:1 correspondence. The third set is the Dolch pre-primer sight words. To play students pick out one turkey from a basket and read the letter/word/number. If they get it correct they keep the turkey. If a student pulls "Oh Turkey!", then they must put all of the turkeys back in the basket.

I will say my students LOVE this game! I can't wait to pull it out so we can start playing again. Click here to go to my TPT store and download it for free. You can also find other Thanksgiving freebies by checking out the freebie tab up top!

behavior chart freebie!

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:47:00 GMT

Behavior Clip Chart

I have had a lot of requests for my behavior chart lately so I decided to update it and add it as a freebie. If you have any questions on how I use it check out this post and this ebook.

I would love to know how you use it in your classroom or if you have another system that works great for you.

OK, I have made you wait long enough... click on the link below the picture to get the chart. Enjoy and please show some love to the fantastic artist who made the clipart.

Pirate Roll a Word 2! (FREEBIE!!)

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Hello Everyone!! I wanted to share a freebie with you. I made this for the young lady I tutor(she is going into 1st grade) and she loved it. I added a pre-made die template this time and also the words to add to your own die. You can click here to check it out in Google Docs. If you have not seen the other pirate version you can check it out here. There is also a fall version here.

Roll a Word Pirate Edition 2

If you have an special requests for certain words, just let me know and I can make it for you! Just in case you are looking for some of the dice where you can change out the words here are a few on Amazon.  

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