Happiest of New Years to YOU!
Hope you have a Happy New Year!!!! Get 20% off at my TeacherPayTeachers store on Jan. 1, 2014. Click here to shop my store! I have some new products, so check them out!
Overcoming Evil with Good One Year After Sandy Hook
Remember and honor lives lost in Sandy Hook one year ago today by doing Random Acts of Kindness for others. “The people of Newtown are asking everyone to honor these children and teachers with Random Acts of Kindness today, December 14th. While you are out and about getting ready to…
Donor’s Choose is Amazing for Teachers and Students
If you are a classroom teacher, please check out DonorsChoose.org to get free materials for your class! So far I have gotten three projects funded with over $1000 of materials for my class (including 6 laptops!) Here are current stats from their website: Go to their about page to find…
Summer Fun!
Hope you’ve had a great summer. I am gearing up to start Aug. 14. We have enjoyed some much needed relaxation on the beautiful Central Coast of California. Here are some fun photos I took, including baby sea otters!!! I hope you are enjoying your summer!!
Angry Birds and Piggies Craft project
We are still on the Angry Bird roll in my class… all thanks to Mrs. B, one of the speech tutors!!! You can see our growing flock in the photo! Today we were planning to make the little bird, but then Mrs. B popped into my room with another surprise!…
Another Angry Birds Craft project: Yellow and Black birds this time!
Recently I posted some pics and directions to make the red Angry Bird, see the blog post here. Well, yesterday we made black and yellow angry birds! They are so cute!!! Kids got to again practice color, size, and shapes again while making them! Stay tuned, because tomorrow we are going…
Blooms and Birds
Today’s post isn’t about teaching, just some fun photos of our garden in bloom. We have also been enjoying the birds out our kitchen window! First photo is before the roses bloomed, the second photos is during the first bloom (same lamp is shown, but from different angle). Above is…
Angry Birds Craft for Practicing Shape, Color & Size
My awesome speech therapist did this craft with my class this week!! And her assistant created and cut out all the pieces for us!!! Am I the luckiest or what?!! I love Mrs. Dominguez and Mrs. Buchinoff! (Whoa, probably too many exclamation points in this paragraph, but hey, there’s only…
Countdown Sticks Until the Last Day of School
I thought it would be fun to do an activity each day using Countdown Sticks until the last day of school. It will help the class count down the days. We had already started counting down the days since Day 20 on the whiteboard. Just take some popsicle sticks and…
FREEBIE for Filling in Those Test Bubbles!!
Hi there!! Is everyone ready for standardized testing? Our school will be testing for the next two weeks. However, I got a week-long head start since I have to give the normal test with accommodations plus two modified versions to my kiddos with special needs. I have a FREEBIE posted…
