Welcome Special Ed and Primary teachers! Equip yourself with teacher-tested strategies to make your teaching easier.
Some years I have a word for the year, sometimes I don’t. I can only remember a few without going and looking them up in a journal or art piece. My word for 2018 is FOCUS. Focus. Stay focused on…
The Growth Mindset movement is spreading to more classroom, and rightly so. Our students need to learn tools to learn stamina and perseverance, examples of kindness, encouraging others, etc. They need to know they don’t have to stay in a…
Chinese New Year (also called Lunar New Year) is coming soon. 2020 is the year of the Rat. Here are some activities to do in your classroom. First, you should consider reading the book, Ruby’s Chinese New Year…
Here is a great video that explains and shows how to use Boom Learning decks with Google Classroom. The video shows how to assign decks to students different ways. This makes it so easy for kids to get valuable independent…
I love, love, love TouchMath!! Over the years, many of my students with special needs have benefited from extra practice to master concepts of simple addition, subtraction, problem-solving, etc. I like how TouchMath breaks it all down into steps. However,…
I found out about Boom Learning over the summer, and it has been easy to incorporate into lessons with my students. There are two main reasons why I signed up for it. First, is that grading and data collection is…
If you are looking for fun ideas that will keep your students on task the last week before winter break, check these Christmas themed deals! Several are specific to Christmas, but others are good all winter long. And what kid…
Save time around the holidays with this “No Prep Print and Go” Christmas Math worksheet packet that your special ed class will love! Here is what is included: + Five pages where students count pictures(sometimes multiples of the same…
I love, love, love this quote from Mark Twain! Ask kids: What does this quotation mean? How can kindness be shown using our different senses? How can a blind person see kindness? How can someone who is deaf hear kindness?…
Topic #1 is a current popular saying. If you throw confetti do you expect to gather it back up? No, you are giving it freely to everyone, with no return expectations. How can someone throw kindness like confetti? Have…
