Penquins

Well,

It's time for a new post!  

I have recently come across this awesome blog, http://aspecialkindofclass.blogspot.com/ by Amanda Meyers.  It is a blog with activities for students with severe physical and/or speech disabilities.  I find this blog so incredible because we going to have students in our classes with disabilities.  Obviously, we will need to come up with some alternative activities, it is wonderful to have a resource, like this blog, for ideas!

This is the third step from her activity called "More Penguins".  I love penguins, so of course I chose to show you this activity!  First the class read about penguins, then filled in a can, have, are chart, and finally they filled in their penguin books with facts about penguins.  

This is a nice, short activity that breaks all the steps down. 

There are TONS of activities in this blog of children with disabilities.  I hope you take a little time and look around her blog for more ideas!

I hope you have a wonderful week! :)

Pinning

I waited until the last minute to do this assignment, even when given so much time, strictly because, like most, I could not come up with something I wanted to write about!  I gave it some thought over the last week and it finally hit me, while I was on Pinterest instead of doing school work!  Since I spend too much time on the site anyways, I thought I would use this blog to show you (my classmates) some awesome ideas I have found from the site!

For those of you that have never heard, or been on, http://pinterest.com, it is basically cork boards (that are virtual, of course) where you "pin" things you find on the internet.  You can create different boards such as food, DIY ideas, classroom, etc.  This explanation is probably really confusing if you have never heard of it, but if you visit the site you will understand more clearly. :)

WARNING: The site is EXTREMELY addicting!

Because of copyright reasons, I will not simply just post a picture or an idea on my blog, but I will refer you to other blogs from teachers that I have discovered and put a little blurb about why I like the idea.  I figured this could be beneficial to us all; gain some more resources, as well as see some cool ideas. You are more than welcome to comment about whether or not you also enjoy the idea that I share.

Of course, this plan sounds great to me...since I will be required to stay on Pinterest for even longer ;)

Anyways!  Here is an awesome blog,  http://wisewittyteacher.blogspot.com/. 

I would recommend looking around the blog a bit!  There are some fun ideas on there, such as "Fraction Pizzas", which the author actually discovered on Pinterest from another blogger.  One of my personal favorites is the plan book http://wisewittyteacher.blogspot.com/search/label/diy!!  If you love organization (and sticky notes) like I do, you will love this!  Planning for years to come is not something I had ever thought about, until I saw this awesome idea.  When first starting out, it would be a great way to record activities and lessons that went well and we want to use again in the future.  Once we have been teaching for a few years and have our lessons pretty figured out, this would be a great tool.  I love the idea of using the yellow stars to indicate changes. 

What do you think??

I hope you enjoy my blog, and that you gain a couple resources and ideas through the rest of the semester :)