Blends Sort!! Looking for engaging blends activities for your kindergarten, first grade, or special education classroom? Add this fun freebie to your literacy centers and get to blending up blends! Includes 18 blends to sort for s-blends, l-blends, and r-blends. A cut-n-paste recording sheet is also included. Check out these other blend activities in my shop here. Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new freebies! :)
Well it's GREAT FINDS SUNDAY on Monday!!!!! Better late than never right, and it has been more than never lately!! Is anyone else on spring break this week?!!!! This week I have some great technology and app finds for you, as well as a $100 giveaway! My first great find is an app called "Apps Gone Free." This is what the app icon looks like and the app is free "Apps Gone Free" posts normally paid apps every day that have GONE FREE! Some of them only free for that day! I've seen apps as high as $19.99 go free for the day and have gotten several apps for myself ranging from 99 cents to $4.99 for free! I have gotten a couple of cheezy ones in the process, but who cares....they're free, so just delete them!!! My next great find....also to do with apps....is finding Grace's website at www.imum.com. Grace is dedicated to finding the best and cheapest educational apps out there for families and their children. Every day she posts free and discounted apps for children. Click on her button above to view the free and discounted apps you can snag up today!!!! Grace is also having a giveaway right now for your choice of a $100 gift card to Amazon or the iTunes store! You can enter {here}. Book Creator is also another great app find I've been playing around with, where you can create your own ibooks. I learned of it at a ULS staff training last week, but I want to play around with it a little more before sharing too much about this app. In the meantime, check it out for yourself. FREEBIE ALERT If you didn't grab my Easter freebie that was featured on Educents, it is now available in my TpT store!! I'm also having a spring break sale! Everything in my store is 15% off for 3 days!!! Start shopping {here}.
Today was the start to our third week back with students and I'm finally getting settled in and catching my breath! No matter how hard I try to go into each new year prepared and organized, it just never seems to go my way! Finally, I have a little time to share some things I've made for my classroom and to reveal my class photos!!! I was super excited when I sat down at the computer and also realized that it too, is Tara's monthly Monday Made It Linky Party!!! These are Skittles candles. I made these for my SPED team to start the year off "SCENT-Sational!!!" Now when I pull sticks to choose students, I don't need another cup to put the chosen ones in! Simply flip the stick. If the green side is up, that student has had a turn! Trash scrap buckets on each table! No more bits of paper everywhere or students wasting time going to the trash can! And the most genius idea EVER!! Glue sponges!! I saw these all over blogland last year, but stuck with my glue sticks! After spending a fortune on glue sticks last year, finding caps everywhere along with dried up sticks, glue in hair, on tables, and all over hands, and mushed up glue on papers.......glue sticks became my biggest pet peeve last year!!!!!!! While these have become my best friend! If you haven't done this yet in your classroom, you are missing out! No glue mess in over 2 weeks now! And although still a work in progress....here's my classroom!!!! My room is never done! I'm constantly changing it throughout the year....many times over! I've already made 2-3 changes that aren't even revealed in these photos. I guess I may be a very indecisive person. It's just that I try new things and they don't work, or I don't like the way it looks, or I find a better way!!! And let's face it....I am one that likes change!!! I don't think I've ever started a year out with a PERFECTLY complete room!! The pictures are pretty self-explanatory, so I'm not going to elaborate too much. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment! :) And here's a little line up chart freebie for you!
Well it's GREAT FINDS SUNDAY on Monday!!!!! Better late than never right, and it has been more than never lately!! Is anyone else on spring break this week?!!!! This week I have some great technology and app finds for you, as well as a $100 giveaway! My first great find is an app called "Apps Gone Free." This is what the app icon looks like and the app is free "Apps Gone Free" posts normally paid apps every day that have GONE FREE! Some of them only free for that day! I've seen apps as high as $19.99 go free for the day and have gotten several apps for myself ranging from 99 cents to $4.99 for free! I have gotten a couple of cheezy ones in the process, but who cares....they're free, so just delete them!!! My next great find....also to do with apps....is finding Grace's website at www.imum.com. Grace is dedicated to finding the best and cheapest educational apps out there for families and their children. Every day she posts free and discounted apps for children. Click on her button above to view the free and discounted apps you can snag up today!!!! Grace is also having a giveaway right now for your choice of a $100 gift card to Amazon or the iTunes store! You can enter {here}. Book Creator is also another great app find I've been playing around with, where you can create your own ibooks. I learned of it at a ULS staff training last week, but I want to play around with it a little more before sharing too much about this app. In the meantime, check it out for yourself. FREEBIE ALERT If you didn't grab my Easter freebie that was featured on Educents, it is now available in my TpT store!! I'm also having a spring break sale! Everything in my store is 15% off for 3 days!!! Start shopping {here}.
Happy Friday!!!! I have an Easter Rhyming Freebie to share with you and a Giveaway!! Download {here}. GIVEAWAY! I'm also giving away TWO 3-month subscriptions to Farfaria; a children's book app!! You can read my Farfaria review {here} or scroll down to my previous post to learn more about this awesome book app I'm using in my classroom! Enter Here! a Rafflecopter giveaway Have a great weekend!
It's here!!!! And you're here!! So put up your feet, grab a notepad for all of these awesome tips you're about to receive and enjoy your freebies and the bloghop! You deserve it! My tip is to show you how I organize my classroom center rotations with so many levels. I teach 1st through 5th and students with a wide array of disabilities. I have ten students. The first two hours of our day consists of ELA and Math center rotations. I have four centers for each and each center is 15 minutes. So ELA centers are 9:27 to 10:27. Math centers are 10:27 to 11:27. This is my rotation chart. I really like using "real life" pictures as often as I can. I have four groups and they each go to four rotations. My groups go by colors. I have a pink, green, blue, and yellow group. ELA Centers are: word work, at your seat, teacher table, & read to self. Math Centers are: number work, at your seat, teacher table, & computer/iPad. This is my Word Work Center. As you can see, the trays correspond with each group's color. This is my Number Work Center! Each group does what is in their group colored tray. If they are pink group, they know they are to do what is in the pink tray. Sometimes each tray will still have differentiated activities. It may not always be the same activity for each child in that group. I also have an aide in this group working with the students. At Your Seat Group These are my student bins. Bins are not color coded, but folders are. Each child's bin looks like this! Two interactive notebooks and 3 color coded folders. During the"at your seat" centers, they do IN's. During the ELA rotations, they know their IN activities are in the blue folder. For math, they are in the green folder. The yellow folder does not pertain to our rotations and contains their independent morning work that they take out and do as soon as they arrive each morning. This method keeps all of their work and individualized curriculum so organized....for them and for me! Some think I do the bins because I use tables. But...we have these awesome tables with desk storage, but allowing them to store their work and assignment folders in these cute little table cubbies....let me tell you....is a DISASTER! The bins spell out ORGANIZATION! Note, I also have an aide working in this center. Teacher Table, Read to Self, and Computer/iPad centers are pretty self-explanatory. My Read to Self and Computer/iPad centers are fairly independent and do not require an aide or assistance for the most part...once you get them trained! So picture four centers, me at teacher table, one aide at word/number work, one aide at the at your seat center, and one center is independent in both ELA and Math. The independent center in reading is read to self, and in math the independent center is computer/iPad. This is the timer I use to time our rotations. I LOVE this timer! It is the simplest method I've tried. I love that we the teachers can monitor how much time we have left during our center and whether we have time to start a new activity or such. It is so easy to use. No punching buttons or inputting numbers....just drag the red slide to the minutes you want and that's it. No start button or stop button when it goes off! This is the large one, but they come in small, medium, and large. I got mine for free from my Assistive Technology Dept. so check with your AT dept. first!!! If they can't provide you with one, they can be purchased at Lakeshore {here}. As you know, there is little time in the day to collaborate with your aide(s) and I want to know how my students are doing on the activities I've set up in their centers. So in order to do this, each aide has a communication log at the center they work that they leave me notes on. They can tell me on the log if a student is struggling with a particular skill, has mastered a particular skill, if they see an "ah ha" moment or whatever! It has been a great tool this year! I have worked by trial and error, several times over as I'm sure we all have, and this system is the perfect fit for my classroom! I love doing centers as it keeps the kids moving and engaged, plus allows for much easier differentiation! If you are using centers or are thinking of doing centers, I hope these tips and this system will assist you with your special needs students and rotation system! And for your freebie, I've included the communication log and my center rotation cards to get you started! Communication Log Center Rotation Cards And before you go....If you'd like to follow "The Bender Bunch" on our special education adventures, I have a couple of giveaways for you! Enter below to win a "Mini Time Timer" from Lakeshore or a $25 gift certificate for thirty-one! a Rafflecopter giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway I'm also giving away an item from my TpT store! To enter, browse my store {here} and leave a comment below telling me the name of the item you'd like and I'll pick a winner next Friday! Thanks for stopping by and joining our special educator bloghop! We are thankful for you! I hope these tips and freebies will help you on your special education adventure! For more freebies and tips, continue your bloghop by checking out Mrs. P's Specialities...just click the button below.
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Lemonade Counting 1 - 20!! Looking for some fun counting activities for your Prek, kindergarten, or special education classroom?? Counting is lemon squeezy, easy peasy and loads of fun with this counting activity! Your students will love adding "real" ice cubes to the lemonade to practice counting. Students choose a number card and count to add that many ice cubes to the pitcher of lemonade. Then they trace the number on their recording sheet. The ice cubes shown can be found HERE and also purchased at Walmart. I've also included printable ice cubes that can be used as well. Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
I'm on a roll.....must be the SPRING FEVER!! Four more days and I'll be on spring break! All of sudden, my minds rolling and I've created three Easter freebies for you, plus finished my more/less flashcards that have been on my to-do list!! I think just the thought of a soon to come vacation has transformed me. Since I'll be on spring break next week, we are doing our Easter activities this week! I just LOVE the centers and activities that you can do with simple plastic Easter eggs! Here are some of the activities I'm doing this week. I teach multiple levels, so I'm doing beginning sounds, counting, and number order with my younger students, rhyming and basic addition with my middle students, and contractions with my more advanced students. The possibilities of these little guys are just endless!!! But I found myself with so many levels of students, trying to create a different recording sheet for each activity....when I realized I could create one simple recording sheet that would work with every activity my students are doing!!! You can snag it up free {here} to use with your egg activities! My class is soooo into Science these days!! We are literally doing a hands-on Science experiment every day, I just don't have time to blog about them all......this summer look for my "Year of Science" pack that I've been working on all year!!! It's gonna be Super Awesome!!! While we are doing an egg experiment everyday this week, I'd like to share our "Easter Egg Sink or Float" freebie with you! You can download it {here}. My other freebie is my "Rhyming Bunnies" freebie. It is an exclusive on Educents.com. You can grab it from Educents {here}. I also just posted my "More/Less Flashcards." Many of my students are struggling with this concept and I'm sick of running around grabbing objects and items in the classroom to show them more and less, so I made these flashcards. They are available {here}. Woohoo! Four more days!! Have you had your spring break yet??
It's here!!!! And you're here!! So put up your feet, grab a notepad for all of these awesome tips you're about to receive and enjoy your freebies and the bloghop! You deserve it! My tip is to show you how I organize my classroom center rotations with so many levels. I teach 1st through 5th and students with a wide array of disabilities. I have ten students. The first two hours of our day consists of ELA and Math center rotations. I have four centers for each and each center is 15 minutes. So ELA centers are 9:27 to 10:27. Math centers are 10:27 to 11:27. This is my rotation chart. I really like using "real life" pictures as often as I can. I have four groups and they each go to four rotations. My groups go by colors. I have a pink, green, blue, and yellow group. ELA Centers are: word work, at your seat, teacher table, & read to self. Math Centers are: number work, at your seat, teacher table, & computer/iPad. This is my Word Work Center. As you can see, the trays correspond with each group's color. This is my Number Work Center! Each group does what is in their group colored tray. If they are pink group, they know they are to do what is in the pink tray. Sometimes each tray will still have differentiated activities. It may not always be the same activity for each child in that group. I also have an aide in this group working with the students. At Your Seat Group These are my student bins. Bins are not color coded, but folders are. Each child's bin looks like this! Two interactive notebooks and 3 color coded folders. During the"at your seat" centers, they do IN's. During the ELA rotations, they know their IN activities are in the blue folder. For math, they are in the green folder. The yellow folder does not pertain to our rotations and contains their independent morning work that they take out and do as soon as they arrive each morning. This method keeps all of their work and individualized curriculum so organized....for them and for me! Some think I do the bins because I use tables. But...we have these awesome tables with desk storage, but allowing them to store their work and assignment folders in these cute little table cubbies....let me tell you....is a DISASTER! The bins spell out ORGANIZATION! Note, I also have an aide working in this center. Teacher Table, Read to Self, and Computer/iPad centers are pretty self-explanatory. My Read to Self and Computer/iPad centers are fairly independent and do not require an aide or assistance for the most part...once you get them trained! So picture four centers, me at teacher table, one aide at word/number work, one aide at the at your seat center, and one center is independent in both ELA and Math. The independent center in reading is read to self, and in math the independent center is computer/iPad. This is the timer I use to time our rotations. I LOVE this timer! It is the simplest method I've tried. I love that we the teachers can monitor how much time we have left during our center and whether we have time to start a new activity or such. It is so easy to use. No punching buttons or inputting numbers....just drag the red slide to the minutes you want and that's it. No start button or stop button when it goes off! This is the large one, but they come in small, medium, and large. I got mine for free from my Assistive Technology Dept. so check with your AT dept. first!!! If they can't provide you with one, they can be purchased at Lakeshore {here}. As you know, there is little time in the day to collaborate with your aide(s) and I want to know how my students are doing on the activities I've set up in their centers. So in order to do this, each aide has a communication log at the center they work that they leave me notes on. They can tell me on the log if a student is struggling with a particular skill, has mastered a particular skill, if they see an "ah ha" moment or whatever! It has been a great tool this year! I have worked by trial and error, several times over as I'm sure we all have, and this system is the perfect fit for my classroom! I love doing centers as it keeps the kids moving and engaged, plus allows for much easier differentiation! If you are using centers or are thinking of doing centers, I hope these tips and this system will assist you with your special needs students and rotation system! And for your freebie, I've included the communication log and my center rotation cards to get you started! Communication Log Center Rotation Cards And before you go....If you'd like to follow "The Bender Bunch" on our special education adventures, I have a couple of giveaways for you! Enter below to win a "Mini Time Timer" from Lakeshore or a $25 gift certificate for thirty-one! a Rafflecopter giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway I'm also giving away an item from my TpT store! To enter, browse my store {here} and leave a comment below telling me the name of the item you'd like and I'll pick a winner next Friday! Thanks for stopping by and joining our special educator bloghop! We are thankful for you! I hope these tips and freebies will help you on your special education adventure! For more freebies and tips, continue your bloghop by checking out Mrs. P's Specialities...just click the button below.
WHAT COULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE A SUPERHERO? Six free Superhero Writing Sheets in 3 levels. These are super fun to add in for a unit on Superheroes and easy to differentiate for multiple levels! Level 1: Non-writers can draw a picture. Level 2: Includes handwriting lines for beginning writers. Level 3: Includes basic lines for more advanced writers. Each level features a girl or a boy to choose from and a writing prompt. Students can also have fun coloring the superhero after they write. The poem, "If I was a Superhero," by Sally Gray is also a fun one to pair with these. Be sure to follow me here and on Instagram @thebenderbunch for more freebies and quality resources.
A blog of an elementary Special Education Teacher
A blog of an elementary Special Education Teacher
Do you have students that struggle with counting on and making it to the next one or ten? I do. I created these to give my students additional hands-on practice with this skill. Students read the numbers on each card, produce the next sequential number, and then write the next number in the sequence on the included recording sheet. I hope your students enjoy this freebie! :) Happy St. Patty's Day!!
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Back to School is just around the corner! It's time to get serious and start focusing on all of those classroom ideas we had on our list! I've got 14 FREE set-up resources and posters to help you g
My #1 Best-Selling Sequencing Mats™ are now available in a digital format in BOOM CARDS and audio is included for non-readers! There are a total of 12 mats; 4 which involve 4-step sequencing and 8 which involve 5-step sequencing. Each mat includes step-by-step sequencing stories with audio to assist non-readers and students that need extra support. Readers can read the sentences without using the audio support. Sentences also include transitional words to assist students. These mats provide students practice with sequencing, transitional words, following directions, listening and language skills. Children will drag the pictures from the bottom and drop them in the top box in the correct order to sequence each task. These cards are self-correcting, so children will receive immediate feedback before moving on. What are Digital Boom Cards? ** Paperless, no prep practice Easy to use Self-checking Immediate feedback Interactive & fun Perfect for distance learning Compatible on smartphones, tablets, computers, & smartboards How do Boom Cards work? ** Upon purchase and download, you will receive a redemption link that will take you to the Boom Learning Website to retrieve your cards. Boom Learning opens an account for you if you don't already have one. The starter account is free and allows children unlimited Fast Play, but you can upgrade for more features like tracking student progress. Try before you buy! Check out the preview for a link to a playable preview on Boom Learning. Rather print a hard copy of this resource? A hard copy is available here. Take a peek at my other digital resources here: Follow my Instagram account @thebenderbunch for freebies and updates on new resources! ** To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. For additional assignment options you'll need a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.
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A blog of an elementary Special Education Teacher
Finally!!! An Interactive Notebook designed specifically for special education classrooms and just in time for BTS!!!! And, a year-long reading curriculum my friends, designed to build fluency, vocabu
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A blog of an elementary Special Education Teacher
First off, I hope you all had a blessed Christmas and got to make memories with your loved ones! While I know Christmas is over, I still wanted to share with you some ideas you can pin for next year!! This was so much fun! In the past our staff has done this with one another, but this is all about elfing a classroom, not a staff member! Just fill a gift bag with goodies (I chose candy canes), set outside a classroom, knock, and run!!! You can get the free printables from "Inspired Owl's Corner" {here}. These photo booth calendars turned out fabulous and were sure to be a big hit when the parents opened them! I hate that I forgot to take pics of the finished product, but trust me, they are adorable and such a keepsake! You can purchase the pack from Deanna Jump {here}. Aren't these the cutest? These were so suitable for my class, considering we live in the Mohave Desert! You can find this pattern and pack from Linda Kamp {here}. We did our first book exchange this year and the kids loved it! Each child had to bring in a wrapped book, new or gently used. We sat in a circle and played a game similar to "hot potato." Students passed one book at a time around the circle while the music played. Once the music stopped, whoever was holding the book got to go to their seat and unwrap their new book! Will definitely be doing this every year! Take advantage of Scholastic's dollar book sale each year and give the gift of reading! If budget allows, spruce it up a little with a dollar candy-filled candy cane from Dollar Tree! Make cute staff gifts you know they can use!! While we as teachers tend to complain about some of the useless, cheezy gifts we get from our students....I don't know about you, but I've gotten some pretty ridiculous things even from my colleagues! Lastly, entice good behavior and make it fun with my free Christmas clip chart! Challenge students to stay on the "nice list" or even become "santa's top!" This was such a motivator for my kiddos last week! And you can get it free {here}. Hopefully you can pin some of these ideas for next year! And if you've already started planning for your first week back, be sure to check out my "January Math!" Click {here} to download a free worksheet from this pack!
Hello There! I'm here to talk about IEP Tubs today and how I use them in my classroom! I've used them for two years now and I really love the simplicity of them and the effectiveness!! Each student
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Sight Word Word Searches!! Looking for a fun way to practice and learn sight words?? Let's face it! Learning sight words can be boring, but not with these fun sight word word searches. Plus, your students will get practice reading the sight words, identifying the sight words, as well as practice with writing the sight words. This set includes 12 sight word word searches and includes all of Fry's First 100 Sight Words...minus 4 words. In order to keep these grouped as sight words 1-25, 26-50, 51-75, and 76-100 to allow you to pick and use the sight word groups you are working on, I had to eliminate four words. So the only four words not included are: I, if, see, and part. Your students will still get practice with 96/100 sight words. Each word search includes 8 words making these not too overwhelming for young learners! After students find the sight word, they write the sight word in the space provided. They're also labeled so you can easily choose the group of sight words you need. NO prep!!! Just print and go! Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
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Easter Mixup!!! Challenge your students with Easter Mixups! Students unscramble CVC words with picture support with this fun and engaging resource that's perfect for your Easter/Spring literacy centers! Great practice with letter sounds and word building as they order the letters and sounds to build the word for the picture shown. Students choose a picture card and use the letters and pictures included to build and write the word on their recording sheet. Includes 24 CVC word cards that include short vowel words for a,e,i,o, and u. Check out all of my other seasonal "MIXUP SETS" HERE. Be sure to follow me HERE an on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
Roll and Read Phonics Games! These phonics games are sure to entice your students and will add some fun to those boring phonics drills and increase phonics and word fluency. Students roll a die and move that many spaces. Then they must read the word they land on. Once they reach the trophy, they are done. There are 43 phonics games included! Short vowels: a, e, i, o, u, mixed CVCe: a, i, o, u, mixed Digraphs: sh, ch, th, wh, ph, ck, kn, mixed Vowel Teams: ai, ay, ea, ee, ey, oa, ue, ui, mixed Diphthongs: oi, oy, ow, ow, ou, au, aw, ew, mixed R-controlled: ar, er, ir, or, ur, mixed **Designed to be printed on colored paper and easy to organize and color code. I have mine color-coded for easy retrieval. For example, I printed all of the CVC all on pink and all of the digraphs all on yellow. This makes it easy to keep them organized by skill. ***Excellent for special education classrooms where you have multiple students working at different levels and on different skills. Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
Beginning Sounds Fly Swat!!! Your students will love swatting flies as they practice and learn beginning sounds with this fun swat game! Students choose a picture card and find the fly with the correct beginning sound. Once they find it, they swat the fly with a fly swatter and then record the beginning sound on their recording sheet. If you don't have classroom fly swatters on hand, a printable fly swatter is included that you can print and attach to a pencil, marker, or small ruler. Includes beginning sounds for A to Z. Perfect for your spring literacy centers! Check out the video preview to see it in action! Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
Writing Journals designed specifically for Special Education Classrooms for the entire year!!! These monthly journal sets each include 20 journal pages; one for each day of the month. These journal pages provide visual picture support and are perfect for beginning writers in mild to moderate self-contained classrooms and resource rooms and follow the same writing pattern each day. These journal pages not only provide practice with writing and conventions, but also provide reading opportunities and critical thinking with ordering words. A cover page is included that can be printed on colored paper or print on white paper and let students color their cover. Intentional space has been left on the left side to allow for binding. You can staple or spiral bind. Journal pages include: * Visual step-by-step writing directions/expectations * Picture support for each sentence that students color afterwards * One scrambled 4-6 word sentence * Additional writing lines to extend writing if you choose Get 3 FREE SETS when you purchase the bundle! This BUNDLE includes 12 writing journals; one for every month of the year! Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
HAPPY EASTER!!! A LITTLE EASTER GIFT FROM ME TO YOU! Send your child on a virtual Easter Egg Hunt! Enjoy this FREE Digital Counting 1-10 Easter Egg Hunt! Your child can go on a virtual Easter Egg Hunt with this resource while practicing counting 1-10 at the same time. This practice activity is also self-correcting! With the self-correcting feature, they will have to answer correctly in order to move on. This immediate feedback ensures mastery. Paperless and Digital means NO prep for you! No paper, no ink! No third party websites or setting up an account with BOOM cards, no opening up your drive to Google Slides on TPT. *This is a simple PDF that I have made interactive!!! You will download ONE document! How to Use: Download the file from the device your child will use (e.g. tablet, Smartphone). Save the file to your favorite eBook reader app or you can download a free PDF reader app and use from there. Once you download the PDF to your device, you do not need to have Internet to use. Use it on or offline! Check out my other DIGITAL RESOURCES HERE. **TEACHERS: You may share this with parents for distance learning.** Follow me on Instagram @thebenderbunch for updates on more teaching resources!
Valentine Addition and Subtraction Within Ten! Your students will love mailing out addition and subtraction facts with this fun and engaging math facts activity! A fun addition to your February math centers that will no doubt keep your students engaged! Students choose an envelope and solve the math fact. They find the answer on their recording sheet and dab it using a bingo dauber or color it in. Then they drop it in the mailbox slot to discard it. Includes four sets! Two addition sets and two subtraction sets! The recording sheets are half page and the same recording sheet can be used for both addition and subtraction. Each recording sheet also features a numberline to assist your students. Check out the video preview to see it in action! You may also like my "Feed the Mailbox" CVC Words here. Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
Need a Johnny Appleseed activity? Want to teach your students about Johnny Appleseed but not spend a lot of time on it? This mini student reader & activity coloring book will introduce your students to Johnny Appleseed and is simple enough for younger students and special needs learners to under...
Are you ready to go back to school after winter break? These four free new years activities will help you get back into the swing of things, and spend less time planing so you can enjoy what you have left of break! All of these activities are perfect for special education classrooms and have little to no prep, just print and go! New Years Cards (and Resolutions) Writing new years cards is a fun and educational way to start off the new year! Students will include a new years resolution in their cards and can write a card to a friend, teacher, or family member (or as many as they can in the time they have!) This pack includes levels for ALL of your students, including students who need symbol support, tracing, or copying options! A perfect and fun way to start the new year off writing! New Years Resolutions Social Story Book and Resolution Worksheet by Autism Classroom News You can read the book with the class to talk about what resolutions are and discuss examples. Then students can complete worksheet on their New Year’s Resolution. On this page, the students circle one word that they want to base their resolution on. Based on what word they choose, each student can be given a worksheet on that resolution and goals for them to cut and paste. What an awesome way to help students think about resolutions for the New Year! New Year's Wishes from The Bender Bunch Need a fun and simple craft for your students upon returning from winter break? Students can choose from 12 different wishes they have for the New Year to include love, friends, family, health, toys, kitten, puppy, house, vacation, car, food, or money. They choose 5-6 wishes, glue them onto the star, tape on a straw, add some ribbon, and that's it! Super fun and simple enough for students that need a little extra support! Cheers! This activity is so simple, and yet, so much fun! Just give all of your students some sprite or other school appropriate drink and "cheers" to the new year! It makes for a perfect time to work on social skills and manners AND it's super fun! So, how will you ring in the new year with your students?! Wishing you a fabulous new year!
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Getting a new paraprofessional? New to working with a paraprofessional or need some assistance communicating with them better? These four simple forms/checklists will get you off on the right foot! Included: Para/Teacher Communication Log New Para Checklist Interview Questions Paraprofessional Code of Ethics Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
Do you allow your students to check out books or other classroom materials? Here are two check out sheets to help you keep track of what has been checked out and when it is returned. Includes an individual student check out sheet and a whole class sheet. ...
Often at a loss for a cute way for your students to say thank you?! Look no further. This cute thank you flip card is simple to make and put together. There is a page for students to write a personalized thank you message and also a page to draw a picture or paste a class photo. More fun than a trad...
Have you ever wanted to set up a Buddy Program at your school, but didn't know where to start?? This Buddy Program Pack includes everything you'll need to implement a Buddy Program at your school today! Includes: How to sheet with step-by-step directions Student Volunteer Sheet (includes editable fields) Blank Student Volunteer Letterhead to customize your own letter (editable) Share Your Favorites Sheet A Good Buddy...Sheet to explain the responsibilities of each buddy Buddy Slips for assigning buddies (with editable fields) Buddy Assignment Sheet to track and organize buddies (with editable fields) Forms can by typed in or printed and handwritten. This pack is provided as is and special requests or edits will not be accepted. The Buddy Program gives children a sense of belonging and is a great way to build and sustain relationships between general education and special education children.
WHAT COULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE A SUPERHERO? Six free Superhero Writing Sheets in 3 levels. These are super fun to add in for a unit on Superheroes and easy to differentiate for multiple levels! Level 1: Non-writers can draw a picture. Level 2: Includes handwriting lines for beginning writers. Level 3: Includes basic lines for more advanced writers. Each level features a girl or a boy to choose from and a writing prompt. Students can also have fun coloring the superhero after they write. The poem, "If I was a Superhero," by Sally Gray is also a fun one to pair with these. Be sure to follow me here and on Instagram @thebenderbunch for more freebies and quality resources.
