My first year of teaching, late one Friday night while working on plans for the next week, I told my barking dog to "SIT DOWN AND READ A BOO...
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These FREE 1st grade spiral review morning work worksheets are a great way to start the morning or to use as homework.
One on line shop, so many good brands and pretty things gathered up all together! Having gone through all of Schonbuch’s sections like coat racks, coat hooks, coat hangers, mirrors, umbrella stands, living accessories and items that help us keep our spaces tidy, I’ve noted down quite a few favorites which I’d easily bring home, …
Hands-on name activity that combines letter recognition and fine motor skills. A fun and inexpensive way for preschool or pre-k kids to learn their names.
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My first year of teaching, late one Friday night while working on plans for the next week, I told my barking dog to "SIT DOWN AND READ A BOO...
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Halloween is fast approaching and I love it! Not only do I love all the decorations and colors associated with Halloween, I love the costumes, candy and all the excitement the kids get from dressing up and acting silly!! Let's talk Pinterest for a minute! I am on there frequently looking for other great ideas from ordinary people just like me. On my Pinterest account, I have tons of school boards and I specifically have a Halloween board. I love pinning great Halloween ideas. {Click here to check it out now and be sure to follow me if you aren't already!} Anywho, I wanted to show you a few of the great Halloween related pins that I recently found! I love them!! {You can click on any of the pictures to view them on my Pinterest!} First up, a cute and easy craft! Sensory bin ideas! A cute way to give candy! A cute and easy card/craft for students! An adorable spider craft! What an awesome idea for a classroom door!! Holy cuteness!! I love this easy bunting! How stinkin' creative! And then I started to find the cutest pumpkin designs too!!! Look how cute these are! Those are on my Pumpkin board--click here to view that board! I seriously could go on and on with the great ideas I've found---but I'll spare you for now! Be sure to click any of the pictures to be taken to their original source and for goodness sakes, you scroll through those Pinterest boards! You'll thank me later {after you've lost a few hours of your day!} :) While we are talking Halloween, I finished another little Halloween goody last night! It includes numbers 1-20 so that you can differentiate for your students! Here's what it looks like! Students are matching the number, number word, base ten blocks and tally marks. Click here to view it on TpT! And here are few other items that are Halloween themed too! Click the pictures above to view them or you can view ALL of my Halloween themed creations all at once by clicking HERE!
I use the story The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle to focus on story sequence and character identification.We read the story and identify the characters together. Then I select students to be the characters- acting out/retelling the story as we go along. We then use the story sequence graphic organizer to draw a picture of each character in the story and practice retelling it in partners. The students have so much fun making the sounds of the animals and retelling the story in order using the graphic organizer using the repetitive text patterns. Happy spider week! Click here for free download
First off I want to say, "Wow!" I can't believe I have over a hundred followers. I was shocked when I checked in tonight! Thank you to everyone and I hope you all find something useful here! So I teach in a "Halloween sensitive" area and although we are allowed to celebrate Halloween, we are encouraged to be sensitive to the families who don't celebrate it. I haven't gone full swing into the Halloween craziness like I normally would have... Instead we have focused on studying spiders for the last week and a bit and next week I hope to do some fun pumpkin activities. So we can be Halloweeny without saying Halloween ;) We are still having a costume party on the 31st which should be fun. Although Halloween on a Monday = Ick! I do have a P. D. session to go to on November 1st though, so I guess a sub gets to deal with the sugar-high kids. :) Well, here are some of the interesting spider activities we have done this week. We started off with a KWL of what the students knew and wanted to know about spiders. Here are some of the fun spider books I like to use. I have the book and movie version of Diary of a Spider. Today I showed the movie to my class and they thought it was super cute. Interesting fact of the day: The spider is voiced by the kid from "Two and a Half Men". We talked about what a spider looks like and I drew (poorly) a spider on the easel. We labeled six main parts together: the head, the abdomen, the legs, the eyes, the feelers, and the spinnerets. My kids loved that word and they use it all the time! We also sang this spider body part song (to the tune of "Head and Shoulders"): Head, eight legs, ab-do-men, Ab-do-men, ab-do-men. Head, eight legs, ab-do-men, Eyes, feelers, spin-ner-ets. Then students then labeled their own spider diagram. Click on the picture to download. Next we talked about what spiders eat. My little bunnies couldn't believe that there are some spiders out there that eat things like fish and birds! That was pretty gross to learn! I also used Deanna Jump's science experiment "How do spiders eat their prey?" We did a little sort with things a spider eats and things we eat. Click the picture to download. We did a little sequencing activity with the spider's life cycle. I made large cards to use all together on the easel and a small half sheet for students to cut out and glue in order. We glued these into our theme journals. The graphics on the cards are used with permission from www.sedl.org. You can download them for free by clicking on the picture. Seeing as we were learning some new big words like spinnerets and abdomen, I thought I would throw in arachnophobia! We did a class graph to see who in our class had arachnophobia. There is an individual student sheet to go with it. I made another sheet to ask who in our class had ever caught a spider before. One of my favourite spider stories is "The Very Busy Spider" by Eric Carle. It's a cute little repetitive story. After I read it once, I ask my students to be "actors" and assign each an animal from the story. I had my spider "making" her web on the white board at the front as the fly buzzed around her. When I got to each animal in the story they stood up and made their animal sound. It was cute and they all had fun being a part of the story. I made these little cards for each animal so the students knew who they were. You could also use it as a pocket chart sequencing activity. I just loved the farm animal clipart from Stockberry Studio. Super cute! Click to download your own cards. We also used this book in a Venn Diagram comparison. We looked at two different spider books: "The Very Busy Spider" and "National Geographic Readers: Spiders". We talked about the similarities and differences between the two books. I made a little Venn Diagram activity with fact cards to cut and glue into the appropriate spaces. I also made a blank Venn Diagram to compare two different books of your choice. Feel free to download it if you can use it! Lastly, we took all of the information we had learned about spiders and completed a tree map. You can download the tree map labels and a student tree map here. We used the facts from our tree maps to do some spider writing. I was very pleased with their work. We have been practicing using capitals and periods in our writing and they did a good job on this. We also made colourful spiderwebs and spiders using Sharpies and oil pastels. I totally stole this idea from Reagan over at Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits. I loved it! We mounted our writing and spider webs on a large piece of construction paper. They turned out very cute. I love the last line there... Spiders ar kol. (Spiders are cool.) So cute! You can download my spider writing paper here. I also have a few spider math stations that I will be posting this weekend when I post Math Stations - Set 2. They are mostly spider and pumpkin related, so hopefully you can use them next week before Halloween! Have a great Friday tomorrow! Woo! :)
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Bats and spiders and learning, Oh My! Fall is one of my favorite times of the year, so I couldn't wait to get busy making some fun Fall Choice Boards! I love to watch how engaged my students are during Choice Board time! This is the time every day that I am able to pull students or small groups to work on needed skills. I hope your students enjoy these activities as much as mine do! ********************************************************************** Here are some other Choice Boards you might like! Fall and Winter Holiday Themes: Winter of the Ice Wizard Junie B. Jingle Bells Choice Board Thanksgiving on Thursday Choice Board Stone Soup Choice Board Fall Choice Board Bundle October Choice Board Charlotte's Web Choice Board Junie B. First Grader Boo and I MEAN IT Choice Board Christmas in Camelot Choice Board Eve of the Emperor Penguin Choice Board Blizzard of the Blue Moon Choice Board Winter Choice Board Bundle Animal and Science Themes: Shark Week Choice Board Rainforest Animals Choice Board FREE DOWNLOAD! Circulatory System Choice Board Monthly Themes: August Back to School Choice Board May Choice Board April Choice Board February Choice Board March Choice Board October Choice Board McMillian/McGraw-Hill Treasures Reading Series: First Day Jitters Choice Board The Perfect Pet Choice Board Saving the Sand Dunes Choice Board The Strongest One Choice Board Cook-a-Doodle-Doo! Choice Board
In science this week we are learning about animals and understanding different life needs and physical characteristics. We teach this unit several times throughout the year, focusing on animals for that specific season. So, we are learning about bats, owls, and spiders this week! The children are all reading a nonfiction selection in their reading groups to continue to build on their understanding. Here's a look at our week ... well, actually, just today! With the anticipation of Hurricane Sandy, I tried to cram as much as possible into today in case we miss school! the information we knew before we read Stellaluna this morning Our poem for the week; check out Can Teach's website! the tree made after reading Spinning Spiders; we'll use this as we write about spiders two of the nonfiction books we read today the beginning of our spider pop craft the finished product Tomorrow we will be reading and putting together our own spider booklets. I just love Teacher's Helper books! And as a thank you for reading this very long post, a freebie! Please check out the spiders and bats activity. The bats section includes a section using Stellaluna. If you download, would you please leave a comment? I'd love to know how you could use this in your classroom!
My team & I .. we talk OFTEN about how we work in the POCKETS of of our lives. Your pockets? You know.. Little windows of time we all have that we {my team & I} choose to use productively towards business growth. You see, nearly ALL of us have: Careers, families or a million other responsibilities that we juggle. Some of even enjoy & thrive when being super busy, yet purposeful! At the moment I was writing this, I was actually sending emails while nursing my baby to sleep. Time that I could have been mindlessly scrolling Pinterest or IG stories. This is a POCKET. And I’m werkin‘ it. I can’t believe it’s been four years now of figuring out this business & how it fits with my life - through ALL the seasons & transitions we’ve been through. What a BLESSING that it’s been a constant for me! I remember feeling stressed & stunted at my old job. I remember feeling stuck in my schedule, without the freedom I craved. I remember going through the motions & dreading Mondays. I remember being 20+ pounds heavier, self conscious & discouraged that I wasn’t living up to my potential. I remember thinking “I wish there was another way..” but not knowing exactly what that looked like for a young 20 something who hadn’t completed her degree yet. And then this.. I stumbled upon this.. I took a giant leap. NOT knowing what I was doing. But full of faith that I'd figure it out. Because I needed so desperately what it could offer me on so many levels. The fear of staying put was bigger than the fear of failing forward! So hear me with this. Because maybe you’re intrigued. Or maybe you’re an eye rolling skeptic, reading for a “punch line” to joke or poke at. if you are still someone that SCOFFS at working a business online, or recommending products that you love --- you truly gotta make a mindset shift, friend. As cheesy as it sounds.. times have CHANGED. Things are not what they once were. And the opportunity in network marktingn& social commerce is REAL. And I’m so glad I made the leap when I did! I knew absolutely ZILCH about managing /growing my own business - or social media for that matter - four years ago when I said YES. Simply put — I cared MORE about finding a wellness solution for myself and helping other along the way. And like I remember the tough times in my past before I took this leap, I equally remember now the INCREDIBLE provision we’ve experienced (more than just financially) because of this coaching gig I started. •coming home from my part time office job to spend time with my husband who was back from his third deployment •helping pay off several debts •being home with my daughter her ENTIRE first year + of life.. because of learning to WORK THE POCKETS Four years Loads of failing But refusal to quit And resilience to keep on RESIDUAL INCOME. FREEDOM OF TIME. CHOICE. That’s what i have to show for.. & I’m so grateful! You may still think “you do you, boo..” but at least do your research before you make a conclusive decision. This opportunity - what we offer - the mission we’ve set out to tackle .. it’s not going anywhere. It’s GROWING. So this is a great time to jump in. I know this isn't for everyone. But, I BELIEVE it’s worth your consideration because of what’s possible! What if you could _______. Wouldn’t it be worth it!? And could you afford NOT to try? My job is more than helping people! Helping people get healthy andddd helping people build their version of success. I get to teach my team how to create opportunity! My coach mentorship is open now & I’d love to chat with you about joining me! You have nothing to lose & so much to gain by giving this an honest shot. So let’s TALK! Email me via [email protected] OR complete this form & I'll contact YOU! ( PS : you will be successful if you do the daily work, stay teachable & implement training.. AND focusing on helping people!! Kapeesh!?)
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You'll love completing this fall bucket list! Print the outdoor fall activities ideas, then punch out the pumpkin next to each activity with a hole punch.
I’ve seen a few versions of this around the web, and I decided to make my own. I picked up a couple of $1 flexible photo albums/brag books at Walmart and some dry erase markers. My girls lov…
You will LOVE the Winter Coloring Pages that come in this Winter Coloring Book Resource! During this busy time of the holidays there is more than enough pages for each school day! Terrific for a daily coloring page as happy morning work OR have a parent volunteer bind them into a WINTER COLORING BOOK for your students. Your students will ADORE these Winter coloring pages because of the cute, cute, cute Winter themed graphics! Your students can also draw in any Winter background and write about their coloring book page on the NEW included writing paper that you can print on the back. Use these coloring pages for all sorts of jumping off points for older students to use during their Winter Creative Writing Lessons! Add it to your plans to compliment any any Winter Activity or Unit! Download these Coloring Book Pages for some INSTANT Winter Coloring Joy in your home or classroom! WINTER ~ UPDATED NOVEMBER 17, 2021 * I have added TEN NEW PAGES of blackline outlines needed to copy and create a 20 inch SNOWMAN or SNOWWOMAN! I have also included three pages of sample photos to show you students the final craft and different ways to create their Snowman or Snowwoman. If you would like them to be smaller, just adjust your printer settings. {Includes various button styles, mittens, no mittens, hat, no hat, then, by copying on different color construction paper, the possibilities are ENDLESS!} * Also included in this update, one page with a writing paper template. * Two NEW pages to be used as a Winter Coloring Book cover! Perfect to make a Winter Coloring Book Gift! * If you already own this resource, please download it again to receive the new, bonus items at no additional charge. Please see the New Preview for pictures of the crafts, new covers and writing paper! THESE COLORING SHEETS ARE PDFs AND YOU ARE ABLE TO UPLOAD THEM TO YOUR CLASSROOM PHONES OR TABLET APPS. SOME RECOMMENDED COLORING APPS ARE PIGMENT PROCREATE PAPER BY 53 AUTODESK SKETCH BOOKS * Free apps change frequently, please search Google Play or the Apple Store for current coloring pages apps. CLASSROOM IDEA - Print all the pages and bind together for your students for a Coloring Book gift! A few easy and inexpensive ways to create a classroom coloring book for your student. 1. Take one large piece of 18 X 12 inch construction paper and fold it in half to be 9 X 12 inch size. Place the coloring page papers inside, run three staples down the left hand side and then add the NEW cover I've included. 2. Take two separate pieces of 9 X 12 inch construction paper and use them as a front cover and a back cover. Place the coloring page papers inside and run three staples down the left hand side. Add the NEW cover and you are in business! 3. Same as step 2, only use two pieces of 9 X 12 inch scrapbook paper, if you have enough of a variety {left over from years of scrapbooking.... like me} put out a selection of papers and let your students pick the pages they would like. Perfect for some personal, relationship creating, small group time! 4. If you have a copy machine that staples, simply add the cover to the top of your copy stack, then have your machine make the book copies, including stapling them together. 5. For more of a "cover" feel, copy the front cover page and last page on colored paper, or colored card stock. Light blue looks terrific for this Coloring Book cover! WINTER COLORING PAGES AND CRAFTIVITY RESOURCE This 61 Page Winter Coloring Book Resource Includes: Page One - This Page is a Folder Cover. This page is a cute, colorful cover for your personal teacher files. Attach to the front of a folder, keep all your pages inside the folder, place into your file cabinet, and you are all ready for next year with this easily identified Winter Coloring Pages folder cover. Pages Two to Four - These Pages are Three Pictures of Snowman Examples. You can show your students these different pictures without having to create a sample yourself. It also includes different features in making a snowman or snowwoman with different colors, different buttons, hat, no hat, mittens, no mittens, etc. Pages Five to Fourteen - These Ten Pages are the Blackline Masters to Create Your Classroom Snow People Craftivity ~ Perfect for a Winter Bulletin Board Displays! These blackline outlines also have teacher directions for how to copy and create a 20 inch SNOWMAN or SNOWWOMAN! If you would like them to be smaller, just adjust your printer settings. Pages Fifteen to Sixteen - These Pages are Two Pictures Examples for Creating Classroom Coloring Books with the New Covers. In this Winter Resource, I have included TWO covers to create different classroom coloring books. For MORE FUN, let your students select the cover they want for their Winter Coloring Book! Pages Seventeen to Eighteen - These Two Pages are the Cover Blackline Masters. These blackline master pages are the two different styles of cover pages for you, your volunteer, or your students to select to be the coloring book cover. Page Nineteen - This Page is a Picture Example for Creating Winter Classroom Coloring Books with the New Writing Paper Page. Please also see the Preview Pictures and The Preview for an excellent example of how this looks! Page Twenty - This Page is a Writing Paper Page. It is one page with a writing paper template that you can copy on the back of each coloring page. If you then create a Winter Coloring Book, your students book will have a spread with the writing paper on the left hand side, and the coloring page on the right hand side. Please see the Preview Pictures and The Preview for an excellent example of how this looks! Pages Twenty-One to Sixty-One - These 41 Pages are the Winter Coloring Book Blackline Masters. Forty-One different pages full of penguins, snowmen, polar bears, children dressed & bundled up for Winter, children engaging in Winter sports, etc. Forty-one wonderful ways to incorporate Winter into your classroom! Terrific if you are reading and / or studying: The Snowman by Raymond Briggs Frosty the Snowman The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steve Kroll Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater If You Were a Penguin by Florence and Wendell Minor Penguins by Gail Gibbons Penguin Cha-Cha by Kristi Valiant *** CLASSROOM IDEA *** Print all the pages and bind together for your students to have an independent Winter coloring books at their desk for any downtime. This Winter resource is ALSO part of the following bundles: Christmas Coloring Pages and Winter Coloring Pages Bundle Winter Coloring Pages and Penguin Coloring Pages Bundle New Years Coloring Pages and Winter Coloring Pages Bundle Winter Coloring Pages with Spring and Summer too! Big DISCOUNTED Bundle! Coloring Pages For An Entire Year - Big DISCOUNTED Bundle! These Winter Coloring Pages are perfect for... A Winter Coloring Book Gift Winter Wonderland party treats A Frozen Movie Celebration Coloring Party Place Mats Substitute teacher folders Fine motor skills work Indoor recess Morning work Emergency sub tubs Rewards Homework packets Art centers Watercolor painting Story starters Fast finishers Early morning students After school tutoring Church groups Girl scout meetings Boys and Girls Club events And so much more! *** Winter Coloring Pages for Your Classroom Students or Personal Children! *** ANOTHER SIMILAR RESOURCE FOR WINTER Winter Coloring Pages with Differentiated Seasonal Vocabulary - This resource compliments any Winter activity! Differentiate your class this Winter with Some Winter Coloring Pages that Includes Two to Five Seasonal Vocabulary Words per page. Click here to see the difference between this resource and the one with the differentiated seasonal vocabulary. WAYS TO USE MY COLORING PAGES IN YOUR CLASSROOM! Pre-K to First Grade Use a coloring page as morning work to work on fine motor skills. Place a coloring page at a center to work on fine motor skills. Coloring pages are great story starters. Staple one or more coloring pages into your weekly homework packet for a little at home fun and joy! Staple all the coloring pages together for a literacy center writing journal where the students can write on the back of the left page about the picture on the right side. Second Grade to Fifth Grade Coloring Pages are PERFECT for INDOOR RECESS! Use a coloring page as a reward for your students weekly homework packet being turned in on time. Use a coloring page as a story starter. Use a coloring page on Fun Friday if everyone finished their work on time. Staple one coloring page into your weekly homework packet for a little fun and joy at home! Staple 5 to 10 coloring pages together for a treasure box coloring book prize. Click here to see all of my Coloring Pages Resources! More Coloring Pages Are Also Available: Coloring Pages For An Entire Year - Big DISCOUNTED Bundle First Semester Bundle of Fall Coloring Pages - 700+ Pages of Coloring Book Fun Second Semester Bundle of Winter, Spring and Summer Coloring Pages - 530+ Pages of Coloring Book Fun Fall Coloring Pages - A Four Pack Coloring Book Bundle October Coloring Pages - A Four Pack Coloring Book Bundle Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, & Christmas Coloring Pages - A Four Pack Coloring Book Bundle February Coloring Pages - A Four Pack Coloring Book Bundle Spring Coloring Pages - A Four Pack Coloring Book Bundle *** CLASSROOM IDEA *** Terrific for your Emergency Sub Tub for morning work, let the substitute teacher have a few minutes to read your plans while the children color! Terrific Teacher Feedback Jennifer N. said: Love these! Thanks for creating them! Erin J. said: These are great to use for indoor recess or when we have a few minutes to spare...thanks! Mary P. said: I sure do love, love, love these! Mrs Perrys Peaches said: My kiddos love these coloring pages! I've been collecting them throughout the year! *** Teacher Feedback Idea for My Coloring Pages *** Regina shares a great idea, let your student PAINT th
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Let's Boo This Halloween SVG - SVG Files for Cricut This is INSTANT and DIGITAL DOWNLOAD file for Let's Boo This Halloween SVG, which is perfect for halloween t-shirts, no physical item will be sent. You can use this with the Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Cutting Machines, or other software that work with this type of files. This design has been tested in both Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Cutting Machines. You will receive 1 zip file for Let's Boo This Halloween SVG for T-Shirts, including: 1 SVG file (for vectors software) 1 EPS file 1 PNG file (high resolution and transparent background) 1 DXF file 1 JPG file The illustrations you will receive will have a much higher quality than the presentation images. Please make sure your cutting or printing machine is compatible with at least one of the file formats provided. Files can be used with software like (but not limited to): -Adobe Illustrator -Adobe Photoshop -Inkscape -Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) -Corel Draw -Cricut Design Space -Silhouette Studio Red Willow Digital is owned and operated by me, Donna Ho. I started out with my Cricut Maker after my second child was born and I became a full-time stay-at-home mom. I began making t-shirts and purchasing my designs from other talented designers. Having always been a creative person and suffering from chronic DIY syndrome, I began making my own designs and selling them on t-shirts, coffee mugs, tote bags and more. After a while, and lots of practice, I felt confident enough to sell my designs as well. When I’m not busy designing or making t-shirts (I still do that, too!) I enjoy spending time in my butterfly garden, writing fiction, taking pictures of my two children and my adorable puppy, Franklin.
Yes...again I know it is July. :) I am just getting things ready in my shop because I am coming up to my busy time of year. Here are some of the latest additions... A new Halloween Quiet Book...a lot simpler than the one I made last year. The kit and pattern are available here. 2010 Update - As of late August 2010, kits are available again in my shop. You can also just purchase the pattern without a kit. This book has 5 removable 'characters'. Trying to make the books more interactive. Some new Trick or Treat Totes.... And of course I had to make a Halloween Version... So there they are my almost complete Halloween 'line'. I have yet to make the new Halloween Countdown Calendar, that is on the cutting table for next week. I also have some Thanksgiving things up my sleeves. See ya!
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Have you heard about Preschool Week over at Busy Bee Speech? Well, Lauren recently contacted me and asked me to write a short blurb about one of my favorite materials for preschoolers. You're going to have to wait until Thursday to see what I wrote about for her ;) But, I figured I'd share another of my can't-believe-I-ever-performed-therapy-without-this materials: Noisy Stories! Noisy Stories is by Joan Rivard, MA, CCC-SLP and Jessica Rivard and is published by Mayer Johnson. The cover of the book states that the book provides "language activities for children of all communicative abilities." I purchased this book with a select few of my students in mind - a classroom of preschool students with a variety of significant special needs. Many (but not all) of these students did not talk. Some used sign, some used vocalizations, some used voice output devices. What I found, however, was that this program is PERFECT for all of my preschool kids! Noisy Stories is a collection of short stories. Many of the stories follow common themes (Back to School, Halloween, Winter, etc.). There are very little words in each story with one picture per page (all Boardmaker PCS). The stories are predictable as well. Because of this, the kids learn pretty quickly when it's "their turn" to talk. You could program a switch for your non-verbal kids to participate in this activity as well. Here is an example from "The Mitten" story: The book gives you the ASL sign for each word as well! Did I mention that each story comes with a 2-page send-home version? When I first started using this program, I simply made black and white photocopies from the book. After a while, I started using my Boardmaker Software to create full-color versions, which I printed on cardstock and bound with a comb binder. Here's what the Halloween story looks like completed: Notice the "s-s-s" on the bottom of the page above? Each page of each story has a simple word or sound to encourage imitation. The objectives of each story are printed on the first page in the Noisy Stories book. Some include: CV sequences, bilabial sounds, etc. So, when I use the stories, I try to gather physical manipulatives for each vocabulary item. We read the story - many of the kids will verbally participate in some way at this stage, but some do not yet. Next, we review the materials and each child gets to hold some (if not all) of the materials. Then read the story again. This time, most of the kids will attempt to participate (vocalization, sign, word, or switch device). Like I said, I used this program primarily with students in a substantially separate classroom. All of the students in this classroom received speech. I was so fortunate that the teacher truly believed in the importance of communication and was beyond helpful in carry-over of my activities. So, she created amazing take-home versions of some of the stories - having the kids create crafts for selected pages. I don't have pictures of those, but they were adorable! Additionally, I created Switch-Access Power-Point versions of the stories as well! (I've actually done this for a few other stories as well, "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" is one of them). If you'd like more information on how to do this, THIS is a good start). I imported all of the pictures and text, added a delay on the advance button, and recorded my own voice reading the stories. As long as you position the mouse over the advance button, the child simply needs to tap the switch to advance. The classroom teacher added the Switch-Access story as one of the student centers each day during the week we used the book, so each child got a chance to hear the story numerous times! Notice the cursor over the advance button? You could also create a PDF and open on iBooks on your iPad! You wouldn't have the voice recording, but it would be highly portable. Also, some kids may have difficulty with switch access, but do fine with the swiping motion. Noisy Story opened in iBooks Do you use the Noisy Stories Program? What do you think of it?
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Let's Boo This Halloween SVG - SVG Files for Cricut This is INSTANT and DIGITAL DOWNLOAD file for Let's Boo This Halloween SVG, which is perfect for halloween t-shirts, no physical item will be sent. You can use this with the Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Cutting Machines, or other software that work with this type of files. This design has been tested in both Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Cutting Machines. You will receive 1 zip file for Let's Boo This Halloween SVG for T-Shirts, including: 1 SVG file (for vectors software) 1 EPS file 1 PNG file (high resolution and transparent background) 1 DXF file 1 JPG file The illustrations you will receive will have a much higher quality than the presentation images. Please make sure your cutting or printing machine is compatible with at least one of the file formats provided. Files can be used with software like (but not limited to): -Adobe Illustrator -Adobe Photoshop -Inkscape -Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) -Corel Draw -Cricut Design Space -Silhouette Studio Red Willow Digital is owned and operated by me, Donna Ho. I started out with my Cricut Maker after my second child was born and I became a full-time stay-at-home mom. I began making t-shirts and purchasing my designs from other talented designers. Having always been a creative person and suffering from chronic DIY syndrome, I began making my own designs and selling them on t-shirts, coffee mugs, tote bags and more. After a while, and lots of practice, I felt confident enough to sell my designs as well. When I’m not busy designing or making t-shirts (I still do that, too!) I enjoy spending time in my butterfly garden, writing fiction, taking pictures of my two children and my adorable puppy, Franklin.
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