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  • MARCH CLASSROOM FAVORITES FOR TEACHERS

    Spring is almost here! I am over the cold and snow, and so are your students, so this month's classroom favorites are full of color. Check them out! This post contains affiliate links and I may earn a small commission when you click on the qualifying links at no additional cost to you. MARCH CLASSROOM RESOURCES Shamrock Pattern Tasks & Worksheets These new pattern strips are perfect for file folders or work tasks! You can even send the worksheets home for homework to reinforce the skill. Check them out! Holiday Cookie Math Flip Books No more boring worksheets or flashcards! These math flipbooks are perfect for students with counting or addition IEP goals! These adapted books will give your students extra practice on essential math skills. There are 6 holidays included, so you can use this resource across the entire school year. Spring Errorless Sentence Helpers Do your students struggle to write complete sentences that make sense? These Sentence Helpers are designed to provide scaffolded instruction for students with disabilities, beginning with errorless teaching and eventually fading prompting for students to generate their sentences. This resource includes 20 different spring themed sentence helpers, each in three phases. St. Patrick's Day Spin & Count You can grab this one for FREE in the resource library. It's a great Fun Friday activity or math center! MARCH CLASSROOM SUPPLIES St. Patrick's Day Mini Erasers Mini erasers are my go-to math manipulative. Counting, addition, fractions of a set, sorting...the possibilities are endless! They are also a great option for student reinforcers. Rainbow Spiky Balls These little spiky balls are fun to throw in a sensory bin or use for sorting IEP goals. They are great fidgets too! Rainbow Pom Pom Sorting Set This sorting set is so fun for March! It's a great addition to your fine motor stations. Plastic Butterflies I love these butterflies for patterns, sorting by attribute, describing language, etc. St. Patrick's Day Coins I like to use these golden coins for a fine motor independent work task. Patterned Easter Eggs Pair these patterned Easter eggs with a Match It! set and you have instantly made a work task way more engaging!

  • 3 APPS FOR STUDENT HANDWRITING

    Handwriting can be especially difficult for students with cognitive disabilities or fine motor challenges. I work with many students who have spent years of instruction working on letter formation. I often recommend that teachers implement the use of technology to support handwriting because, while we know that repetition is important, doing the same thing for many years can get boring. Here are three of my favorite apps for students to use to improve handwriting. Writing Wizard Handwriting App Cost $4.99 (one-time fee) Includes pre-writing strokes, letters, numbers, and words What I like about it: The Writing Wizard app starts with an animated model of the letter strokes. Then, students trace the letter. You can change the settings for errors. If students make a mistake, you can have the app stay in place, go back to the last key point, or go back to the start. I also like that students must continually hold down their finger or pencil to write. It's not just animated if they start the stroke. With this app, the teacher can program custom words. It's so important to practice handwriting in application, so this is a great way to give meaning to a task. Another amazing feature of this app is that the teacher can generate or print reports. Talk about easy data collection! You can export student work as a PDF and add it to their data binders or send it home for parents to see student work. For only $5, this app is a great choice for handwriting practice for your students! iTrace Handwriting App Cost $3.99 (one-time fee) Includes letters, numbers, name and words What I like about it: The app starts with a step-by-step model and then provides guided dots for student assistance. I love that you can see the actual strokes you make on the app. Students must stay inside the lines, or there is an error correction. Students must practice each letter three times. Each time, they are given a star, either gold, silver, or bronze, based on performance. This app allows you to customize strokes for individual letters. The teacher can view student history and errors. This is great for data collection! LetterSchool Handwriting App Cost $44.99 (per year) Includes pre-writing strokes, letters, numbers and words What I like about it: This app has a three step process for each letter. First, it provides a step by step model. Next, students practice tracing with a fun animation. Finally, students practice writing without the tracing lines. This is the only app from the three that allows students to practice without tracing. This app has so many fun animations! It's very engaging and bright. Let me know if you try any of these handwriting apps out in your classroom! I'd love to hear how they go!

  • FEBRUARY CLASSROOM FAVORITES FOR TEACHERS

    This post contains affiliate links and I may earn a small commission when you click on the qualifying links at no additional cost to you. FEBRUARY CLASSROOM RESOURCES Valentine's Day Tracing Task Cards Need a quick, low-prep activity for fine motor and handwriting? These task cards include 5 levels of tracing, from pre-writing strokes to whole words. Valentine's Counting Task Cards If you have students working on counting, these task cards are a great way to address IEP goals. Even better, this special education resource includes 4 differentiated levels so you can use it with a variety of students! Heart Pattern Strips & Worksheets These new pattern strips are perfect for file folders or work tasks! You can even send the worksheets home for homework to reinforce the skill. Check them out! Cake Shop Budgeting Unit If you have students who have mastered counting money and are ready to move to the next step, this budgeting unit is perfect for you! It includes budgeting for amounts up to $20. fEBRUARY CLASSROOM SUPPLIES Valentine's Wooden Beads These Valentine-colored wooden beads are perfect for fine motor or independent work tasks. You can make a sorting task, a lacing task, or a put it in task. "The Day It Rained Hearts" Book This book has always been one of my favorites! It's about Cornelia, a little girl who catches the hearts raining from the sky and decides to create valentines for her friends. Valentine's Mini Erasers I LOVE mini erasers! They are my favorite classroom manipulatives! Mini erasers are great for math manipulatives, Bingo markers, reinforcers, and sensory bins. The patterns in this pack of mini erasers are so fun! "Love From The Crayons" Book I saw this book and had to have it for my daughter. It's such a cute story about love in all kinds of colors. Valentine's Day Stretchy Strings These fidgets are a great addition to your break bins. They would also be cute to hand out to your students for Valentine's Day.

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