March Lesson Plans (and what’s in my cart!)
My March Lesson Plans are ready just in time for the big TpT sale on Thursday and Friday!ย Click here to download these for free! Some of the activities on these lesson plans are free activities,…
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Teaching Children Sign Language: Toddlers
This is the second post in a series on “Teaching Children Sign Language” about how I have taught my own children and students some sign. To read the first post, go here. (Disclaimer: This post…
Teaching Children Sign Language: Infants
This is the first post in a series on “Teaching Children Sign Language” about how I have taught my own children and students some sign. (Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links.) Here is a…
Harry the Dirty Dog (and why I don’t have one)
This is my mom’s dog. I have to admit.. he’s pretty cute. My kids think, however, that him being cute means that we too should have a dog. Now mind you, the two times per…
Lunar New Year Activities
Clipart by: KLouise DigiArt, Lovin Lit, and Dots of Fun Designs by Tammy Ferrell Meet the Super Fam: Clipart by Creative Clips If you look (not all that) closely, you might realize why Lunar…
Winter Activities
A Round-Up of Winter Activities that I’ve blogged about over the years! Clipart by KLouise DigiArt, JWIllustrations Snow Much Fun with Language: 3 levels of language activities. These units are are intended for both receptive…
Using Fables with RtI
ย Clipart by: Creative Clips and Mellonheadz Illustrating I’ve intended to write these units and this post for months. Literally. I bought the clip art last August for goodness sake! It wasn’t until I had…
Snow much Fun!
Last week was the COLDEST weather I can remember in this region for a long, long time. It was 14 degrees when I left the house, and sometimes was in the 20s by the time…
December Speech and Language Activities
I actually sometimes hate the fact that we only have a few weeks of school in December, because there are sooooo many fun things to do! I looked back on the last 5 (almost 6!)…
December Lesson Plans
I’m trying out a new style of lesson planning involving links back to all activities and visuals to remind myself (and my assistant) what we are working on each session. I created 3 levels of…
Holiday-palooza!
This was my downstairs/finished basement last week: Now don’t get me wrong, I am actually NOT an early Christmas decorator. I have dubbed the day after Thanksgiving “Christmas Decoration Day!” (and a little shopping too)….
More singing!
If you thought my six File Folder Songs would keep me satisfied for a while, then you were terribly wrong. Within days of completing those songs, I had created more. Many more. I just kept…
File Folder Activities for Early Language Learners
Our entire state has developed a new “teacher evaluation system” which requires countless hours of determining student-driven and personal goals that will be assessed through statewide assessmentsย among other pieces of evidence. Although I haven’t…
November Speech and Language Activities
November is one of my favorite months of the year! Not only is it Professor X’s birthday, but the leaves are just so beautiful around here in November! Plus, there is pumpkin pie, pumpkin lattes,…