Valentine's Day will be here very soon!  In preparation, I created a Valentine's Day themed center.  Our first graders began learning word patterns before Christmas that involved a magic or silent e at the end of the word.  I created a center to help them practice reading, writing, and deciphering words that had a magic e (as we call it in our first grade) from nonsense words that didn't.
As a special education teacher, I wanted my center to be differentiated for all the learners in our classroom.
The word cards come in different levels, and there are many blank cards that you can write any words needed on.
As an extension for kiddos in need of a challenge, there is a recording page in which words that have been placed on the nonsense sorting mat can be turned into a real word by adding  the e to the end, reread and used in a sentence.
I kind of wanted something different for our classroom this valentines day, so created this center using bright colors with little "scrappy hearts" from the 3am teacher (http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-3am-Teacher  )rather than traditional pink and red "cutsies."

Check out the preview below, or on my tpt store.  

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-CVC-e-Literacy-Center-Word-Work-sorting-practice-CCSS-1044495

Snow days!  Or should I say ice days here in Arkansas.  We have definitely had a crazy January and now February  because of the weather.  My co-teachers and I have been tweeking our behavior plan this year, we have tried several different things with our students.  We wanted to manage challenging behaviors in the most positive way possible, and create a healthy fun learning environment for all of our students.  We have used the components in the pack I created with great success!  If you would like to check out our plan please click below.  :)

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STUDENT-BEHAVIOR-INTERVENTION-PACK-PLANNING-KIT-POSITIVE-INTERVENTIONS-1099476

As all my special teachers know, its a very important, but tedious task to keep all involved in a child's education aware of accommodations and modifications that have been developed and recorded in a student's IEP.  Great care must be taken, though, to be successful at this task, because those accommodations and modifications are so important, and help even the playing field for a child with a disability. 

I developed a tool for myself, and distributed to everyone in my building along with my students, accommodations and modification page from their IEP to help myself (and other teachers) be aware of those accommodations and modifications at all time.  I just called it "Modifications and Accommodations at a glance"  I divided my student by grade level, naturally, and checked their accommodations and modifications off on a single page per grade level.  Of course the IEP is my ultimate go to, however this quick reference helped as a reminder of all the important information. 

Check it out below!

 

 

 

 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/MODIFICATION-AND-ACCOMODATION-QUICK-REFERENCE-849842

Goodness gracious!  It has been so long since I have blogged, well I have a good reason, I think....My coteachers and I (whom are fabulous and I love so much) and added another piece of unity to our classrooms!  We are not blogging together for our classes, so I have not individually been posting classroom happenings. 
But.....I have decided to go ahead and continue to record my adventures each day at Wooster Elementary as a Special Education Inclusion teacher.  (Most days it is the very best job ever!) 
So hello there all 2014 bloggers!

1st Grade Track and Field Day!

We had a wonderful time at the football field playing hard and competing in all the different track and field events.  Our boys relay team even won 3rd place!! 

2nd Grade Picnic

Just hanging around! 

We had a special visitor- The Faulkner County Sherriff