Can you believe it is already March? It shocks me every year! In our classroom, there has always been two big celebrations each March... Read Across America Day and St. Patrick's Day.  Our focus each year for Read Across America is Green Eggs and Ham. In my first year of teaching, this was a favorite of one of my students with limited communication. He just LOVED the book and had memorized each page. We all loved to have him read it to us because it was so wonderful to hear him say so much! So from that point on Green Eggs and Ham has always been a mainstay in my room. Over the years, I added more and more activities that we could do with the story so that we could address IEP goals and meet all the needs of my students including practicing vocabulary and building sentences using a communication board, velcro pieces, or our trusty classroom GoTalk! I also created lots of comprehension activities so that I had something that fit the needs of each student. We worked on wh-questions, ......

I'm not going to lie... teaching math is not my favorite. BUT I love how easy it is to make multisensory activities for math instruction. Several years ago I wanted to expand my math instruction beyond my extended standards time, ULS group, and IEP time. I was looking for a way to practice a variety of skills every day. Alas, my Number of the Day Math Corner was born!  **This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links. I only recommend products that I use and love!** Every day we practiced the same skills and it WORKED! It worked better than I even dreamed. Suddenly I had students who had been stuck working on basic number identification who were suddenly skip counting by 5s. I had students beginning to generalize Touchmath skills and coin identification. It was AWESOME! I only wish I would have started it sooner.  Below is the overall bulletin board and as you can see after 146 days of school it was well loved! Se......

I want to welcome all my new visitors from my friend Megan's blog at  Mrs. Wheeler's First Grade Tidbits ! I hope you like what you see and come visit me again soon! As a gift for all my new visitors and to my followers tonight I am going to post several more Practice at Home lists FREEBIES Practice at Home lists FREEBIES ! These lists are great for giving parents ideas for multisensory activities that they can do for extra homework practice, during remote learning, or to prevent the summer slide.  Lists include: Practicing Numbers at Home (Counting & Number Recognition) Practicing Letters at Home Practicing Writing at Home Practicing Spelling at Home Practicing Sight Word Reading at Home Practicing Money Skills at Home These lists are a great resource for parents wanting a creative way to work with their child at home. I hope your parents enjoy them as much as mine do!  Download my FREE Multisensory Activity Lists for Practicing Basic Math ......