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Friday, May 30, 2014

Goals At A Glance

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I would love to put a bulletin board up in my classroom next year that looks similar to the one here. Not just to remind myself, but also ...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Monthly Calendar Skills *updated*

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I have updated my Monthly Calendar Skills worksheets on TPT for the 2014/2015 school year. I left June on in case anyone still needs to do...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Teaching Disability Awareness

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Last week I spend three days at a special education conference in San Francisco and came away with so many ideas for new worksheets an...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Activity Boxes, Does It Ever End?

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  I think I might possibly be addicted to creating activity boxes.  I am currently up to 36, I know I need to stop but each skill is so im...
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

What Do You Mean We Can't Cook Anymore?

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We got some bad news yesterday at work.  Because of food service guidelines we are no longer allowed to serve food to the kids that has no...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Live Butterfly Garden

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A few weeks ago we took a field trip with the kids to the Insect Lore Bug Museum in Shafter, Ca.  It's a great outing and the kids alway...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Student Portfolios - Transition Special Education

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I have been thinking about putting together portfolios for all my kids since I transferred to this job 5 years ago.  Every now and then I ...
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Saturday, March 15, 2014

St. Patty's Treats

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  Monday is St. Patrick's Day sooooooo I made these cute little treats for my kiddos (and the office staff... shhhhh). I tried using a...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Buying Gifts

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Tuesdays we always work on money skills. Today I thought we would stray away from the counting coins/making change stuff we have been ...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

We're Almost There

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I am spending my weekend getting my students morning folders ready for the next TWO months. Normally what happens each month is another te...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Weekly Newsletter (update)

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I was so determined this year to keep up on the weekly newsletter I put together at the end of school last year.  But.... I am having a TER...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Valentines Day

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Tomorrow is Valentines Day and we have been talking all week about it. The kids are super excited! We (I say that loosely) put together th...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Sweetheart Funsheet

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Boy am I ready for this three day weekend!  I had all these plans of taking pics of the kids working on this Sweetheart funsheet next F...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

More Activity Boxes!

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 I was looking through my activity boxes today making sure they were fully stocked and realized that I hadn't shown these three yet.  ...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Salt & Pepper Filling Activity Box

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  We added this new activity box to our classroom a few weeks ago.  We have had students in the past who have done job site training at a ...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

A Classroom Thanksgiving

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Between me and my aides we put together an amazing feast on Wednesday for the kids.  We ha...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Using Visual Recipes

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As you can probably tell from some of my previous posts, I absolutely love cooking with my kids!  We don't get to do in near as oft...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Community Logo's

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I'm having a blast putting together these fun Velcro book for the kids.  Here are two using logos found in the community.  I picked st...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Postcard Exchange UPDATE

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Happy Monday!  I had work training all day Saturday and a baby shower AND a BBQ!!  So, I only had one day to relax (-housecleaning and laund...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Grocery Store Ads

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I grabbed a dozen grocery store ads yesterday while I was shopping and put together this fun little cut & paste worksheet for my kids...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Life Skills - School Safety/Being Sick

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I was a busy bee this weekend putting together some worksheets I have had on my mind lately. With cold and flu season fast approaching I ...
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My name is Karen and I work in a high school transition program for students ages 18 - 22. I teach life skills ,social skills, community awareness and job skills.
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