So...IEP season is OVER!! (unless a new student comes or something like that). I have been very busy trying to write IEPs, hold meetings and create new data sheets for new objectives as well as lesson plan, and make time for all the fun holiday activities.
I thought I would write a quick post including the winter fun packet I am sending home over break so maybe you won't have to spend as much time as I did coming up with one!
I wanted to send home some academic worksheets for parents to work on at home but only if they have time. The last thing I want to do is make parents feel obligated to do paper and pencil tasks when they are spending time with families. So, I made up a little winter fun packet and explained to the parents it is just for fun, if there is time and if the children want to work on anything at home!! Some of the worksheets I made myself but a couple others I found online:
http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/worksheets/winter/
This website had some good ones, but my students aren't able to do a lot of them yet, but if you have higher kids, this has some good worksheets with pictures. Very fun theme
http://www.kidsparkz.com/winter-letters-literacy.html#.UM3qVY5j7zI
This website I printed the alphabet snowflake cards and told parents the kids can trace them with their fingers, color them in, sing the abc's and touch each one, and the parents can even cut them out and play games with the letters. My students aren't able to do a lot of paper and pencil tasks so I wanted to send home some educational resources that can be disguised as games and the kids can show what they know at home!
http://www.theholidayzone.com/winter/Winter_Word_Wall.pdf
I printed these words out because they had pictures and then I modified it for my students, only cutting out words they have seen or are concrete items like a hat and made 2 pages of 6 words to send home in the packet, telling parents they can put the words by the objects in their house and go over them, cut off the picture and play memory, etc.
I made some prewriting tracing horizontal, vertical, diagonal and V worksheets with snowflakes (if you want me to send you the word doc, email me at mfdemski@gmail.com). I also made a simple counting worksheet with pictures and a number line on the bottom.
I hope this helps! I know that my next post will be too late to do the activities in the classroom, but we had a Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas week so I will be posting some pictures of what we did in the classroom as well as some of my new ideas that I am planning on doing to organize my classroom for when we get back in January.
I also wanted to post some gifts because...well, tis the season. My heart was melted when I received my first ever present from a student so I wanted to share:
Also, a Pinterest idea combined come to life...so I have been seeing those dry erase frames that you can put a class list behind or even just a piece of scrapbook paper like these:
http://classroomcollective.tumblr.com/tagged/Classroom+Organization/page/3
see bottom picture
And I recently saw this one using rubber bands so it can hold objects like a pen...
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10451&langId=-1&categoryId=11526&parent_category_rn=26674&productId=14285&keyWord=Barbara%20Flanagan%20Snap-It-Up%20Organizer&purpose=crawl
and I wanted to combine both ideas and it came out SO CUTE, and it was super cheap and makes a great teacher gift, as you can see I made one for a coworker of mine...I just used some stickers and scrapbook paper I had at home and made these:
I am showing you how it holds a pen...don't use sharpie just dry erase marker. It is a dry erase board/note holder/desk organizer! How cute :-) The Mrs. Flowers frame I got for $3 and the one below was like $1 clear frame (didn't know if the black one would hold rubber bands and still close but it does). I got the jumbo rubber bands a long time ago for less than $1. I think thicker ones would be better but I couldn't find any...the good news is you can always upgrade the rubber bands anytime you want so if I find more I may change them out.
Hope everyone has a great last week (or however long you have) before break and be checking over break for another post!!
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