Category: Seasonal

My Five Senses! ( & My Five Senses of FALL!)

11/4/2014

Learning about "My Five Senses" is a popular topic for little kiddos. I love the idea of teaching this topic during fall, my favorite season of course! There is so much to hear, see, smell, taste, and touch! So many opportunities for incidental teaching. Below is some pictures from my class completing my "Five Senses Unit" You can find it HERE in my Teacher's Pay Teachers Store!

The Unit Includes:

My Five Senses cards with SymbolStix visuals
My Five Senses sort ( symbolstix visuals)
Taste Test worksheet
Touch Project with pictures and suggestions!

I also supplemented this week of senses fun with a Friday Sensory Group! I made 4 pounds of moonsand from scratch for under $5.00. It's $20 in store for 3 cups!

Apple Pie Moon Sand Recipe
8 cups flour
1 cup baby oil
red chalk, crushed
Apple Pie Spice

Pumpkin Pie Moon Sand Recipe
8 cups flour
1 cup baby oil
orange chalk, crushed
Pumpkin Pie Spice

For most of my students, the Moon Sand was a hit! For others, it took a bit of convincing.

I also created a Five Senses of Fall word sort that I used with my kids as a review the following week! We wrote an acrostic Five Senses Poem and each child selected pictures from the sort that they wanted in their poem! You can find my Five Senses of Fall Sort in my Teacher's Pay Teachers Store: A to Z Special Education Resources!

That's all for now,
Miss. Alyssa

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The First Thanksgiving

11/3/2014

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I have been working hard on putting together some November/ Thanksgiving curriculum. I am happy to starting putting some things on my Teachers Pay Teachers store this early in the month! Please check out my latest: The First Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving story is perfect for Autism, Special Education, or beginner readers! Story contains short, simple sentences and graphics that will grab your kids attention! It's the perfect addition to your Thanksgiving curriculum and opens up many doors for comprehension questions, projects, and more! Get it while it's hot!

That's all for now!
Miss. Alyssa

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Spooktacular Halloween Party

10/31/2014

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Hello all! I promised I would share some of my favorite elements from today's Halloween Party. Boy, was it crazy! Wrangling all 5 of my kiddos into wearing costumes, playing games, trying new foods and interacting with peers in other class is some hard work! But the smiles make it all worth it.

Monster dirt cups!
A simple, exciting treat for the kids! Some of my kiddos was even afraid to pick one up... woops!

Vanilla Pudding
Green Food Coloring
Oreos
Gummy Worms

Remove pudding from pudding cups and put in a large bowl. Clean out pudding cups and draw on spooky faces with a sharpee. Add green food coloring till your hearts content, stick in some gummy worms, crush up some oreos and throw em on top!

Owl Cupcakes!

This is a tough one to attempt as a whole with a classroom. I run my parties as stations so it is usually 1:1 for tough cooking/ crafts like this. I also have all the ingredients ready to go in front of the child to decrease wait time! They got to decide if they wanted to eat now or bring home :)

Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate Frosting
Double Stuff Oreos (Split the oreos, cut the non frosting side in half)
Brown and Orange M&Ms

Pretty self explanatory!

Mummy Bowling!

Had my eye on this baby in Target since the beginning of the season, hoping it would go on sale. Night before Halloween and I just couldn't wait any longer and glad I didn't! It was a hit! Kids loved this station and kept requesting to go back! I also like how it is not overly Halloween themed and can be used as future rewards or at future parties!

Snack table!

So many treats! Using a table cloth always builds the special activity excitement for my kids! My paras are so great and provided many of the treats. We also do cooking with our speech pathologist on thursday and we made the chex mix for the party. I love tying in the weeks academics to a Friday special activity.

The Classic Donut on a string!
I couldn't resist!

Many of my verbal kids said they had never done this before, so it was quickly added to my Halloween stations. The kids loved it and I loved having the powdered donuts. I love sending the kids home all messy- means they had a good day!

My non eater had fun running through the donuts like an obstacle course, he had powder all over!

My first class party this year was an overall success! The kids had a blast and went home with heavy backpacks full of goodies! How was your class Halloween party!?

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Happy October!

10/31/2014

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So first things first - October! October is one of my favorite months and I had been stashing up some good ideas for my future classroom for quite some time now! I am so excited to share with you! Here's what we have been up to in room 107 these last 2 weeks!

We have been making monthly suncatchers for our windows this year. I just love this activity. Perfect for fine motor practice. I couldn't find contact paper so I just used packaging tape. Have the kids rip and crinkle the tissue paper and stick it down!

Target had little " Grow a Pumpkin" 's in the 1 dollar section! I was so pumped but a little worried they wouldn't work! They sure did!

Pumpkin carving! This was the first time carving a pumpkin for many of my kids. I have a few with sensory issues that were reluctant to try to touch the guts, but I always make everyone try! Here is one of my students scooping out the guts using my paras hand as a tool :) We then carved the pumpkin together. Each student had to make a request for what they wanted to carve on the pumpkin using a full sentence.

Here's another fine motor task. Painting with Pom Poms. I found this one on pinterest. Use orange, yellow and white pom poms with corresponding paint. Then I clip the pom poms with a clothespin and have them dot to paint! I also used chalk to differentiate which section is for what color for my more visual kids

Our theme for October was BATS! We read books about bats, learned bat facts and made bats to hang from the ceiling! These bats are made from painted toilet paper rolls. I always try my best to recycle materials around the house before I buy new materials for the classroom!

We also made ghosts to hang alongside the bats. These ghosts are tootsie pops and a napkin! So easy and quick for those students who can't sit for long crafts.

Hope you all enjoyed your October. I will post pictures and elements of my classroom Halloween party this afternoon!

That's all for now!
Ms. Alyssa

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My Five Senses! ( & My Five Senses of FALL!)

The First Thanksgiving

Spooktacular Halloween Party

Happy October!

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