Want to Be a Guest Blogger? Wednesday, August 19, 2015. KEEPING TRACK OF PROGRESS in the Special Education Classroom. I am so excited about guest blogging here at Special Sparkle. Today, I wanted to share an awesome app for documenting and monitoring progress.

Be sure to visit us on our new blog! Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Come SEA what keeps me AFLOAT at TPT! All this week there has been a building excitement! Sellers from TpT were informed that there are now 3 MILLION Teachers working together on TpT! Can you believe that! So, my blogging group, Owlways Be Inspired. And see what all you need! Here are a few of my favorites! .

Sunday, August 12, 2012. Whole Brain Teaching Social Media Intern! I have been selected as a Whole Brain Teaching Social Media Intern! I am so honored to have been selected! Never in a million years did I think they would select me! My goal, along with my 6 team mates, is to increase the number of views and subscribers on the WBT Webcast channel and the number of pins on the Pinterest board.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Awhile back we covered comparing numbers with greater than, less than. Here is a video of one of my students working on comparing 28 and 27. I made mats for my students to practice this concept on. I am really pleased with the on task behavior. If you are interested in using these mats, you can grab them here. Wednesday, December 20, 2017. I am on a much needed Christmas break! She has a few more op.

Thursday, July 21, 2016. My plan is to do a series of posts, each focusing on a certain aspect of merging the two programs successfully. So here we go! This first post is just an overview of where I was starting and where I ended up. So here I was, a new program, over 30 students, teaching only whole group math. I was LOST! My small grou.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Gobble Up Some Freebies- Making 10 Fun. I am so excited that Thanksgiving Break is almost here! This will be the 1st time EVER to have the whole week off. We have been working on math facts and 10 makers. We have played games galore.

Going on a Turkey Hunt - Freebie. Is it me or is 2017 just flying by? I have to admit I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving. My absolute favorite month to teach every year is March! Any Seuss lovers out there? Dr Seuss books are a mainstay in elementary classrooms around the world! Here is more Seuss learning we do during March.

Thursday, July 28, 2016. For those of you that have stuck around, thank you! To my new visitors, WELCOME! Since I was last here I have switched schools and grade levels. I am now teaching at the same elementary school that I attended as a student and teaching Kindergarten. I never thought I would love teaching kindergarten as much as I do.

Get Kindergarten Updates and Free Curriculum! Interactive Notebooks in Kindergarten. I am SUPER excited to talk with you today about interactive notebooks in kindergarten! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE resources that my kids can use over and over again and Interactive Notebooks are just that. Within the past two years, I began . 5 Must Have Alphabet Songs For Kinder. Using music in kindergarten is so important! What To Plan on The First Day of Kindergarten! .

Wednesday, June 3, 2015. We have been doing a WHOLE lot of adding and subtracting in my class these days! Whew Here is a look at some of the things we have been doing. Addition and Subtraction Anchor charts. Addition and Subtraction Math Huddles. Once we started to feel good with the addition .