Adapting :)

Happy Sunday!

Taking a quick break from printing and laminating to show off what I've been up to! Tomorrow kicks off our THIRD week of school and our first week of the "everyday schedule" of 7:40-4:15 pm. The past two weeks have been "summer school," it's still mandatory for our student attendance, but students left at 12:15. Those two weeks were spent establishing routines and procedures, character education lessons, and assessments.
We even had a successful fire drill!

I'm so thankful for the two weeks of summer school because I learned A LOT about the students I'll be working with. They are an awesome group! Very joyful, yet there are also many challenges.

One area I've been working on is creating appropriate adaptions for my students to access the general education (Common Core) curriculum. For these adaptions, I'm focusing on mainly attention (lessons "chunked"), sensory (as in, they need it!), and language/comprehension.

I've got to get right back to work, but I'll leave you with these pictures:

I've completed 15 social stories with interactive cards. I'll share more details once they are student-tested and approved :)

A very important adaption for Close Reading ("Listening"), is recording the comprehension book and creating an interactive PowerPoint. Not only is it helpful for the caseload I'm working with, other teachers could use it for students who are absent. Simply take photos or scan the pages from the book and load into a PowerPoint. When you select "Slide Show," there's an option to record yourself reading. Easy!!

I purchased these plates from Target Dollar Spot:

My students loved them and they kept all our math manipulatives in one place!

We also learned all about Monster Fingers while practice fluency:

I love the beginning of the year when I can show my new students all the fun things we'll be exploring and using to help us learn! 

It's like Christmas every day :)

I'll be back soon to share more!

Be sure to stop in Wednesday for a fun post

(IF you like retail therapy as much as I do!)!