I am always trying to find ways to work on time and money every day. I love these two interactive worksheets that my kids have in their morning binders (see this post). We do these every day after we finish our morning group (daily weather, calendar, etc.), so my students have time to work on these skills independently.
The first activity is for telling time. I had a bunch of these mini clocks laying around my classroom, so I Velcro one onto the bottom of the page. Each day, the kids get to choose a time they want (they circle it as shown below) and then they manipulate the clock to make it say the corresponding time. Then, the next day, they circle a new number (and so on....until all the times have been circled). Once all the times have been circled, I can give them a worksheet with harder times (telling time to 5-minute or 1-minute increments), or use the same sheet again (just use some cleaning spray to wipe off the overhead marker).
Most of us have tons of visuals all around our classroom for our students. Sometimes, I need visuals for myself too! If it works for the kids, why wouldn't it work to make me a better teacher? At my "Teacher Time" station, I work with 1-2 students at a time on IEP goals. We do work on IEP goals at a variety of other stations during the day as well, so this station is meant to work on the goals we don't get to as often or that require more time/attention to work on. Unfortunately, with 12 kids, it is sometimes hard to make sure we get to everything (and don't always work on the same things!). I do have data sheets and lists of goals at this station to help me with specifics for each child, but I love this visual to help remind me of general goal topics I should be working on each day.
TGIF...I love my job...but I also love my weekends. Here are the top 5 moments of my work week:
1. My occupational therapist started drawing lines on my students' journal paper to remind them to start on the left side of the paper. Well, on this day, my student drew his own line, but then proceeded to write his journal in the middle/right side of his paper.
After one of my previous posts about a file folder sorting activity, I received a few requests to sell these materials on TPT...so that is what I have been up to this week. This product includes two sorting activities. The first activity is sorting items based on rooms in the house This covers Bedroom, Laundry Room, Kitchen, and Bathroom. I made mine in a file folder as pictured below...but with the materials in this packet, you could also just laminate the 2 pages or put them in top-loading sheets.
When it comes to money skills, I have students at a wide range of levels. Some students are working on identifying names/values of each coin, others are working on counting multiple of the same coin, while others are working on counting combinations of different coins. These are some of my favorite visuals to use when working on counting multiples of the same coin. Everything seen in today's post is also available in my TPT Store (click here to go straight to this product).
I don't know why, but teaching addition and subtraction can lead to some of my most frustrating moments as a teacher. When I started in my classroom, some of the only "curriculum" given to me was Touch Math. For those of you who haven't heard of this, it is a math program that teaches kids to add by counting dots on the numbers. Ideally, you fade out the dots on one number, and then the second. When there are no dots left, students can still remember where the dots are and use their finger to touch the place where the dots should be.
Our school was one of 34 schools in the country that won NFL Play 60 contest this year. What does that mean? Well, we get money to create and implement healthy activities and we got a pep rally with NFL player Tim Jennings! One of my students even got selected to go to a 60 minute gym class run by Tim Jennings (he had a blast!). Our school has really been working on upping the health this year, which is awesome! We finally have Recess(!) and my school hired a second gym teacher to help up student activity levels.
