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Do you ever have that moment at the beginning of the year before students arrive when you look around your classroom and smile? Everything is put in its place, pencils are sharpened and your cabinets are organized!! I have those moments too, it makes me feel like a kid on Christmas. But before we know it our students have entered the room and have made it their home. The pencils are now dull, nothing is put in its place and those cabinets just make you want to pull your hair out. Well friends not anymore. I have found a way to keep my choice cabinets neat and organized while still allowing the students to be independent. I start off by organizing my cabinet how I want it. I put the math games together, I have a section for reading games, puzzles, fun stuff etc. I then start to label the shelves with different color stickers. I use yard sale stickers but anything you have multiple of will work. I then put the same color sticker on all of the games/toys in that section. (puzzles are gree...

I love morning meeting because it gives me the chance to work with all of my students in a whole group. Since most of our day is filled with rigorous interventions, fluency timings, discrete trials and countless hours of data tracking I like to make our morning group a fun and predictable time! Even though I like to make it fun, morning meeting/group is a GREAT time to throw in some functional academics. Here is a picture of our schedule. I color coordinate everything in my classroom. Everything to do with morning group is purple! After the kids have gone to their lockers and turned in homework they start their personal information binders (you can read more about them  here ).  The kids are allowed into the building 15 minutes before our bell rings so I use the binders as our "morning work". As soon as the bell rings we start our morning group. This year I am super excited to announce that I have a SMARTboard in my classroom. If you don't have a SMARTboard no worries. Yo...

What!! How cool is this? Myself along with 24 other AMAZING special education bloggers have put together an e-book filled with tips and FREEBIES to help you get back into the swing of the school year. We decided to do a book so all of your tips and freebies would be in one document. Download the book once and read through, be sure to click on the freebie pictures to get your downloads. My page is the very last one but don't miss all of the other awesome tips!! Click here to grab your copy. Along with the e-book we are ALL doing a giveaway! I have given you 8 different ways to enter my giveaway. None of them are mandatory BUT the more you do the more chances you have to WIN!! a Rafflecopter giveaway Be sure to click the links at the bottom of the page to hop through everyones blog to enter their giveaways. If you do them all you would have 25 chances to WIN!! An InLinkz Link-up Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Students with autism heavily depend on structured work systems and 3 bin work tasks are one way to achieve this. I have created some Work Task Labels to help you kick start your structured classroom work system. All students can benefit from this system so don't think it is only for students with autism. Here's how it works! SET UP:   1)  Decide how many "systems" you want in your room. I have 4, 3 students who have their own and then I have 1 system that 4 students share. The "systems" themselves take up a lot of space so really think about how you will have your classroom set up. Also think about your schedule, if you can have students share stations that saves space. **When sharing stations be sure the kids are working on the same skills, there is someone to reset the station when each student is done, the students schedules do not overlap. 2)   Set up the furniture. The 3 bin tower should be on the left of the desk. I include a basket on top for file fo...

Today ONLY a group of special education bloggers and myself are having a dollar sale. Type the special code #SPEDDollarDeals into the search bar on TPT and BAM! You will see all of the products available....best thing they are all only $1!! The product I have entered is my All About Fall adapted book . This book (along with all of my other adapted books) allows students to read and learn fun facts about fall while answering "wh" questions to test their comprehension. Make sure to head on over and see what you can snag!  #SPEDDollarDeals Follow my blog with Bloglovin

For this weeks #TPTSellerChallenge we had to "Make Our Masterpiece". I have been wanting to make personal information binders for months now and felt that this was the perfect opportunity. For this personal info binder I made it completely EDITABLE !! I have included 2 PowerPoint Versions and a Keynote version. Having the editable document allows you to save time, ink, laminate and paper. Most of the binder requires some work to personalize it but I did include a no prep version for students who need the practice but do not need the support of visuals and hands on materials. For this version you can print enough copies for the entire year and place them in a binder (don't forget to select hole punch when making copies). If that is too overwhelming for your kiddos, print a ton of copies, store them in your room and allow your kids to add their completed pages to their binders. That way their work is still stored in one location. I am SOOOO  excited about this next versio...