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        14/12/2017 Hi,  My name is Jenny,... This is my very first time blogging .... I have lots to share, so please keep looking on my blog .... Just a quick note before I start:  Many parts of this/my blog will be voicing my opinions, what I am thinking at the time I write it,  If you don't like it then just move on, I'm not interested in entering into any arguments or discussions about anything I say ....  If you agree, then that's nice, but if you don't, then don't bother me with it, this is 'MY' blog. About me:  Well I've worked with C# and VB professionally for the past 8 years, before that I was a glamour model, yes that's right tits and bum (and the rest) , but because of the constant and ever increasing requirement for me to do naked photo shoots, I made the decision to make a complete career change, so after several years at college and plenty of hard work,  here I am.  So, here I go - love Red, found it last year  t...

Do you love the idea of inclusion but your students struggle to go into the general education setting? Are you looking for more peer to peer interactions? This is something I am always trying to do. Having general education peers involved in a special education students school day is extremely important. For the most part (there are always exceptions) general education students provide the perfect modeling example for students with special needs. Our students are able to see and hear typical language development and proper social interactions. They are forced to use the skills we have been working on in the classroom. Here are a few ways to get general education and special education students together throughout the school day. 1)Start a peer to peer program. These are awesome. At our school we call it STAR (Students Talking and Relating). General education students who are interested in learning more about disabilities are able to join. Each week we have a lunch group and the student...

The first ever computer programmer Ok, not about 'Red Programming' this time,  but still might be an interesting read. As I write this, I'm reminded of a word in a recent forum. It was suggested that I was an atypical programmer.   Atypical.  Meaning:  untypical, non-typical, uncommon, unconventional, unorthodox.  It could also be suggested that 'Red' is an atypical programming language, it's certainly far better and clearly superior to pretty much all of the others. The Countess of Computing Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Born: 10 December 1815, London - Died: 27 November 1852, Marylebone. The Countess of Lovelace. Daughter of Lord Byron. The man who was:  'Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know' . A gifted mathematician, Ada Lovelace is considered to have written the first computer program in the mid-1800s. Ada’s story...

News-2-You (N2Y) is something I use in my classroom regularly. If you haven't heard about it check out the website here.  I like N2Y for a few different reasons but my favorite thing is that it available on the iPad. Yes!!! NO PRINTING :))))) Here is how I utilize this awesome feature in my classroom **Disclaimer-these pictures are horrible!!!. Download the app for free in the app store. Once it is downloaded make sure to enter in all of your N2Y account information in the settings tab to be able to access the articles for free. The other cool thing about the app is that all of the previous articles are available to read, unlike online which only gives you access to 2 weeks at a time. Once you are in you will have to download each article you want (once you download it, it's available forever). You click the cloud with the down arrow. Once the article is downloaded you are able to select which level your students will read. This makes it easy to modify for all of your students....

Working in the Red Console     Click on this to make it bigger ! - ----------------------------------------------------------- You can cut and paste these examples. Let's start with the usual 'Hello World' print "Hello World !" s: "I am Jenny" print s prin s probe s - ----------------------------------------------------------- Now use the ? to get help ? print ? prin ? probe ------------------------------------------------------------ Type 'what' at the prompt to get a description of all functions. what ----------------------------------------------------------- Variables name: "Jenny" print name num: 36 print num ----------------------------------------------------------- Assign a block of code to a variable and run it with 'do' mydo: [print "Hello World"] do mydo ------------------------------------------------------------- What about an  'if then'  block n: 5 if n < 6 [print "Less than 6"] -----...

Have you heard of classrooms having food carts or coffee businesses but don't know how to get one started? Here is how we run the food cart at our school. We start off every school year with free samples...this is how we get everyone hooked. We set up a station in the front office and send out an email letting everyone know. We also put out a food donation sign up sheet in case anyone wants to donate store bought or homemade goodies. This is what our food cart looks like today but this is not where we started :). When we first started we had our local grocery store donate coffee, teachers donated snacks and we had a tiny cart. After a few years, grants and donations I can say we have a pretty awesome little business. The purpose of the food cart is for our students to develop and practice skills in the following areas: social norms, communication, money and team building. We take the cart out every Wednesday and Friday. I work in a pretty large school (800 students) so we have 6 sp...

Do you have students who struggle to complete paper/pencil tasks? Do you have kids who need hands on materials? Check out some of the tasks I have set up for our March math centers. Color Matching Tasks Here I use the same sorting bin but switch out the items to sort. This makes it somewhat of a routine task for my students but enough change to generalize the task.  These are super fun, especially for March! I love themes so this is a perfect way to carry our literacy theme of the week/month over into other subjects. This is a color matching task set up in a T.E.A.C.C.H bin style. The students can still work on color matching but have the opportunity to work on a variety of tasks throughout. Incorporating Core Vocabulary in Math Fine Motor These are parmesan cheese containers. You could make them way cuter but I change them regularly and haven't eaten enough parmesan cheese to have an abundance of containers :). So I just wrapped them with computer paper and wrote what I wanted in ...