Happy Valentine's Day!! I hope everyone lived through the sugar and chaos every class party seems to bring! This year my team has been sending home monthly "home projects" to have the students work on with their families. We have found this to be important because many of our students do not recieve homework so we wanted to make sure they still sat down at least once each month to work on something with their parents. This gives them a chance to show off how hard they have been working on those fine motor skills! This month we had the kids make Valentine Boxes. I used this great letter from Jennifer at Empowering Little Learners  which cut down on the prep time on my end (what teacher doesn't love that?!). I was so pleased with a lot of our boxes and the kids were super excited to share what they made. Here are some pictures of their creations: Here are several of our boxes. This student had the cutest dog house box complete with a life-size replic......

I want to welcome all my new visitors from my friend Megan's blog at  Mrs. Wheeler's First Grade Tidbits ! I hope you like what you see and come visit me again soon! As a gift for all my new visitors and to my followers tonight I am going to post several more Practice at Home lists FREEBIES Practice at Home lists FREEBIES ! These lists are great for giving parents ideas for multisensory activities that they can do for extra homework practice, during remote learning, or to prevent the summer slide.  Lists include: Practicing Numbers at Home (Counting & Number Recognition) Practicing Letters at Home Practicing Writing at Home Practicing Spelling at Home Practicing Sight Word Reading at Home Practicing Money Skills at Home These lists are a great resource for parents wanting a creative way to work with their child at home. I hope your parents enjoy them as much as mine do!  Download my FREE Multisensory Activity Lists for Practicing Basic Math ......

Many times at conferences and IEP meetings, parents will express frustration about being able to practice skills at home with their child. Many times when I ask parents how they practice specific skills they will say they have their child write it 5 times each. AHHH! What a flashback to my days in elementary school! I hated this monotonous task, and knowing my super hands-on SpEd kids I am sure this is a nightmare for them as well. To address this issue I developed several Practice at Home lists that I share with parents to give them creative, multi-sensory ways to work with their children. An added bonus is many of these methods are easy and involve materials most families already have at home so they are cost-effective as well. Click the link below to enjoy my first-ever FREEBIE!! Download my FREE Multisensory Activity Lists for Practicing Basic Math & Reading Skills at Home! I look forward to connecting with you and sharing SpEd Spot tips and FREEBIES! Downl......