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......

Happy Monday and Happy (almost) Valentine's Day!! I never used to make a big production of Valentine's Day in my classroom. We always focused on Feelings and made Valentine's Day more of a secondary theme. However, then I found this super cute book from the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond and now we do a whole unit on Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse ! This super cute book is great for talking about Valentine's Day but it is extra awesome for talking about friendship and why we love our friends because in the story Mouse makes different valentine cards for each of his friends based on what he loves about them. On my TPT store, you can find my Happy Valentine's Day Mouse! Picture Book Communication and Comprehension Supports which includes printables,  IEP goal ideas, and progress monitoring sheets including these vocabulary boards which can be made into a fun memory or matching game... ...and this sentence-building board ......