Interactive & Velcro-Free: Math Sorts
We all get sick of cutting velcro. The blisters, the sticky scissors - I get it. Even if you are used to the luxurious life of velcro dots - it gets expensive and it's still time consuming to peel off each of those little circles of goodness. So let's take...
Focus on Five: Features of MATH MEETING!
March is all about math at TAH and I'm proud to introduce a new product available on TAH's TpT Store...Math Meeting! Math Meeting was created as a highly structured, repetitive daily lesson to teach basic math skills. As I have described in previous blogs, Math...
Visual Math Activities {Level 1 & 2}
In our world, visuals make just about anything better. Heck - in any world, visuals make anything better. So it should be no surprise how much visuals add to some basic math skills. These are two of my very favorite resources. I love the variety, I love...
Math Centers: Interactive & Engaging
To put it nicely, math is not my favorite subject but this resource makes it so much more bearable! I love that these 10 Math Centers for Early Childhood or Special Education incorporate a wide range of math skills. I used to really have a tendency to...
Math Work Task Mega Pack
Work tasks are a key component in any classroom! These can be utilized as teaching tools, group work, or independent work tasks. In order to create an effective work task system - you must create a large number of varied work tasks that are visual and...
All About TouchMath
Are you familiar with TouchMath? Known as The Alphabet of Mathematics - this visually based approach to math can be perfect for our learners. It embeds prompting and utilizes the numbers as manipulative themselves! If you have students that are struggling...
Teaching Counting
The most basic of the basic - but basic can be tricky. Teaching the skill of counting is something I have really struggled with. There is so much that goes into fully mastering this skill and so many ways to work on it. Also math is not my fav so I’m never...
Focus on Five: Five Benefits to Daily “Meetings” with FREEBIE!
What is a daily "meeting"? In my classroom, I use meetings as daily routine for a group of students on the same level. My meetings are within subject areas and include a large format on the front board and a daily worksheet for students. The format is the same each...
Focus on Five: Ways to Level Up TAH’s {Leveled} Daily Curriculum!
The school year's back in full swing! Now that your centers and procedures are ready to go, it's time to set up curriculum! This is my third year of using the fabulous, functional Language Arts Leveled Daily Curriculum and the dazzling, differentiated Math Leveled...
Leveled Daily Homework
Special Education Teachers are busy. We have IEPs, lesson plans, behavior plans, staff training, staff meetings, parent meetings, parent communication, communication systems, AAC devices, clinician collaboration, case managers, and once in a blue moon we may need to...
Language Arts and Math Leveled Daily Curriculum
The start of the year is stressful. We have so freaken much to do that it’s hard to even get started because the pile of work is so monumental. As special education teachers, we don’t have a preset curriculum to follow. There is no perfect set of textbooks or...
Monthly Theme: Teaching Techniques
The new year comes in with a new energy. There is definitely a sense of revitalization. Those two weeks away from your classroom are pretty powerful. We can so easily become so entrenched and engrossed in our room that we lose sight of the big picture, long term...
iPads & Anchor Charts: Why Your Independent Work Doesn’t Need to be Mastered
You may be hesitant to include too many academic tasks in your students independent work activities because your students haven't completely mastered many of these academic areas. But guess what? Want to hear a little secret? Independent work doesn't need to be...
Literacy, Math, and Writing Centers {why I’m OBSESSED with these}
Independent work is the backbone of any successful classroom but that doesn't mean your kids need to be stringing beads and sorting colored bears all day. If you are like me, you may feel like sometimes our understaffed schools have forced us into a situation of...
Leveled Daily Curriculum
Creating curriculum is basically a second full time job. I am advocating for second salaries for sped teachers but no such luck quite yet. Creating materials that are aligned to each students' needs, utilizing assessments, taking data, sequencing skills, and making...
Interactive Reading and Math Work Books
The start of the year is all about training staff, teaching your students routines, implementing new behavior plans, and trying to get the new barista at starbucks to memorize your order (venti unsweetened iced coffee!). You were probably nodding your head along to...
Visual Math Activities {LEVEL 2}
As a child, my parents say I was always a "two cookie" kinda girl. If I had a cookie in one hand, I needed one for the other. It make sense. If you have something great - it's always better to have more. And although that philosophy has not always been so great for my...
Interactive Math Work Books
If you are a regular reader, you probably think I am huge freaken liar sometimes. I say everything is my favorite. This is my favorite resource, no this is my favorite resource, no wait this for real is my favorite resource. I can't help it, guys. I've got a lot of...
Addition Mega Pack
This resource contains a completel addition teaching guide! This massive packet focuses on breaking down the addition number operations into small and manageable pieces. The scope and sequence of this curriculum is structured in a way to build on each previously...
Let’s Keep Score! Holding Students Accountable for Their Grades
For our higher functioning students - especially our ones who are older - we want to continue to make them more and more independent and self-aware. We want to be constantly increasing their self-management skills so they can be a functionally independent adult. It's...