by Sasha Long | Jan 26, 2015 | Curriculum Ideas, Expressive Language, Social Skills |
Wanna hear a dirty little secret from my classroom? I prompt my kids to compliment me. I know. I sound vain. And as much as I love hearing endless compliments about my new purple sweater from 14 year old boys, as always, there is method to the madness. And don’t...
by Sasha Long | Dec 10, 2014 | Resources, Winter |
Last year we started a super fun new tradition that targeted social skills, abstract thinking, making inferences, and perspective taking. Sounds kinda heavy for Christmas season, doesn’t? No worries it was still amazingly fun! I’m not gonna lie though...
by Sasha Long | Nov 17, 2014 | Curriculum Ideas, Social Skills |
Last year, we used this great farm comic template I found from Whimsy Workshop Teacher to work on idioms. I loved the idea of having this word bubbles to practice our new idioms we had been working on. We made our comics using the idioms we had worked on. This worked...
by Sasha Long | Nov 12, 2014 | Curriculum Ideas, Receptive Language, Social Skills |
Every year there are a few resources that I gravitate to. They are my go-to’s. The perfect combination of being at my students’ level and also understandable for them. It’s not too confusing or too hard. These resources change a bit each year...
by Sasha Long | Sep 5, 2014 | Resources, Social Skills |
During the first week of school, we did a lot of ‘getting to know each other’ and ‘all about me’ activities. In all fairness, my kids really already do know each other. But I choose these types of activities for a few reasons – 1. They...
