A Special Education Pinterest List

Find Pinteresting People to follow.

Honest. This is easy to do.

• Go to Pinterest.
• Go to the 'wall' that houses your Pinterest pin-boards collections.
• Look up-top in the bar with your pinterest identity.
• Copy that Pin-URL.
• Go down to the bottom of the link-up below.
• At the bottom of the list, click on the blue words that say: "Click here to enter".
• Designate your Pinterest collection with a descriptive title.
• Then paste your Pinterest URL in the URL line.

VOILA!

No blog addresses. Just Pinterest accounts, please.

Fall Freebie

I had such a rough week last week that I decided to create a little freebie for fall.

This activity contains the numbers 1 to 5.  Children have to put the correct number of acorns in the wagon.  Click on the picture below to get it for free.

If your students need numbers to 10, I have made the same activity with the higher numbers in my Happy Fall pack.

The pack contains 3 activities.

In "squirrel counting numbers", children put the correct number of acorns to 10 in the wagons.

 In "find the missing numbers" children put the correct acorn on either side of the squirrel.

 And in "squirrel number order", children put the squirrels in the right order.  I've included 2 sets of squirrels with numbers 0 to 10

Click on any of the pictures to go to my TpT store to get it.



Paralympics

I'm a little disappointed at our local coverage of the Paralympic Games.  It certainly doesn't get the coverage of the regular Olympics.   You can though, see a lot of coverage on the internet.  I thought I would share a couple of videos that touched me.

This video shows the world record of the women's 100m Backstroke.



and this one shows David Beckham trying out blind football (soccer).



If you get a chance check out some of the other events on-line.

Team Hoyt

The Paralympics begin on Aug 29th and I'm hoping that I'm going to be able to catch some of the events on tv.  While I was thinking about the events I was reminded about one of the most inspirational teams that I have ever heard of.  Team Hoyt.

I few years back I was at a seminar and saw a video about a young man who wanted to run in a benefit run and the father who made it happen.  Why was this an amazing thing? Read their incredible story and watch the video.  Have your tissues ready.


The Beginning of Team Hoyt


"In the spring of 1977, Rick told his father that he wanted to participate in a 5-mile benefit run for a Lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Far from being a long-distance runner, Dick agreed to push Rick in his wheelchair and they finished all 5 miles, coming in next to last. That night, Rick told his father, "Dad, when I'm running, it feels like I'm not handicapped."

This realization was just the beginning of what would become over 1,000 races completed, including marathons, duathlons and triathlons (6 of them being Ironman competitions). Also adding to their list of achievements, Dick and Rick biked and ran across the U.S. in 1992, completing a full 3,735 miles in 45 days.

In a triathlon, Dick will pull Rick in a boat with a bungee cord attached to a vest around his waist and to the front of the boat for the swimming stage. For the biking stage, Rick will ride a special two-seater bicycle, and then Dick will push Rick in his custom made running chair (for the running stage).

Rick was once asked, if he could give his father one thing, what would it be? Rick responded, "The thing I'd most like is for my dad to sit in the chair and I would push him for once."
The 2009 Boston Marathon was officially Team Hoyt's 1000th race. Rick always says if it comes down to doing one race a year he would like it to be the Boston Marathon: his favorite race. Dick Hoyt hopes that he is able to push Rick in the Boston Marathon when he is 70 years old (2011)! Neither Dick or Rick are ready to retire yet." (copied from their website Team Hoyt)




Their website is Team Hoyt

Freebie Friday - Teacher Week

This the last day of Teacher Week at Blog Hoppin'.  I hope you have enjoyed the week.  We are going out with a bang and offering freebies.

Here is my freebie.  It's the next Assessment package that I use in my class.

I hope you find it helpful and I hope you have enjoyed your week.  Please head over to Blog Hoppin' for more great freebies.

Therapeutic Thursday

 

Today is Therapeutic Thursday.  I found this really hard to blog about.  I mean, what DO I do to relax after teaching?  DO I relax?  Often in my spare time, I'm creating activities for my classroom and to sell on TpT. 

 

During the school year I'm a hockey mum.  I love watching my boys play.  Here they are from last year.  Yes, they are BOTH goalies, so I can't say that it's really relaxing to watch them.  Being a goalie parent is very stressful.

 

 

 

 

So when I do relax I like grab a Diet Pepsi (or my new favourite, Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi)

 

 

and curl up with a good book.

 How do you like to relax?  Head on over to Blog Hoppin' to find out how other teachers spend their down time.

 

Must Haves Monday

Today kicks off a week of linky parties on Blog Hoppin'.

Monday is for "Must Haves" so I thought I would post about some of the things that I consider must haves for a special education class.



I hope you got a few ideas for things that I find useful in a special education class.  Hop on over to Blog Hoppin' for more "must haves" from other bloggers.