back to basics...

Yes, I know I have neglected y'all yet again and I truly apologize... no excuses.  So here I am refreshed and renewed 2 months into the new school year. Everything has been going terrific this year so far. I have a new para, Mrs. Hart who is excellent! She loves the kids and takes the initiative to start and maintain lessons! She loves to stay busy! How perfect. A big focus this year for us is incorporating sign language throughout the whole day because we have 4 out of 6 who will benefit (yes I said 6! isn't that amazing, i don't know what I did to deserve this but thank you!!!). So Ms. Hart and I are doing our best to teach the students the basics and they are catching on very quickly. It is very exciting. More good news.... We are getting 3 new PC's for the classroom! We had thin clients (Linux) before and they were very difficult to navigate and did not except any of the special ed software programs. I am so excited to introduce appropriate and exciting educational software to my students. Also this will allow Mrs. Hart to assist me with some of the clerical responsibilities such as data collection and sorts. Another piece of software my class will be getting is..drum roll please... an Ipad! There are only a few being donated to our system and I have been chosen to try one out for the special ed classroom! The others are being used and tested as ACDs. So know I wont have to have my students use my personal iPhone for the apps. ! Yeah!  So I know I haven't put of pics of the new class but I will take them this week! I wanted to get everything put in place and clean up my desk... so be awaiting.  The GAA is in full effect and I will be uploading some ideas and possibly some worksheets to the site. I have written a few social stories using Writing with Symbols. I would love to upload them but cant figure it out since they are saved in an unidentifiable format. If you know how to convert these, please let me know! Same with boardmaker!