Dec. 11th

4 Seasons
*Internet Resources - Starfall.com (Online activities); Kinderart.com (can make wreaths);
Ben and Jerry's.com (Interactive snowmen) -different interactive activities online for each
season.
Social Skills (Focus students with severe mental retardation)
*Modelmekids.com - provides materials for social skills
*Socialskillstraining.org
Exploring Availiable Resources for Parents of Students with Special Needs
(Morgan Center)
*Focus is on Home/School /Community Collaboration
*For parents to be better informed about how they can address their child's needs
Stellaluna
*Tools students will use to reach objectives
- Graphic Organizers
- Books (any books related to bats)
- Internet
- Word Processing Program
- Movies
*Reference Materials
- batquest - website
- Living Culture
- Academic language (using language as if students don't have disabilities)
Reflection:
Sharon this was a great class! I learned a lot this semester and I will take everything I learned and implement this into my future teaching practices.

Dec. 3rd

There were a lot of great presentations this evening. It was neat to see what other people have created/implemented within their own classrooms. I was really inspired by Becky's power point presentation on Plymouth and how she really broke down the 5th grade social studies curriculum without "dumbing down" the curriculum. That looked like a fantastic unit!
I was also just soo impressed with a few of the other presentations and how my classmates were doing such awesome projects with their students - the earthworm project and the poetry and music presentation were also awe inspiring. It was really neat to see all sorts of units/activities that you could do with any population of students that you work with. I can't wait to see what next week's presentations will look like.