New Site

Please check out out new site.

http://piecing-together.weebly.com 

Classroom Suite Resources

I love finding sites where someone has done my work for me.  :-)   Here is one that has many activities for CLassroom Suite - some free, some a low cost, but all good activities for students on alternate assessment in Georgia.  www.connectivetechnologysolutions.com/

Let me know which ones worked for you!

I am trying to find ways to post powerpoints to share.  This is my first attempt with a powerpoint saved on SlideShare.com   We'll see how it works.  It's a recipe for a fun frozen treat - Peach Pops - to supplement instruction on regions of Georgia, Georgia Habitats, and James & the Giant Peach.

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If you're not using Pinterest to find fun back to

activities then you are missing out on some great ideas and some great fun!  Check out these math ideas on my Pinterest board - then share some of your own.    http://pinterest.com/jpritchard22/math/

You can also get tutorials on YouTube but it's more fun just to poke around.  WARNING:  It is addictive!

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MONEY SKILLS

Special education teachers are always looking for ways to help students develop money skills.  Our students with ID need much more practice.  Here is a site with some "play money" you can print as well as some worksheets and other fun ideas for money skills that may save you a little time. You can sign up for a weekly update newsletter.

http://www.printableplaymoney.net/

The next adventure!

After 36 years in the public schools (26 in Cobb County GA), I am retiring.  I hope to stay busy supporting teachers & students in new and different ways.  Please feel free to contact me at jpritchard22@gmail.com if there is any way I can support you or your students.  I am available for training or consultation or just to brainstorm ideas. 

There seems to be a huge gap between what the law says we have to provide in the educational system and the needs of the students participating in this system.  The gap gets wider when you start talking about students with any sort of special educational needs.  And the gap becomes a huge canyon when you start considering students with significant cognitive disabilities.  I hope to use this blog to help support teachers, therapists, and parents as we look at ways to help students access the academic curriculum.
This is not a political forum to discuss the merits (or non-merits) of particular educational policy.  Rather I want it to be a hopeful space to share ideas and materials that will help students participate in meaningful ways.  I have discovered over the past 35+ years in the educational system that I have a skill and passion for helping adapt and create materials to assure everyone gets a chance to participate.  I want to share some of those ideas and materials with other teachers, therapists & parents.
I'm new at blogging and this will be an adventure for me.