SPEDtacular Sunday Freebies {New Weekly Linky}

Hello SPED community! Ready for some freebies!?! I'm launching a new weekly linky explicitly for SPED teachers! You may be familiar with "Freebie Friday" that we all love from "Teaching Blog Addict," and "Manic Monday" hosted by Charity Preston of "Classroom Freebies," but I think it's time for a resource linky specific to special education teachers! What'd you say!? 

Every Sunday I'll host a link up here on my blog for "SPEDtacular" freebies! Bloggers and TPT sellers can link up their freebies each week from their blogs or stores. Those that don't have a blog or store can visit each week to download free resources for their classrooms! 

Link Up Rules

1. All resources must be FREE!
2. Your freebie may link to your blog or store.
3. Freebie does not have to be related specifically to SPED, but should be practical for SPED.
4. If you are linking up from your blog, using this image in your post and linking back to my blog is not required, but is greatly appreciated! Also, feel free to share this image on your social media so your other SPED friends don't miss out! :)

*I recommend using an image of your freebie & not your button when linking up. 

Let's get started! 

Link up your free resources below and/or download the free resources you can use in your classroom! The link up tool will close on Saturday each week, but freebies will remain accessible! Come back every Sunday to link up or download new freebies!

An InLinkz Link-up

Get Free Stuff for your Classroom!!

That's right!! All of this was absolutely FREE! Even shipping is FREE! All you pay is handling fees, which literally amounts to hardly nothing! 

Usually if it sounds to good to be true, it is, right?! But not with Naeir! Naeir is all about giving back to the community and empowering generosity! And they LOVE helping teachers!

Checked out my shipment that arrived today! :)

 I got $293 worth of classroom supplies for just $28 today!

 There is a minimum order of $25 and what I am about to show you costed me just that, $28.00!

 I got 10 of these little awesome squishy guys, and their eyes even pop out!!! My kiddos will go crazy over these!

 30 Memorex CDs!

 Papermate Pens galore! And FLAIR pens!

 Command hooks, and we know how pricey these can be! These come in so handy in my classroom!

 These were just too neat to resist! Write on tacks! I'm sure I'll find a use for them! And not only were they just a couple bucks for handling, you don't just get a pack, you get a whole box! That's how most of the items are sold on Naeir, in quantities!

 Days of the week page dividers! Now what teacher can't use these to get organized!!?

 Post it note highlighters! If you're a sped teacher, you know how handy these can be!!

 LABELS! I can never have too many of these! And with 840 in a pack, I'll be stocked for a while!

 And did someone say sticky note queen?? Just look at all of these sticky notes and sticky tabs!!!

Now how can you turn down a deal this good!! I mean all of this for $28 bucks! Right now they are offering free teacher memberships here. So hurry, I don't know how long this will last! They will verify that you are a licensed teacher currently in a classroom before approving your membership. Once they have verified you, you will get an email and you can begin shopping! So get started! You'd be crazy not to take advantage! Start now by browsing their educational supply catalog here to see all of the great deals you could be getting for your classroom! 

Bunches of shopping ahead,

5 Easter Freebies!!!

Easter is just a few days away!!! I don't get to do much Easter in my classroom because we are always on Spring Break the week before! But if you're in school all week, I have several Easter freebies in my store that you're students will love!! 

EGG HUNT

Students solve these rhymes by reading the riddle on each egg!

RHYMING BUNNIES

Students make new words to rhyme.

EASTER EGG RECORDING SHEET

Use this open-ended recording sheet for your students to record all of their plastic egg activities! 

SINK OR FLOAT?

Place different objects in plastic eggs and see if they sink or float. 

JUGGLING JELLYBEANS

Students just learning to count objects can practice their counting skills by counting jellybeans and matching them to the correct number. 

These are all FREE! Click on each picture to download each freebie! 

My students also love building sentences with my Scrambled Sentences resources! Here is the Easter Edition my students just did!

Each set includes 4, 5, and 6 word sentences for easy differentiation! The cards are also color and pattern coded for easy organization. 

Click here for a closer look! 

Sending bunches of Easter wishes your way, 

Five for Friday, Currently, & October Freebie!

I'm always preaching to my kids, "Use your time wisely." Well this week, I'm using my time wisely and linking up with three awesome linkys in one post!! Five for Friday, Currently, and Freebie Friday!!!

I am beyond elated that I was nominated a few weeks ago for the community "Educator of the Year Award." "What?" Last week I discovered that I had been chosen as one of the top four finalists!!! "What?" I interviewed with all of the judges Tuesday and the winner will be announced at a formal black tie dinner on Oct. 24th!!! Super super excited, speechless and honored!!!

My Currently hosted by "Oh Boy 3rd Grade." It's been a few months since I've linked up with Farley for her Currently and so happy I remembered today!! And for the first time ever I'm in the top 50 to link up!

Loving my new flash drive bracelets and reading my comments to discover my fan's favorite products!!! Read more about them here and enter to win one loaded with your favorite products!!! The giveaway ends tonight!

My kids dancing to the "Nae Nae" song on "Go Noodle!" They are obsessed with this song....and with "Go Noodle."

A Halloween freebie for you I'm linking up with "Freebie Friday" that is a sample of my new popular "Sequencing Mats" and "Adapted Sequencing Books," thanks to the awesome pumpkin clipart from "Whimsy Workshop."

Thanks a bunch for stopping by!! :) 

What did you do this week? 

Time for Currently!!!

Listening - A bunch of my sped blogging buddies recently started up a collaborative group FB page....so awesome! I'm just loving the collaboration. We even teamed up and put together a bloghop full of tips, freebies, and giveaways during Thanksgiving weekend! If you missed it....it's not too late....you can start the journey here!

Loving - I finally got to visit a Trader Joe's for the first time today! It's been on my bucket list for a couple of years!!! 

Thinking - CHRISTMAS!!! I just love it! Shopping online like crazy and finding everything I want for everyone! Shopping so crazy, my bank restricted my card yesterday due to suspicious use!! Can you believe that....it's Christmas...hello! Is that just crazy or am I the crazy one!!!?

Wanting - boots!!! I keep seeing all these adorable cute boots on everyone.....I want a pair!! I want boots now!

Needing - as always, needing to be doing sped paperwork, but hey a girl needs to do fun stuff every now and then, right?!

Giving - picked up this awesome freebie yesterday from Erica Bohrer...."Kindness Elves in the Classroom." It is going to incorporate kindness in my classroom every day this month! You can get it from Erica's store {here}. 




Head over to Farley's blog to link up your own Currently.....and don't forget to check visit this post to enter my three giveaways and get your freebie!

Do You Survey Parents On Your Performance?

Do you ever wonder how your students' parents see you? Do they think you're a good teacher? Are they happy with the progress their child is making? Do they wish you would communicate more? Do they complain every night about the homework you send? I know many of us only see a parent once a year....at conferences or the annual IEP meeting....and sometimes not even then. 

Well this year my district is implementing the new teacher evaluation system using the Nevada Educator Performance Framework (NEPF). Here are standards 4 and 5 from the professional standards. 

While looking at standard 4, I thought, well I'm not lacking in communication. I send home daily behavior reports, a monthly newsletter, I have an updated class website, I use class messenger to send them reminders on their cell phones. I welcome parents to visit anytime, although they rarely do. But then I thought, how often do I really seek out their input, other than at the annual IEP meeting?

And then when I looked at standard 5, I thought, now how am I going to achieve this? My students are MR, Autistic, and some non-verbal. I mean sure, I know my students know I value and care about them and I know they feel safe with me, but how am I going to provide evidence for this standard?? It can't just be what I know in my heart, it's all about the EVIDENCE! 

After sharing my thoughts with my principal, she came up with the idea of a parent survey. What a great idea?? I mean many of us do parent surveys at the beginning of the year but we are surveying their child. And schools do surveys surveying overall school performance. But what about a survey that allows parents to survey you and provide input??! Even when I googled it and searched TpT....nothing! 

So I've created a parent survey to improve my professional standards in this area and as part of my evidence for standards 4 and 5.

You are welcome to snag it up and use it for free to survey your parents!

MONDAY MADE IT & CLASS REVEAL

Today was the start to our third week back with students and I'm finally getting settled in and catching my breath! No matter how hard I try to go into each new year prepared and organized, it just never seems to go my way! 

Finally, I have a little time to share some things I've made for my classroom and to reveal my class photos!!! I was super excited when I sat down at the computer and also realized that it too, is Tara's monthly Monday Made It Linky Party!!!

These are Skittles candles. I made these for my SPED team to
start the year off "SCENT-Sational!!!"

Now when I pull sticks to choose students, I don't need another cup to put the chosen ones in! Simply flip the stick. If the green side is up, that student has had a turn!

Trash scrap buckets on each table! No more bits of paper everywhere or students wasting time going to the trash can!

And the most genius idea EVER!! Glue sponges!!

I saw these all over blogland last year, but stuck with my glue sticks! After spending a fortune on glue sticks last year, finding caps everywhere along with dried up sticks, glue in hair, on tables, and all over hands, and mushed up glue on papers.......glue sticks became my biggest pet peeve last year!!!!!!! While these have become my best friend! If you haven't done this yet in your classroom, you are missing out! No glue mess in over 2 weeks now!

And although still a work in progress....here's my classroom!!!! 

My room is never done! I'm constantly changing it throughout the year....many times over! I've already made 2-3 changes that aren't even revealed in these photos. I guess I may be a very indecisive person. It's just that I try new things and they don't work, or I don't like the way it looks, or I find a better way!!! And let's face it....I am one that likes change!!! I don't think I've ever started a year out with a PERFECTLY complete room!! 

The pictures are pretty self-explanatory, so I'm not going to elaborate too much. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment! :)

And here's a little line up chart freebie for you!