17 days of Christmas - let it snow!

A few days ago we got a bit of snow, and so I wanted to share some super snowy resources with you. Cuddle up with a cup of hot chocolate and play some of these fun games on your computer!  

Stickers for all seasons Choose the winter season and have fun placing stickers on the winter scene

Snowflake workshop - Create a cute snowflake in the snowflake workshop!

Make a flake - Make your own snowflake with the scissors and paper.

Build your own snowman Dress up the snowman

Winter resources - many great winter resources

Winter madlibs - printable witner mad libs 

100 snowballs - 100 snowballs count the snowballs to 100

Make a snowman - Create a fun snowman by adding in buttons, scarves, hats, mittens, and a face!

Alfy’s Snow Day.Here’s a “talking book” about Alfy during the winter months.  

Snowman Drag the pieces to build a snowman in this fun kindergarten and preschool game.  

Text snowflake creator - Just like wordle, puts your text, words, and phrases into a snowflake design!

For more Christmas fun please visit here

 

Switch software and sites

Good Sunday morning! This morning I am going to introduce you very quickly to some super switch software and sites. Some are free and some are software to buy.

• Switch it maker 2
• Choose and tell stories
• Help Kidz Learn
• Let's go series
• Choose it maker 2
• Switch it extras

All abilities playground

All abilities playground

This is a great space for students who use the computer via many different modalities can learn. There are two playgrounds with the same games, one playground is the mouse and keyboard playground the other is the scanning playground. Each playground offers several different virtual online games to play on the interactive whiteboard or computer. Thank you to Patrick Black who shared this site on Diigo!

Enabling Devices Freebies!

Special thanks goes out to Enabling Devices @EnablingDevices for tweeting out a link to some great freebies!

Enabling devices has a free downloadable resource that gives some great ideas about using the following types of communicators:

- Single Message
- Two Message
- Multiple Message
- Sequencing

Here is the link for this great and handy resource! The resource can be found in the website's scrolling updates. Be sure to click download now. You will be linked to a site with 4 pdfs, then pick which type of communicator you would like to review. Each pdf is jam packed full of great ideas for inside and outside the classroom.

Have some great ideas for single, double, multiple, or sequencing communicators? Share!

CEC's Tool of the Week

Thank you to Alecia R. from Twitter (@aleciarrb)for this great site. Alecia is a mom of two boys, and a teacher in Iowa. She is also a RtI implementer. The site that Alecia tweeted was CEC's Tool of the Week.

This site is updated every Monday with free tools for special educators. This week's tool is a downloadable text all about ADA Amendments in plain English! This is a nice resource to have by your side, and best of all it's free! You can also view past tools of the week in the archived section. The site also has a convenient link to CEC's homepage.

If you enjoy this site and what it has to offer be sure to subscribe to it by adding your email address. I can't wait to see what this site has in store!

Thanks for the find @aleciarrb. Don't forget to mark your calendar for CEC's annual conference April 11-14 in Denver!