List of major awareness dates and commemorative observance days, weeks, and months, that focus on health medical and disability research or ethical causes of importance
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This is the image I always get when I think of Valentine's! I know that Valentine's day is over but I was just on my sweet friend Marie's blog, The Hands on Teacher in First , reading what she did last week and thought, Hey! That's not such a bad idea! I'm going to do that, too! Please read her page to find some cuuuuttteeeee stuff and ideas on there to pin and save for next year! So last week was all about the L.O.V.E! We read the story and I sang the book to my class! I swear they were enchanted! We talked about how in the story the man was trying to send his beloved a letter. So the kids in their writing center wrote letters. We talked and reviewed the parts of a friendly letter: The writing center was to write a friendly letter. I gave them some pretty paper and some envelopes and some chose to write a letter to me and my sweet intern: Totally melts my heart!! Then they made these cute mail trucks to put their valentines in! One of my room moms is a retired teacher (I lub her a lot!! She is great!!) showed this and made it for me and I think it's a keeper! It was super easy to make! So pin away! We also worked on my homophones center! They loved putting the mail in the mailboxes! And of course the par-tay on Friday! Another sweet blogger friend, Katie from Teacher to the Core has got some pretty smart tips for keeping my next Valentine's Day par-tay sane! We do not write names on the cards-- just sign who they are from-- which is a great tip she gives along with others! You can read about it here! This month also is Dental health month! I saw something similar to this on Pinterest a while ago (if you are the orginator of this idea, please let me know so I can give full credit) but I decided to make a Guess the Smile board outside my classroom! My sweet mom again (DO you see why I lub her???) took their pictures (I asked her to hold a small paper with their names that I just cut off after they printed) with their smiles and then numbered them on the back according to their mailbox number (or however you want to label it that will help you stay sane!) and assigned a number to the photo. I *tried* to make it more interactive by placing some answer sheets so that kids can write who they think is who on the line. Click on the pic to download this for your class! The kids in the hallways have had fun trying to see who is who! Hope you could find and use some ideas for next year! It was fun but exhausting! Check back later for a SHOWDOWN-- place value style!!
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October is Disability Awareness month, but it's so much more than awareness... it's about acceptance and seeing people, our students, for who they are. FREE Disability Awareness bulletin board display. Only at Mrs. D's Corner.
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With World Down Syndrome Day and Autism Awareness Month right around the corner, this is the perfect time to think about hosting your own disability awareness day to help students throughout your school better understand different types of disabilities! Last year, I used this Disability Awareness Day Kit from The Bender Bunch to host a schoolwide awareness day for 3rd-5th graders. I was lucky enough to have a principal that let me get a sub for the day to run this wonderful event. I set aside about an hour and 15 minutes per session and did each grade level at their own time. For the event, I sent out parent volunteer forms and got parents to sign up for a time slot to help run a table! Traci from The Bender Bunch included so many great things for me to use during this event. There are some things that you need to grab ahead of time that you'll see in my pictures, but overall it was really just making copies, finding volunteers, and setting up the stations! For my event, I created my own questionnaire to send out to teachers about a week before the event to have their students fill out. This gave me a great idea what they knew about disabilities already, what questions they had, etc. They answered a very similar questionnaire after the event so I could see what they learned! I also spend about 15 minutes at the end of the the event talking to each grade level about ways they can be a good friend to someone with a disability, asking them questions about what they learned, and answering any lingering questions. Overall, it was a GREAT success! In the future, I'd love to do it again (with help!). I did this event last year all on my own and although it turned out amazing, I would love to do it again with a little less stress (and someone to help me answer questions, those kids had some awesome questions!). Each station was set up at a table like this with everything you needed to run the station smoothly! I grabbed a bunch of gloves from our school lost and found and had the students trying to pick up pennies, tie their shoes, etc. It was eye opening for them! Finger spelling word puzzles, these were awesome! One of our stations had Google Chromebooks set up with a couple different things. One was white noise where they had to listen to the white noise while doing the specified activity. I also had some set up to show them a video through the eyes of someone with Autism. They all loved this! I e-mailed the Autism video to classroom teachers in case someone didn't get a turn. You can see the video HERE. I loved this station. All of the kids were like "I can't see that!!!" and I'm like "that's the point ;-)" haha! Have you ever done something similar at your school? If not, I highly recommend doing it! This event was a huge eye opener and big hit!
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List of major awareness dates and commemorative observance days, weeks, and months, that focus on health medical and disability research or ethical causes of importance
Hi everyone, My class hosted a "DISABILITY AWARENESS DAY" yesterday and it was a H-U-G-E success!!! So much stress and preparation the last two weeks over this event and now it's over.... the stress and prep paid off!!! I have talked about holding this event for three years and I'm so thrilled to have finally done it! Every school needs to host this event!! The kids are still talking about it! They had so much fun and I could already see the instant transformation and empathy coming from some of these kids. Just seeing and hearing how much fun they were having during the event is a moment I will never forget.....and some of the comments.....brings a tear to my eye even now!!! I had one girl say to me, "Wow, I never realized that ______ acted like that because he had Autism. I feel really bad now. I laughed at him before." So touching!! Well, here's some photos....and many of you know I am a horrible photographer, plus when you're so busy during an event like this, it's really hard to free yourself to take pics. Also regret that I took mostly panoramic pics, and very few pics and closeups of the actual activity engagements. Oh well....live and learn, right??? There were six different stations that included: Vision impairment Hearing impairment Intellectual disabilities Learning disabilities, dyslexia Physical impairment Autism/communication impairment Students spent 20 minutes at each station completing 2-3 activities at each. At each station they got to experience what it might feel like to have these disabilities and what people with disabilities go through every day. I think this event really impacted a lot of kids today! :) If this is something you'd like to do at your school, I just posted my "Disability Awareness Kit" on TN and TpT this evening. Alot of work went into preparing for this event, but if you purchase the kit, everything is prepared & done for you! No preparation, no stress! All you have to do is round up a few basic materials such as tape, yardsticks, and containers. The kit walks you through the entire event from start to finish! You can see it {here}. If you go to either one of my stores, you can download a preview of every page included!!! Tonight I made these little "Thank You" bags for the staff, students, and parents that helped out at the event! The chips without the mints are for the students, the bags with the mints are for the staff and parents. I have an edited set that doesn't say "Friday" or my "name" that you can download {here} for free!! Have a great week!
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