First week of school

WOW what a crazy first week of school! I got sick on the 3rd day! Thank goodness for the long holiday weekend so I can recover! How was everyone else's first week of school?  

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Happy Labor Day!!

Love always, 

Holly Phinney 

New classroom, Its a jungle in here

HELLO EVERYONE!!!

SO sorry its been SO long since I have posted! But as you can see my blog got a major face lift!! I LOVE it!! All the thanks goes to Erin at Creating and designing!! SHES AWESOME!!! So as you all know I moved schools and cities and wow it was a busy end of summer and now were almost finished with the first week of school!!! I am in LOVE with my new kids, their parents, my coworkers and the school!!! Its going to be a fabulous year!! So for my first post back I wanted to post pictures of my new classroom! Its a jungle theme! It took a long time but everyone really likes it so it was so worth it and all the money! :) Hope you enjoy! Please follow me!

Front door!!

Inside of front door!!

My Desk!!

Reading Center!!

Word Wall!!

Big carpet in front and in the middle of the room! 

Front board! 

Computer center! 

My amazing hand painted stool!!

Environmental print board! 

Writing center using the air conditioner and zebra duck tape! 

I am using this behavioral management system this year!!

My big bathroom wall!

My tissue paper balls and banner made inspired from Pinterest! 

Welcome banner with tissue paper flowers!!

Other side of my reading center!!

This is right when you walk in the room on the bathroom door! 

Front board with our jobs! 

Well this is all the pictures for now!! Hope you like it all and get some ideas for your own classroom!! I will be back to blogging all the time now so please comment I love it!! :) Thanks so much!!

Love always,

Holly Phinney 

Easter Egg Hunt

Hello Everyone!! Hope you all have had a great weekend! I haven't posted in a few days sorry I have been so busy moving out of my apartment and moving out of my old classroom and finishing up summer school! Here are some pictures of this past school year when we did an easter egg hunt and the easter bunny came to see us at school! Have any questions or comments please feel free to comment or email me at: Hollyphinney@gmail.com or Specialsmartspecialhearts@gmail.com   Thanks!

Our great easter basket's the kids made and decorated! 

So many eggs!!

She wanted to eat the whole egg!! ;)

Group picture of everyone after our hunt! :)

Everyone had so much fun! I decided for my higher students they had to find the eggs # 1-12 before they could go get any other ones. It worked great! It also gave my other students who have a more difficult time getting the eggs enough time! :) 

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Love Always,

Holly Phinney

Shaving Cream Fun/ Sensory

Hello, Everyone! Hope your all enjoying your summer, I have 3 more days of summer school left I am so excited to have some free time! A lot of my students have sensory problems and really hate different things on them or just different feelings that are not normal. I let my kids play in shaving cream quite a bit! They love it and the more advanced kids can write their name, numbers, letters, and words etc. in the shaving cream and its fun interactive learning! If you haven't tried this in your class or with special needs students you should try it hopefully it works as well as it did with my kiddos! I also like using color or just plain san and salt! Here are some pictures hope your enjoy! Thanks for stopping by! Please follow me!

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Have any questions or comments please feel free to email me at Hollyphinney@gmail.com or at Specialsmartspecialhearts@gmail.com! Thanks!

Love Always,

Holly Phinney

Community Helpers

One of my favorite units I taught this past school years was about all the different community helps and different professions people have as well as what the kids could grow up to be! Here are some pictures of the construction worker tool belts and hats we made as well as the chef hats we made and wore while cooking! Thanks for stopping by! Please follow me!

Hope you enjoy! If you have any questions or comments please feel free to comment or email me at Hollyphinney@gmail.com or Specialsmartspecialhearts@gmail.com!

Love Always,

Holly Phinney

Field Day

Hello Everyone! Something really neat at my school this past year was that my kids got to participate in the end of year field day! Every grade or class had their own color t-shirt (we were orange as you will see) and we would go station to station for 20 minutes the whole day on bounce house's, water balloon throw, eat popcorn and snow cones, and have relay races! Even though some of my students are severally delayed everyone of them was going down the slides and getting wet one way or another! (which meant I was soaked by the end of the day) :) Everyone had a ball! Here are some pictures I took throughout the day! Hope you enjoy, thanks for stopping by!

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Have a great day!

Love Always,

Holly Phinney