Students learn to sing the song, "A-Hunting We Will Go" with the original verses and learn to sing several new verses that support rhyming concepts. They then brainstorm pairs of rhyming words to create their own verses for the song. As a follow up activity, students can create original verses using other simple rhyming songs as a framework.

This article provides perceptions of academically resilient students with low-income backgrounds of school counselors. It gives counselors a sense of how students may see them and what they can do to strengthen their school counseling techniques to help increase academic performance.

Activity Tailor has a great selection of resources that are free and avilable via registration for all areas of speech and language.

Behavior contracts can provide the means to improve student behavior. They describe the kind of behavior you want to see, establish the criterion for success, and lay out both the consequences and rewards for behavior.

Students use a song activity with buttons and a 10 strip (provided on website) to learn about ordinal numbers and directional terms.  Students are set up in two lines facing each other and sing London Bridges.  After students sing, teacher asks prompting and reflective questions using ordinal numbers and positional terms.  Students then use a 10 strip with buttons to put the terms into practice themselves.

This resource is a lesson introducing and/or reinforcing the mathematical concept of counting on and counting back.  The teacher uses a counting book of their choice or you can choose from the bibliography list provided on the website.  As the teacher reads, the students use counting cubes to count on or count back depending on the book chosen.  Students display their cubes both horizontally and vertically and then record their answers horizontally and vertically.

ESGI is a huge time saver for assessment!  The website has over 200 pre-built assessment for all early learning benchmarks. Save time and trees- go digital!  The company offers a 60 day free trial. No committment to get started.

Ed Puzzle is a superpower!  It allows you to upload virtually an video and crop it. Then you can add questions, comments or audio to the video.  Your students will then view the video and answer the questions.  When you create your account, if you use google classroom, your classes will automatically load, including your student list. This can be used for any subject.

From the website: "Epic! provides an unlimited selection of eBooks that can be instantly discovered, read and shared with friends. Personalized for each individual reader, Epic! is the only place to access thousands of high quality, curated children's books without the need to purchase or download them one by one. Beautifully designed for mobile and featuring fun, game-like elements, Epic! provides kids with a personal library they can take anywhere. In a world of unlimited screen time, Epic! is a smart alternative to games and videos. Epic! is available on all iOS and Android devices."
Availalable as a web based resource and a free app on any platform.

In this lesson students will explore the properties of four different shapes—triangles, circles, rectangles, and squares. Students will locate examples of circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles in the world around them and compare various types of shapes.

Teachers reads the story, Five Little Speckled Frogs, by Nikki Smith (published by Nikki Smith Books, 2006). Students explore counting to five using cubes.  This lesson helps build the concept of 5.  Appropriate for grades K and could also be used with 4K.

Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.

This lesson offers one way to build a bridge between the home and school learning experience, through a fun, take-home literacy activity.
Students take turns taking home a book bag that includes a stuffed toy, a book to read with their families, art supplies, a topic to discuss, and a journal to complete as a family. The students then return the bag the following day and share their entries with the class. After every student has taken the bag home, the journal is bound into a book for the classroom library. The teacher then selects a new topic and book to start a second rotation. The goal is to invite parents to join their children in these literacy activities.

Smart Kids with Disabilities, Inc. is a free website that focuses on resources, information, legal education, etc. for parents and/or educators of students with disabilities.  The mission of the website organization is: Our mission is to educate, guide and inspire parents of children with learning disabilities or ADHD. Our aim is to help parents realize their children’s significant gifts and talents, and to show that with their love, guidance, and the right support, their children can live happy and productive lives.
Jane B. Ross, M.S. is the founder and executive director of Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities. She is a former publishing executive and consultant who was determined to help other parents who were as clueless as she was when she discovered that her bright and resourceful 10-year-old son could not read. Today her son holds a Masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and works as an architect in New York.
The site also allows educators and parents many option to review accomodations and modifications.  It has mutltiple links for all of the aforementioned queries as well. These include but are not limited to tech tools, definitions of disabilities, evaluating the child, RiT, etc. 

The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is a simple, but rigorous, step-by-step process designed to help students produce, improve, and strategize on how to improve their questioning techniques. The QFT allows students to practice three thinking abilities in one process: divergent, convergent and metacognitive thinking.

In this lesson, students practice addition (subtraction optional) and deductive reasoning skills to solve KenKen puzzles, which is a break off of the Sudoku puzzle.  All of the directions of what a KenKen puzzle is and how to use them are included in the resource in detail.  The students investigate as a group what they think is happening in a completed puzzle.  In this way they are using the Math Practice Standards MP1 and MP7.  Once they understand the rules, they will work on solving problems using addition and possibly subtraction.

This activity serves to get students active and to teach them to work with all students in their class to acieve group success.

This book is a great way to illustrate consideration of others.  The book reminds children how their actions affect others and how to politely ask friends to quiet down.

Stenhouse Publishers is a web-based organization that has Stenhouse books and videos that help teachers build students' skills as readers, writers, thinkers, and mathematicians. It has authors who are leading K-12 and university educators, who share innovative, practical, and research-based solutions to everyday challenges.