Hello everyone! I am a preschool/kindergarten special education teacher that serves students with mild/moderate disabilities ages 3-6 in a self-contained classroom. I live in Fresno, Ca with my wonderful new husband Andy (we got married in December 07′ in Yosemite!), our dogs–CJ and Miko, and my cat Tiger. We are both teachers and we love our jobs!
This year I will be starting my sixth year teaching. I am currently a special education teacher, but I previously taught first grade for two years. In addition to holding two teaching credentials–Multiple Subject and Level 1Educational Specialist credentials, I also earned a Master’s Degree in Education a few years ago from National University.
I created this page to be a resource for teachers and parents, and of course myself! It is so nice to just write down and store your ideas. Feel free to look around or share any ideas. It is always welcomed! I hope that you enjoy this blog!
–Barbara
Me with my wonderful hubby Andy
This is my all time favorite wedding picture from our wedding in Yosemite!
21 Comments
August 8, 2008 at 2:08 am
I love the ideas that you have created. Am I able to download them and put them on my website to share with my parents with all credit given to you or would you rather me provide a link to your webpage with it on it? I think these would be so valuable for them! Your site is incredible. Thanks so much for all you do!
August 10, 2008 at 1:24 am
Dear Barbara,
I love your website and would like to put it in my favorite links page on my website.
Linda
August 27, 2008 at 5:04 am
We are lucky to have you as our boys teacher. We look forward to this school year. I think the boys are going to make huge strides this year. Keep up the good work!! I love your website. I can tell that these kids are truly in your heart. It’s so nice to see.
September 28, 2008 at 3:23 am
I liked your site but had a hard time viewing the pictures enlarged, is there a trick to getting rid of that little box that appears and being able to scroll the pictures over to view the whole thing enlarged?
Thank you for the time spent sharing.
Billie, teacher for 33 years
October 20, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I just stumbled upon your site. It looks amazing! I plan on sharing it with the other K teachers I know. Thank you for making your wonderful knowledge available to others. You are a skilled teacher and we benefit from your experiences.
December 17, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I love your website! It’s very helpful when planning and my students really enjoy the activities. Please continue to add ideas and links, I use this site every month!
December 28, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Great site! You have worked really hard on your website! I really enjoyed your videos! Keep up the FANTASTIC work!
Kimberlee Herbic
http://www.mrs.herbic.com
January 24, 2009 at 2:24 am
I added your very helpful site to the PreK and Kindergarten pages on my website. Keep up the great work!
http://cybraryman.com/prek.html
http://cybraryman.com/kindergarten.html
February 4, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Mrs. Kilburn,
I finally got the chance to look at your website thoroughly. OH! MY GOODNESS! There is so much stuff–I could spend hours on here and one ink of cartridge in one sitting—so I must log off now!!! You have done a great job and hundreds of hours in it I’m sure. Keep it up. I will definitally share this with my fellow teachers and parents. Thank you for your time as Ashlyn’s teacher.
Ivette Lee
February 11, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Love the “words I know words I don’t know sort”. We use handwriting without tears. Would you be willing to email me the file in word so I could change the font from D’Nealian? Thank you for your consideration. Cathy K fellow kindergarten teacher
March 13, 2009 at 12:46 am
beautiful picture of you and your husband in black and white at Yosimite.
March 24, 2009 at 12:49 am
Barbara,
LOVE your site!
I teach in an inner-city school in Wilmington De; most of my students are at the poverty level.
I am also spec ed certified….which is a LOT like teaching kids from impoverished backgrounds – they don’t have the background or exposure to many things including vocabulary, etc.
I really love the TPR video of the alphabet and would LOVE to play it in my school for my kids and I to do together but our district blocks YouTube. Do you have or know of another source for this that ISN’T YouTube based? Thanks!
April 7, 2009 at 1:54 am
Hi Barbara: Thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful ideas. You are very gifted and a special gift to the many special children that you teach! Keep up the great work; many blessings.
April 21, 2009 at 2:52 am
I like your Web Page. It is very informative.
I started by looking at your Ocean theme.
I have my own Web Page for two and a half years.
My Web Page is curriculum based.
I use it to teach my first grade students reading, math, science, phonics, and writing. It is an elementary page for grades kindergarten through fifth. I have done training for Impact II. I am a Disseminator of my site. I show other teachers how to teach from it. It is very comprehensive.
Since you teach Kindergarten click: Kindergarten Math and Reading Strand Instruction. I teach whole and small group instruction using this site 50% of my day. Please add me to your page. http://web.mac.com/missammonswebpage1
I have a smartboard, an LCD Projector, a Smartboard document camera, and a Smartliner.
I teach with technology. My students love it.
June 6, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Just came across your site… at the END of the year! But what a landslide. You (of course) have all the links that I’ve accumulated and MUCH MUCH more. Thanks so much for all the work you’ve done here. I’m just developing my own wordpress blog, to tie in what I do at school – for parents/kids to access at home (especially Computer Lab sites) I’ll be sharing your site with others
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Great job!! Love it!!
June 16, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I happened to stumble across your site by looking for k- literacy printables. I find that I come across the same websites whenever I am online looking for K resources.
What you have created is GREAT! I am happy to find something new & fresh!
July 21, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I love this site. I think I have saved almost every printable you have on here. I found some mini word family books on scholastic for FREE! I thought you may like these. Here’s the link.
http://minibooks.scholastic.com/minibooks/search/?_TL=Br&N=1228+601&Nty=0&_N=1228+601&No=0
September 25, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Hi Barbara! I don’t think I’ve ever left a comment on here before– wow, you have so many resources! But I really came on to leave a comment about the b&w photo… it’s a great photo of you two!!
September 30, 2009 at 12:10 am
Your website is great! Thanks for sharing
October 2, 2009 at 5:05 am
you really have some great new ideas, thank you for sharing. I have been teaching for 19 years (the last 5 in kinder), and it is nice to be able to easily access useful fun stuff. I have been sharing with all my colleagues too, we all love your site
October 15, 2009 at 1:54 pm
OMG! I love your website! I’ve been teaching for 22 years and am soo impressed! Your site has sooo many new ideas!
WOW!