Introduction to my life

This is the last weekend before I have to go back to work. We don't start school with students until the August 5th. We have open house the night before so I really have to have my classroom ready on the 4th. I am a special education teacher for students that are kindergarten and first grade ages. My class is called DD for Developmental Delay. This is my 4th year teaching this class. I typically have students for about two years. Sometimes I have students that are able to get back into the regular education classroom with a few modifications. In the past, I have never had more than 10 students and about 2-5 of them were able to go with a regular kindergarten class to lunch, specials, and maybe unit time. This year my grand total so far is 16 students! I was also told yesterday that we need to have an ATeam meeting about another student. So 17 it is! I do have two paraeducators that are invaluable help, but 17 is above and beyond the scope of my classroom. Plus out of the original 16, 7 of those have an Autism diagnosis. And one student with multiple handicaps. This is going to be an interest year to say the least. I teach kindergarten standards etc with more focus on behavior and smaller group settings. I have been pulling ideas from wherever I can. I have changed several new things for the coming year. I will talk about those later and I will show you where I borrowed things from. 
I am trying to get things ready for school and still spend time with my hubby and my two sons. One is 9 going on 16 and the other is 4 going on 10. They are really busy kids and sometimes too much for me to handle. My hubby is in the Army and currently he is in country, but his job keeps him from about 0500 to 1900 (that is 5:00 am to 7:00 pm). So it is up to me to take care of the house and kids. Plus we (and by that, I mean I) decided to recover his boat seats.
So I am hoping that I can be as helpful to you as others have been to me with ideas. I hope that you enjoy my blog. I will begin posting pictures as soon as I take some.