Do you want to work on life skills in your classroom? Are you looking for hands-on special education life skills activities that your students will love? If so, you've come to the right place. Because today, I'm sharing my top 10 life skills activities that you can do in your classroom. 1. Washing Hands One
In this no prep activities packet, students in preschool, kindergarten, and special education class rooms will practice the following opposites: happy and sad, large and small, day and night, inside and outside, short and tall, full and empty, above and below and front and behind.They will also determine which one is different and which one goes together. This product is ready to print and be used immediately.
Made For Me Literacy provides special education teachers with engaging, comprehensive reading units meticulously crafted with special learners in mind covering various subject areas, including basic reading, writing, math, science, and fine motor skills.
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These visual recipes and worksheets make it easy to teach and practice cooking skills in the classroom! These breakfast recipes range from easy-to-do independently (cereal) to more-difficult, great class activities (pancakes). Included are recipes for: Oatmeal (microwave) Pancakes Eggs (in a mug - microwave) Toast (or bagels) Cereal Included with each recipe is: Visual Recipe: This one page visual recipe is great for visual learners Sequencing Worksheets: 1 worksheets = 3 levels. -1: Cut and paste both pictures and sentences -2: Partial cut and paste and draw/write the other half -3: Draw and write the recipe steps. Review / Quiz: 2 levels. 1: symbol supported 2: text' Looking for more recipes? Find my cooking recipes that also come with books here! ______________________________ Learn when I post new products and sales: ✯Click the green star that says "Follow Me" near the top of any page within my store and you will officially be a follower! Get connected! ✎ Follow me on facebook for lots of great ideas and sales!
So it appears that COVID-19 is here for a while and many schools are canceling and they are asking for students to participate in eLearning or distance learning activities. This definitely presents a unique challenge for all teachers (and families), and especially special education teachers who are wondering how in the world am I going to do that? Here's a few ideas, including some FREE (and some paid) resources. Give Suggested Learning Activities: Make a BINGO board with suggested activities for parents and students to complete together. I love this Homework Choice board that Taylor, a member of our Breezy Special Ed facebook group, made for home learning days. She was so nice to share her template if you are looking for something similar! CLICK HERE, then choose "make a copy" and you should be able to edit your copy. On a bingo board / list like this you can come up with functional, real things that students can do at home that they might not otherwise get the chance to do! It will also help give parents some ideas and strategies to pass the time. Send Home Packets: I know many teachers are scrambling to print at home packets. Let me help! I picked out a few 2 week resources in my store that I think would be great to use as home packets. Head over to my TpT store to get these zoo themed writing, math, and reading activities for FREE through the rest of this 2019-2020 school year. (The regular price of these combined resources is $14.) Then all you need to do is: Download Print by level (there are 3 levels for beginning learners in both the life skill math and journal sets and 2 levels for the reading comprehension) Staple together Send (or mail or email*) home with your students *email is not typically allowed but due to these unique circumstances is allowed If you need more than two weeks, you can also grab these packets at 50% off, on sale through the rest of this school year. These packets include symbol reading comprehension, easy reading comprehension, life skill math, and errorless journals. Google Classroom: Wondering how to do e-Learning with your students? Interactive self-checking PDFs with a Google Quiz might be the answer! All BSE digital resources are extremely VISUAL and require NO READING. See how to use the BSE Digital Activities in Google Classroom in this video below. Digital Activity bundle found HERE. I will be adding more of these digital activities to the bundle during the next few weeks as well to help with this kind of distant learning. If you own the bundle, all future downloads will be free (otherwise all new digital activities will be listed at a heavily discounted price of $1 during the duration of these school closures) Online Resources: Many companies are making their subscriptions free during this time. Here are a few that I have heard of and am familiar with. Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr. free during school closures: https://go.brainpop.com/accessrequest Storyline Online (always free): Books read out loud by authors / famous people: https://www.storylineonline.net/ Scholastic: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html Learning A-Z: https://accounts.learninga-z.com/accou.../marketing/trial.do Accessibyte makes fun, funky, fully accessible apps for users who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, dyslexic, or have other reading difficulties: https://www.accessibyte.com/stay-safe See a large list of more resources HERE. Explaining COVID-19: Are your students feeling anxious about COVID-19 and school closing / the possibility of school closing? There's so much talk about the virus on the media and no reason for our students to feel nervous because that doesn't help anything! I wrote some social stories (available with or without symbols) to help your students know: what COVID-19 is how to prevent what might happen if schools close All in a non-threatening, not scary way. Knowledge is power! Download these free COVID-19 resources HERE! Visual Schedules: Widgit Online offers a free 21 day trial that would be perfect for creative visual schedules for kids to use at home to help provide some structure and predictability in each day. Widgit Online is very user friendly. You just type and the symbols appear! They also have templates you can use to make it even easier. Here is a sample one I created: Sign up for your trial at Widgit Online. What else are you doing to prepare your students? We have so many great ideas and discussion going on in our BSE Insiders group on facebook. Join us. Now stay calm, stay healthy and print those free and discounted resources! ;) As always, please let me know if there is any other way I can help.
Prompting Hierarchy- How I got duped! What you need to know about the prompting hierarchy. Snag the infographic and info perfect for working with your staff!
Teaching science in the special education classroom can be one of the most interesting but challenging topics for our students. Hop over to find some ways to present it and document progress for alternative assessment.
Special educators need a pretty large toolbox of strategies and resources to support our learners. So often, our students can have significantly diverse needs and levels. On any given day, special education teachers might need to take student reading data, modify a math assessment, teach science wit
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If you want to teach your little ones about the concept of opposites you will want to check out these fun opposites worksheets and activities.
Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can't focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can't focus on the directions, they
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This visual choice board is a simple social emotional learning resource for your special education or inclusion classroom. Providing a student with this file folder visual support may allow him to express his needs without having to find the words. While this visual was designed for students with autism, it can be beneficial for any struggling students. Even verbal students can have trouble retrieving the words or articulating what they need. Offering this simple visual can aid a student in saying "I feel confused. I need help" or "I feel frustrated. I need a break." Contents: 6 pages of feelings cards 15 feelings in a variety of image options 1 page of needs Sentence starters File folder labels Prep instructions Suggestions for use This is not meant to be a choice board for 'wants' which is why toys, computer, iPad etc is not provided. Rather this is a support to use when a student is struggling, overstimulated, frustrated, overwhelmed, sick, upset, tired, confused etc. Teachers, paras, aides and therapists who have built a relationship with a student can often guess what the student feels and needs in these moments. However, responding to an outburst, problem behavior or refusal with what they are likely looking for reinforces an improper way to request those things. This visual support can help students learn to ask appropriately! ⭐ Teachers like you love this resource ⭐ This resource was a great addition to the communication support I use for my students. I was able to choose a few options at a time for them to choose from and the product comes with many pictures for wants/needs. I love this resource! This has been super helpful with SEL learning and helping kiddos identify what they need and avoiding meltdown. It was easy to put together and it has been a great addition to my classroom! This has been great for my non-verbal and limited verbal to express their needs! The choices are great and it makes a perfect connection between feelings and needs. As we move toward more and more SEL practices, this resource is great at helping students identify how they are feeling and what they can do to help themselves. Other Visual Supports to transform your classroom Behavior Management Flip Book Behavior Management: Self-Calming Book and Choice Board Visual Schedules Bundle Art Visuals and Schedules Music Visuals and Schedules PE Visuals and Schedules Stay up to date! Click here to follow my store and be the first to know about new product releases. Thanks for stopping by!
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Have a student who elopes? Need a way to debrief with them after? I developed this think sheet because every special education teacher knows eloping is a BIG thing when dealing with behavior. If you don't have an eloper, are you really a special education teacher? Just print and you are ready to go!
Introduce your child to managing their personal finances by tracking Dori's debits and credits for this month.
Informal assessments for special education in the areas of Reading, Writing, and Math. Two versions: one printable and one digital.
I'm here today to talk to you about errorless learning - what it is - & why I think it's important! What is errorless learning? It is exactly what it sounds like! Errorless learning is when you give a student a task where they CAN NOT get an answer wrong. Each answer is the same - such as the student would match all of the circles (& there won't be any other shapes!). All of the responses need to be the same for it to be truly be errorless. Why should I use errorless learning in my classroom? Where do I even begin?! Errorless learning is a great way to introduce a new skill. Just recently, I created some errorless alphabet tasks and they have helped one of my clients SO much with identifying her letters! She loves being able to correctly match her letters and after she matches each one, we say the letter out loud together! The biggest reason I like to use errorless learning is to create independence in ALL of our learners. Independence is one of the most important life skills as we get older, and we need to be teaching our students to be independent as well! If you have learners who are not yet correctly identifying things like colors, shapes, letters, etc. - this is a GREAT way to get them working independently and doing the work correctly - ON THEIR OWN! So what kinds of errorless learning materials could you be using with your students? I've got you covered! I created these Errorless Number Worksheets and Errorless Number Tasks to work on numbers one at a time for 1-20 with one of my clients. They are SO cute - little to no prep - and seriously have been working at getting her to learn her numbers! I also created these Errorless Alphabet Worksheets and Errorless Alphabet Tasks for the same client. The worksheets are print & go and although the tasks CAN be turned into file folders, I just laminated them as boards and am storing them in a 3 ring binder! There are both upper and lowercase tasks for each letter, so you could even mix the upper/lowercase to work on errorless uppercase to lowercase matching! These Errorless Seasonal Scenes are the PERFECT filler for independent work bins! Just put one mat in a bin with the pieces, and students just put the pictures on the velcro dots. There are no wrong answers and they will love the pictures. This Errorless Color File Folders & Worksheets product is MASSIVE. There are coloring sheets, bingo dauber pages, and file folders for alllll the colors. It's a great way to introduce just ONE color at a time. The Errorless Shape File Folders & Worksheets are the same as the colors set - but with shapes! So many opportunities to learn a shape one at a time and to increase independence. Are you looking for another type of errorless learning? If so - let me know in the comments below! I am happy to create more materials to help boost your students knowledge of skills AND their independence!!
When you first start teaching in a school that does block scheduling, 90 minutes seems like an awful lot of time to fill with instruction.
I'm just going to be honest....I am OBSESSED with using adapted books in my classroom! They are a good "grab and go" activity, if I have a little extra time after a lesson to fill. My EA's also use these in the general education classrooms, when a reading passage or activity may be over my kiddos' levels. I organize my books in bins so they are easily accessible to any adult who needs one for a lesson or activity. In my classroom, I use the counting adapted books to teach basic counting skills. It is nice for my kiddos to change up themes and activities from just the normal counting activities. My students enjoy the different themes and stories that often go a long with them. I even have a couple of counting from 11-20 for my higher kiddos. I use "WH" questions adapted books that are wonderful to practice or track IEP comprehension goal data. I can use one to go along with an upcoming holiday or to teach a skill that is being taught in their regular education classroom. I have found that it is nice to have the comprehension questions immediately after the passage. It is also helpful to have a visual along with the words for my nonreaders. I am constantly adding new adapted books to my library to keep learning interesting and fun for my students. This is an adapted book I use to teach my students about Hanukkah. You can find this book here. All of my adapted books can be found on my Teachers Pay Teachers store, SPEDitorials. I also offer an Adapted Books Growing Bundle in my store that I upload new books to regularly. You will definitely get the best bang for your buck with this bundle!
I love using file folders because they are so easy to store and a great way to practice life skills when you are at a desk. Plus, my students always think they are playing games with file folders too.
Errorless learning activities are an awesome addition to your special education classroom. Errorless work tasks are tasks that don't have a wrong answer.
Want to know my favorite special education teacher hacks? I've got you covered! If you are a special education teacher, you know how hard it is to meet every student's needs AND keep a well organized classroom. Below, I've compiled 5 special education teacher hacks you need to know! 1. Jewelry Organizers For Visual Storage
A collection of Autism Workbooks to build communication, fine motor, sensory play and life skills, while managing behavior.
Overwhelmed and understaffed my first year as a special education teacher in the self-contained classroom, I discovered that implementing an effective independent workstation helped my students become more successful and independent. Click to learn how I got control using task boxes and independent workstations in my special education classroom. My students loved the differentiated math, language arts, science, and social studies curriculum with age appropriate clip art and real photographs.
We live on visuals in the special ed world. You want to use them all the time, but how?Here are 5 steps to becoming a master at using visuals daily!
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Sensory toys are a must have in the special education classroom. Read on to find out what 10 Sensory Toys you NEED to add to your wishlist this school year! This post will contain affiliate links. You don’t pay any more, but if you purchase from my link I get a small commission. This allows […]
Here are a few games for kids with Autism suggestions to use in your classroom. There are also many ways you can play these games...
Different errorless learning activities for your special education classroom. Errorless learning is great for independent practice.
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Building a strong sense of number concepts in students is a crucial in order for students to be able to develop life skills. Many of my students come with scattered math skills instead of a solid foundation. Here are some of the tasks and materials we use to help students develop needed math and life ... Read More about Developing Number Concepts in Special Ed.
This packet of Basic Concepts Task Cards covers 10 different basic skills your special education students should be practicing every day! Each concept has 2 levels for a total of 200 task cards. Also includes data sheets for tracking IEP goals, sorting mats and student response worksheets. Savings Alert! This is part of a larger yearlong bundle. Check it out here and get all 12 months at a huge discount! These differentiated and 'any time of year' themed task cards are perfect for task boxes, independent work stations, direct instruction, morning work and warm-ups!Contents 200 task cards - 10 basic concepts x 2 levels per concept x 10 cards per level Level 1: multiple choice - use clothespins, dot markers, tokens, dry erase markers etc Level 2: expressive complete the sentence Cover and quick data chart for each set Sorting mats for 7 of the concepts (all but colors, shapes and numbers) Student response worksheets - 3 levels Level 1: write the word Level 2: trace the word Level 3: circle the word Two data sheets for tracking IEP goals Concepts included: Colors Numbers to 10 Shapes Same or Different Big or Small In or Out On or Under In front or Behind Right or Left None or Some Please note: This is a digital download. You will download, print, and prep as needed. No physical items will be sent to you.
The amount of visual supports some of our students need to be successful both academically and socially can be overwhelming. Just imagine, if it’s overwhelming to us as teachers, it has to be way too much for our students who struggle with executive functioning skills, like organization, to handle! I’ve found that once we’ve introduced ... Read More about Setting Up a Student Success Binder
For our learners who need to work on foundational learning skills, such as simple matching, I have always love creating hands on task boxes put-in tasks and ...
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