Make lesson planning easier by repeating activities. Keep reading to find out how each life skills activity is different each day.
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Do you practice life skills in your SPED classroom? If you don't, you should! Let me show you how to set up life skills centers.
Practice vocational skills with these classroom jobs and on campus job ideas for students of various skill levels!
Do you practice life skills in your SPED classroom? If you don't, you should! Let me show you how to set up life skills centers.
Come take a tour of my vocation & life skills lab where students are able to work on their IEP goals and independent living skills!
Welcome to my Life Skills classroom! I am so excited to share with you my classroom tour! When you step foot in my classroom, our bins are on the left. Students know to put their lunchbox, water, and any notes in these bins each morning as part of their morning routine checklist. The first area […]
Freedom Homeschooling lists free homeschool life skills electives for all grades. Home economics, personal finance, auto repair, and more!
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Task boxes can be highly beneficial for special education students for several reasons: They provide structured learning by way of presenting learning materials in an organized way, they provide visual supports, repetition & practice, and skill generalization. Task boxes can also be customized to meet each individual student’s needs and IEP goals, promote independence, and […]
Mastering life skills is one of the most important things students can do. In special ed, practice at school can help those skills along!
Task boxes can be highly beneficial for special education students for several reasons: They provide structured learning by way of presenting learning materials in an organized way, they provide visual supports, repetition & practice, and skill generalization. Task boxes can also be customized to meet each individual student’s needs and IEP goals, promote independence, and […]
It's one thing to do worksheets that have word problems involving money, but being able to transfer money skills in the community is another skill to master. Here are some ideas to prepare your students for the community and beyond!
15 of the most important life skills for teens to know and practice before they leave home. Teach them to be responsible young adults.
Life skills are as important as educational or other skills in life. Now when children are at home due to the
Functional money skills are crucial to our life skills students independence. Read about the money skills I teach my life skills students.
Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready? Here they are!! Putting together (or taking apart) flashlights. Bonus points if students can get the batteries in correctly and get the light to turn on! (Motivation!!) Ice cube tray and colored pebbles with tongs. I love the fine motor aspect added here. Marker packaging. I absolutely love this task and would be a great one to buy during back to school marker sales (especially on those really cheap markers you don't really want to use in your classroom!) Erasers on pencils. This has always been one of my favorite tasks! Silverware sorting. A must for every work task station, am I right? And a super easy and cheap one to put together. Silverware rolling / packaging. I love this task as it is perfect for vocational preparation. Putting together curlers. Ribbon threading around a wire basket. I never would have thought of this task! I love using the wire basket to thread the ribbon, and bet students would have fun with this task too. Sewing kit packaging. Packaging tasks like this are great! Tea candle sort. I love this age appropriate color sorting activity. Toiletry packaging. Wouldn't it be awesome to get donations of items like this and put together kits to give out to the homeless as a classroom service project? So, there you have it! Did you get some more good ideas? Happy task box prep! If you ever have anything you want to share, feel free to email me. I love being able to share your fantastic ideas with other special education teachers like yourself!
In my very first self-contained classroom, I was lucky enough to have an instructional kitchen attached to my classroom. Instead of only utilizing that spac ...
Life skills are essential for our survival and success. Read on for great examples of printable life skills worksheets that can teach you how to do a number of essential tasks.
Come check out how I organize, decorate, and utilize spaces & activities to be functional on this Adult Transition classroom tour!
Practice vocational skills with these classroom jobs and on campus job ideas for students of various skill levels!
