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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.
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
When you enter into the world of Early Childhood Education it’s no doubt just about play and teaching! Educator’s alike would agree that observing and documenting children’s learn…
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.
Teaching the different between public and private is important for so many reasons for our students with special needs. When teaching these concepts, I first talk about the difference between public and private places. We come up with a list and sort those places accordingly using visuals of one person versus multiple people. I created this sort from a boardmaker template and uploaded here on Board Maker Online. After talking about places, we move on to talking about both public and private places AND behaviors. We talk about what behaviors are appropriate in each area. This book and additional resources are found for free from SET-BC here and are available in PDF or Boardmaker files. (update: direct link here - other link now takes you to search) I love cut and paste activities because not only do they reinforce the skills taught, but also incorporate fine motor skills...and it takes a little while to complete :) Here's the other Board Maker Online activity that includes both public and private places and behaviors. Plus, check out all of these other great activities for this topic on Board Maker Online. I think it's so important for students to realize that private behaviors aren't bad, but they just need to be done in private! Here's to hoping there is no more nose picking or inappropriate self stimulation in my PUBLIC classroom! :) If you are looking for something more detailed to use with your students, I found this resource here. It is very informative and I didn't feel the need to go that in depth, but completely understand how some students might need those specifics.
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!
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!
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
This article is a collection of sample interview questions and answers for special education teachers. It also contains a number of tips and considerations for the interview.
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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Do you have students who say they are sorry all the time, but don’t truly understand what sorry means? Do you have students who say they are sorry, but keep doing what they apologized for? Here is a great alternative to teach students along with visuals to support learning. I recently attended a conference about ... Read More about Help Students Understand What Sorry Means
Free special education visual support! Reduce problem behaviors, increase communication, and decrease prompt dependence with this simple, portable visual.
I am linking up with Tara and her fabulous linky once again. My list keeps growing with all of the great ideas everyone posts weekly. ...
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!
Encourage language development, while fostering fine motor skills, following directions and other functional life skills. Cooking in the classroom with visual recipes, step by step recipes to foster those super important life skills, and work on those IEP goals and objectives... all at the same time!
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.
