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I love to share activities, resources, classroom management, behavior management and, sensory ideas for autism and special education teachers and classrooms.
Caterpillar Math Activity
Are your students struggling with their counting and fine motor skills? If so, this caterpillar math activity is going to be the perfect addition to your math centers or individual work tasks.
Your students will love working on their number, instruction, counting and fine motor skills with this hands-on and engaging task box activity.
What’s Included?
-Task cards with instructions from 0-10.
-Leaves
How to Use
-Students read - or be read - the instruction on the task card.
-Then, students use a hole punch to punch that amount of holes into the leaf - that the caterpillar has eaten.
-Next, students use a pipe clear or piece of string to thread through the holes, counting them as they go along.
Instructions
-Print out the included task cards and leaves.
-Laminate the task cards.
-Provide your students with a hole punch and pipe cleaner - follow the instructions above under ‘How to Use’ to find out how students complete this activity.
Your students will love working with this fun caterpillar activity to work on their counting, number recognition, instruction and fine motor skills.
These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
Black History Month Emergent Reader Books
These emergent reader books are perfect for your students to take part in Black History Month and learn about all the amazing people in the following areas;
• Authors
• Civil Rights Men
• Civil Rights Woman
• Inventors
• Jazz Artists - Men
• Jazz Artists - Women
• Notable People
These books allow your students to learn about the different famous people in Black History. Each book contains pages with the famous person and their name underneath. Students can color in the images and then overwrite the names of the people underneath.
This is a great way for your students to work on their reading, writing and fine motor skills. While also learning all about famous black men and women.
This resource is suitable for both spellings; colour/color etc.
The book comes in b/w for ink friendly printing. I recommend putting the books together with staples - or by binding - so that your students can flick through each of their books easily.
Home School Parent Communication Book
This is an editable communication book (although you can not edit/extract clipart - these are protected to reserve the rights of the fantastic clip artists), for you to be able to communicate with students families/carers back and fore School and home, keeping everyone up to date on student(s) individual progress, behaviors/behaviours, moods etc. You can add text and change text for different parts of the home/school book. It comes in PDF (non editable), Keynote (editable) and Powerpoint (editable) options for your preference.
It comes with British & American spellings.
This is especially great for a special education class, the pages come as the following;
♦ choice of covers
♦ staff in class, students in class
♦ weekly planner
♦ daily conversation page
The daily conversation page is laid out with different boxes and two comment boxes; one for school to fill in and one for parents to fill in.
Bundle
Social Stories Growing Bundle
This resource contains a variety of different social stories that are perfect for visual learners, spec ed / autism students etc. They are a great visual way to explain different activities / life skills to them while helping to promote independence.
Many students with autism are visual learners and like to learn through seeing something in action. These book come complete with matching and simple yet engaging graphics to help describe what is being said on the page.
Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale.
★ This is a growing bundle which means more social stories will be added over time, purchase early to get the best deal and receive free updates when new social stories are added! ★
The books included so far are;
♦ Biting View here.
♦ Brushing Hair View here.
♦ Getting Dressed View here.
♦ Going on a Plane. View here.
♦ Going to Hairdressers View here.
♦ Brushing Teeth View here.
♦ Going to School View here.
♦ Going to the Toilet - Boy and Girl option. View here.
♦ Going to the Zoo View here.
♦ Hitting View here.
♦ Taking a Bath View here.
♦ General behavior / behaviour View here.
♦ Going to Dentist View here.
♦ Going to the Doctors View here.
♦ Halloween View here.
♦ What are hands for? View here.
♦ Having a Shower View here.
♦ Sharing View here.
♦ Washing Hands View here.
♦ Going to the Beach View here.
♦ Going to Cinema / Movies View here.
♦ Going Shopping View here.
The following are upcoming social stories;
♦ Getting dressed
♦ Using the toilet
★ If you have any suggestions or requests for any upcoming social stories, please contact me through the Q&A tab. ★
I recommend printing out each of the individual pages, laminating them and then binding them into a book so it will be easier for students to read - or be read to, as well as being stronger and longer lasting. You can use only the pages that you feel most relevant.
Daily Skills Interactive Adapted Book - USA
This adapted daily skills book is a great way for your students to work on their daily skills in an interactive and engaging manner. With over 60 skills included in this work book, you'll be able to assess your students understanding and capability on a wide range of skills. It also comes with recording sheets for you to use to monitor and assess students over a period of time.
The activities included can be found below;
Pencil control - follow from left to right
Pencil control - follow in the lines
Write your name
Match colors (6)
Match colors (11)
Match colors to clipart images
Match colors to real images
Match colors to names
Match real color images to symbols
Match lower case letters
Match upper case letters
Match upper case to lower case letters
Match images to initial letters
Match CVC words to images
Match CCVC words to images
Match CVCE words to images
Read sight words
Match 2D shapes
Match 3D shapes
Match 2D images to 2D shapes
Match 3D images to 3D shapes
Match 2D shapes to names
Match 3D shapes to names
Match numbers 0-20
Match 0-10 to names
Match 0-20 to names
Match images to numbers 0-10
Match images to numbers 0-20
Trace numbers 0-10
Finish the patterns
Create a pattern
Sort big and small
Match coins
Match coins to prices
Match clocks
Match clocks to time
Create the clock
Write on the watch
Sort food and clothes
Sorting colours
Matching clothes
Copy the clothing
Sort dentist v doctor equipment
Matching days of the week
Ordering days of the week
Matching months of the year
Ordering months of the year
Cleaning teeth
Washing face
Feeding the monkey
Matching money in the piggy bank
Aanswer wh- questions
Answering days of week questions
Matching 1/2s
Color sorting dogs
Color sorting penguins
See it in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffVEqHGZRc&t=1s
Wh Questions for Speech Therapy Adapted Book Beach
Are you looking for hands-on activities for your students to work on their wh questions and sentence building skills? If so, this beach themed wh question adapted book is perfect to use in your special education classroom or speech therapy sessions.
Students read - or be read - the short sentence at the top of the page and find the appropriate and matching symbol to answer the wh- question.
Adapted books are a great way for students to work on a range of skills in an adapted, engaging and hands-on way.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of the beach.
Washing Hands Social Story
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with washing their hands. A lot of children struggle with washing their hands, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they are doing it. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your child(ren)/students to wash their hands, and also help promote independence.
Many students with autism are visual learners and like to learn through seeing something in action. This book comes complete with matching, simple yet engaging graphics to help describe what is being said on the page.
Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale.
Pages included are;
♦ It is important to keep my hands clean.
♦ My hands get dirty through the day.
♦ I should wash my hands after I go to the bathroom.
♦ I should wash my hands before I eat.
♦ The best place to wash my hands is in the sink.
♦ First, I have to turn the tap on.
♦ Then, I put some soap on my hands.
♦ Then, I put some soap on my hands.
♦ I scrub my hands together with the soap.
♦ Then, I wash my hands with water.
♦ Then, I dry my hands.
♦ Now my hands are all clean!
I recommend printing out each of the individual pages, laminating them and then binding them into a book so it will be easier for students to read - or be read to, as well as being stronger and longer lasting. You can use only the pages that you feel most relevant.