I love to share activities, resources, classroom management, behavior management and, sensory ideas for autism and special education teachers and classrooms.
I love to share activities, resources, classroom management, behavior management and, sensory ideas for autism and special education teachers and classrooms.
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with brushing their teeth. A lot of children struggle with brushing their teeth, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they are brushing their teeth. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your students to brush their teeth, 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 teeth clean.
♦ I should brush my teeth in the morning.
♦ And I should brush my teeth in the night.
♦ Brushing my teeth helps to keep my mouth fresh and clean.
♦ When my teeth are dirty, I heed to brush them.
♦ First, I get my toothbrush.
♦ Next, I wet my toothbrush.
♦ Then, I get my toothpaste.
♦ I carefully put my toothpaste on my toothbrush.
♦ Then I use my toothbrush to brush all my teeth.
♦ I have to be very careful and clean them properly or I’ll get bad teeth!
♦ I can use floss to make my teeth extra clean!
♦ Once I’ve finished, I rinse my toothbrush under the tap.
♦ Look how clean my teeth are!
♦ The dentist will be very happy with my teeth!
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.
This is a huge classroom decor pack that will transform your setting into a beautiful bumble bee theme. This pack contains almost everything you could think of to set up your classroom into your bee theme, however if you think something extra should be included, please feel free to contact me.
Most parts of this resource are editable, however there are a few that are not. If the part isn't editable, it will state so below in the list of what is included.
Editable parts of this resource come in keynote and powerpoint formats. Non-editable parts come as PDF files. There are also a variety of different backgrounds included for your preference.
For a more in-depth look at what the pages included look like, please click the preview option underneath the cover image of this resource to scroll through and get more a clear idea of what is included.
This classroom decor pack includes the following:
♦ Alphabet Posters non-editable PDF
♦ Binder Covers and Spines
♦ Birthdays Posters
♦ Book Marks
♦ Calendar Squares
♦ Circle Labels
- bags, clipboards, pencils, crayons, erasers, glue, glue sticks, lined paper, markers, note books, paintbrushes, paperclips, pens, pins, rulers, scissors, sharpeners, staplers, tape, pencils
♦ Class Jobs
- caboose, calendar helper, cleaner, door monitor, librarian, line leader, lunch monitor, messenger, pencil monitor, table wiper, teachers assistant, technician, attendance monitor, bathroom monitor, board cleaner, chair stacker, litter monitor, paper monitor, plant monitor, pledge leader, recycling monitor, substitute, sweeper, weather reporter, computer helper, first aid helper, sanitizer monitor, homework monitor, journal helper, vest helper, mat helper, messages helper, pet helper, bell ringer, sink helper, snack helper.
♦ Days of the Week
♦ Folder Labels
♦ Groups and Leaders
♦ Hall Passes
- girls bathroom pass, boys bathroom pass, nurses pass, hall pass.
♦ Long Labels
- same as above labels
♦ Lower Case Bunting non-editable PDF
♦ Monthly Calendar
♦ Months of the Year
♦ Name Plates
- Comes with alphabet - including highlighted vowels, left/right reminders and number line to 20. Also comes with handwriting lines - students can either handwrite their names onto the name tags or you can add them on ready to print.
♦ Name Plates
- Blank space for you to add text/image as you wish.
♦ Newsletters
- Comes with and without monthly toppers.
♦ Number Bunting non-editable PDF
- 0-50
♦ Number Posters non-editable PDF
- Posters with number, number name and matching ten frame. 0-20.
♦ Rectangle Labels
- same as above labels
♦ Reward Coupons
- sit with a friend, use any pen, no homework, bring a toy to sc
This activity includes bingo cards to help encourage students to keep learning about the different coins and their values. This resource contains UK / British coins.
The first page of this PDF is the instructions so you are able to get the most out of the activity when using in your classroom.
The whole thing comes as black and white for ink friendly printing.
There are 3 different sets of bingo card, each set comes in word or picture option.
The sets are;
♦ 1p - 10p
♦ 10p - 20p
♦ 1p - 20p
There are 5 different bingo cards per option.
This resource has been updated to include the new £1 coins released in 2017.
Included in this are also 3 different types of flashcards if you want to hold these up during the game;
♦ picture/coin with prompt
♦ picture/coin with no prompt
♦ word
These are optional and are only used if you want to use them.
There are also different picture/coin options to make up sets i.e
10p and 5p for 15p or 5p, 5p and 5p for 15p etc.
This bingo activity is great to take part with small or large groups. All themes are linked to the theme of St. David’s Day. This comes with image bingo cards, image and word flash cards as well as small word/image cards and just word cards.
The second page of the PDF contains instructions on different ways you can use this bingo resource in your classroom.
10 different boards in total - up to 10 players during one game.
I would recommend laminating each board individually for them to be stronger and longer lasting but this is personal choice.
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with going to the Doctor. A lot of children struggle with going to the Doctor, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they are going there or what to expect - mostly worried about pain. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your child(ren)/students to go their to the Doctor, 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;
♦ This is a Doctor. Doctors help people who are sick.
♦ I have to go to the Doctors surgery to see the Doctor.
♦ I give the reception my name.
♦ I may have to wait in the waiting room.
♦ When my name is called, I will go into the Doctor’s room.
♦ I may have to stand on scales to have my weight checked.
♦ I may stand by a tall ruler to measure how tall I am.
♦ I may have my blood pressure taken through a strap on my arm.
♦ I may have to have a shot, this may hurt a little bit but it’s quick!
♦ The Doctor will ask how I am feeling.
♦ If I don’t feel well, I can tell the Doctor or show the Doctor.
♦ The Doctor will use special equipment to look in my ears.
♦ The Doctor will look in my throat and use an object to push down my tongue.
♦ The Doctor may use a stethoscope to listen to my heartbeat.
♦ The Doctor can use the stethoscope to listen to my lungs too. I have to do some deep breaths.
♦ If I am hurting anywhere the Doctor will check there too.
♦ The Doctor may check my eyes with a test.
♦ I may have my hearing checked too.
♦ When I am finished, I can say goodbye!
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.
This resource contains a themed adapted work folder that targets a range of different skills for your students while following a fun construction / transport theme.
★ Over 30 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with 2 different types of recording sheets for you to use if you wish to track students results and progress over time.
This resource comes in both spelling options of colour and color.
The activities included in this folder are;
♦ Fine motor - draw in the lines
♦ Spelling your name
♦ Colour matching cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching colour cars to colour names in parking spaces
♦ Matching road signs
♦ Matching lowercase letter cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching uppercase letters cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching uppercase to lowercase letters cars to parking spaces
♦ Reading tools
♦ Spelling tools
♦ Matching 2D shapes cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching real life 2D shapes cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching 2D shapes to shape names cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching numbers 0-9 cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching numbers 0-20 cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching numbers 0-10 to number names cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching numbers 0-20 to number names cars to parking spaces
♦ Matching identical tools
♦ Matching identical vehicles
♦ Matching numbers to amount of vehicles cars to parking spaces
♦ Sorting vehicles vs tools
♦ Sorting color vehicles
♦ Wh- questions scene
♦ Spelling CVC word bricks
♦ Look and graph
♦ Sorting vehicles - land, sea and air
♦ Matching vehicle halves
♦ Matching vehicles to words
This resource includes task cards with ten frames 0 - 10. Students have to count how many leeks are in the ten frame and then select the correct answer out of 3 choices on the bottom of the task card.
Come in color/colour and black and white option.
Instructions are included on the first page of PDF file.
2 task cards come on each page.
I recommend cutting and laminating each task card individually, by laminating the task cards you will find they are stronger and longer lasting. This means you can use them year in, year out for your students, just pulling them out of the cupboard and you can wipe them clean after your students have finished with them!
Great for number/counting practice especially for St. David’s time
This St David’s Day word to picture matching activity is a great way for students to work on their vocabulary and image recognition skills.
The word to picture matching activities are a fantastic resource for the autism classroom, especially with non-verbal students to track their reading and understanding skills.
This resource will allow you to be able to monitor if your students are able to recognise and understand different words and link them to the appropriate picture. Many students may learn to just read words but not understanding the meaning behind them, this will help to work on that.
This resource includes 3 different activities boards in total. The first page in the PDF is the instructions page to help you use these to their best potential.
Comes in col AND black/white option for your printing preference.
This activity pack includes sentence building / adapted books to work on prepositions. These books are great for a Spec Ed or Autism classroom.
This download comes with two different books for you to choose from; symbols with words or just words.
I recommend laminating each page and binding together as a book. I would also recommend using velcro for symbols/words and the boxes on each page just so that the symbols/words don't move around when students place them on page but that is personal preference.
You will need to cut out the words/symbols individually and laminate them too, it can be time consuming but once made is a great, valuable resource to be kept for long term use.
Comes with 20 different pages/activities.
This resource contains 11 different col. recognition task cards. Comes in both spelling options of grey and gray.
These task cards are a fun way to have your students work on their colour recognition / color recognition skills. Students simply read the short phrase 'I spy my little eye something .....' and read the colour name and look at the colour splat provided- then choose the object that is that matching colour on the right hand side with the task card.
The best part about these task cards are that students can self-correct or change their answer without worrying about the answer they previously chose.
Appropriate for American and British/Canadian etc. classrooms - color/colour, gray/grey.
This resource is a fun and engaging activity that will have your students enjoying learning about their coins/money. Simply print out the individual 'flys' and flashcards, show the flashcard to the pupil(s) and give them a fly swatter and they have to swat the fly with the matching coin/price tag!
There are two different 'flys' included in this pack - ones with the image of a coin and ones with just a price tag i.e '2p' There are flashcards that come with just the price tag again and with the coin and price underneath it written.
I highly recommend cutting out and laminating each of the individual pieces so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. You will also need to purchase/find a fly swatter for students to use in this activity.
This activity is a great way to get students active, moving and having fun while learning about money. This resource only contains UK coins.
These comprehension worksheets are a fun and engaging addition to your literacy lessons and St David’s Day celebrations. There are 5 different comprehension activities included in this pack.
Each activity comes with 1 reading passage page and 1 questions page. There is a short amount of information provided on each page and then 4 questions on another page - you can see examples in preview/thumbnail pictures.
All stories are linked to the Welsh celebration of St. David’s Day. They have been simplified into short passages/stories.
This is great for students to be able to read a passage and recall details from it, answering relevant questions.
It is related to St. David’s Day to give a twist on the usual comprehension activities.
Comes in black and white for ink friendly printing.
The images are eye catching and appropriate for young students who will find them engaging.
This is a great visual resource to help motivate and encourage students to complete their task(s) or work in order to gain tokens to receive their reward.
Students collect a token for each task they complete/minute worked (you choose), once they have achieved all the tokens they get to have their choice activity.
It is important for you to offer children the choice of what they want once they have finished their work so that they are motivated to achieve it at the end!
This resource comes with two different options of each board (one with a yellow box for choice to go inside, one with black box).
It also comes in 4 different difficulty levels.
♦ Level 1: 3 tokens then reward
♦ Level 2: 4 tokens then reward
♦ Level 3: 5 tokens then reward
♦ Level 4: 10 tokens then reward
If you are unsure of what your student's level of working is, I would start at the bottom and use level 1 then build your way up, if you feel your student is capable of working a large amount before achieving their reward then use your professional opinion on where to start them.
To put together;
♦ print out the board that you want to use
♦ laminate it and attach velcro bits in each box
♦ cut out and laminate the choice activities provided (or provide your own) and add velcro to the back of them so that they will stick to the box on the page
♦ cut out and laminate your choice of reward coupons (3 different options provided) and also velcro these.
You're done!
This is a great resource for encouraging students to work and also to improve how long they are able to work for or how many activities they can complete!
This resource comes with some choice symbols, if you feel there is something that you desperately need please feel free to contact me through the 'Ask a question' tab as a request and I will try my best to add it.
The symbols included so far are;
♦ ball pit
♦ blocks
♦ game (2 options)
♦ book
♦ bubbles
♦ car
♦ computer
♦ lego
♦ iPad
♦ music (2 options)
♦ outside
♦ playground
♦ puppets
♦ relax
♦ sand
♦ time out
♦ choice
♦ toys
♦ train
♦ walk
♦ trampoline
♦ water play.
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with going to the beach. A lot of children struggle with understanding the process of what is involved going to the beach, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they need to do the things asked of them. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your child(ren)/students to go to the beach, 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;
♦ Today I am going to the beach.
♦ It’s going to be warm so I should wear some sunscreen.
♦ I should also wear a hat and sunglasses to stay safe from the sun.
♦ I can take some toys with me to play on the beach.
♦ When we get to the beach there is lots of sand and the sea.
♦ I can build sandcastles on the beach.
♦ I can go swimming in the sea, and use my floats.
♦ If I don’t like the feel of the sand I can wear beach shoes.
♦ I can look in the pools for different creatures.
♦ I can lay on my towel on the sand to relax.
♦ I can take a picnic to the beach to eat and drink on our blanket.
♦ There is a cafe at the beach where I can go for some food and drinks.
♦ When I am finished at the beach I can have a shower to get the sand off.
♦ I can change into clean, dry clothes for the journey home.
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.
This resource includes an 12 page (including cover) simplified visual story book based on Classroom Rules.
Each mini page, is half an actual page size, meaning you cut each page in half. I recommend laminating each page individually and then binding together to make a book - it'll also make it stronger and longer lasting for you.
Perfect for a special needs/autistic class or pre-k/k. This resource is also a great way to reinforce your classroom rules throughout the year, visually. You can also have on display in a quiet area to refer students to as quick reminders.
This resource is a fun and engaging activity for students to work on their coin recognition and sorting skills. All the coins included in this pack are UK coins.
There is one gum ball machine per coin i.e 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2. Students simply sort real coins (or the printable coins included in this pack) into the correct gum ball machines.
The resource comes in b/w and col option for your preference.
To use this activity you will need access to a QR reader on a smart device, i.e table, phone etc. You will need access to internet/wifi and a camera. Students scan the QR code on the question task card, they are redirected to a website with an image on, they look at the image and then record what position the dinosaur is on the answer card.
This activity comes in col and b/w option. It comes with an answer sheet for students to fill in and an answer key for your use if needed.
Students have to look at the task and the image and try to write down what they think it is. They can then use their device to scan the QR code to see if they got the correct answer/spelt it right! There is an extra column on the answer sheet for students to right the correct answer as well as their guess/answer.
There are 13 questions in total. All graphics are related to the Welsh celebration of St. David’s Day.
Students scan the QR code using a QR code reader (you can download free options from App stores). They are then redirected to a website with the image and the spelling/word below it.
Every task card states the question number on top of the task card, this then coincides with the answer sheet - the numbers are related i.e Question 1 task card will go into box number 1 on the answer sheet.
You can lay out the task cards on a table, as part of a center/centre or leave them around the room/outdoor area for students to hunt for.
This resource includes 104 different prompt cards to help and encourage students to make conversation.
Conversation is a hard skill for our students to master, especially when trying to start one. These prompt cards help to break the ice and encourage your students to feel more supported and confident when starting a conversation. A conversation helps to build relationships between students or even staff. It's also a great way for you to find out more about your students in class - especially if you have many shy students who usually struggle to keep a conversation flowing.
The cards are bright and fun to keep students engaged throughout the activity.
The prompt cards come in b/w and col. option as well as with UK and US spelling options.
These are fantastic for prompting students to start conversations with each other, especially for morning work, social skills groups etc.
This resource includes individual code word cracker worksheets for each of the CVC groups i.e a,e,i,o,u. Each page contains 12 different CVC puzzles for students to use the code at the top to work out the CVC word.
You will be able to find answer keys on the bottom of the PDF file to use for your marking, or even for students to use for self assessment. This is a great way for students to work on their CVC words in a fun, yet challenging activity.
Each page has a different code cracker at the top so that students can not memorise what letter each code is. This is also a great activity to encourage students to pay close attention to detail.
Each worksheet comes in b/w for ink friendly printing.
These task cards use CVC images, there are 30 task cards in total.
They come in black and white and color/colour option for your preference.
I recommend cutting out and laminating each task card individually to make them stronger and prolong the use of them.
There are 3 choices of answers on the bottom for students to select the correct answer of the medial sound of the CVC word.
You can choose whether you want students to draw a circle around the correct answer with a wipe-off marker or put a peg on it etc.
These are an excellent addition to your classroom to see if students are able to recognise initial sounds in different aspects.
Contains 30 task cards.