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.
Halloween Task Cards, Counting, Ten Frames
This download includes task cards with ten frames 0 - 10.
Students have to count how many pumpkins 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 or 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 Halloween.
This interactive and adapted book is a great way to introduce students to books. The interactive aspect will keep students engaged and focused while reading through this short, adapted book. The book is based on a baby shark going missing. You have to help mommy shark look through parts of the ocean to find him.
Instructions
• Print pages 3-7
• Cut pages 3-5 in half and laminate. Then bind together as a book.
• Pages 6-7 cut out all the pieces individually then laminate. On page 6 there are two seaweed options for you to choose - the large one sits over the entire picture or the two smaller ones can be put together with split pins for students to pull apart.
• Staple the bottom of the seaweed on top of daddy shark and the writing, students then lift up the seaweed to reveal daddy shark and the sentence. Or if using the smaller seaweeds, make two small holes on the bottom and split pin the seaweed onto the picture covering the picture of daddy shark and the sentence below. Students then pull them apart to reveal daddy shark and the writing.
• The shell goes on UPSIDE DOWN to cover grandma shark and the sentence. Staple the small end of the shell onto the top of grandma shark so that it covers the shark and sentence. Students peel this up to reveal grandma shark.
• Staple bottom of rock on top of grandpa shark and sentence. Student peels it back to reveal image and sentence.
• The small mouth goes on top of the whale’s actual mouth. You can either velcro this for students to pull off, use a split pin for students to slide it around or staple it for students to lift up.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color/Colour, Grey/Gray etc.
This shark themed alphabet game is a great way for students to work on their instructional skills, listening skills, and letter recognition skills. This shark game will be a great way for you to celebrate shark week in your setting.
Instructions:
♦ Print out the pages that you wish to use
♦ Cut out the mouth of the shark and laminate the shark page so students can post through his mouth. Or cut out the shark on his own, cut out his mouth and then put onto a box so that students post the letter through his mouth into the box.
♦ Cut out and laminate each of the challenge cards and letter cards.
♦ Read the challenge cards to the students i.e 'Feed the shark the letter a’
♦ Student finds the matching letter and feeds it to the shark.
Included:
♦ Shark page - see instructions above on how to use.
♦ Lower case letter flashcards
♦ Upper case letter flashcards
♦ Lower case challenge cards
♦ Upper case challenge cards
These Shark themed adapted books are a great way to introduce ‘Shark Week’ into your learning environment in an adapted and more suitable way for your students.
This adapted book is a great way to encourage learners to pay close attention to detail, recognise and understand the images they are seeing, linking this to vocabulary and being able to start building sentences.
This resource contains 2 adapted books which comes in colour/color option only.
The books included are;
♦ Level 1 Color/Colour Recognition - “blue”, “red”, “yellow” etc.
♦ Level 2 Color/Colour Recognition - “blue shark”, “red shark” etc.
This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It’s a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to deal, become more familiar with sentence structure and symbols.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color/Colour, Grey/Gray etc.)
These Winter themed emergent reader books are a great way for students to work on their object recognition skills, book skills, vocabulary and reading skills.
There are 3 books included;
• Book 1 - ‘I see a blanket.’
• Book 2 - ‘His feet are cold.’
• Book 3 - ‘She is coughing.’
The variety of books allows students to experience different types of vocabulary.
The books comes in 1/2 page size meaning there are 2 pages per 1 actual page and would look great put together as mini books for you to have access to at all times.
The books are suitable for both spellings; colour/color etc.
Book 1
I see an avalanche.
I see a blanket.
I see a coat.
I see a lodge.
I see a mitten.
I see a mug.
I see a skate.
I see a ski.
I see a snow cloud.
I see snowballs.
I see a snowman.
I see a snowsuit.
Book 2
The tree is bare.
His feet are cold.
The girl is cozy.
The mittens are fluffy.
The polar bear is frozen.
The snow is cold.
Her cheeks are rosy.
The icicles are sharp.
The girl is stuck.
The fire is warm.
The snow is white.
Book 3
She is building.
She is coughing.
The penguin is diving.
He is drinking.
The raccoon is hibernating.
The snowman is melting.
She is shivering.
He is shovelling.
She is shuffling.
He is skating.
He is skiing.
He is sneezing.
He is throwing.
This Halloween themed activity is a great way for your students to work on their math, number, counting, fine motor and problem solving skills. As well as all these skills, this activity will provide your students with the opportunity to look at images of Halloween and use these as a talking point.
The puzzles come in 3 different difficulty levels;
• Level 1 - 0-3
• Level 2 - 0-5
• Level 3 - 0-10
There is a range of ways that these can be used in your classroom such as;
• Print out the b/w puzzles, cut them up and hand them out to your students. Have your students put the puzzles together, sticking them onto a piece of paper/into their work book, then colour them in.
• Print out the puzzles, cut them up and laminate them. Use them as a center activity where your students have to look at the numbers on the bottom of each puzzle piece, put them into numerical order to make the puzzle.
• Print out two copies of each puzzle (one copy can be b/w), laminate one as a full puzzle (i recommend the b/w one) and then cut out the puzzle pieces on the other puzzle. Laminate the puzzle pieces. Have your students match the individual pieces onto the completed puzzle. This provides a lower ability option for students struggling.
Instructions are also included on first pages of each PDF document. I would highly recommend laminating each of the individual task cards so that they will be stronger, therefore longer lasting.
This is a great way to keep students motivated and engaged while working on their ten frame counting skills. Comes in both b/w and col option for your printing preference.
These Spring themed emergent reader books are a great way for students to work on their object recognition skills, book skills, vocabulary and reading skills.
There are 3 books included;
• Book 1 - ‘I see a rabbit.’
• Book 2 - ‘The flowers are pretty.’
• Book 3 - ‘She is climbing.’
The variety of books allows students to experience different types of vocabulary.
The books comes in 1/2 page size meaning there are 2 pages per 1 actual page and would look great put together as mini books for you to have access to at all times.
The books are suitable for both spellings; colour/color etc.
Book 1
I see a bee.
I see a bird.
I see a butterfly.
I see a chick.
I see an egg.
I see a flower.
I see a kite.
I see a lamb.
I see a puddle.
I see a rabbit
I see a rainbow.
I see an umbrella.
Book 2
The flowers are pretty.
The rabbit jumps high.
The wind is cold.
The eggs are small.
The grass is green.
The sun is warm.
The rain is wet.
Book 3
She is climbing.
He is feeding chicks.
The chick is hatching.
He is jumping.
The rabbit is eating.
He is planting.
He is searching.
The bird is singing.
He is smelling.
She is walking.
This Halloween themed wh- question adapted book is a great way for students to work on their wh- questions in an adapted and suitable way. Students read the short sentence at the top of the page and find the appropriate and matching symbol to answer the comprehension question.
Comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It’s a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to deal, become more familiar with sentence structure and symbols.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of Halloween.
This The Little Mermaid themed write the room activity is a great way to have students moving around the room, hunting for the different cards, reading them and then writing down the answers onto recording sheets.
The recording sheets come in numbers 1-10 as well as in 2 different ability levels - plain boxes to write the answers in or boxes with handwriting lines for students to write in.
Each image is linked to the theme of The Little Mermaid and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your The Little Mermaid or Fairy Tale topic and expand your students knowledge while allowing them to move around.
You can hide these flashcards anywhere you want to get the students active and moving about. Some example are:
♦ Around the classroom
♦ Outdoor play area
♦ In a tough tray
♦ In a sensory tub
etc.
This is a great way to keep students motivated and engaged while working on their vocabulary and spelling skills.
This resource comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
This toy companion resource is a great way to encourage your students to learn while playing with their toys.
This resource contains a variety of different levels of task cards for students to use to target a variety of individual abilities.
Each task card contains instructions on what the ‘customer’ has ordered for their sandwich. For this resource, I highly recommend purchasing a sandwich set - we purchased the Melissa & Doug Sandwich Felt Set which is perfect to use with this activity.
This Halloween themed activity is a great way for your students to work on their categorising (categorising) and recognition skills.
There are two different pages included which contain:
• Spider v Witch
• Pumpkin v Ghost
Students are encouraged to sort the images into the correct category. The theme is linked to Halloween and is a great way for you to introduce some Halloween fun into your classroom while continuing your students work on categorisation.
Instructions are also included on first page of the PDF document. I would highly recommend laminating each of the individual pieces so that they will be stronger, therefore longer lasting.
This umbrella and rain drop themed activity is a great way for your students to work on their colour sorting / color sorting skills. Students have to find the rain drops (you can either have these out or hidden in a messy tray for them to find) and then match them to the same colour umbrella.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
Instructions
• Print out the umbrella pages and laminate them.
• Print out the raindrops, cut them out individually and laminate them.
• Students can then match the colour raindrops to the matching umbrella.
This weather themed activity is a great way for your students to work on their math, number, counting, fine motor and problem solving skills. As well as all these skills, this activity will provide your students with the opportunity to look at different types of weather and use this as a talking point.
The puzzles come in 3 different difficulty levels;
• Level 1 - 0-3
• Level 2 - 0-5
• Level 3 - 0-10
There is a range of ways that these can be used in your classroom such as;
• Print out the b/w puzzles, cut them up and hand them out to your students. Have your students put the puzzles together, sticking them onto a piece of paper/into their work book, then colour them in.
• Print out the puzzles, cut them up and laminate them. Use them as a center activity where your students have to look at the numbers on the bottom of each puzzle piece, put them into numerical order to make the puzzle.
• Print out two copies of each puzzle (one copy can be b/w), laminate one as a full puzzle (i recommend the b/w one) and then cut out the puzzle pieces on the other puzzle. Laminate the puzzle pieces. Have your students match the individual pieces onto the completed puzzle. This provides a lower ability option for students struggling.
Instructions are also included on first pages of each PDF document. I would highly recommend laminating each of the individual task cards so that they will be stronger, therefore longer lasting.
This is a great way to keep students motivated and engaged while working on their ten frame counting skills. Comes in both b/w and col option for your printing preference.
This Sleeping Beauty themed write the room activity is a great way to have students moving around the room, hunting for the different cards, reading them and then writing down the answers onto recording sheets.
The recording sheets come in numbers 1-10 as well as in 2 different ability levels - plain boxes to write the answers in or boxes with handwriting lines for students to write in.
Each image is linked to the theme of Sleeping Beauty and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your Sleeping Beauty or Fairy Tale topic and expand your students knowledge while allowing them to move around.
You can hide these flashcards anywhere you want to get the students active and moving about. Some example are:
♦ Around the classroom
♦ Outdoor play area
♦ In a tough tray
♦ In a sensory tub
etc.
This is a great way to keep students motivated and engaged while working on their vocabulary and spelling skills.
This resource comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
These initial letter matching puzzles are a fun addition to your Valentine’s unit to continue learning with your students. There are 2 different levels of puzzles included for you to differentiate for your students.
Included in this resource;
• matching letters to images to connect the two pieces of the hearts together
• matching upper case letters, to lower case letters, to images to connect the three pieces of the hearts together.
These puzzles will be a great addition to your Valentine’s Day unit and a fun way for your students to work on their initial letter recognition skills.
This Valentine’s Day themed wh- question adapted book is a great way for students to work on their wh- questions in an adapted and suitable way. Students read the short sentence at the top of the page and find the appropriate and matching symbol to answer the comprehension 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 adapted book comes in both col and b/w option for your preference.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of Valentine’s Day.
These groundhog day task cards are a fun way for your students to work on their fine motor and pre-handwriting skills. Each task card contains a fine motor line for your students to follow along with 2 groundhog themed images. These will be a great, hands on addition to your groundhog day unit.
There are 18 different task cards included in this pack, giving your students plenty of opportunities to work on their fine motor skills. The task cards come in both col. and b/w for your printing preference.
I recommend cutting out and laminating each of the task cards so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and re-usable in the future.
These Autumn / Fall themed emergent reader books are a great way for students to work on their object recognition skills, book skills, vocabulary and reading skills.
There are 3 books included;
• Book 1 - ‘I see an apple’
• Book 2 - ‘The leaves are crunchy’
• Book 3 - 'He is gathering
The variety of books allows students to experience different types of vocabulary.
The books comes in 1/2 page size meaning there are 2 pages per 1 actual page and would look great put together as mini books for you to have access to at all times.
The books are suitable for both spellings; colour/color etc.
The books come with 2 different options of Fall or Autumn for your preference.
Book 1
I see an acorn.
I see an apple.
I see a basket.
I see a ball.
I see hay.
I see a leaf.
I see a pinecone.
I see a scarecrow.
I see a squirrel.
I see a sunflower
I see a sweater.
I see a tree.
Book 2
The girl is cold.
The skies are cloudy.
The leaves are crunchy.
The sky is foggy.
The scarecrow is happy
The pie is hot.
The leaf is orange.
The seeds are soggy.
The pinecone is prickly.
Book 3
He is chopping.
He is collecting.
She is dressing.
She is drinking.
She is gathering.
He is harvesting.
She is raking.
She is reading.
He is stacking.
She is sweeping.
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way for your students to use mini erasers? This racing home Valentine game will be perfect for you and your students. Students can complete it individually or against each other, racing to be the first one home.
This game is a fun addition to your Valentine’s unit and can be used with mini erasers (that we all love!) or any manipulative that you with to use.
The aim of the game is for students to work on their number recognition and counting skills. Students roll a dice, count out the manipulative, and add them to their game board. There are also recording sheets for students to record what numbers they have rolled, a great way to work on number formation skills. Students have to keep rolling the dice, and counting, until they reach home at the end of the game.
If you want your students to be even more excited, put students up against each other. That way, it’s a race across the clock - or each other! The student to reach the house first, wins!
Included in this pack;
• 2 different game boards
• recording sheets - for students to record what numbers they have rolled
• dice template - if you don’t have dice available
You will need to have mini erasers or manipulates at hand to complete this activity.
These initial letter task cards are a fun addition to your body unit to continue learning with your students. Your students will love learning about the different parts of their body, while also working on their initial letter and sounds skills.
Each task card contains a different body part with a word prompt underneath. But, the first letter of the word is missing! Students have to sound out the body part they see, work out the initial letter and choose it from a choice of 3 possibilities on the right hand side of the task card.
This is a fun and engaging way for your students to continue working on body part recognition skills in a hands-on way. To make this activity work on your students fine motor skills too - use clothing pegs for students to choose their answers.
These puzzles will be a great addition to your body unit and a fun way for your students to work on their initial letter recognition skills.
The task cards come in both col. and b/w option for your printing preference and there are a total of 20 different task cards included.