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 children who may need some preparation for an upcoming visit to the zoo.
The animals included have been kept as generic as possible so that they will more than likely be seen in any zoo.
It is a generic story of two children who go to the zoo with their family. It's a great way to prepare children for what will happen, what they may see and what they may do at the zoo.
Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale.
This download consists of 36 different Growth Mindset posters. These are great to have on display around your classroom/work area to promote and encourage students working to have Growth Mindset.
I highly recommend laminating each of the individual posters so that they will be stronger and longer lasting.
These posters will provide you with a great opportunity to encourage Growth Mindset within your classroom / work room.
This Halloween themed color / colouring sorting activity is a great, and interactive way for students to work on their color sorting skills while continuing the theme of Halloween.
This resource contains 10 different colours for students to match the correct images / colors into.
The colours / colors included are:
♦ Blue
♦ Brown
♦ Grey / Gray
♦ Green
♦ Orange
♦ Pink
♦ Purple
♦ Red
♦ White
♦ Yellow
This resource comes with both spelling options of grey/gray.
There are 6 items to match for each card. I recommend laminating each of the individual parts so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and re-usable.
This pumpkin themed 2D shape task card activity is a great way for your students to work on their shape recognition skills, while introducing the theme of autumn/fall/halloween into your learning environment.
This activity includes 9 different task cards. Each task card contains an image of a pumpkin in a different 2D shape. Then, there are simple 2D shapes for you to cut out, which students match to the pumpkin task cards- or you can use real shapes that you have already, in your classroom.
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 adapted book is a great way for students to work on their sequencing skills but also to give them the knowledge and understanding of how to clean their bedroom - a very important life skill which can be hard for many of our students to master. This adapted book goes through each of the steps required to clean their bedroom and help to promote independence during this routine.
Students have to read - or be read - the sentence on top of the page and then find the matching symbol that matches the sentence. This a great way to start having your students understand what they are reading/listening to and taking in the information. Students can then process this information and find the relevant symbol that fits with what is happening in the current situation.
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.)
This space themed wh- question resource contains 6 different space themed scenery images accompanied with two different types of recording sheets/questions.
Each scenery image comes with:
♦ non-verbal question/recording cards
♦ verbal question/recording cards
to suit individual student needs. The question/recording cards also come with space to record two different dates to track student progress.
The wh- questions are; who, what, where.
10 questions included for each scene = 60 questions in total.
A great way to improve student understanding, attention to detail and question/answering techniques.
This resources comes in col option only - no b/w option.
Are you looking for hands-on and engaging work task boxes for your autism and special education students? Do you want your students to love working on their counting, color recognition and fine motor skills? Or are you looking for a sensory and hands-on activity to add to your math centers? If you say yes to any of those questions - this birthday math activity is the perfect addition to your task boxes.
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 0-20.
-Task cards with instructions for color candles.
How to Use
-Students read - or be read - the instruction on the task card.
-Students make a cake out of play dough in a cake case - or if you’re feeling brave - use real cupcakes!
-Then, students use candles (we use real ones) and place them into the cake (fake or real) to match the instruction on the card. This could be by counting to a certain number or by color matching.
Instructions
-Print out the included task cards.
-Laminate the task cards.
-Provide your students with a cupcake (fake or real) and candles (fake or real).
Your students will love working with this fun birthday math activity to work on their counting, number recognition, instruction and fine motor skills. This is also a great way for your students to work on understanding the connection between number and quantity as well as their color recognition skills.
These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
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.
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different life skills for your students.
★ 20 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with 2 different levels for the grocery shopping/payment pages as well as girl/boy options for some pages.
This resource comes in both spelling options of colour and color. It comes with different PDFs to suit a variety of different countries (mainly because of the coins used when purchasing food in the grocery store)
This resource is suitable for AUSTRALIAN students.
The activities included in this folder are;
♦ Writing/Spelling name
♦ Doing the laundry
Putting dirty washing and detergent into the washing machine, transferring clothes from washing machine onto the washing line, then off the washing line and into the basket
♦ Matching socks
♦ Putting items away - kitchen v garden
♦ Grocery shopping - 2 different levels
Finding items on your shopping list, taking them off the shelves and into your trolley. Then paying for them at the end by choosing the correct coins from your purse.
♦ Recycling - recycle cardboard into the green bin and food into the white bin
♦ Building a face - boy and girl option
♦ Label the body
♦ Brush teeth
Put pen on the teeth then rub off with toothbrush
♦ Wash face
Put pen on face, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Wash hands
Put pen on hands, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Dressing kids for weather - cold/hot option boy/girl option
♦ Set the table
Put fork, knife, spoon and plate into correct places on the table
If there are any life skills activities that you feel could be added to this folder, then please get in touch and I'll be happy to try and help you.
This resource includes 5 different animal life cycle puzzles where students have to match together the different animal life cycles. Simply cut out each of the jigsaw pieces and laminate (this will keep them strong and longer lasting and students match the parts of the life cycle to the correct animals.
Animals included are:
♦ ant
♦ butterfly
♦ chicken
♦ frog
♦ turtle
Each puzzle comes with 4 pieces. Each puzzle piece has an image and the name of that image below it.
A fun activity that is a great way to introduce or practice life cycles.
This resource contains 47 different task cards where students have to follow the instructions at the top of the task card to complete the action. Comes in 2 different types; find the food to feed the monkey and feed the food to a colour/color monkey. Comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
These task cards are a fun way to have your students work on a variety of different skills such as; reading and following instructions, colour/color recognition, food recognition etc.
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.
This resource contains 20 different color by number (colour by number) grids which create the picture of animals when completed!
Students will love these activities and solving who the mystery animal is hidden in the grid.
Also includes finished pictures so that you can see what they look like as an example and to use as an answer key to check students work.
This is a great way for students to work on their number and color / colour recognition skills.
Animals included are;
• bear
• chicken
• cow
• elephant
• fox
• giraffe
• lion
• monkey
• penguin
• sheep
• snake
• turtle
• giraffe standing
• butterfly
• spider
• dog
• rabbit
• frog
• owl
• bee.
This resource is suitable for both American and British etc spellings e.g.) gray and color vs grey and colour.
At the bottom of each page are instructions for students to colour / color certain numbers in certain colours / colors. At the end of the activity students are able to write what animal they can see at the bottom of the page.
This adapted morning work binder is an engaging and hands-on way to start each morning with your autistic students. Using the morning binder each day will help your students get into a routine where they come in, settle down and they are ready to work.
Many of our students may struggle with transition in the mornings, so by providing this work book as a consistent routine in their daily morning routine, it will help them to settle quicker and be prepared to work.
The books are editable so each student can have their own personalized morning binder.
The document comes as a Keynote and PowerPoint file. You can add on different wording and add pictures of your student etc. but please note you will not be able to add/change/extract any form of clipart/imagery/text from this document. This is to protect our fabulous clip artists and myself as a teacher-author.
This book comes in 2 levels;
Level 1 - Students match images or symbols to each of the pages.
Level 2 - Students match images or symbols and words to the pages. They can also use a dry-wipe pen and write their answers to make it harder again.
What’s Included?
Level 1 Morning Work Binder
Accompanying Walkthrough to Put Together the Level 1 Morning Work Binder
Level 2 Morning Work Binder
Accompanying Walkthrough to Put Together the Level 2 Morning Work Binder
What’s Included in the Books?
The books include;
Front Cover
Me and My Name
How Do I Feel?
My School
What Day Is It?
What Months Is It?
What Season Is It?
How’s the Weather?
What Should I Wear?
Finished
Front Cover
You can either add your students name using a text box and then print out, or have students write their name once printed.
You can also put a white shape square over the image on the front cover and then insert an image of your student if you want their photo on the front cover.
What Should I Wear
This comes with 4 different options. You only need to print one per book used. 2 boy options, and 2 girl options are included.
Students use the clothing pieces included to dress the person appropriately for how the weather is outside.
Build Up
If you feel there are too many pages to start for your students, use less pages to start.
First, just use ‘Me and My Name’ ‘What Day Is It?’ ‘How’s the Weather?’ and 'Finished’
Then, as students progress with this, start adding more of the pages in.
Finished
My students love these books - but they love the finished page too.
Having the finished page is a visual way to show your students that they have completed the activity. And that’s the end of the book.
All symbols are included in this resource. You can also add your own too.
This activity is a fun, interactive and engaging way for your students to work on their number recognition and counting skills during Spring. Students need to count the different items on each of the task cards and then choose their answer out of 3 possible choices on the right hand side of the task card.
Your students will love working on their counting skills with these fun and engaging Spring themed task cards. I recommend laminating all of the task cards included. This will make them stronger, longer lasting and reusable in the future.
The task cards cover from 0-10. There are 33 different task cards included.
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Instructions**
Print out the task cards.
Cut and laminate the task cards.
Provide your students with dry wipe pens or clothing pegs for your students to select their answers.
There are 3 different types of counting task cards included;
Count the spots on the bug
Count the petals on the flower
Count the eggs in the nest.
These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
These cards are perfect to use as a class timeline/schedule to improve your classroom management, organisation and help students to visually see what they will be doing throughout the day and preparing themselves.
There is a wide range of different symbol cards available, if you require something that is not included please contact me and I will add this.
This resource will really help keep your students focused on their task at hand while helping them to transition to the next activity but also knowing what to expect throughout the day. By having a fixed timeline in front of them students will become more aware of what is expected of them through the day - this will especially help with students who may get anxious about the unknown.
The symbols included so far;
♦ English
♦ Literacy
♦ Math
♦ Numeracy
♦ Geography
♦ History
♦ PE
♦ ICT
♦ IT
♦ Computers
♦ iPads
♦ Choice
♦ Assembly
♦ Music
♦ Outside
♦ Trip
♦ Park
♦ Walk
♦ Playtime
♦ Dinner
♦ Snack
♦ Home
♦ School
♦ Guided Reading
♦ Art
♦ Library
♦ Drama
♦ Party
♦ Birthday
♦ Celebration
♦ Science
♦ Colouring
♦ Coloring
♦ Writing
♦ Language Arts
♦ Field Trip
♦ French
♦ Bus
♦ Spelling
♦ Group Work
♦ Gym
♦ Lunch
♦ Reading
♦ Story
♦ Cookery
♦ Bathroom
♦ Playground
♦ Breakfast
All children, regardless of differing needs, can have huge benefit from having a class timeline/schedule.
This is a growing bundle and as requests are made, more symbols will be added to this pack that are appropriate for timeline/schedule use.
This is a Good Morning greeting book, used every morning with individual students, but you can also change this to use it as class/group activities if that is what suits you more.
This resource is great to get students settled in the morning, into a routine and ready to work! It comes differentiated to suit different abilities.
It covers;
♦ Name
♦ Day
♦ Feeling
♦ School
♦ Weather
♦ What to wear
These are great life skills to practice on a daily basis to get your students becoming more and more independent. It also encourages them to pay close attention to current events i.e - what day is it, how are they feeling, how's the weather, what should they wear in this weather.
This is also a great way for students to work on their feelings, helping them to understand how they are feeling. It will also enable students to understand what clothes are appropriate to wear in different types of weather.
There are brief instructions on each page as well as an instruction page at the start of the document to help you set this up and use to it's best potential in your classroom.
★ This has been updated on 26/10/15. The file now comes in 2 parts - a new updated version which is a powerpoint & keynote file. ★
CVC Spelling Frame Task Cards
This download includes spelling frame task cards related to CVC words.
There is a total of 30 different task cards included and they come in col and b/w option.
I recommend cutting out each of the task cards individually and then laminating them so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. This will also mean you can use them over and over with students using a dry wipe pen.
The CVC words included are:
♦ car, cat, dam, ham, pan, wag
♦ bed, den, hen, net, pen, wet
♦ dig, fin, hit, lid, pig, pit
♦ dog, fox, hop, log, mop, top
♦ bun, cub, gum, hut, mud, sun
Contains 30 task cards, 15 pages.
This resource contains a Good Afternoon Work Book / Greeting Book that is a great activity to use on a daily basis with your student(s). This book will help students to settle down and get ready to focus for their afternoon work. Many students may struggle with the transition in the afternoons, especially after playtimes, so by providing this work book as anchor in their daily afternoon routine, it will help them to settle quicker.
It is individualised so each student can have their own copy.
The document comes as a keynote or powerpoint file.
You can add on different wording and add pictures of your student etc. but please note you will not be able to add/change/extract any form of clipart/imagery/text from this document. This is to protect our fabulous clip artists and myself as a teacher-seller.
This is a harder, newer version of my Good Afternoon greeting book. This one encourages students to be able to write their answers (you can also add text to it for them to overwrite if they are not yet at the level of independent writing) but continue to also choose symbols for the answer.
All symbols are also included at the back of the page, you will need to add some of your own, i.e pictures of staff etc
A walkthrough is also included to explain how to use the greeting book to it's best potential.
The questions that this greeting book ask are;
♦ my name
♦ how do I feel?
♦ where do I live?
♦ when is my birthday?
♦ how's the weather?
♦ what should I wear?
This resource contains 7 different, short story, sequencing jigsaws. Students simply read the short story then use the information that they have read to figure out which order to place the image into the jigsaw.
All the jigsaws comes in b/w option and col option for your preference.
The stories are;
* St David's Day (Welsh celebration 1st March)
* St Patrick's Day
* The Ugly Duckling
* Barry the Bug (and his Spring walk)
* Life cycle of a caterpillar
This resource contains 7 different, short story, sequencing jigsaws. Students simply read the short story then use the information that they have read to figure out which order to place the image into the jigsaw.
All the jigsaws comes in b/w option and col option for your preference.
The stories are;
★ I jump out of bed and rush to my daddy, “Happy Father’s Day!” I shout. I jump onto his bed and hand him the mug that I bought him. On the bottom of his bed I hang the bunting of ties that I made. Daddy says he loves them, he picks me up into the air and puts me on his shoulders!
★ Me and my friends are talking about what we love about our dads. I love it when my dad carries me on his shoulders, Dave loves when his dad cooks a bbq. Alicia loves when she can just spend time with her dad, and Alice loves watching her dad rock her baby sister to sleep.
★ Today I’m at a pool party. When I arrive, I run straight for the water slide, and slide all the way down! I can see Dave holding some water bombs, then he throws a green one at me, splashing all over me. I hurry and pick up a red water bomb to throw back.
★ Me and my grandma have been making a summer to do list. First, we are going to go camping. Then, we are going to drive all the way down to the beach so I can go surfing! Then, finally, we are going to go to a hotel and relax in the sun.
★ My teacher asked me to name 4 things that remind me of Summer. I said the ocean is 1st, because we always go to the beach in the Summer. Then, a crab, because we try to find them at the beach. Then, there’s ice cream - the best cold treat! And, finally, of course, the sun!
★ It’s the first day of Summer, so dad is cooking us a bbq. First, I have to put the table cloth on our table, then dad starts to put food on the bbq to cook. I put on a special apron and hat so that I can be dad’s assistant chef. Finally, once the food is all cooked, I get to eat a cheeseburger!
★ We’re going to the beach today! Mom says I have to look for the beach sign, then we know we have arrived! When we arrive, I look up to see the sun shining, it’s very bright and hot! Mom puts an umbrella in the sand so we have some shade. Then, she helps to bury me under all the sand!