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 Halloween themed telling time task card activity is a great way for students to work on their time/clock skills.
This activity includes 20 different time task cards including o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to, as well as 2 different recording sheets and an answer key.
You can use these cards as 1:1 work, group centre work or even to hide them around the room / in sensory trays etc. for students to hunt for and find then read the time and answer on their recording sheet.
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 time telling skills.
These Halloween sequencing task cards are a great way to have students working on their sequencing and attention to detail skills. These task cards encourage students to look and recognise the pattern/sequence of the images then figure out what comes next in the sequence / pattern.
These task cards come in a variety of different difficulty levels so you are able to differentiate for your students.
45 different task cards included.
The cards come in both col and b/w option for your preference.
This activity includes 20 different subtraction flashcards. All images and vocabulary are linked to the theme of Halloween.
This come with 2 levels of difficulty. Students can either use flashcards 1-10 or 1-20, depending upon which you think is most suitable to your students.
There are 2 different recording sheets to accommodate the 2 different levels. One uses 1-10 and one uses 1-20.
All flashcards are ready numbered. Each flashcard contains a subtraction sum with room for the students to write their answer underneath.
An answer key is provided on the bottom two pages of the recording sheet PDF file.
Instructions are also included on first pages of each PDF document. This download includes two PDF documents - one for the flashcards and one for the recording sheets.
I would highly recommend laminating each of the individual flashcards so that they will be stronger, therefore longer lasting.
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 addition to 10 and addition to 20 skills.
This fact, flip book comes with 2 pages of reading passage for you to use for students if they are unsure of the facts, it comes in two difficulty levels depending on student's individual abilities. Once they have read the passages, they then complete the flip book. This is an interactive book where students can cut, stick and colour/color the different pieces for each page.
Guy Fawkes (Bonfire Night) is a celebration that takes place every year on the 5th November in the UK. This is a great way to introduce a British celebration into your classroom with lots of great activities to take part in.
There are two options for the cover page; color/colour or black&white.
Each page has two options for students to choose the answer from. They cut out the correct answers and stick them onto the page.
Put it together and make a flip book!!
There are instructions included on the first page of the document
There are also small instructions included on the bottom of each of the pages, as well as photos of the finished style on the last page for you to see it finished.
This resource works great in both British & American classrooms i.e color/colour.
This Guy Fawkes 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 2 different options of numbers 1-10 and 1-20 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 Guy Fawkes and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your Bonfire Night 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.
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 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 grow a plant. This adapted book goes through each of the steps required to grow a plant.
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 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 wash their dishes - 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 wash dirty dishes and to put them away.
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.)
his shark themed count the room activity contains 10 different count the room flashcards. All images and vocabulary are linked to the theme of sharks.
The flashcards come with numbers/ten frames 1-10 with a matching recording sheet. All flashcards are ready numbered.
An answer key is provided on the bottom page of the recording sheet PDF file.
Instructions are also included on first pages of each PDF document. This download includes two PDF documents - one for the count the room flashcards and one for the recording sheets.
I would highly recommend laminating each of the individual flashcards so that they will be stronger, therefore longer lasting.
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 counting skills.
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
This woodland forest themed lesson plan and pack of resources is perfect for your woodland forest theme and gives you a variety of different areas of learning, subjects and skills to cover.
In this pack you will find;
♦ Woodland Forest themed lesson plan ideas sheet.
Giving ideas of what lessons to teach for each subject including what books to read, math activities, geography activities, science activities, sensory activities, english activities and art/design activities.
♦ Geography Resource
Mini beast hunt worksheets x2
♦ English/Literacy Activities
Capital letters and lower case letters worksheets - find twigs and leaves outside and use them to build the letters. Mini beast fact file - with a blank page for you to make your own mini beast as well as 10 ready made mini beasts for students to colour/color in and write about. Spelling cards - for students to work on their spelling skills either by writing the name of the animal or by using the letter cards to spell with.
♦ Math Activities
2D shape jigsaws - match the 2D shape to the 2D shaped leaf. Add and subtract frogs on a log - use real frogs or the printable ones included. Count the spiders leg - use black pipe cleaners to make legs on the spider or draw them on. Put the amount of hedgehogs on the log - counting activity to either use toys on or the printable hedgehogs included. Counting ladybirds on the leaf - either use toys or the printable ladybirds to count with. Number puzzles - put the numbers in the correct order on the bottom of the puzzles to build the woodland animal image. Sequencing jigsaw - read the story of growing a plant and match the pictures into the correct order.
♦ Role Play Area
Includes bunting, footprint posters, movement posters, vocabulary posters, word cards and signs.
♦ Science Activities
Animal habitat puzzles - match the animals to their habitat. Design the perfect habitat worksheet. Life cycle puzzles - follows he sequence of the life cycle for the animals included.
♦ Sensory Session
Ideas on how you can make a woodland forest themed sensory session.
♦ Sensory Stories
Ideas on how you can make some stories more sensory for the woodland forest theme.
This Cinco De Mayo themed emergent reader book is a great way for students to work on their object recognition skills, book skills, vocabulary and reading skills.
The book 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 book includes;
I see a cactus.
I see a chilli.
I see chips.
I see a donkey.
I see a flag.
I see a girl.
I see a guitar.
I see a maraca.
I see a dancer. (boy)
I see a dancer. (girl)
I see a hat.
I see Mexico.
I see salsa.
These turkey themed adapted books are a great way for students to work on their colour recognition / color recognition skills. These adapted books are also a great way for students to work on their vocabulary, language, recognition and sentence building skills.
There are 4 different level sentence building books included and all vocabulary/images are of different color dogs.
The levels included are;
♦ Level 1 - One box/symbol for students to fill in - “red” “yellow” “green” etc.
♦ Level 2 - Two boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “red turkey” “yellow turkey” etc
♦ Level 3 - Three boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “turkey is red” “turkey is yellow” etc.
♦ Level 4 - Four boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “the turkey is red” “the turkey is yellow” etc.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence.
Instructions
• Print out the level books that you want to use
• Levels 1 + 2 - cut the pages into half, laminate them, then put together as a book.
• Levels 3 + 4 - laminate the pages, then put together as a book.
• Cut out the symbols individually, then laminate.
• Put velcro onto the back of each of the symbols and onto the symbol boxes.
• The blank board on the last page of each pack is your symbol base board. Laminate this and add velcro. This is where students will store their symbols.
These fox themed adapted books are a great way for students to work on their colour recognition / color recognition skills. These adapted books are also a great way for students to work on their vocabulary, language, recognition and sentence building skills.
There are 4 different level sentence building books included and all vocabulary/images are of different color dogs.
The levels included are;
♦ Level 1 - One box/symbol for students to fill in - “red” “yellow” “green” etc.
♦ Level 2 - Two boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “red fox” “yellow fox” etc
♦ Level 3 - Three boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “fox is red” “fox is yellow” etc.
♦ Level 4 - Four boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “the fox is red” “the fox is yellow” etc.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence.
Instructions
• Print out the level books that you want to use
• Levels 1 + 2 - cut the pages into half, laminate them, then put together as a book.
• Levels 3 + 4 - laminate the pages, then put together as a book.
• Cut out the symbols individually, then laminate.
• Put velcro onto the back of each of the symbols and onto the symbol boxes.
• The blank board on the last page of each pack is your symbol base board. Laminate this and add velcro. This is where students will store their symbols.
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 safely cross the street - 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 safely cross a street.
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.)
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.
These dog themed adapted books are a great way for students to work on their colour recognition / color recognition skills. These adapted books are also a great way for students to work on their vocabulary, language, recognition and sentence building skills.
There are 4 different level sentence building books included and all vocabulary/images are of different color dogs.
The levels included are;
♦ Level 1 - One box/symbol for students to fill in - “red” “yellow” “green” etc.
♦ Level 2 - Two boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “red dog” “yellow dog” etc
♦ Level 3 - Three boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “dog is red” “dog is yellow” etc.
♦ Level 4 - Four boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “the dog is red” “the dog is yellow” etc.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence.
Instructions
• Print out the level books that you want to use
• Levels 1 + 2 - cut the pages into half, laminate them, then put together as a book.
• Levels 3 + 4 - laminate the pages, then put together as a book.
• Cut out the symbols individually, then laminate.
• Put velcro onto the back of each of the symbols and onto the symbol boxes.
• The blank board on the last page of each pack is your symbol base board. Laminate this and add velcro. This is where students will store their symbols.
These fish themed adapted books are a great way for students to work on their colour recognition / color recognition skills. These adapted books are also a great way for students to work on their vocabulary, language, recognition and sentence building skills.
There are 4 different level sentence building books included and all vocabulary/images are of different color dogs.
The levels included are;
♦ Level 1 - One box/symbol for students to fill in - “red” “yellow” “green” etc.
♦ Level 2 - Two boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “red fish” “yellow fish” etc
♦ Level 3 - Three boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “fish is red” “fish is yellow” etc.
♦ Level 4 - Four boxes/symbols for students to fill in - “the fish is red” “the fish is yellow” etc.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence.
Instructions
• Print out the level books that you want to use
• Levels 1 + 2 - cut the pages into half, laminate them, then put together as a book.
• Levels 3 + 4 - laminate the pages, then put together as a book.
• Cut out the symbols individually, then laminate.
• Put velcro onto the back of each of the symbols and onto the symbol boxes.
• The blank board on the last page of each pack is your symbol base board. Laminate this and add velcro. This is where students will store their symbols.