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 activity is a great way for your students to work on their reading, recognition and instruction following skills. Students have to read the instructions on each of the task cards included, and find/point to the matching items on the Halloween scene.
This is a great way for students to pay close attention to detail and start to work on their symbol > image matching/recognition skills. 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 these important skills.
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.
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 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.
This shark 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 shark species and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your ‘Shark Week’ 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.
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.
Are you looking for a fun and hands-on activity to add to your preschool construction theme? Or are you looking for an engaging work task box to add to your math centers? If so, this color matching construction vehicle task box is the perfect addition to your classroom!
Your students will love sorting the construction vehicles into the following colors;
-Red
-Blue
-Yellow
Students need to identify what color the construction vehicle is and then match this to the task card containing the same color splat.
Your students will love working on their color recognition skills with these hands-on color matching task cards. I recommend laminating each of the individual task cards so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and reusable in the future.
Instructions
-Print the task cards.
-Cut out and laminate each of the individual task cards.
-Lay the task cards out in your math centers and watch your students work on 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 Snow White 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 Snow White and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your Snow White 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 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 shark themed activity contains 12 different task cards where students have to match the shape that the shark is to the 2D shape underneath out of 2 choices.
This resource comes in both col and b/w option for your preference and comes at 2 task cards per page.
There are instructions included on the front page of the document. I recommend cutting them out individually and then laminating them, this will make them stronger and longer lasting - meaning you can use them over and over again.
This is a great addition to your shark week unit, as well as being a different way for students to work on their 2D shape skills.
2d shapes included are;
• circle
• square
• triangle
• trapezoid
• oval
• pentagon
• hexagon
• octagon
• rectangle
• diamond
• star
• heart
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 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 get ready for school- 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 get ready for school, 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, pajamas/pyjamas 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.)
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 hands - 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 their hands 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 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 brush their teeth - 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 brush teeth.
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 social story is a great read for students who may need some support and help to understand what they should or shouldn’t do if they see a fire. It will also help to prepare them, should they ever find themselves in a situation with a fire.
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.
This social story has been created to suit both UK/US audiences with the page regarding phoning the fire station - i.e 999 or 911.
Pages included are;
♦ Sometimes, accidents happen and this might cause a fire.
♦ If I see a fire, I should not go near it - it is very hot and dangerous.
♦ If I see a fire, I should look for a fire alarm and set it off.
♦ If I see a fire, I should find a phone and call 999 for the fire department.
♦ If I see a fire, I should try to get away from it, and leave the building.
♦ If a fire happens in school, I should remember what happens in our fire drills.
♦ If I see a fire, I should be calm, leave the building and find our meeting spot.
♦ If there is a lot of smoke, I should crawl along the floor.
♦ If a fire happens at home, I should listen to my parents instructions.
♦ I should not go back into a fire to help anyone.
♦ I should not go back into a fire to get anything.
♦ Firefighters are the only people who should try and put the fire out.
♦ Firefighters are trained to deal with fire, and have lots of safety equipment.
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 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.)
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 pack themselves a lunch box - 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 pack a lunch box, 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 Rapunzel 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 1-8 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 Rapunzel and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your Rapunzel 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 Christmas 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 Christmas.