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20 Activities for Adaptive Skills

Are you teaching adaptive skills in your classroom? Teaching students basic adaptive skills is essential to their life outside of school. These 20 hands on activities for adaptive skills are some of my favorites! In my classroom, I focus on 6 main areas of adaptive and daily living skills. Here's where we focus in our classroom: HouseholdCommunityMoneyTimeClothingFoodBody Parts Household ... Read More about 20 Activities for Adaptive Skills

Stages of Beginning Writing: Four Steps to Building Writers

Building writing skills can be tough in the Special Education classroom. We do a lot of work to build fine motor skills in our classroom, but I haven't shared a lot about how I work with students to develop and work through the different stages of beginning writing. When I'm working with my students I always meet them where they're at. If they're not able to grasp a writing utensil we work on ... Read More about Stages of Beginning Writing: Four Steps to Building Writers

How to Choose the Right Morning Work for Special Education

I don't think it's a big secret that we love morning work in our special education classroom. There are a lot of morning work options out there, but I've created morning work that works for my classroom. I wrote more about morning work for the special education classroom in this post, but here are some of the reasons I love the morning work sets I've created: Morning work is leveled for a ... Read More about How to Choose the Right Morning Work for Special Education

How to Up Your Visual Schedule Game

If you're using a visual schedule in your special education classroom you know what a helpful tool it can be, but did you know you can push your students to become more independent and age appropriate with their schedules? I think of a schedule as a lifelong tool for my students and I want to find a way to make it the most functional for them to use. In reality, a lot of us are using visuals ... Read More about How to Up Your Visual Schedule Game

10 Activities for Number Recognition

True story, there aren't a ton of activities for number recognition out there. I went on the search when we were working on number recognition during the school year and almost everything I found included 1:1 correspondence, but we were just working on recognizing and naming numbers in our classroom. Throwing 1:1 correspondence activities in there were just confusing for my students. That's when I ... Read More about 10 Activities for Number Recognition