Hands on activities for special education

Don’t you love the beginning of the school year? I always enjoyed seeing smiling faces, reconnecting with students, and just soaking in the excitement a new beginning brings! But, if mid-year me could send a letter to beginning-of-the-year me, it would probably read something like this: “Stop stressing! Get to work, and please, ask for

From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!

For our learners who need to work on foundational learning skills, such as simple matching, I have always love creating hands on task boxes put-in tasks and color sorting tasks. My classroom closet always looked like it could be featured on an episode of hoarders. I kept every shoe box, coffee container, baby jar, and

The best part about Summer Visual Crafts is the real picture step by step directions! This makes this resource SO easy to prep!

In my very first self-contained classroom, I was lucky enough to have an instructional kitchen attached to my classroom. Instead of only utilizing that space on "Fun Fridays" for cooking, we decided to use the space to teach our students some basic functional life skills. Daily Living Skills It can never be too early to

Free Life Skills File Folder Activities for the independent work station in special education classrooms. Practice life skills for community integration!

There are several ways to help children learn and be interested in maths – even the reluctant ones.

Need more learning through play ideas? Have a child who struggles to sit still listening? Click through to see 100 hands-on activities for tactile learners of all ages: toddlers, preschoolers, Kindergarten students all the way up through middle school!

It’s been a while since I linked up for Workbasket Wednesday, but I finally snapped some pictures of my Workbaskets and just had to share them with you all! Check out these adorable Back to School tasks with a focus on fine motor skills! This task has been a classroom favorite. Students use the ... Read More about Workbasket Wednesday!

Find engaging classroom job skills ideas with these easy to set up job prep activities for special education and students with disabilities.