With the right tools and strategies, you can turn classroom expectations into engaging and fun activity that promotes social-emotional skills and builds a strong community.
One way to achieve this is through a sorting card game, designed to help students differentiate between good and poor behaviors.
In this blog, you can see how I’ve created this activity to use for classroom behavior management, so explore the benefits of using this game as a tool for creating a positive learning environment.
This simple activity will help your students sort out the good and poor behaviors for the classroom expectations you want to see everyday
This hands-on activity is how teaching classroom rules can be a joyful and an engaging experience at your independent stations and work centers, that’s once laminated can be practised over and over again.
Dive and promote positive classroom management and behavior, all while building a strong class community. Get ready to make this learning exciting for both you and your students!”
Struggling with Communication? Discover how help cards can help your students with their Emotional Intelligence!
For kids in special education, expressing their needs and seeking help can be a daunting task. However, there is a simple yet effective tool that can greatly improve their communication skills – visual cues. Lets explore the importance of effective communication for children with special needs and how the use of a visual aid, such as the help card, can greatly benefit them.
Discover how we can support and empower these children to express themselves and seek the help they need.
In this post, we will explore the importance of effective communication and how you can use visual aids, such as help cards, that can greatly benefit our kids in the classroom.
Using Help cardswith symbolsMy 5 tips
1. Help your young learner to realise when they need to use the Help Card, usually before they get too frustrated or loose concentration. Set up a situation in which they will need help, show them the help card and place it where they can easily reach it.
2. Point to the help card and tell them, “This is your help card. You can use it if you need help.” When your student starts to show behaviors, You say “If you are getting upset, use your help card to tell me you need help.”
3. Immediately allow the student to take the help symbol and make up his sentence, or allow the student to use the help card and follow the visual instructions.” I found that self regulating visuals on the bottom of the card is a fantastic way of reminding your student what they need to do when they need help.
4. Requesting is an important part of teaching the student to trust and use the visual support, once they are consistently asking for help, or making up a sentence strip, you may begin to generalise situations, locations and with different staff, while practicing this critical skill.
5. The added visuals at the bottom of each card has been a big help with reminding students to what they can do and how to express it.
The most wonderful time of the year is just around the corner, and teachers all over the world are gearing up to make the holiday season fun with fresh activities for their students. But for special education teachers, this can be a particularly challenging task.
Finding ways to engage and teach about holidays can be a daunting task. So here I present Task Boxes as a solution that will not only bring holiday cheer and excitement to your classroom, but will also cater to the unique needs of your special education students.
Get ready to add these 6 holiday-themed center activities for Christmas to your rotation this year, and watch your students thrive and learn in a fun and inclusive environment.”
Simple crafts are always messy but fun! Christmas Themed will bring excitement!
Hands on counting for young learners will engage and motivate them to practice their number skills.
Cutting out shapes for the Christmas cheer can be tricky for little fingers so practice, practice, practice!
Centers wouldn’t be centers with out some folder games to finish the rotation!
Get ready for snow filled fun with these winter themed task boxes! These hands on task cards will keep your students busy and learning while exploring their favourite time of the year!
Your kids will love practicing their fine motor skills and have a blast hunting the for the same pictures.
Bring winter indoors and keep the kids entertained with these engaging and inclusive tasks for workstations, centers and fine motor stations.
Each task is thoughtfully designed to enhance motor, cognitive, and communication skills while adding to the festive cheer. Join us in making this holiday season a memorable one!
We’ve been trying out our Christmas themed activities this week and have had lots of fun learning!
My little learners love hands on activities and was excited to try this one out on Monday!
They loved pulling up carrots to find the shape and feeding the reindeer. Seeing them so engaged and until all the carrots were pulled was well worth the effort of putting this resource together!
On Tuesday we tried some Christmassy number corresponding tasks! I thought I’d incorporated some pegs into this activity to practice our Fine Motor skills at the same time.
Pegs made the activity more interesting to engage my speedy students longer!
Wednesday we carried on the counting theme with these Snowman building cards, using cotton wool as pretend snow!
and a game of matching Santa to his black and white photo on Thursday!
Friday we had some fun and practiced our scissor skills on some festive shapes.
I’m pleased to say we’ve had a productive week of Christmas fun!
