Functional life skills special education elementary

Need help structuring life skills lessons across grade levels? Our resource on special education life skills curriculum, high school special education classroom setup life skills, elementary special education life skills, and visual schedules makes planning easier. Pin this guide for lesson ideas that grow with your students!

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

Morning meeting routines are one of the most important routines to set up in your classroom. How you start the day in a special education classroom sets the tone for the rest of the day. If you are looking for ideas and activities to add to your morning meeting, here are 10 topics you can include in your elementary or special needs classroom. These activities are designed to target functional life skills, social skills, language and math skills with your special needs students.

Over 100 Independent Functioning and Independent Living Life Skills IEP Goals, including ADLs, food prep, shopping, functional reading, and essential life skills.

It's challenging to create functional life skills classrooms that target all of the different reading, math and communication goals our students have. Peek inside to see what components you need to create a functional lesson that leads to life long skills. Click to read now!

Do you want to work on life skills in your classroom? Are you looking for hands-on special education life skills activities that your students will love?

Setting up an IEP work bin system can feel overwhelming! Here are some easy ways to do it so that your students can quickly work on goals!

Ideas and resources for special education students to pracitce job skills during remote learning or when when you return to campus.

You all LOVED the 4 simple task boxes I shared here, so here are 4 more! SIMPLE task boxes that don’t cost a fortune and are low level for independent work and beginning learners are so hard to find. What’s even harder to find is ones that are appropriate for ANY age. These 4 hit […]

5 easy steps to supporting students with disabilities to learn functional money skills. Learn how to teach money skills in special ed.