Special ed activities

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? If so, you've come to the right place. Because today, I'm sharing my top 10 life skills activities that you can do in your classroom. 1. Washing Hands One

Finding appropriate special education materials for your sped classroom no longer has to be a struggle! With the simple science curriculum, you'll find appropriate materials to help your students with the topics of matter, simple machines, living / nonliving, planets, hot / cold, and the five senses. You get over 400 pages of materials that can be used with your early childhood, elementary, middle or high school students. Save your sanity, stop modifying, and grab this science resource…

I found this activity on Lakeshore Learning and got it as part of a donorschoose grant. It is an awesome, hands-on way to work on prepositions (which so many of my students struggle with). I also like the visual cards that come with it to help my students understand the directions. It comes with 4 different sets of props to use. Each set has 6 cards covering different prepositions. On the back is a picture of the correct answer. I like to use these to assess preposition skills as well as to…

If you are a special education teacher, then you know that IEP goals play an important role in our job. Today, I want to share how to set up IEP goal bins to make your life easier as a special ed teacher. Data tracking for special education students is easy once you prep your goal bins. Each special ed student gets a container, a label with their name, and materials for each objective. Read more about what is inside and how to keep them organized in your special ed classroom.

For Kids in Special Education

Foil Painting, no more complicated than regular painting set up/clean up but a new medium

Special Education Teacher | Focus word of the week…she My students love hands-on activities and especially LOVE using dot markers. Here are some activities that we… | Instagram

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Independent sitting is an important milestone! In this blog post, I’m sharing five effective ways to promote independent sitting in early childhood special education. I talk about adaptive seating and positioning, sensory integration activities, as well as functional play and games. I also talk about fine motor activities and how these promote independent sitting. Learn more now!