Work boxes

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Are your students needing to build their fine motor muscles? Learn how using fine motor task boxes can help.

There is a reason behind every component of a independent work system. Do you know the 4 questions each work system should answer? Click through to find out.

Excuse me while I pull down the cob webs from this blog. If you're not a blogger yourself you really don't understand how time consuming putting together a great post can be. That my friends is why I end up blogging so little. HOWEVER I am posting on Instagram very frequently so please be sure to follow me there if you aren't already. I'd originally taken the photos in this post to share on Instagram, but then I realized I could give you so much more information about each idea if I made it…

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!

Need some tips and ideas for how to set up busy boxes for toddlers and preschoolers? This post walks you through the steps to put busy boxes together for your young learners at home or in the classroom. Click the pin to learn how to set up your own busy boxes today!

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 […]

I could never say enough positive things about using a work box system in the classroom-- for any child. I've used them with typically d...

I have a hard time coming up with different tasks that my students can do that are both meaningful and engaging when it comes to vocational work. I work in the high school level and I am doing everything that I can to prepare them for the transition. I love the idea of “stocking the […]

Do you use task boxes in your special education classroom? If you don’t, check out this blog post for 8 ways to use task boxes for special education. You can use task boxes for one on one instruction, classroom centers or stations, with early finishers, with morning work and much more. There are so many benefits to including this special education activity into your lesson plans. Use these task boxes during independent work stations or homework today!