Preschool functional skills

The importance of life skills can't be understated. Here are life skills for toddlers, preschoolers, kids, and social skills and activities.

Zipping coats and putting on their shoes are only the start of the preschool life skills to teach your kids. Keep reading to find out more.

Here are a few practical life skills for 3 year olds - things to teach to your toddler in addition to all the typical toddler activities.

This week, I decided to finally give QR codes a try. Turns out, they are amazing and incredibly easy to create! During our leisure time, our students can choose to play on the iPad as their reward for the day. Most students choose the iPad, so that leaves the teachers typing in website after website

Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism

Hanging cloths is a life skills task that helps with find motor skills. I found a wire rack and decided to put it to use by using it as the hanging rack for the cloths. I printed out several pictures of cloths and found the small craft size cloths pins to hang them with. The student takes the cloths out of the basket and hangs them on different sections of the rack.

Executive functioning activities can help preschoolers develop much-needed skills like planning ahead, memory and self-control. Foster these skills with simple games, books and activities. #preschoolers #executivefunction #backtoschool #kidsactivities Less

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!

Lunchtime for my special education students is a perfect time to learn life skills. Early childhood students are still learning these simple skills that are extremely beneficial for them to master. Lunch etiquette and table manners are social skills goals that I track for my students. It is important to model, use visuals, use repetition, social stories, and role play in your preschool special education classroom. Learn more about all of the skills to teach kids at lunch!

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?…