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FREE LIFE SKILLS SCOPE & SEQUENCE

RECYCLE WEEKLY CIRCULARS & MAGAZINES WITH THESE CUT & PASTE LIFE SKILLS ACTIVITIES

If you're like me, you feel bad about throwing away your weekly circular ads.  I get upwards of 10-15 different store ads each week, so I wanted to find a way to make a "teachable moment" out of the ads with my students.  I am all about trying to save money on resources and what better way than to ... READ the POST

BUILD SOCIAL TIES THROUGH MUSIC

Here's a fun activity I like to do in my classroom every once in a while. You can make it a weekly activity with voting, graphing, incorporate a bulletin board, compare & contrast, writing prompt....the possibilities are endless! Or, you can just do something as simple as a quick filler ... READ the POST

SIMPLIFIED EXTENSION WORKSHEETS FOR SCHOLASTIC NEWS MAGAZINE

Have a classroom where not all of your students are able to effectively participate in utilizing the Scholastic News magazine?  I slowly began to drift away from using Scholastic News because of the level of skills that are involved in successfully reading and completing the activities within the ... READ the POST

VISUALS TO PRACTICE INDEPENDENCE USING A MICROWAVE

Teachers and Parents!  If you have the luxury of having a microwave in your classroom, this is a great addition to accommodate your students when warming up their lunches or doing a cooking lesson.  This can also be done in the home setting as well!  Depending on the level of your student/child, ... READ the POST

HOW STAMPING THE DATE CAN BENEFIT EVERYONE IN A SPED CLASSROOM

About half of my class are non-writers, and a handful are tracers (or need to copy).  Writing the date is a common daily task in the classroom and I was finding it time consuming to write the date with highlighter for all of my students that weren't able to do it on their own.  It was also hard for ... READ the POST

THE NEW STURDY WAY TO MAKE FILE FOLDERS

I used to make file folders the traditional way with manila folders when I had access to a large laminating machine. It was cheap, easy to assemble, and made for great filing organization. When I came to my new school, there was only a "one page" laminator, so I even went to the lengths of using ... READ the POST

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