| Life Skills | Budgeting | Math | Game of Life Simulation | Independent Living | In this activity, students will get to jump right into what it's like for them to live on their own. They will get randomly assigned a career and salary, and have a variety of "stations" they rotate through to simulate real world expenses they will need to budget for. Are you interested in the GOOGLE SLIDES version of this activity? CLICK HERE! Students will get to select a wide variety of options while participating in this game of life simulation. Whether it is finding the right home, car, cell phone package, or place to shop for groceries, all of their choices will matter! They will also experience random life events that get thrown their way like a flat tire, broken appliance, or a surprise bonus at work. The financial ups and downs just never stop! How I Use This In My Classroom: Teachers can use this activity in one of two ways. The first way is my favorite and involves students rotating through different "life centers" around the classroom. Each of the posters can be laminated and placed for students to easily access and pick from. They move throughout the room picking their choices and adding the numbers correctly to their budgeting sheet. The second way to use this activity in your classroom is to use the version where students can get all the financial data from the printable packet that is included. This would be a better option for classrooms with limited room or for students who might get easily distracted moving around. Option two allows students the opportunity to work from their seats. Both options provide students with a deep look into what it's like to live on their own in the real world! Purchase Includes Access To: Version One: Large posters with real world financial choices students will have to pick from. A total of 11 "station" posters are included. A budgeting sheet is also included. Teachers also have access to a "Random Life Events" worksheet that they can pass out randomly to students for them to practice budgeting for unplanned financial events. Version Two: This version condenses everything noted above into a printable worksheet format for easy all-in-one access. Simple comprehension questions are also included for each "station." A reflection worksheet comes with both versions. Looking for other Independent Living Lessons? Apartment Hunting: Click Here! Apartment Budget: Click Here! Apartment Budget (GOOGLE): Click Here! Car Ads: Click Here! Buying a Car Unit: Click Here! Party Budget: Click Here! Need Other Popular Life Skills Lessons? Recipe Comprehension:Click Here! Coupons, Reading Emphasis: Click Here! Food Directions: Click Here! Medicine Labels: Click Here! Receipts: Click Here! Tickets: Click Here! Hours of Operation: Click Here! Safety Signs, Community Signs: Click Here! Dollar Up, 1s, 5s, and 10s: Click Here! Menu Math:Click Here! How to Use a Microwave:Click Here! How to Use a Stove:Click Here! How to Use an Oven:Click Here! Coupons, Picture Emphasis:Click Here! Bus Schedules:Click Here! Measuring Cups:Click Here! Budgets:Click Here! Generic vs. Name Brand:Click Here! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow My Store! To follow my store simply click on “follow me” under Life Skills Creations on the top of my store page. You will be one of the first people to know when I have a sale or post new Life Skills Freebies in my store. Leave Feedback and Earn Credits! Don’t forget to leave feedback after you purchase a product! Leaving feedback also earns you "credits" which can be used for discounts on future purchases. I would very much appreciate your positive feedback!

The EDITABLE Kids Life Skills Tracing Printable is a versatile and practical resource designed to help children develop essential life skills while practicing handwriting and fine motor skills. This printable activity allows for customization, enabling children to trace and practice important personal information such as their name, address, birthday, age, and phone number. The printable typically consists of a series of worksheets, each dedicated to a specific piece of personal information. The worksheets feature large, traceable outlines of the relevant information, providing a clear guide for children to practice writing their own details. READ PLEASE! Pages: 18 pages What do you need for this file? Adobe Acrobat Reader (FREE) Reminders: Fonts are already embedded in this file. A4 PDF Template  Page 1- Detailed instructions. Pages 2-9 are the sample pages of this worksheet. Pages 10-17 are the EDITABLE PAGES. There would be a colored text box on the editable page. Kindly follow the title on each page. The maximum letters per line are 11 characters(including space). This file does not automatically center the text especially if the name is very short. You may use the SPACE BAR to adjust the spacing. Print pages 10-17 if you are done editing this file. You may laminate it for multiple uses. TIP: If you are using Adobe Acrobat Pro, you may edit the font size and font color!  PLEASE MESSAGE US IF YOU ENCOUNTER ISSUE/S! THANK YOU AND ENJOY! REMINDER: This is a DIGITAL download. Not a physical item. Directions: After purchasing the item, you will receive an email from Etsy containing the link to download the files. Kindly read this article for more information: https://www.etsy.com/help/article/3949 Due to monitor differences and your printer settings, the actual colors of your printed product may vary slightly. TIP: Print and laminate the worksheets for multiple uses! Click for more: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CraftedWithBlissShop Follow us! FB - Pinterest - IG @craftedwithbliss www.craftedwithbliss.com Terms of use: After purchase, the buyer acquires the license of the product for personal and non-commercial use only. The buyer is strictly not allowed to sell, rent, send, and distribute the file to others. In addition, the buyer is strictly not allowed to share, copy, or lend the file to others. Unauthorized usage or reproduction of our products is a clear violation of the copyright laws. Lastly, we have a no return and refund policy. With this, we will not allow any return of our products or refund of your payment upon purchase. Thank you! Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Just message us here! :)

Here is a worksheet on taxes. We live in California so I used the taxes that apply to us. I also used a minimum amount of income tax. The majority of my students will never work. The couple that will, will most likely work part time. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Life-Skills-Paying-Taxes

Practice Vocational Skills with this Sorting Activity - Age appropriate life skills activity for Special Education. Job skills, sort files, career office vocabulary This comes with: 60 stamped documents (4 per page) Sort up to 6 categories: COPY, PAYMENT REQUIRED, DRAFT, APPROVED, PAID, and URGENT. Labels for task boxes/file sorter Instructions: Print, laminate, cut for long term use. Student is to sort document files by stamp category. Sort files into an actual filing system, or into separate bins. (pictured above) Working on vocational skills? You might like this activity: Student Vocational Timesheets - Life Skills Career Money Management _________________________________________________________ ★ SATISFACTION: Before purchasing this product, please read the product description and check out the preview to determine if the resource is appropriate for your students.  If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact me: ✉ [email protected] ★ HOW CAN YOU EARN TPT CREDITS? Your feedback is valued as it helps me improve and create better resources!  When you leave feedback, TpT rewards you with credits that you can use toward future purchases. ★ TERMS OF USE: ✔️ Copyrights reserved to F. Gonzalez (Adulting Made Easy aka Spedadulting).   ✔️ This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. ✖️ Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. ✖️  No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. ✔️  You will receive a discount when purchasing multiple licenses. ✖️   This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students. ★ LET'S CONNECT: Follow my store and social media pages to be the first to know about new resources, updates, sales and freebies! | BLOG | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | PINTEREST |

This community signs themed life skill math pack is great to reinforce environmental print and adds structure to your math lessons while making sure your students get the life skill practice they need. You'll love this PRINT and GO math pack, already differentiated for three different skill levels. ...

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The life skills assessment checklist is a handy tool for pre assessments, ongoing summative assessments and post teaching assessments with your middle and high school life skills learners. It is great to use as part of your life skills back to school activities planning, as it focuses on key life and employability skills that you can teach in life skills and community access programs. As young people with special needs make transitions from school to training or work, it is useful to check their progress towards independence across a range of life and employability areas. This quick and easy skills checklist provides a summative assessment that can be used as the basis for a transition assessment for an IEP at high school level, or to check progress towards learning goals in a life skills, vocational or work education program. The checklist can be printed and copied into a booklet, providing an easy tool for ticking skills as they are completed and providing a simple summary page of highlights, challenges and future goals for students. What skills are included? The skills covered include both life skills and employability skills areas, such as: hygiene clothing travel communication diversity body language map reading public transport greetings job interviews resumes nutrition assertiveness confidence social behaviors Teachers and trainers can print some or all of the pages to create individualised booklets based on student requirements. Word document versions available on request to allow for adjustments for students if required. Note Some skills included in this resource may not be a good fit for some learners. For example, eye contact might not be appropriate to teach to an autistic child as it is an aspect of their autism rather than a skill that necessarily needs to be taught. Use your discretion in deciding which skills are relevant and appropriate to include in your teaching program before you begin assessing life skills with the assessment checklist. Extend the learning Your Life Skills and Special Education students will love starting the new school year with these new life skills back to school activities, with independence, community access, literacy and numeracy skills included. Employability skills task cards and printables https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Employability-skills-at-work-printables-and-task-cards-for-teens-and-adults-4648716 Terms of use Please print and copy for one class or group only. Do not resell this resource or publish copies online. Do not post into a share drive or online folder. Stay in touch Stay in touch by clicking the green star above to follow our store. Be amongst the first to find out about new specials, resources and information from Real World Education Resources.

Practice vocational skills with these classroom jobs and on campus job ideas for students of various skill levels!

Practice vocational skills with these classroom jobs and on campus job ideas for students of various skill levels!

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Coping Skills BINGO is a fun activity to teach social skills to your children and students! Print and put in plastic sheet protectors or laminate. We recommend covering the coping strategies with bingo markers, round candies, crackers, or playdough. This resource includes 20 bingo cards with 33 diff...

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Come check out how I organize, decorate, and utilize spaces & activities to be functional on this Adult Transition classroom tour!

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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? Here they are!! Putting together (or taking apart) flashlights. Bonus points if students can get the batteries in correctly and get the light to turn on! (Motivation!!) Ice cube tray and colored pebbles with tongs. I love the fine motor aspect added here. Marker packaging. I absolutely love this task and would be a great one to buy during back to school marker sales (especially on those really cheap markers you don't really want to use in your classroom!) Erasers on pencils. This has always been one of my favorite tasks! Silverware sorting. A must for every work task station, am I right? And a super easy and cheap one to put together. Silverware rolling / packaging. I love this task as it is perfect for vocational preparation. Putting together curlers. Ribbon threading around a wire basket. I never would have thought of this task! I love using the wire basket to thread the ribbon, and bet students would have fun with this task too. Sewing kit packaging. Packaging tasks like this are great! Tea candle sort. I love this age appropriate color sorting activity. Toiletry packaging. Wouldn't it be awesome to get donations of items like this and put together kits to give out to the homeless as a classroom service project? So, there you have it! Did you get some more good ideas? Happy task box prep! If you ever have anything you want to share, feel free to email me. I love being able to share your fantastic ideas with other special education teachers like yourself!

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I didn't have a very hands-on family when I was growing up, so I really enjoyed taking a Home-Ec class when I was in highschool. I learned a few things that I still use today, but I wish I would've had more hands on training in home life skills.

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