Get your 10 Free Printable Cutting Worksheets for Preschoolers. Build fine motor skills by cutting straight, curvy, and jagged lines.
Roundup of Montessori-inspired cloud printables and activities for a variety of ages; perfect for homeschools or classrooms.
{Download FREEBIE pack here.} Economics is my absolute FAVORITE social studies unit to teach. There are so many hands-on activities to do with students and they are so eager to earn and spend money! One of my favorite activities is to end with our "Madden's Marketplace." This is a chance for students to put into action all of the things they have learned about being producers and consumers. To begin with, I send home a letter asking students to create paper goods. Why paper? It's something all of my students have at home (or I can easily give them). I want my marketplace to be fair for all students. I'm sure I could let them have the freedom to create any product, using any materials and I would get some amazing masterpieces. I would also get some elaborate (and expensive) items. That's not what I want. I encourage parents to spend NO money on this and for it to be STUDENT CREATED. I really want them to take the initiative. Here are some samples of paper products my students created to sell this year - everything from rockets to bookmarks to lanterns to hats. I incorporate the making of goods into my students' homework schedule, encouraging them to create two products per night. Before the due date, we work on creating "shops" in class. We create our "shop" by gluing two file folders together. The picture below is using legal-sized file folders, but that just happens to be what we had available. Shop Parts: Signs: Initially, we create the signs for our shops, color the awnings to make them eye-catching. Open/Closed: Next, we create open/closed signs that sit atop our shop so we can easily flip the sign to show the status of our shops. Slogan: We then come up with a catchy slogan. We talk about slogan's we know from commercials. Why did those stick in our heads? We learn to use a play on words, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc. to make our slogans catchy so consumers will remember them. Product Description: Students each write a product description detailing WHAT their product is and HOW it works or can be used. We talk about the importance of letting consumers know exactly what they are getting. Commercial Script: Finally, students write commercials to "sell" their products to their classmates. We use hooks to get their attention, repetitions of our catchy slogans, and persuasion. Other Components: We also glue on the Consumer Comments, Price, and Interest Inventories, but we leave all of those blank initially. On the day of the marketplace, students set up their shops and lay their products out on display. Then, they have a chance to walk around the classroom and "window shop." They are encouraged to take a good look at all of their options, reading the product descriptions and examining the merchandise. After students have had a good look at all of their choices, I give them stickers (I would recommend 3-4). They walk around and place their stickers on the "Interest Inventory" of the products that interest them the most. The results of the interest inventory are used by the shop owners to determine if they have a high demand or low demand for their products. Knowing the demand helps them determine a price for their product. High demand = higher price. Low demand = lower price. The only rule is that all prices have to be in whole dollars. Once prices are set, then students are ready to go shopping! There are many different ways to let students shop. Some years, if I've done economy-based management system, my students will use "money" they've earned to shop. This year, I just gave them all $12 to shop with. I'm always torn about letting my students split into groups to run their shops (half shop while half work) - it always seems that students don't get to shop at all of the stores in that scenario. To solve that problem, I let all of my students shop at the same time. To do this students create "tokens" to leave at their shop. They create the same number as products they have to sell. For example, if Katie has 10 kites to sell, she creates and leaves 10 tokens with her name or shop name on them. Once each shop has tokens, students are ready to shop. Since there are no workers at the shops to collect money, I give my students "consumer spending logs" with pictures of dollars on them. Since I gave my students 12 dollars to spend, their consumer spending logs had 12 one dollar pictures. As students go around to the shops, they color in the dollars they've spent and pick up tokens (NOT products) that they will trade in for their purchases once the shops close. Once all of the tokens are gone, that shop is "closed." Once a student has colored in all of the dollars on his/her spending log, they are done shopping. It really works out quite well. Once students have traded all of their tokens in for their goods, they are given paper for providing feedback to the shops. They slip these into the "consumer comments" pockets on the storefronts. They love reading the feedback from their customers! <3 After wrapping up our shops, students are often left with some extra products. Instead of having them take their own products back home, I let them put another economics concept into practice - BARTERING! They have a blast working out "fair swaps" for their products and really working to get the other things they may have wanted but didn't have the money to purchase...and of course, they do all of this while proudly wearing some of their favorite purchases. :) All in all, it is a fun day of learning. Students take their roles as both producers and consumers seriously and come away with a real sense of accomplishment! If you would like to download this packet of FREE resources to hold your own Economics shop, you can do so HERE. Enjoy!
Keep your early finishers busy with this pack filled with 90 Common Core Math & Language Arts activities to keep kids brains thinking!
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Sequencing Life Skills!! These Life Skills Sequencing Mats are a great way to teach life skills and how to sequence and complete a multi-step task and they target numerous skills. Plus, you'll love the organization...no more missing or little pieces to keep track of! There are a total of 12 mats for 4 and 5 step sequencing. There are four 4-step sequencing mats and eight 5-step sequencing mats. Each mat includes step-by-step sentences that use transitional words to help students sequence the events. These mats provide students practice with transitional words, sequencing, how-to tasks, following directions, life skills, and language skills. You will velcro the corresponding pictures to the first row on the mat, out of order, and then students will move them down to place them in the correct order on the second row. This allows all of the pieces to be stored right on each mat, making organization a breeze!! Life Skills include: Lyn takes out the trash Tina gets a phone call Cindy gets dressed Bob uses the bathroom Joe makes toast Sue does dishes Jill washes her hands Bill does laundry Kay takes a shower Mike brushes his teeth Tim and Lin set the table Lisa uses the bathroom You might also love my other Sequencing Mat Collections! Life Skills Sequencing Mats 2 Life Skills Sequencing Mats 3 Life Cycle Sequencing Mats Sequencing Mats Set 1 Sequencing Mats 2 Sequencing Mats Set 3 3-Step Sequencing Boards Sequencing Mats Bundle Be sure to follow me HERE and on Instagram @thebenderbunch to be the first to know about new resources! :)
These ideas give active reading a whole new meaning.
The Play Project Autism – A New Approach to Early Intervention Therapy. A resource that is a must have for parents of autistic children
Greetings! So I want to start off this post by giving a shout out to Hailey from Autism Tank ! She did a post on a great resource for spec...
This Alphabet X-Ray activity is a fun play-based way to practice letter recognition with your preschool or toddler child!
20 Fun Conflict Resolution Activities for Kids / Worksheets, activities and games that explore conflict resolution strategies
This adapted book resource is perfect to practice community core word "I go". Includes two levels to meet the needs of your special education students.Each book is 12 pages and includes visual supports to help students complete the task. Add these life skills adapted books to your independent work stations or small groups to practice identifying community people, places, and items.Examples:• I go to the bakery to buy cupcakes.• I go to the zoo to learn about animals.• I go to the library to borrow books.Levels:• Level 1: identical match (picture to picture)• Level 2: identify the correct location to complete the sentence Savings Alert This is part of a larger bundle. Check it out here and get all five community core word adapted books at a discount! Please note: This is a digital download. You will download, print, and prep as needed. No physical items will be sent to you.
Many of the stories covered on Sunday School Zone are about specific miracles Jesus performed or situations in which Jesus performed a miracle. The list below is a compilation of activities related the stories we cover where Jesus performed miracles.
Check out these fun Because of Winn-Dixie activities. The engaging novel study ideas includes character analysis, vocabulary work and chapter summaries.
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All long time ago and very, very far away from my current location, I got my first job as an SLP. In addition to many students in the general education setting, I served two severely impaired classrooms. In one class, the students spent much of the day on side liers being tube fed and given
As an introduction to geography, use these Montessori directionality activities to teach kids about the cardinal directions as well as how to use a compass.
This Math Curse Activity Pack is meant to correspond with the book Math Curse! It's a fun way to get kids to think about the math they encounter everyday.
What are Scrambled Paragraphs? Scrambled paragraphs are sentences taken from a complete paragraph for your students to rearrange. They are like puzzles your students will put back together using what they know about text structure. Teachers
Teaching The Giver? Use these 8 engaging activities to hook students into the novel and empathize with the characters of Lowry's classic.
Free reading sorts for grades 4-5 with idea for implementation! These make perfect reading centers, stations, and independent practice reading activiites.
Are you looking for a quick classroom management tool that you can carry around and easy to use? Then this Visual support tool for Classroom Management is used with our students to learn new skills such as requesting "break please", "help" and "wait" as part of my Behavior Management strategies. There are handy visuals on them for your student to have questions they need answered and things they may need to help. Some cards have blank spaces for you to add your own visuals to support individual needs. ************************************************************ Included:- 2 help cards with visuals 2 help cards with spaces for visuals 2 wait cards with visuals 2 wait cards with spaces for visuals 2 stop cards with visuals 2 stop cards with spaces for visuals 2 break cards with visuals 2 break cards with spaces for visuals 2 A4 pages of extra visuals NEW CUTE KEYRING SUPPORTS ADDED 2 X "HELP" "BREAK" "WAIT" "STOP" ************************************************************ The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2015 by Mayer-Johnson LLC a Tobii Dynavox company. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Used with permission. Boardmaker® is a trademark of Mayer-Johnson LLC.
This free Roll and Graph Insect Math Activity is perfect for introducing and practicing early graphing skills in Pre-K and Kindergarten!
Free printable I spy Brazil activity page to use as a learning activity or an indoor game on a day when you are stuck inside.
CBI | Job Skills | Life Skills | Vocational Education| Special Education Easy Prep Dollar Tree Vocational Task Box: Fill the sweetener containers To complete this task, students will fill the containers with the correct number of pink and yellow sweetener containers. More Dollar Tree Tasks can be found HERE Task Box BUNDLE available HERE Task Boxes are the perfect way to promote Independence in any Special Education Classroom. They are engaging, Build Fine Motor Skills, Reinforce IEP Goals, and Teach a variety of Skills & Levels! Look for more learning resources in my TPT Store Connect with me: Facebook and ETSY (pre-made task boxes here) HOW CAN YOU EARN TPT CREDITS? When you leave feedback, TpT rewards you with credits that you can use toward future purchases. I welcome all feedback! It helps me improve and create better resources.
Different errorless learning activities for your special education classroom. Errorless learning is great for independent practice.
Engaging, student-centered vocabulary activities for secondary students, vocabulary lessons, vocabulary practice, vocabulary ideas
Let's learn all about Brazil with our fun facts about Brazil coloring pages - they are free and ready to be downloaded, printed and colored!
Track student behavior the quick, efficient way: use a checklist. Free, editable trackers can be used to document and graph behaviors.
Anger games are great resource to develop coping skills at home, school or in a counseling environment. A review of anger management games available in the market.
