Elementary life skills

The importance of life skills can't be understated. Here are life skills for toddlers, preschoolers, kids, and social skills and activities. Whether you want to prepare your little ones for school or help prepare them for life in general, this will help you organize what you plan to teach your children. There are life skills activities as well as social skills to teach your kids. Self care, hygiene, cooking, tasks around the house, outdoor, survival, and much more life skills here.

You won't regret adding these ten basic life skills to your homeschool before your kids leave the nest to start a life of their own. They will thank you later! #homeschoolideas #lifeschooling #homeschooling #curriculum #motherhood #lifelearning #aberlehome

Life skills students can work on at home

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?…

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Super helpful life skills checklists! Age appropriate chores and responsibilities for kids from 2 to 9.

I know how hard it is to figure out how to set up your classroom, so I'm sharing my special education classroom set-up with you today! See how I organize independent work stations, play area, life skills word wall, student work spaces and more! #specialeducation #specialedclassroom

A crucial part of the life skills curriculum is community signs. This blog post will give you ideas on how to teach students to identify community signs and understand what the community signs mean. Resources, tips and ideas on how to teach about signs seen in the community are also included. Click for more information. These ideas are perfect for autism programs, special education classes, life skills programs, and self-contained programs.

Made For Me Math is a math curriculum created by two special education teachers with hands-on experience with grades K-5 in a self-contained classroom. These giant units focus on colors, numbers 0-5, numbers 0-10, sorting and classifying, patterns, positional words, comparing numbers, shapes, addition, subtraction, and non-standard measurement. They include everything you need to carry out interactive, engaging math activities with your students.

Task boxes in a special education classroom can be a daunting and expensive task to set up. Save yourself time and money when setting up simple and engaging task boxes for your students from the dollar tree for less than $25! Your students will gain independence and functional life skills while working in the classroom!

Printable worksheet to help in your teaching your kids the life skill of filling out forms. Guidelines for teaching are included.

6 Mistakes LIFE Skills Teachers (& Paras) Make… Do you do any of these? STOP! Working with students in self-contained settings or those with severe or multiple disabilities is hard, but I see many people in the classroom make these same mistakes over and over without really thinking there are any consequences. If you stop these 6 mistakes, your students will be the better for it- I promise!

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10+ Special Education Life Skills Activities - Teaching Autism

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Tattling or Telling? Awesome anchor chart for the classroom! #sel Photo Only

Great resources for teaching kids about money, healthy behaviors and map reading skills!

We LOVE our life skills block in the afternoon! It is so much fun working on our Monthly Life Skill (Check them out HERE) and using these adapted books to review concepts that are sometimes hard to remember! We practice this skill until the students master it, then we fade out the pictures and just ask questions […]