Sped crafts special education

Looking for some fun special education crafts? These spring visual crafts are the perfect addition to your spring lesson plans. Students get to work on following directions, fine motor skills, and more with these hands-on activities for spring. You will get 4 kids crafts for spring with this download. You can also use these for a Mother’s Day craft and gift as well.

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?…

Since I began my teaching career, I have always worked with students of all different learning styles, and learning speeds. I have worked with students who have a wide range of diagnoses, Autism, LD, Emotional Behavioral, Learning Support, and Multiple Disabilities. I must say that working with my special needs students are among the best experiences of my teaching career. Some of my students are very limited in what they can do, yet, in my classroom its as if the possibilities are endless…

Visual crafts in the special education classroom have so many benefits. Each month, I love sharing themed visual crafts you can use with your special education students to work on fine motor skills, following directions, and so much more. These September crafts include fall themed crafts for kids that are perfect for back to school. You can even use these crafts as your back to school bulletin board or fall bulletin board.

These 5 awesome ways to teach special needs learners letters include playdough, sand, cars and sprinkles as learning tools.

For our learners who need to work on foundational learning skills, such as simple matching, I have always love creating hands on task boxes put-in tasks and color sorting tasks. My classroom closet always looked like it could be featured on an episode of hoarders. I kept every shoe box, coffee container, baby jar, and

How are you using task systems in your multiple disability classroom? In this blog post I go over activity rotations that you can incorporate to find independent work that fits for all of your multiple disability students. I include a list of all my special education activities such as bead bars, sensory boards, and swinging bear that are all great ways to involve sound, texture and color. Read through all of my special education ideas on implementing a structured activity rotation here.

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Finding appropriate special education materials for your sped classroom no longer has to be a struggle! With the simple science curriculum, you'll find appropriate materials to help your students with the topics of matter, simple machines, living / nonliving, planets, hot / cold, and the five senses. You get over 400 pages of materials that can be used with your early childhood, elementary, middle or high school students. Save your sanity, stop modifying, and grab this science resource…

Are you looking for fun and easy Halloween activities to use in your special education classroom. In this post, I am sharing some of my top DIY Halloween fine motor activities on a budget. You can target visual-motor skills as well as some executive functioning skills like problem-solving and overall sequencing! You can also work on math facts, number identification, & number sense. These activities are great for grasp patterns. Use these for independent stations, math centers or morning…