Fun special education activities

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Fun Friday in the classroom is a great way to celebrate the week of hard work! Find 6 tips and free resources for having your own Fun Friday!

Teaching rules, expectations and procedures are a MUST, regardless of what kind of classroom you are in. I always start my first few weeks by teaching, reviewing, practicing, and practicing some more. For students to understand each rule, we need to give them specific examples. Visual supports are a must-have for teaching classroom rules in a special education setting. Here's a great way to introduce classroom rules to your students.

Are you looking for fun fine motor skills activities for your special education students? Visual crafts for kids are a fantastic way to practice fine motor skills. You can easily use these crafts for kids activities during whole group, small group, or center activities. Today, I’m sharing a pizza craft for kids. You can use pizza play food or cooking skills for kids and make a mini pizza too. Your special education students will love this visual craft.

Have you found your 1st grade classroom struggling with CVC words even when you feel like you’ve tried everything to help them with blending and segmenting? You won’t want to miss this blog post that includes 5 easy and engaging activities to practice CVC words. Some of these CVC activities include pop it blending, race car blending and even blending with hula hoops. Use all of these blending and segmenting activities to help your students with their reading skills while still having fun.

Find 10 FREE sight word games and activities for your students to use during literacy centers. Many of these require very little materials to make.

Do you want to learn how to create adapted books for special education classrooms? This post provides a step by step list, with examples...

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…

A free printable for fine motor task cards. Help kids strengthen their fine motor skills with these easy activities!

We all know that students love engaging, hands on activities even when they are use them for learning, so I know they are going to love these sight word games! Whether you use them in small groups or as literacy center activities, your kindergartens students will love practicing sight words with these fun activities.