Advice, Resources and Training for Autism and Special Education Teachers and Homeschoolers
I recently shared a cooking class over on my Instagram stories that I did with my students online. And after many requests, I’m sharing my Nutella croissants recipe, along with free printable visuals for you to download and use with your students. Ingredients 1 egg. Nutella. Puff pastry – I use the ready roll one. This will make 6 croissants…. Read More
Cooking is one of the lessons that we all look forward to each week in the classroom. And today, I just wanted to share some information about why it’s important to be cooking in your classroom, as well as my best tips for cooking in special education classrooms. Cooking Now, although I refer to this lesson as cooking. It doesn’t… Read More
These sheep cupcakes are perfect for your kids to bake during Spring, Easter or for your farm topic! We are working on independence, as always, with my students. This time, I included a flower tray for the decorating process. Each child got their own flower tray. Inside here was their cupcake, icing and decorating pieces. Read on below to find… Read More
My kids LOVE to bake and these cornflake cakes are perfect for some Easter baking. We cook as often as we can in class, because I believe there are so many skills that can be learned through baking. To make these cornflake cakes, I’ve made a PowerPoint slideshow for you to show your students what they need to do, to… Read More
Autism awareness is so important, and it’s something that we want to make sure is taught in an engaging and meaningful way. We don’t want our students to find the sessions ‘boring’ – we want them to take it all in and really take note of everything that we are sharing. When we teach autism awareness to my students, we… Read More
We love to bake, especially when we can theme it throughout the year. So, this year for our Valentine’s Day baking session, we had the kids make heart shaped tomato pizzas. They were great to have as a snack to warm us up, and it was a great way for my kids to learn to make another type of food…. Read More
Remember when I said St Patrick’s Day was one of my favourite holidays to celebrate in the classroom? It’s not just for crafts – it’s for the baking opportunities too! We do mix it up each week in our class and alternate between sweet and savoury baking. But, we could not miss out on these adorable rainbow cupcakes for St… Read More
This week we have been baking Valentine’s heart biscuits. Cooking is one of my student’s favorite lessons, and we cook every single week. As Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, we decided to make some heart biscuits this week. When they were complete, we packaged them up into some treat bags and send them home as little Valentine gifts… Read More
This year we have made some Mother’s Day flower cookies to send home with our students. And I can honestly say they went down a treat with our student’s families! In this blog post today I’m sharing a quick and easy recipe for you to follow so that you can make some of these flower cookies with your students too!… Read More
This week in the classroom we have been making chocolate bananas. We have been trying to work hard on trying new and different fruits.. Something that can be very difficult for my students. But, they have been doing really well. We are constantly trying to find new and different ways to offer up new fruits. And this week we decided… Read More
