Advice, Resources and Training for Autism and Special Education Teachers and Homeschoolers
Earth Day is coming up, so today I’m sharing with you an Earth Day craft that we did last year. I love having the chance to teach my students about our planet and how we can help look after it. So, we made these handprint Earth crafts. My students LOVE getting their hands full of paint. When we first introduced… Read More
Tomorrow is World Autism Day, one of the most important dates in my diary. I wanted to share this Autism Awareness craft with you that my students made to put on display around our classroom. We spend time all year long trying to spread autism awareness – and acceptable too. But, in April, we always step it up that extra… 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
I’m so excited to share these free visuals to help with waiting for your students! Waiting is tough. Teaching how to ‘wait’ is one of the hardest tasks that I have as a teacher with my kiddos – and their parents do too. That’s why I created these free visuals to help with waiting. Visuals are always my first go-to…. Read More
There are so many fun and engaging activities for you to use with your students to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. In this blog post today I’m going to share with you some of my student’s favourite activities that we do to celebrate. 1. Art Therapy We LOVE art therapy sessions in our class, and when there are holidays or celebrations… Read More
We LOVE to use our handprints to make crafts in our classroom, and this time we’ve made a leprechaun! Celebrating St Patrick’s Day is always lots of fun in our classroom and it’s definitely one of our favourite holidays. You can find so many great activities for St Patrick’s Day, including this handprint leprechaun! Read on below to find out… Read More
I don’t know about you, but we LOVE to make treats throughout the year for different holidays and events. St. Patrick’s is one of our favourite times to get baking because there are so many different opportunities! I’ve shared some of my favourites below.. check them out! Just click the titles of each of the treats to be re-directed to… Read More
I don’t know about you, but my students look forward to having new sensory trays/tuff trays every week. Today was a huge hit. In this blog post I’m going to share with you my Valentine’s Day sensory tray/tuff tray. Along with how we use these in my classroom. The Tuff Tray Here is the tuff tray that we put together… 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
Every year we love to get our students to make Valentine’s Day card to either hand out to friends or take home to their family. We like to keep our craft sessions as independent as possible, so we try to find cards and craft activities that are easy for them to make. This year, we made this adorable cat card…. Read More
