Turkey Fun in Early Childhood
There’s nothing more comforting (in my eyes at this point) in the midst of a pandemic than the thought of comforting Thanksgiving food. If you’re looking for ways to incorporate some turkey and Thanksgiving fun into your classroom or virtual session, then this post...
Halloween Core and Fringe Boards
Halloween and other themed activities may look a little different this year but as special education teachers, one thing that remains the same is structure and the need for language support! I love creating themed core and fringe language boards so that my students...
Halloween Resources for Virtual or In-Person Learning
I love teaching in October. Students are in a routine, expectations have been set and the real fun and learning can begin. There are so many great fall resources at The Autism Helper! My students this year adore Halloween, and I'm gathering and prepping all of the...
Fall Cooking
Halloween Fun in Early Childhood!
Oh, I just LOVE the holidays in an elementary school! The kids are so excited, and I love being themed and making it special for them. With that being said, I don’t suddenly go crazy and throw out structure and routine. I keep our normal routine for the...
Running Holiday Class Parties in a Self-Contained Classroom
Class parties are not always the most fun event in some of our classrooms. It completely makes sense. We take away all of the structure, visuals, schedules, and consistency our kids need and thrive on. Then we give them an excessive amount of sugar and...
Thanksgiving Cooking with Free Recipe
I love cooking with my student around this time of the year. There are so many great Thanksgiving dishes to make. Stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin fluff, cranberry fluff, and green beans seem to be popular for my students. I usually do different...
The Twelve Days of Thanksgiving with Free Book Companion
I like using the holiday books by Jenna Lettice which count down the 12 days before different holidays. The newest book that just got released is The 12 Days of Thanksgiving. Just like with her other 2 holiday books I created some visuals to pair with...
My Favorite Halloween Book with Free Book Companion
I found a new Halloween Book to use with my students this month. The book is The 12 Days of Halloween and it’s by Jenna Lettice. I created some visuals to pair with the book along with visual questions. If you are interested in a Free copy click link –...
Halloween Free Resource Round Up
October is always such a fun month because there are so many great Halloween themed books and activities to use with my students. I thought I would give you a quick overview of all the different Halloween Books Companions I have created along with some...
Thanksgiving Round Up!
As we finish up our Halloween festivities it’s already time to get ready for Thanksgiving! The fall is always a busy time of the year. Here are some great Thanksgiving activities we have done in the past. I created a set of adapted books about Turkeys...
Free Halloween Sorts!!!!
I used these different Halloween sorting activities last week in therapy and they worked out really well with several of my groups so I thought I would share them as a free resource for you to use with your students. I’m working on size concepts with my...
Tips for Throwing a Behavior-Free Class Party
Class parties are not always the most fun event in some of our classrooms. It completely makes sense. We take away all of the structure, visuals, schedules, and consistency our kids need and thrive on. Then we give them an excessive amount of sugar and...
Room on the Broom with Free Book Companion!
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is such a great book and I like to read it around this time of year since it’s about a witch. It’s a cute story and the pictures in this book are amazing. It’s a good book to work on sequencing and...
Halloween Round Up!
Halloween is just around the corner….I thought I’d share some fun Halloween books and activities we have done in the past! There is so much to do it will be challenging to fit it all in this month! Here is a series of adapted books for this season. The...
Visual Recipes for Thanksgiving
Holidays are all about traditions. One of my classroom's favorite Thanksgiving tradition is cooking a big Thanksgiving feast. We have so much fun. Over the years, we've streamlined the process to make it a little bit less chaotic but that dang pile of dishes after is...
10 Fat Turkeys! with Free Book Pictures
“10 Fat Turkeys” is one of my favorite Thanksgiving books to read with my students. There are 10 fat turkeys fooling on a fence and each turkey does something silly and falls off the fence. My students always love this book. It was hard to find pictures to match...
True & False Turkeys {freebie}
One of my favorites Freebies I ever made is True & False Turkeys. We loved it so much that I decided turkeys are appropriate year-round. I’m sure we can all commiserate about the ever increasing testing demands that even impact our students with the highest needs....
Thanksgiving Crafts, Treats, and Academic Fun
Simple construction paper crafts can be amazing educational activities. You can work on foundational skills like color identification, fine motor skills, and counting. Or you can take it up a notch and work on group work, social skills, sequencing, patterns, and more....
Thanksgiving Count, Color, & Name Adapted Book
You know I'm a sucker for a good wh- question. That's probably why I'm obsessed. with these Count, Color, and Name Adapted books. We can so easily differentiate and we get to work on answering questions about how many, what color, and what all while build seasonal...
November Adapted Books!
I feel like I blinked and October was over so now it’s time to set up for the month of November. I like to have some adapted books to use with my students each month. I often pair a follow-up craft, activity, or game with one of the adapted book and it makes for a...