September Lesson Plans

Categories: Curriculum Ideas

I have gotten a lot of feedback that readers would benefit from seasonal & thematic ideas, lessons, and activities at the start of the month. Which makes total sense because who wants to do Halloween activities in November, right? Now, I did do MLK day activities after the fact but that’s only because the craziness of my job got in the way. Don’t tattle on me. It was still okay. I have heard your feedback and I agree! Look at you all, shaping my behavior. It’s like you are all little behavior analysts and you don’t even know. So each month I will be dedicating the first few posts of the monthly to a preview of what I will be doing in my classroom that month. This will hopefully help with your planning & prepping. If I am super crazy organized – it may even be at the end of the month before. But I’m making no promises.

We don’t have anything too major going on in September because – let’s be honest – it’s September. My thematic unit is getting through the freaken month. I am going to be updating the ABLLS with some of my lower functioning students. I already updated my reading assessments on my higher guys. We will be doing a farm theme at the end of the month since we are doing our annual family field trip to Rustic Falls the last weekend in September. I am keeping the farm theme a little more mature by during farm jobs and “research” on farm animals.

Here are my lesson plans for my direct instruction reading group. I have a high level group who mostly all read at a 2/3rd grade level and what I consider a mid level group who mostly read at a K/1st grade level and have some very splintered skill levels.

Disclaimer: My lesson plans aren’t fancy. They aren’t typed. You can’t click on a link to the activity or resource. Want to know why? Because my job is an ever changing wonder and you better believe I write these puppies in pencil. You may have Β great set of activities lined up but then one of your students has a meltdown and guess what? That’s all you. Time to arrange. So my advice: stay flexible, plan in pencil, and be okay with the changes.

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Download the PDFs:Β Mid Level September Lesson PlansΒ and High Level September Lesson Plans.

Links for Activities:

Also, be sure to check out my September Bingo Game. My kids LOVE bingo.

Bingo

I am SUPER excited about the rest of this week’s post.

The rest of this week is dedicated to The Autism Helper Classroom!

Tuesday: Class Photos

Wednesday: Video Tour

Thursday: Layout Diagram

Friday: Class Schedule

9 Comments

  1. This is exactly what I was looking for πŸ™‚ Do you have any direction for math/science? Very new to your blog – so forgive me if I’ve overlooked it….

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  2. Thanks for joining up at the link party at The Dynamic Duo: Adventures in Speech & Special Ed!

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  3. As you figure them out, will you be showing the rest of your themes for the year?

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  4. Yes, definitely! The week before the month I will give my lesson plans and activities!

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  5. Did you have low group for Sep??

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  6. In September with my low group – we focused on reviewing basic skills and getting group behaviors and routines down! Makes the rest of my year amazing! πŸ™‚

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  7. Dear Sasha,
    I cannot tell you how relieved I feel by seeing your simplified and lesson plans!!! In pencil! Thank you for the reminders to be flexible too! Your tips, methods, videos β€”this is just another example of how great your site is!! It rocks!!! Thank you!!!

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  8. Aww thanks for reading Sherra! Yep – I think simple is best! Pencil and paper πŸ™‚

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