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New Product :: Listening & Following Directions Coloring Activities

Have you ever thought about the difference between “listening” and “hearing?” They may sound similar, but they are very different! You may be able to hear sounds with your ears, but that does not mean that you are really listening. To be a listener, you must pay attention and think about what the other person is saying. I don’t know about you, but a lot of my students really struggle with this!

These activities are designed to help kids learn to actually listen, rather than just hearing. They contain single and multi-step coloring directions that students need to follow in order to complete their picture correctly.

After students are finished, have them compare their pages. Did anyone follow all of the directions? Probably not! Sometimes we think we are listening, but we may not be listening as well as we think. You might also talk about how two students may listen to one direction and interpret it differently. For example, “color the three flowers on the ground pink, purple, or orange. You decide which colors go on each flower.” Some students might use all three colors on one flower, while other students might use a single color on each flower.

It’s also helpful to discuss strategies for listening to students after completing the activity (i.e. staying quiet, repeating the direction quietly to themselves until the finish it, doing the step right away before they forget what they are supposed to do, not letting their mind wander to other things, etc.)

This pack contains 10 different coloring activities, as well as “scorecards” for students to see how well they listened and followed the directions! Great for ages 4-7.

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New Product :: Manners & Rules Posters & Coloring Pages

Looking for a great set of posters to help students learn about coping strategies, but don’t went to spend upwards of $20 for them!? This set of posters is great for helping students who struggle with following school rules and using good manners. It contains 8 different posters in both colored and black & white versions, featuring the following rules:

  • Be Kind
  • Cover Your Mouth
  • Raise Your Hand
  • Keep Your Hands to Yourself
  • Share
  • Say Please and Thank You
  • Listen
  • Take Turns

The black and white versions make great coloring pages!

Posters each a picture visual and words to meet the needs of many ages of students.

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New Product :: Anger Scoot

If you’ve been following along, you know that I love “Scoot Games.” Unfortunately, there’s a million and one ELA and Math Scoots, but virtually NO special ed/counseling Scoots. Go figure, right? Well, I’m trying to fix that! I’ve talked about Bullying, Feelings, and Friendship Scoot in the past, and here’s a new one!

Here are the rules:

Place one task card on each student desk or around the room in numerical order. It makes it easier for students is cards are put in order. Then, give each student a recording sheet and a pencil. Next, each student completes the card on their desk and writes their answer in the number on their recording sheet that corresponds to the number on the task card.

Anger Scoot Game

After about a minute, the teacher says “Scoot” (or uses another signal) and the students quickly stand up, leave the card at their desk, take their recording sheet with them, and scoot over to the next seat with the next number and get started on the question right away.

I’m planning to make more social-emotional scoot games as time goes on, but for now, check out my Anger Scoot Game. It contains 35 different feelings task cards, which can be used as a way to review concepts in a fun, interactive way with kids in grades 3-6. Question formats include several types such as “Draw…”, Short-Answer, Multiple Choice, True/False, and “Find a Partner and Perform a Task.”

Cards are presented in PDF format and are completely editable in Adobe Reader, so the wording and questions can be adjust to your student’s needs and ability levels! Scoot recording sheets are provided for several different class sizes (8, 12, 20, 30, and 35), so it can be played in a small group or full class!

Anger Scoot Game

Anger Scoot Game

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