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New(ish) Product :: Door Sign Pack

Do you ever feel like you spend approximately 2% of your time actually IN your classroom or office? And the other 98% of the time, you’re running around the rest of the school building putting out fires or trying to get your students some fresh air? Well, this sign pack is designed to help you let students and other staff know where to find you during those times!

It includes the following in 15 colors:
– The Social Worker is…
– The School Counselor is…
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– The School Psychologist… – The Speech-Language Pathologist is…

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– The Teacher is…
– I am…

It also includes the following in color and black and white:
– absent
– sick today
– going to be right back
– gone until :
– out for a bit
– out of the building
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– at the elementary school
– at the middle school
– at the junior high school
– at the high school
– meeting with students
– meeting with parents
– at lunch
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– at recess
– outside
– at a meeting
– at an IEP meeting
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– at an RtI meeting
– visiting a class
– 2 blank (write your own)

What I ended up doing was laminating each page and assembling the location signs into a coil bound book. Then, I punched a hole in the bottom center of each page so it could hang like a calendar. When I leave the room, I just flip to the page I need. So get out your laminator and enjoy!

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New(ish) Product :: Anger and Coping Skills Bingo Game

One of the lessons I find myself teaching constantly is about coping skills. Whether I was working with kids who had difficulty managing stress or kids who got into trouble frequently for fighting with others or arguing with teachers, the common thread was that these kids didn’t have the tools to deal with frustrating or stress-invoking situations. I also found that many of these kids needed lessons to be really interactive or fun for them to really invest in learning how to manage their stress or anger.

This was my solution! It is designed to help students learn many different coping strategies in a fun, interactive way. The strategies they learn can help them handle stress and anger in safe, appropriate ways. This game is great for those groups or students who tend to resist “traditional” coping skills lessons. There are 2 versions included, a shorter one and a longer one depending on the attention span of your students!

Several times, my kids have actually come to my room and specifically requested to play this game. It’s pretty crazy, actually! The download includes several different ways to deal with anger or stress and provides everything you need for students to create their own bingo cards and play the game!:

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If you’re looking for more activities to help kids deal with anger, check out my Dealing with Anger Activity Pack.

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New Product :: Social Superstar Game

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If you’re anything like me, you want to like a lot of the social skills games on the market, but you just can’t. Either the kids hate it, it’s way too deep and “therapy-y,” the board game looks like something out of the 70’s, or there’s no possible way you can finish it within 30 minutes, etc. etc. Yeah, you know those games. In fact, I have an entire office full of them that I never use!

On the other hand, social skills games could be really awesome! They don’t take a whole lot of planning, and the kids could have fun WHILE learning skills they need! Win-win, right?

Which is why I can’t tell you how unbelievably excited I am to finish this project!  I’ve been working on it for the last several weeks and am SO happy with how it turned out! First of all, it’s not made by some educational company who “thinks” they know our kids. I made it (and tested it with my kids), so I know they’ll enjoy it!

The music-themed (no singing required-don’t worry) game contains 150 cards (including some blank ones and decorative card backs) of the following types to teach social and pragmatic language skills in students with Autism, Cognitive Impairments, or other social skill deficits:

– Home Social Skills Questions

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– Community Social Skills Questions

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– Communication Skills Questions

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– Conversation Acting Topic Cards

The game also includes a cute printable board game in color or black and white, 8 colored “record scorecards” for each player, and reward stars for the student’s scorecard. You can even download a preview before to see if it’ll work for your needs!

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It’s normally $9 at my TpT store, but for this week, it’ll be on sale! Grab it while you can 🙂

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