Posted on 4 Comments

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!:

Screen Shot 2013-04-20 at 8.10.12 AM

Screen Shot 2013-04-20 at 8.10.29 AM

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

SaveSave

SaveSave

Posted on 2 Comments

New Product :: Social Superstar Game

Cover

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

Screen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.59.19 AM
– School Social Skills QuestionsScreen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.55.57 AMScreen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.56.13 AM

– Community Social Skills Questions

Screen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.56.41 AM
– Communication Skills Questions

Screen Shot 2013-04-13 at 10.01.39 AM
– 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!

Screen Shot 2013-04-12 at 9.38.00 PM Screen Shot 2013-04-12 at 9.37.48 PM Screen Shot 2013-04-12 at 9.33.18 PM

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

Screen Shot 2013-04-12 at 9.28.35 PM

Posted on 1 Comment

New Product :: Behavior Incentive Punch Cards – Themed Pack

I’m really excited about this next product!  I already have Positive Behavior Punch Cards on my store at TeacherspayTeachers, but yesterday I added another pack of them.

We all know visual reinforcement for behavior is always best and these punch cards are a fun, easy way to encourage your students to show appropriate behavior. Some ideas for use include homework completion, attendance, appropriate behavior during the day – the possibilities are endless! This pack includes 19 different cards. Most are already colored for you, but a few are blank to allow your students to personalize them with their own color choices!

These cards are presented in PDF format, which means you can print them as many to a page as you want – I recommend between 4, 6, or 9.

Themes include:

  • Ice Cream
  • OwlsScreen Shot 2013-03-15 at 10.09.35 PM
  • TicketsScreen Shot 2013-02-09 at 11.28.36 AM
  • “Star Student”
  • Flowers
  • Puzzle PiecesScreen Shot 2013-02-09 at 11.32.15 AM
  • Handprints
  • Stars- Splatter Paint

SaveSave