Morning routine special education

Morning meeting routines are one of the most important routines to set up in your classroom. How you start the day in a special education classroom sets the tone for the rest of the day. If you are looking for ideas and activities to add to your morning meeting, here are 10 topics you can include in your elementary or special needs classroom. These activities are designed to target functional life skills, social skills, language and math skills with your special needs students.

Creating a classroom morning routine that works well can be tough... It's the first chunk of the day and it's often a hard transition for students. Before I explain our morning routine, I want to give you a little background about my classroom. Classroom models like mine typically have anywhere from 8-15 students and we have a teacher and 2-4 paraprofessionals. It's technically a "self-contained" classroom, but all of my students have a general education teacher in their grade level and go…

Creating a classroom morning routine that works well can be tough... It's the first chunk of the day and it's often a hard transition for students. Before I explain our morning routine, I want to give you a little background about my classroom. Classroom models like mine typically have anywhere from 8-15 students and we have a teacher and 2-4 paraprofessionals. It's technically a "self-contained" classroom, but all of my students have a general education teacher in their grade level and go…

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Have you been looking for a daily calendar for kids? Your special education students will love the routine of having their own daily calendar printable worksheet. Inside this blog, you will learn about the differentiated worksheets included. Elementary students will review the day, month, year, tomorrow, yesterday, and the weather. These are perfect for morning meeting, morning work, literacy stations, or literacy centers. These would be perfect for your special education student binders.

Special education is a very unique place and we have so much to juggle! I am constantly asked about my morning routine and I have sat down to give you the low down! Here is how mornings went in my self contained special education classroom. Welcome to my special education classroom (well, I’m currently home […]

Having a solid morning meeting routine in your special education classroom will benefit your special ed students in so many ways. But you might be wondering what you should include in your morning meeting routine. Today, I am sharing 3 things you need to include in your morning meeting. You need calendar activities to work on days of the week, yesterday/today/tomorrow, months, dates, year, weather, and more. You also need to work on feelings and emotions. Learn more!

Are you teaching extended school year for K-2 special education this year? See all of my ESY ideas in this blog post so that you can have a simple classroom routine for ESY. Check out how I use a rotation schedule, morning meetings and visual schedules for an easy ESY schedule. You can even see how I use IEP goal bins for easy data collection with extended school year for special education. You don’t want to miss my special education tips and tricks for special education summer school.

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