Enhance Learning

1. Visual Aids & Flip Charts Jill Hermansen Early Childhood Special Educator Jill.Hermansen@aberdeen.k12.sd.us Enhance Learning

2. Class Schedule

3. Class Rules

4. Greeter Bear Hug Hand Shake Smile High Five

5. Positive sayings on the bathroom mirror. You are loved! Smile You are safe!

6. Sign In

7. Flip Charts Opening Circle Boards • Friends Board • Opening Song Board • Pledge Board • Weather Bear Board • Calendar Board • Personnel Information Board • Nursery Rhymes Board • Theme Board

8. Student puts their picture on the board to show they are here: • Count how many friends at school • Count how many boys / girls • Show number with finger displays

9. Student putting her picture on the friends board.

10. Student chooses between two songs to sing and then reads the sentence. (I want to sing___)

11. Pledge Everyone receives a stamp on their right hand to put over their heart.

12. Student holds the flag.

13. Dress the Bear

14. What clothes to wear?

15. Calendar

16. Magic Hand Used to touch days of the week Roll Dice Number it lands on= do that activity as many days as on calendar. Mailbox: Calendar day inside

18. Stand on Feet

19. Motivators

21. Little Boy Blue

22. Weekly Theme

23. Middle Circle Boards • Colors Board • Shapes Board • Numbers Board • Letters Board • Class Rules Board • HWT Board (Handwriting Without Tears) • Social Skills Board • Silly Songs Board

24. Colors Board

25. Pink Book Pink is the color. What is pink? Who is wearing the color pink?

26. Shapes Board

27. Shape is a circle. What is this shape? Big and little circle Circle book Top and bottom Make shape in the air

28. Wall of Shapes Student uses special wand to go and touch the shape of the day.

29. Numbers board

30. Touch Math Activities to do seven times (touch nose, tap head, jump, touch toes…) Making the number in the air Number line Student finds the number of the day and jumps that many times.

31. Number 7

32. Letters Board

33. Hand writing without tears letter C wood piece Sign for the letter C Two things that start with the letter C Make the letter C in the air or on a friends’ back Letter C book

34. Find the letter C with the magic wand.

35. Items that begin with the letter C in a feely box.

37. Student chooses what song they would like to sing and then reads the sentence. (I want to do__________.)

38. HWT Wood Pieces Big Curve Little Curve Big Line Little Line

39. Skills Social Green the bird

40. Five Social Skills • 1. Getting a friend’s attentions • 2. Sharing • 3. Giving a Compliment • 4. Share Request • 5. Give a Play Idea Captain Kind

41. Student picks the song and reads the sentence.

42. Closing Circle Boards • Animals Board • Story Time Board • Closing Song Board

43. I live in..

44. The student chooses where the animal lives and reads the sentence. (I live in a _______.)

46. Behavior books! Tony Salerno’s Character Building Company 1996 Angel Creek Music www.characterbuilding.com

47. Student chooses which song to sing to close the day. “Good Bye” or “Wheels on the Bus”

48. Centers Students choose a center . There are only so many spots at each center area. This works on communication with friends. It focuses on students asking others to move so they can play at that center or excepting ‘no’ if the student does not want to move.

49. Center Area Once the student has chosen where to go from the centers board they then take their name to that center. Every center area has two places. If more children may play at a center it will have green go pieces. Once every student has made their choice from the centers board, students may move to different areas if there are open spots at the centers.

50. Learn To Move, Move To Learn! Learn To Move, Move To Learn! By Jenny Clark Brack Autism Asperger Publishing Company Brack, J.C. (2004)