Considerate Classroom: Early Childhood Special Education Edition: Work Baskets and Fun Actvities for Boys!

I'm Back! Sorry for my absence, I have been busy with my 'real job' lately. That being said we have some great things in store for Early Childhood Educators in Kansas for the 2015-2016 school year be watching the TASN-ATBS Facebook page for more details Kansans!

Now on with today's post, what better way to start back up then with some Dollar Tree inspired work tasks and fun activities for boys! All you need is to purchase the Dollar Tree items in the photo below: an Ultimate Spiderman board book and piggy bank, toy skateboards, 2 3 packs of match box cars, Easter egg cars and black ponytail holders.

Task 1: Spiderman Put In

For this one I used the play money that was used in the previous work task post about play money.

Task 2: Spiderman Put On

We like to pretend that the black ponytail holders are spider webs.
A great activity for strengthening little hands:)

Task 3: Car Assembly

This tasks might be hard to come by the cars are actually Easter eggs.

Write yourself a note to pick them up next spring.

Task 4: Superhero Colors

Print page nine from this free Teachers Pay Teachers product and use scissors, packing tape, cardboard and Velcro to make this work task book.

And now for the activities!

Activity 1: Skateboard Prepositions

Print page three and four from this free Teachers Pay Teachers product and place page three in a cardboard box lid.

Have students push the skateboard across the sheet and then use the aided language board below to help them describe where the skateboard landed. For example: "The red skateboardstopped behind the pig." For similar activities for sports lovers click here!

Activity 2: Color Car Listening Activity

Print the cards on pages five through eight from this Teachers Pay Teachers product.

Then use a Velveeta cheese box, scissors, a marker, and black duct tape to make a brown and black garage.

Next use the cards shown in the examples below as a listening activity. Read the text on each card without showing the student, then after they put the colored cars in the garage show them the card you read and let them lift the cardboard garage up to see if they listened correctly.

(This game is played similar to the princess puzzle memory game from the girlie work basket post.)

You can do cards with both the black and brown garages to make it more difficult for higher students or even call out the numbers on the cars rather than the colors.