New Year in th Autism Room.

I always love coming back to school after the Christmas Break. It is a chance to start again. I love my job and I really love my students. I have lots of fun in my classroom because I do the things that Autism professional have suggest we use. I use the TEACCH method, and Discrete trial (one on one learning) some call it ABA. I have been trained in ABA but since I have 2 half day programs it is not as strict as most ABA therapist do. If you are a teacher we would basically call it one-on-one teaching except I take a lot of data. I teach visually with my smart board(could not live with out it) it truly keeps my students engaged. So I really do not have a lot of behavior during group times.  My students love to sing and YouTube is great when choosing songs for group time. With that said lets get started with Theme of the week.
January is always fun we start this week off with Winter and what do we wear in winter, also we will review a lot of concepts that we might have forgotten over winter break.
Book we will use all week:

 

use this for cut out pieces for felt board

 

I love making it interactive so I can get some good communication from my students. I will give each child a piece of clothing to help dress the paper doll on the felt board. You could also make it into a file folder activity. I have paper dolls that we will make at art time to help reinforce the group time activity.  I and my staff will also have them use it again in a discrete trial to see if they can match the clothing items and/or say the name of the item. I work a lot on getting them to communicate.

Large group song:

YouTube: Colors of Winter, 5 little Snowmen, and Let it snow.

Art Table:

 Monday: Paper doll

Tuesday:

Paper plate, cotton ball, and colored dot stickers

 

Wednesday:









 



Make with different colors: let those who can cut out cut them; decorate with stickers, markers, and whatever you have left over from Christmas

 

Thursday:

Art and fine motor activity using cotton balls, glue, and you can also use quilt batting.

 

 

Friday: We have a busy day with Assembly with whole school, and it is our library day.

But I will review with reading the book again which I do every day. And I try to go back over the data and see which of my students are still not gasping the concept of the clothing.

Will post tomorrow all the task basket activities. Have fun.