Activities of Daily Living

For some inspiration on which skills to work on in your homeschool, check out this FREE Life Skills Checklist!

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Grocery shopping with kids is a learning experience for both parent and child. When you make it fun & sneak in educational games, everyone will have a good time.

Every year I tell myself "self, you need to be more organized this year". As my curriculum grows I find it harder and harder to keep track of what I have done and what I need to do. 5 years ago I would just create a worksheet when I needed one, then save it in my computer in the hopes of remembering I had it for the next year. I was so overwhelmed with having to create everything I used that organization was out the window. 2 years ago I started printing out everything and placing it inside…

Share & Help Me Grow For a long time, I expected our daughter to learn basic life skills just by watching us. Then, I realized that children with Autism and Aspergers have to taught deliberately. I had to give her simple, step-by-step instructions for everything from how to wash her hair to how to hold […]

Discover the essential Life Skills your child needs to be successful in life. Free printable list of Life Skills for Kids - preschool to teen.

Months of the Year Worksheet - January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December Unscramble the words.

Super helpful life skills checklists! Age appropriate chores and responsibilities for kids from 2 to 9.

These life skills checklists can help you figure out how prepared your child is to be successful in the future.

Knowing how to select the necessary items needed to make a meal or a snack is an essential life skills task that is often difficult to teach in the classroom. Let's face it, these are not items we have readily available in our classrooms! I have a student

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We had a request for ideas on setting up a middle school life skills / functional skills class. I jumped at the chance to talk about it for a couple of reasons. For one, I've set up a number of these classes over the years and have a number of ideas to share. And for another, working with students in need of functional life skills is an area near and dear to my heart. The challenge for me is not figuring out what to tell you, but figuring out what to leave out. So, I thought I would give you…

I have had numerous requests for more social skills worksheets in the past and guess what? I finally have some more to add! I don't know why but these are the worksheets that I struggle with the most. I swear by the time I'm done doing one, I have read and re-read it hundreds of times! These are what I have added: Listening Telling the Truth Apologizing Asking Appropriate Questions Dealing With Losing Common Courtesy Waiting Your Turn Friendship Boundaries I went ahead and bound them…

Here is a tour of my class. So far this seems to work. I started in the beginning of the year with a horse shoe shape for the desk. Then it ...