The Box of Secrets
The Box of Secrets is a wonderful way of introducing a topic to children... or giving them a puzzle that they have to solve.
I covered a maternity leave within a reception class in which one of the children is autistic. He had a computer programme called Boardmaker, which produced pictures of actions/objects for him to show the teaching staff when he wanted to do/tell something.
In my class I have used this package (although I suppose you could do the same sort of thing with clip art) to produce a visual timetable of each lesson/activity for each day.
I laminated these and display them running down the side of my whiteboard, and take each one off after the lesson/activity is finished. I also include playtimes/assembly time/register as well as Literacy and Numeracy etc.
This really helps some of the children to judge what they have/haven't done throughout the day and also reminds the children exactly what we will be doing all day which saves them asking me over and over again!
The Box of Secrets is a wonderful way of introducing a topic to children... or giving them a puzzle that they have to solve.
A set of editable timetables that you can use to plan your week of activities.
A set of labels which can be used to make a visual timetable, to show children what they are doing for the day.
A set of labels which could be used to make your own visual timetable for the day.
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