Health and Safety signs

I have two more resources that you might like to use when teaching health and safety to students with learning difficulties at Entry level.


BBC Northern Ireland has a
health and safety signs interactive quiz.
It needs the learner to be able to read, so might be a good one for the the interactive whiteboard.










The second is a resource to buy.


Bring a smile to safety training. is a resource intended as 'a useful training guide for new employees and a valuable refresher for other workers' .It also works for every level of student .

Originally they were published as three short videos and I have used "Best signs story" The section on safety signs with my entry level students.

It may already be be available in your library, but if not get them to order it. College libraries often don't spend a lot on resources for students with learning difficulties and are always pleased when you find a useful resource they can buy.

Also see my blog entries: Looking at Hazards

Health and Safety

Thanks to my colleague John for finding the BBC quiz.

Get the RSS feed from Learning Disability Guardian.co.uk

The right hand column of my blog has an interesting RSS feed that you might like to explore further or get for yourself.
Take a look at :
Society: Learning disability guardian.co.uk
There are some wonderful photos from the Mencap Snap competition and some interesting stories with a learning disabilities focus.Getting an RSS Feed is really easy and Commoncraft has a good introduction.

Children in Need

Children in Need is on Friday November 14th
I will be making some cakes and biscuits with my cookery group.

Lakeland have some Pudsey Cake Cases for £1.49

and Pudsey Cookie Cutter for £1.99

I've printed off some labels( Pudsey stickers)from the Learning Zone section of the Children in Need website

and each student will have a money box to take home with them to raise funds from their cakes and biscuits.

A simple biscuit recipe

can be adapted from the Children in Need Party Biscuit recipe

or a Ginger Biscuit from Rosie bakes a 'peace' of cake blog
and Fairy cakes from BBC Food

Letter recognition .

3 letter recognition activities that worked well for me with my adults with learning difficulties at M7 (working within an Entry 1 group)bingo from Worksheet genius . A whole class activity that can be differentiated so that some are learning the name of the letter, some the sound. It can further be supported by writing the letter on the board and using a Learning Assistant to point the letters out on an alphabet card .letter mashup from Sen Teacher Printables. Choose letters from their names to start with. Choose the large text with extra spacing and remove the symbols.












ngfl wales has a good interactive snap game matching lower case letters(other options available)

Lesson aims
To learn the letters of the alphabet
Objectives
Be able to match the lower case letters of the alphabet
Identify and name the lowercase letters l r s

Yasmin Fedda and the Breadmakers

There is a great 11 minute award-winning film by Yasmin Fedda to watch watch here
https://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/breadmakers/
link has gone missing on  BBC Film network.
 The film documents the work of the bakery team at Garvald Edinburgh. They provide day, accommodation and support services for adults with disabilities inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner.
The film shows their principles of recognising and valuing the uniqueness of each person and allowing people to realise their potential.
links updated Feb 2017

Recognising and counting numbers to 10

Some of my Entry level Life skills class have skills at Milestone 7/8. (Students with learning difficulties often have spiky profiles.)
In our basic skills lessons we are working on to counting consistently to 10 and recognition of numbers 1-10.
Here are some ideas:
NB: clicking on the pictures takes you to the website but you have to use the back button to return to the blog.
The learning portal has a good interactive counting game based around shopping . It has sound and is self correcting .












a simple number bingo game 1-10 made with Worksheet Genius.












Count and sort everyday objects up to 10




Cutlery, cups,
pens,
felt tips and playing cards.








Senteacher has number cards in its printables section .


These could be put next to the objects when counting.






Dominoes are good for counting








Pages 1-9 of In the Office on the

Skillsworkshop site are all simple worksheets on number recognition .











The Counting Game is an interactive counting game on Room 108. It needs mouse skills has no sound .It needs simple reading skills so would require 1:1 support to start, or the interactive whiteboard




There is a similar small counting game on Maths slice












Playing card activities are good :
There are lots of playing cards ideas on do 2 learn web site




including

SNAP Old Maid Memory






The students could also sort playing cards then count the playing cards

page 5 of In the Office Skillsworkshop site provides a worksheet for this activity.

Using the 100 square to add 10

Adding 10 N1 E3 .1 skill .I have used these resources successfully with my adults with learning difficulties in our Edexcel numeracy lessons. Headphones are useful but not essential.
100 hunt from ICT Games .An interactive self correcting computer game which uses a 100 square format .










adding 10 game for 2 players, also from ICT games .











paper based 100 square

interactive 100 square from Crickweb

Mixed entry level number exercises.,page 1 . Add 10 more/10 less to a 2 digit number from Jean Thomas at the Skills workshop website

Using Social Bookmarks

I love Delicious it allows me to access my favorites wherever I am. It gives me a great way to organize all my links and make notes so I remember their good points. It also goes further and allows you to share your links and to discover more links. If you don't want to share your links with others you can keep them private.

This Video from Common Craft is a good clear explanation in 3 minutes.

Looking at Hazards

I have been using another interactive Health and Safety game with my Edexcel Entry 2 students called Spot the Hazard

The Home Safety Game

from my previous blog Health and Safety 1

has also been enjoyed by the students and has been useful in identifying hazards.
The PDF section on the Home Safety Game website has lots of hazard identification sheets,for example

Fire:

Bathroom:
Garden:

Healthy Eating 5 a Day

I was shopping in the Co-op this weekend and picked up a

very good leaflet (well I picked up 10 actually!)
on eating 5 fruit and vegetables a day .










It opens into an A3 wall chart. .














I shall use it with my Entry 2 Retail students ...
Last week one of my young students ate 4 packets of crisps for her lunch and bought 5 chocolate bars for the afternoon.Another student made do with three huge chunks of Mars Bar chocolate crisp cake! It is shocking and worrying to see how little nutrition they are getting!
For some links to resources for teaching healthy eating to students with learning difficulties you can read my blog entry Healthy eating 1
Skillsworkshop web site also has a list you might want to explore in the
Realia - recommended sources of 'real' texts for whole text work