Theme Based Activities: Taking Care of Me!

Health & Hygiene

	Healthy Choice Sort (BM6, Boardmaker Plus) This interactive page lets students sort healthy activities from unhealthy ones. Students click and drag items to the correct location. Activities and items correspond to Sammy the Slob, by Kathy Staugler. This book is from Unique Learning Systems Curriculum, January 2008, Intermediate Level, Lesson 4. >> Download
	Piggy Washes Up (BM6) PCS sentence strips to adapt the book Piggy Washes Up by Peggy Thompson. This is a great little book to talk about items and actions in the bathroom. Vocabulary includes, "brush," "potty," "toilet paper," "dry off," and more. This adaptation is our new intern, Jill McCain's first work with Boardmaker! Thanks Jill! >> Download
	Hygiene Bingo (BM5) A bingo game including a master page and 3 bingo boards for practicing hygiene related vocabulary in a game format. >> Download
	Around the House: In My Bathroom (BM6, Boardmaker Plus) An interactive set of 8 pages that asks students to locate items in the bathroom to take care of themselves. Questions include "What do you use to brush your teeth?" "What do you use to dry off?" and more. When students move the correct item to the answer box, a short action animation rewards their response. Download the zipped file and begin with the Bathroom Main board. >> Download
	Hygiene Explore (CS-3) A simple explore activity using hygiene items- soap, toothbrush & toothpaste etc. This activity has on-screen menus for access with touchscreen or mouse. The activity includes quizzes for item name and movement (adjective) names. This activity is designed to compliment the RAPS story "Going to A Party" by Caroline Musselwhite. Movement symbols have been changed from the original Explore activity to match the describing pages of Dynavox's Gateway software. >> Download
	Mrs. Wishy-Washy Writing (CS-3) EZ writing activity to allow children to recreate the story of Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Word order is errorless but students can demonstrate comprehension of simple logical sequencing. >> Download
	Spider On The Floor (CS-3) A Super-EZ Writing Activity based on Raffi's song and board book of the same name. Written for kids at a VERY early writing level this errorless activity ensures everyone can participate. "Writing" requires only that the student push a symbol button and make an occasional, error-free choice. Mild to severely "handicapped" students have the ability to bring home their writing and share a favorite story with their family. Access with touchwindow, mouse or intellikeys (overlay included in download). >> Download
	Spider On Me! (CS-3) A companion activity for Raffi's board book "Spider On The Floor" this activity lets kids select where to put a spider on the boy's body. Vocabulary targeted includes: foot, belly, neck, head and leg. Select spider first then choose a body part from the menu. Intellikeys body part overlay included but spider has to be selected on the screen. >> Download

Directions for Download:

Classroom Suite activities (CS) require you to own Classroom Suite from Intellitools. Classroom Suite from either Dunamis Inc or Intellitools.com.

To use the activities from our website, click on the screenshot, select "save" on the popup and save the activity file somewhere on your computer (I recommend the desktop so you don't forget where you put it!). Do not unzip the file. Open Classroom Suite and click on "import." Browse for the activity (on your desktop) and double click it. Classroom Suite will do the rest of the work for you.

Boardmaker files (BM) also require you to own Boardmaker software. Basic Boardmaker will allow you to print and use the BM6 activities above. To access the interactive boards you need either Boardmaker/SDPro, Boardmaker Plus or Boardmaker Plus Player. Boardmaker Plus Player is now available for a limited time for $99.00. "Boardmaker Plus Player is a new product from Mayer-Johnson that allows you to easily deliver adapted curriculum to the students who can benefit from it. By purchasing a copy of Boardmaker Plus Player for each of the computers in your classroom and media center, you allow every student to use the activities you create. Parents can purchase Boardmaker Plus Player and teacher created activities can go home so that parents can work with their children on their home computer." Boardmaker is an unbeatable tool for creating visual schedules, communication boards, recipes, worksheets and more.

Clicker 5 (C5) activities also require you to own the original software. Clicker 5 and related products can be purchased from Dunamis Inc or at www.cricksoft.com/us.

To use the activities on our website, click on the screenshot. You will be asked whether you want to open or save the file. I suggest you save it to your My Boards folder. When you're ready to look at your board, open Boardmaker, select "Open a saved board" and browse for your board.