I have had Geoboards in my classroom for the last couple of years, but have only let the students just play with them during their free time. They seem most appealing to my autistic kids. I want to add them to an activity box this year, so I can hopefully get everyone enjoying them. Here are six templates I plan to laminate for the students to recreate.
Now, this is a concept that is new to me. I found out last week that a colleague of mine uses this method with her class of special ed kids. I had a OMG moment, "why hadn't I thought of this?"!. I looked online and couldn't find much, so I made some worksheets to start the year. Not only will this make life so much easier for my kids who STRUGGLE with the concept of change, but hopefully it will minimize the chance of them being ripped off someday. Now, I know this will require a lot of one dollar bills, but I am hopeful that after a while of working with the basics, we will be able to move up to dollar change. 
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dollar-Up-Method
Last school year I did a menu math packet for McDonald's. But, for some reason last year, my students preferred Burger King. So, this year I want to start out the first week working with this menu. There is nothing worse than standing in line with 7 or so students who have no idea what they want to order, and when they decide, they can't afford it!
Labor Day activity worksheet. Free at TpT!
I like to add some sort of worksheet about measuring into the students monthly morning folders. Here is one that I think they will really enjoy. We will measure each student at the beginning of class and write the results on the board for my kids to copy. This is free over at TpT if you want a copy. 
Here is the worksheet I plan to use to see where my kids are with their knowledge of time. 
Like I have said before, my students come to me with a variety of academic levels. I usually will have one or more students who can recognize most of the alphabet, and than others who can do basic reading. This year our plan is to assess the students, hopefully in the first week or two in the basics - time, math, money, language arts and life skills. If everything works out, we are planning to divide the student into levels for certain classes and team teach. This will be new for me, but I think I am going to love it. I also think the students will get so much more out of a lesson when it can be taught more on their level. Here is the assessment worksheet I am using this year.e 
Going to take a break from warm ups now! Here is the last one I will post for a little while. I think this will give me enough to get to the end of the first semester. Now on to other things.
Here is another warm up worksheet. Since we do a LOT of work with money, hopefully by Halloween we will have at least partially mastered counting my 5's and 10's. I decided to throw some ABC order into the warm ups this year as well. Enjoy!
Here is another warm up sheet for December. Though I don't teach math, spelling or letter recognition, I also don't want the students to lose the knowledge they already have. Now, most of my students will require help in at least one or more areas of this worksheet, but they do enjoy doing them.
