A Valentine's Day themed lesson for high school educational life skills students focusing on fine motor skills and following multi-step visual directions through a craft and snack assembly activity.

Teacher implementation guide and sequence overview for the Valentine Venture activities.

Focuses on visual matching skills and object recognition with a Valentine's shadow match activity.

Focuses on intensive fine motor control through complex line tracing and path-finding.

Focuses on logical reasoning and visual discrimination through heart-themed pattern completion.

Focuses on fine motor literacy skills through tracing Valentine-themed words and identifying letters.

Focuses on basic numeracy and color recognition through counting candy hearts and coloring tasks.

A set of tools to support a student's daily behavioral goals through a consistent check-in/check-out system.

Establishes a formal safety plan (The Calm Protocol) that identifies safe spaces, trusted adults, and step-by-step actions for high-stress moments, ensuring the student feels secure even when home life is unpredictable.

Focuses on identifying the physical and emotional signs of dysregulation and building a personalized 'toolkit' of grounding strategies that work across different classroom environments.

A short, highly visual lesson for kindergarten SPED students to identify personal anger triggers using the concept of an 'anger button'. Focuses on non-verbal communication through picture cards and modeling.