workjobs

Workjobs or Shoebox Tasks

We use many specially designed materials to teach students independent work skills, increase fine motor abilities, provide hands -on problem solving and opportunities to practice basic academic skills. Activities are designed so that the materials themselves help instruct the students in what the task is. I found a few great websites showing many workjobs, these were helpful in developing activities to meet my own students needs.

http://members.aol.com/Room5/tasks.html

www.preschoolfun.com/pages/teacch%20work%20jobs.htm

www. shoeboxtasks.com

Some of the visual activities we are currently using:

A single form shape box - the student puts the cubes into a container, the student must rotate his wrist to align the cube correctly building eye hand coordination.

This is a basic two color sorting task made with a shoebox, materials are stabilized to the side. This task could be modified to have a student sort their name from a peers name to practice visual discrimination.

This simple task has an 'x' open and requires the student to push down to insert the small toy.

In this job the student removes the clothes pegs and drops them into the open box. Great to practice pincer grasp.

This task requires more than on step student removes the clip then sorts the card and clip into separate slots.

A simple three color sort.

is job the student picks up and inserts the crayon into the container. I try to use functional and common classroom materials when I make workjobs.

This is a cup stacking activity again I tried to stabalize the materials into a single work unit.

This activity is very popular as it is so visually interesting. It was made from a plastic tube that small toys came in. The water slows the rate at which the buttons fall. I find I save materials and think of ways to reuse them. I always tell my special ed director how much money I save for them!

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This simple task has an 'x' open and requires the student to push down to insert the small toy.	In this job the student removes the clothes pegs and drops them into the open box. Great to practice pincer grasp.


This task requires more than on step student removes the clip then sorts the card and clip into separate slots.	A simple three color sort.


is job the student picks up and inserts the crayon into the container. I try to use functional and common classroom materials when I make workjobs.	This is a cup stacking activity again I tried to stabalize the materials into a single work unit.