Christmas - Google Drive - Special Education - Shopping - Budget - Life Skills

Christmas is the perfect time of year for students to practice some budgeting skills with items they love to enjoy purchasing around the holidays! Since many students do not have the ability to practice shopping skills on a day to day basis within the classroom, this download helps to fill a major void. This download includes real world images with a variety of brands and prices to help replicate shopping at an actual retail store. 

Due to popular demand, I have made this into a DIGITAL product that can be used on Google Drive! 

Google Drive is an amazing resource that many educators are now using as an interface to support 1:1 digital instruction in the classroom. I pair it up with Google Classroom (a free website) that allows me to digitally send each student in my class a copy of the worksheets that they later submit to me for grading. It is an amazing paper-free process and the kids LOVE working on these worksheets on the computer.

Use this digital download and save tons of paper while working on technology skills in the process with your students. Technological skills like copying, pasting, and drawing circles will all be practiced on this worksheet. Plus....don't forget all the real world math as well!

Specifically designed for special education / life skills students, this packet helps to walk students step by step through the process of purchasing basic Christmas items. Though, any teacher looking to include more real world math skills into their classroom would benefit from the scaffolded support provided. This is a great activity that can be used many times to practice budgeting, sight words, money skills, and grocery shopping skills in the classroom!

I have recommended a budget of $275.00 for students to go shopping with, but feel free to adapt this number to differentiate for unique needs in your classroom!

Purchase Includes:

- Step by step directions (with visual screenshots) showing students how to draw circles on their worksheets 

- 20 Christmas items to go shopping for

- 1 scaffolded worksheet to calculate final total

- 1 writing reflection activity