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Need a quick, print and go set of holiday activities for those last few days of school?  Those of you who tune in on Facebook know about this, but I wanted to share more details about the new freebie that is up in my TPT store. I wanted something that would work for some of your older life skills students while still have some functional skills that even your younger students can use.  So, I decided that everyone shops and everyone needs to shop.  So I decided shopping for holiday decorations made sense.  Happy Holidays from me to you.

This is a part of what will become a much larger, non holiday-oriented set of activities.  It started out as a holiday set and kind of got away from me.  The Facebook Fan Freebie that is up until January 1, 2014 has part of the types of activities that will be included in the larger activity and this has the other type of activities.  If you haven’t downloaded the other shopping activity, hop over Facebook, like the page and download it.  If you have problems finding it, here’s a picture of where the tab is…Follow the yellow arrows.

So, let me tell you a little about what is in the Shopping for Holiday Decorations free packet.

There are 3 flyers.  They all have the same items on sale, but they have different pricing.  So, if you have students who aren’t using change, there is one flyer with whole number pricing only (e.g., $2.00).  If they are just starting to work on change, there is one that uses only dollars and quarters (e.g., $2.25, $2.50).  And if they are able to use more complex money, there is one with typical prices (e.g., $2.79).  You can use these in instruction with the students to give you the right amount of money to purchase certain decorations.  If you put them in page protectors, like the ones above, no lamination is needed and you can print and go (I love this term that seems to have replaced the word worksheets!).  🙂

In addition to using them in direct instruction with money, students can use the 8 task cards included to write in the prices from the flyer.  The task cards can be used with any of the flyers to differentiate among your learners.  If you laminate them, or put them in a photo album, you can use them with dry erase markers.  The questions are phrased as word problems but only ask about 1 item.

So, that’s the freebie.  The final product will have an answer key (I didn’t include one in the freebie because of the limited quantities) as well as multiple stores with differentiated flyers for different types of stores (thank to the fans on Facebook for letting me know your preference on that!).  It will also have check writing, more math with adding of products together, and probably a few other goodies I think of between now and then!

So, hop over to my Teachers Pay Teachers store to download the freebie and please leave feedback there as well if you do.  If you want to share it with others, please ask them to download it from the store or get it through this blog post (which will take them to the store).  I really appreciate all of your support and everything you do for our kiddos!

P.S. Forgot that I was planning to link this up to Busy Bee Speech’s Holiday Freebie Linky…click on the picture below to hop over and check out all the goodies!