December Print and Go Month 4 SPED Lesson Plans Math Reading Social Skills

About this resource

Four weeks of December, planned. You do not plan on Sunday. You open it to today, print what is behind

the plan page, and teach it.

This is Month 4. It picks up exactly where Month 3 stopped, and it also works on its own: week 1 of each

block re-teaches what it needs before it asks for anything new, so a class that never saw September,

October or November can start on Day 1.

Every single lesson has its own printable plan page with a word-for-word script on it. Not a topic, not a

suggestion of what to talk about, but the actual sentences, in quotation marks, that you read out loud. A

substitute or a paraprofessional who has never seen the lesson can pick the page up cold and run it.

WHAT IS INCLUDED: 218 pages

• 60 lesson plan pages. Twenty days, three lessons a day: math, reading, social skills.
• 140 student pages. Math and reading come at three levels every single day. Social skills is one page a day.
• 8 answer key pages covering all twenty days in every block.
• A week divider for each week, a month-at-a-glance map, and a start-up guide.

What Is On A Plan Page

• The objective, written the way an IEP goal is written.
• SAY THIS: the script. Spoken lines are in quotation marks; the lighter italic lines are stage directions

telling you what to hold up or do with your hands.

• What each of the three levels actually gives the student, so you can pick without printing all three to

compare.

• IF A STUDENT IS STUCK: three things you can do in the next ten seconds, at the table, without fetching

anything.

• A data box. Student, correct, out of, date, and how much help: independent, verbal prompt, model, hand

over hand. It is on the plan page rather than a separate data sheet, because a separate data sheet does

not get filled in.

• A notes box at the foot for what you actually saw.
• A TRY IT IN THE ROOM TODAY box on every plan page: one concrete thing to do at line-up, clean-up or snack

that day, so the skill leaves the paper.

How The Three Levels Work

Level 1: errorless. There are exactly as many pieces on the strip as there are boxes, so there is no wrong

piece to pick up.

Level 2: one spare piece on the strip that belongs to nothing. The student has to reject something instead

of matching everything.

Level 3: the supports are gone. No cue, no fading, no printed model, and the items are chosen to be

confusable rather than convenient.

The level is printed on the child's sheet as a color tone and a row of dots and nothing else. No student

page says "Level 1" in words a child reads, so the three levels look the same on the desk and nobody's

paper is obviously the easy one.

What A Student Page Looks Like

Every math page is a jar, a ten-frame, a fact-family triangle or a shape card with the skill on its lid,

and the sets, numbers or shapes inside it — every shape is drawn as flat vector art (circle, square,

triangle, rectangle, hexagon), never a photograph or an emoji. Every reading page is a house or a sentence

strip with the day's sound, suffix or sentence on the roof, a picture where a picture honestly applies,

and the cut pieces standing in a column beside it at a size a five-year-old can cut and hold. Social

skills pages sort or order short printed sentences into houses, strips and mats, read aloud before

anybody picks up scissors. The frames are the same ones September, October and November use, so a student

who learned them in an earlier month does not relearn anything.

Pictures come from two Creative-Commons emoji sets (Noto Emoji in full color, Fluent Emoji High Contrast

in black-line for ink-saving) and from geometry drawn for this store as flat vector shapes; a page never

mixes the two emoji styles, and a shape is never an emoji. Every page copies cleanly in grayscale, and the

print is clear and child-friendly throughout.

The Twenty Days

Math moves past addition and subtraction facts into strategy and geometry, staying inside 10 the whole

month: week 1 is near doubles (using a known double to solve a neighboring fact), making ten (a

hidden-part page whose whole is always exactly 10), and fact families (the same three numbers written as

an addition sentence and its two related subtraction sentences). Week 2 names the four basic 2D shapes —

circle, square, triangle, rectangle. Week 3 meets the hexagon, counts sides and corners, sorts by shape,

and shows the same shape drawn at two sizes. Week 4 is positional language: above/below, left/right, in

front of/behind. Nothing asks about a number past 10, a clock face or a coin — those stay on their own

shelves (Numbers to 20, Skip Counting, Telling Time, Money, Addition to 20).

Reading opens on ending blends (-nd, -nk, -mp, -st in hand, skunk, pump, nest — week 1), then the -es

plural rule for words ending s/x/ch/sh (fox/foxes, dress/dresses, bus/buses — week 2), adds the past-tense

-ed suffix to the same six action words November already pictured in -ing form, so only the ending is new

(week 3), and closes on two more Fry sight-word decades (21-25, 26-30) plus comprehension that spans two

sentences read aloud, including a whole sentence glued to its picture (week 4).

Social skills moves from November's daily-living routines into skills used alongside other children:

taking turns and sharing (week 1), being a good sport and trying a different way when a plan does not work

(week 2), asking an adult for help and getting a body ready to listen (week 3), and joining a group,

taking a turn to talk, and cheering for a friend (week 4).

Format

Print-and-go PDF. Scissors and a glue stick is the entire materials list for the month. Nothing to

laminate, no counters, no cards to cut apart in advance: the student does the cutting, and the cutting is

part of the work.

Who This Is For

Self-contained and resource rooms, early intervention, life skills, and any elementary room with a wide

skill range in it. It is also built to be handed to somebody else: a sub, a new para, a student teacher, or

the person covering your room the week you are out.

A Note On The Social Skills Pages

Every one of December's twenty social days is a short printed sentence with no picture, and every script

tells you to read the cards aloud before anybody picks up scissors. November's social ring was built

around concrete daily-living objects a picture can honestly carry (a plate, a crosswalk, a dentist's

chair); December's ring is turn-taking and flexible-thinking behavior, where no single picture names the

skill without either mislabeling it or repeating the same generic icon on every card. Reading is picture-

led wherever a picture honestly applies, and math's counted sets reuse the same pictures November already

used; December's geometry pages are drawn shapes, not pictures of objects.

Not A Calendar

Nothing in here is tied to a date. Day 1 is the first day you teach it. If you start partway through the

month, or you skip a day, or the whole thing runs long, it still works.