In this product preview, Sasha from theautismhelper.com introduces two classroom games—"How Do I Feel?" and "When Is It?"—designed to help children develop inference skills about emotions and temporal contexts. Each game includes a title card, directions card, scorecard, and 24 prompt cards. Sasha suggests laminating the cards and using dry‑erase markers to record each child’s initials and scores, enabling small‑group play and data collection. The games can be stored in a zip‑lock bag or Tupperware with the directions attached. Sample prompts illustrate how children infer feelings (e.g., "I'm at a birthday party…" → happy) or identify occasions (e.g., "I'm dressed up in a costume and going trick‑or‑treating…" → Halloween). Sasha offers a printing tip—use the "shrink to page" setting—to avoid margin issues. She emphasizes the games’ success in small‑group settings, their appeal to kids, and their relevance for teaching inference skills, particularly for children on the autism spectrum.
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Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of Making Inferences: How Do I Feel? and When Is It? So there are 2 games included in this packet. One is How Do I Feel? and the other is When Is It? So each game is set up the same way, just with different kinds of questions to work on making inferences. Each game comes with a title card, a directions card, and a scorecard. So what I kind of envisioned was laminating this, and then in here you could write the initials of each kid if you were doing small groups and wanted to keep score with a dry erase marker. And then you could write points, how many questions they got correct. This would also be a good way to make— take data on this as well, and still a game setting. And then here's the directions. So if you wanted to organize this in a Ziploc bag or in a Tupperware, you could glue this on the top or on the COVID of the Ziploc bag and have the directions included with the cards so everyone knows what to do. Each game comes with 24 different cards to work on the designated question. So These are some examples of some of the types of questions. How do I feel? I'm at a birthday party playing with my friends. How do I feel? And then the child would answer, happy. So these would be questions you would ask to the kids or have peers ask each other since the answer is on the bottom. So there's a variety of different types of questions related to feelings to work on inferring from the hint what the feeling would be. And then again, the "What is it?" is the is the same concept, just with the "when is it" question. So here's the title, directions, and the scorecard. And then there's 24 of these. So here's some examples of these. "I'm dressed up in a costume and going trick-or-treating. When is it?" Halloween. So it's on a variety of different topics: day, night, holidays, a bunch of different things. I've had a few people comment that— or one person comment that this was difficult to print because it's at the edge. Just make sure that when you do print it, you press "shrink to page." It's in the print setup options. I didn't have any problem printing it, but I'm not sure if certain people's printing settings are a little different because there's really not a margin. But again, I haven't had any problems printing it myself. I really like these games to do in small groups. My kids love them. They've been really successful so far, and we had a lot of fun with them, and it's a skill that my kids really need to work on. This was a product preview of Making Inferences: How Do I Feel? and When Is It? from Sasha at theautismhelper.com.
