Firefighter File Folder Games Counting | Community Helpers Math | SLP SPED PreK
Product Description
These Firefighter Counting File Folder Games build counting, number recognition, and 1-to-1 correspondence. Students count firefighter-themed objects and match the pictures to the correct numbers. Includes 6 themes at 2 differentiated levels — 12 file folder games total — perfect for a firefighter, fire safety, or community helpers unit, and any student who needs extra counting practice.
🚒 Perfect for:
- Special Education teachers building counting and number recognition IEP goals
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting number vocabulary, math language, and following directions goals
- Autism classrooms needing structured, repeatable counting tasks
- Occupational Therapists working on visual scanning and fine motor skills
- ABA therapists running discrete trial counting programs
- Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers
- Math Intervention and RTI / MTSS teachers
- Community helpers and fire safety unit teachers
- Homeschool families with young learners
🔥 What's Included — 12 File Folder Games (6 Themes × 2 Levels):
- Count the Dalmatians (2 games)
- Count the Flames (2 games)
- Count the Fire Extinguisher Foam (2 games)
- Count the Water Splashes (2 games)
- Count the Kittens (2 games)
- Count the Windows (2 games)
2 Differentiated Levels: count and match numbers in order OR out of order.
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Counting, number recognition, number identification, 1-to-1 correspondence, number order, firefighter and community helper vocabulary, fire safety vocabulary, visual discrimination, visual scanning, matching, following directions, fine motor skills (Velcro manipulation), and independent work skills.
How to Use:
Print, laminate, assemble into file folders, and add Velcro. Students count the firefighter objects on each piece and match it to the correct number. Use Level 1 (numbers in order) for emerging counters and Level 2 (numbers out of order) for students ready for a challenge. Perfect for independent work stations, math centers, and small group instruction.
🐶 Ways to Use:
- Math centers and counting practice
- Firefighter, fire safety, and community helpers thematic units
- Fire Safety Week / Fire Prevention Week (October)
- Independent work systems (TEACCH)
- Math intervention (RTI / MTSS Tier 2 & 3)
- Speech therapy math language sessions
- ABA discrete trial counting training
- Morning tubs and early finisher activities
- Take-home and tele-therapy practice
For more hands-on file folder games, or hands-on firefighter themed activities, please see the links below:
