Letter of the Week Stories Q
To go along with my “P” story, the following week was (obviously) Q week. My over-fried brain could come up with no other obvious thing to write about except a Queen. I considered putting my…
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A Working Mom’s Cleaning Schedule
As you can possibly imagine, I’m a wee-tiny-itty-bit busy. Although my husband is technically a “Stay at Home Dad”, his chronic illness/disability keeps him in bed most of the day. So we live on one…
Letter of the week stories "P"
A few weeks ago I started supplementing my Letter of the Week in Circle time with a book. I tried to find books containing extremely basic concepts that were easily adaptable for low-tech Augmentative Communication….
My Funny Valentine
Professor X is the best Valentine. On one of our first Valentine’s he purchased me a Christmas CD. Today he purchased a song for me that I told him about the other day. A break-up…
Valentine’s Art with AAC
I had so much fun this week creating Valentine’s projects with some of my life skills students. I was originally inspired by this pin on Pinterest, but considering that I only had 15 minute therapy…
Last Saturday
Last Saturday, a 10 year old former student of mine suddenly passed away. I attended his funeral today. Last Saturday, the body of a very local girl exactly Marvel Girl’s age was found after she…
The Cheapest Voice Output!
I showed you before how to use powerpoint for simple augmentative communication boards. But check these powerpoints out which add voice to the communication board! Art Choices with shapes Art Choice with photos All done…
Communication Specialist
(Please note that although “I Help People Communicate! What’s your Super Power?” has been floating around Pinterest with no link, this is the original quote, by ME!) If you’d like a poster version of this…
Need reminders?
Edited: I read that the google docs were not working for some. I have changed the link. Please let me know if you can open the google docs to download these visuals. Do you know…
No Boardmaker? No problem!
Due to a nasty combination of old laptops in our district, plus old Boardmaker CDs that are somewhat incompatible with said laptops, many special educators in my district have given up on trying to use…
Books read in 2011
I have to give myself a major high 5. Unlike last year, I rocked my reading this year. 63 books. 63! I’m listing my favorites by category, with the entire list at the bottom. And…
Confessions
Photo by Chris Nixon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sansbury/6112158484/ Sometimes I get tired of telling kids to stop picking their nose/teeth/private parts and just try to look the other way. I fast forward through the slow bits of p90x…
How to transform my pathetic year into glittery goo.
As much as I’d love to create a sappy, woe-is-me post, I’ve decided to stick my chin up, put on a fake smile, and throw glitter obnoxiously around until everything looks pretty. Cuz I really…
On and Off
I had a lot of fun today working on the /f/ sound, the concept of on/off, and turn taking with two Kindergarten students. We made “presents” (and discussed shapes, colors, sizes) and “bows” and practiced…