What I Think I Do...

I found this on Pinterest and had to share!

Classroom Pinterest Project

Man, 5:45 is going to be such a rude awakening after my 10:30 AM wake-ups for the past month and a half!  I digress, back to the school project.

The other day, I was seriously considering pulling the trigger on buying a pocket chart for my classroom.  For those of you that have no idea what that is, it's basically hanging file folders that are more accessible while you're working with kids.  See below.

This would set me back $27.99. 

Enter: Pinterest. 

Bazinga-this I could make for much cheaper!  Thank you so much Silver Lining for your tutorial.





My folders and duct tape cost me about $7.  That's a $20+ savings!  I realize I didn't get quite as many pockets, but that's ok.

I also made mine a little differently because I wanted my papers to stick out long ways.  If you're interested in my changes, leave a comment and I'll let you know how I did it.

Last night was show #3 at the Muny-Aladdin.  It was awesome!  The genie stole the show.  I was a little skeptical about how he would be portrayed, but he was so expressive and made so many great jokes about our city.  If you get a chance, go see it! 

The gals.  We were missing two of our crew, but had a lovely time with new friends.  Man, were we grateful that the temps were in the 90's rather than 100's like last week.

Donor Choose

Happy Monday! Today I'm working on finding champagne-colored material for bedroom drapes and also my mystery Pinterest project for tomorrow!

Today I'm sharing a project I created for a wonderful program called Donor Choose.  Through this lovely organization, teachers in needy areas are able to get donations for materials they need in their classrooms.  Please take a look at the project, and consider donating (if not to my project, than someone else's) and know your money will go to help educate children in need.

Mrs M's Speech and Language Project

We've already gotten a donation from a total stranger!  So neat!

Working Girl

Oh boy, am I tired!  Today I've been a trim-painting, speech room-organizing fool! 

Trim-I'm almost finished painting my first builder pack of trim.  Never have I ever painted trim before.  Hopefully I don't mess it up! 

Speech Room-I've been reading a whole bunch of awesome speech blogs I found via Pinterest and I'm feeling so energized to try new things!  The ideas are just endless!!  Here's a few I've been frequenting:

http://www.speechtherapyforum.com/

http://www.playingwithwords365.com/

http://speechroomnews.blogspot.com/


I had to stop by Walmart on the way home to get some binders and new games for us to use in therapy.  More on that later.

Anyone get a "boost" to get organized lately?

Rory's Story Cubes

*Note-this is an older post that I originally wrote in March.  Things are moving and shaking around here, so stay tuned!


For all of you SLP's out there, stop what you're doing, drive to your nearest Target, and pick yourself up a set of these babies.

Or you could follow this link: http://www.storycubes.com/products/rorys-story-cubes/


I swear to you these make therapy preparation SOOOOO much easier for not a lot of money. I work in a middle school so my kids are a little "higher" if you will. Most of my speech kiddos who are at the conversational level use these to make up stories or tell a memory having to do with the picture. I've also used these with fluency in a similar manner to work on fluency shaping and stuttering modification. For language syntax I use dry erase sentence strips and these puppies to practice complex and compound sentences.


For those of you lucky enough to have elementary (I'm so jealous!) you could also do narrative language, vocabulary, simple sentences, articulation, etc. I hear there is also a series of "action" cubes that would be good for subject verb agreement.


Do you use Rory's Story Cubes? If so, what are you doing that's working well?