Fall Fun!

I am so excited to officially be in the "holiday season"! This means staying late to work on fun activities like this pumpkin patch where my artic kids write their artic words/sentences on pumpkins.

And this, where my younger students get to work on their basic concepts and following directions!

Test

I had my first true test of my behavior management skills today. I am sad to report that I failed miserably.

Just when I felt like I was really getting the hang of all of this too!

Are you getting married?

Somehow, a few of my kids have discovered that I am getting married soon. They like to ask me about it a lot. The other day one asked me when I was getting married. When I told him in December, his response was:

"Ohhhh. What a rooomantic Christmas wedding!" 

Complete with googly eyes.

100 Challenge

I have now made it my goal to come up with one fun activity for every week. Last week it was the Autumn Leaves display, and this week is the the Amazing 100 Challenge! This one is (once again) for only my artic kids. Their challenge is to have 100 productions (of words or sentences, whatever they are working on!) in one session. If they complete the challenge, they will get to sign their name on the poster outside of my door and they will get a yummy prize! I have been preparing them all week. They have all been quite observant-they are so intrigued and excited by the sign (see below) that is now hanging above my treatment table. I am trying to make it mysterious by not telling them when they will complete the challenge. I will put postcards with their names on them around the sign on the day they are to complete the challenge. I think that I will complete this challenge a couple of times a year; especially on the 100th day of school!

Autumn display

This is my feeble attempt to have an outside display. Basically, I have had my artic kids write their "favorite words" that they have been working on. My sentence level kids have been writing sentences. Of course, my /l/ kids have been strongly encouraged to write sentences about leaves :)

Door

This is my kids one last chance to convince me that they actually know/remember why they come to speech. Nothing irks me more than to ask my kids, "What do you do in speech?" and to have them answer "play games." Not to mention the fact that my kids maybe get to play one game a week, most of them don't even get that! My goal for them is to have them clearly understand and be able to explain why they are coming to speech class. So far, I have felt good about using this with my speech only kids, my language kids have proven to be a bit more challenging.

Cold

Having a cold+trying to treat nasality=bad therapy session