My door. Happy Thanksgiving!

And this is mine...bum bum bum

This is the one my kids came up with in social skills.  Yes, my friend's below is way cooler!

Miyaka's Listening Board

This is my friend Miyaka.  She is a Life Skills teacher at an Austin middle school.  She really needs to blog too.  Everyone comment and tell her to join us!  Anyhoo, she made this interactive listening poster which I think is cool.  I've been meaning to steal it from her... :)

Book Parade!

Desk Chair Upgrade

So, I stole the idea from our speech pathologist.  She allowed me to put hers (bottom) on my blog too!  So nice of her to tell me how to do this.  Use upholstery fabric!  Comment about yours if you decide to do one! I also redid my kitchen table and chairs.  So cute, stay tuned and I'll show you later.  Loves!

I RAN MY 5K!!!!

My training motivation!  You better believe I looked at stuff like this everyday to keep me movin!

This is actually where I ran most mornings to get ready.  Town Lake, Austin.  Love it there!

Picking up our packets!  

They're covered in color and the race has not even started yet!

I did it!   I ran the whole thing!  VERY SLOWLY!

My running partner!  We worked hard and we made it to the end!

Been a While

Hello All!

I'm so sorry I have taken a while to post some updates.  Yes. Yes.  Chill.  I missed you too!

:)

Now, a lot has been going on at the schoolhouse this year.  Don't worry, I plan to update you all on EVERYTHING!

I am so happy to say that all of my planning and prep has made this year magical!  The kids are having fun and we are 10x more organized than last year.  I would hope the teachers are happier with the way our program is running, but who knows their true thoughts?  :P

So, here are the highlights:

Woah, MAMA!  This is my crazy desk!  I pretty much make sure all the clutter and untouchables are behind that light blue line and out of the way.  Everything labeled with light blue in my class is an "untouchable" in my room and they have to pay me if they go behind it.  Has worked well for us so far. The computer and phone have extra protection by being behind the file cabinet.  They call this place my "office."

In a previous post I showed you my idea for the journal my kids would keep during social skills.  They're coming along!  

We had a convocation at The Circuit of Americas.  Here's my friend Ginger (structured learning), our mascot (PE Coach), and me.  Go owls!

All the 5th grade teachers have their names in HUGE lettering by their door.  They made me one too!  I basically don't have a team, so I make sure everyone includes me.  HAHAHA! 

Intensive in our program is like ISS, but we basically infuse it with social skills.  In my opinion, ISS should include some rehabilitation aspect.  Anyway, this is our schedule.  Depending on how many kids we have at once, during the "work" time, we pull them individually and work on social skills lessons.

SNACK ATTACK!  Every month, a team is chosen to walk around during their conference to pass out a snack.  It's usually a soda and something fun like this.  Happy Halloween!

I asked my friend Sandi if I could put this on here.  She is a fabulous 5th grade science teacher!  This shows a sedimentary rock using rice kris pies (top), something denser (middle), and oatmeal mixed with coffee grounds (bottom).  Her kids LOVED it. :)

I got a happy note from my principal during an observation!  Yay!  Always fun to be recognized.