Spring!!!

Is it Spring Break yet???? 4 days left with kids, 7 with teachers, 9 if you count weekends... I'm not keeping track, or anything!!!

Life has gotten insanely busy and complicated. My husband and I both got sick March 1. We spent 2 weeks miserable and on antibiotics (we even got pink eye! It was crazy!!) and we both still have coughs and the remnants of head colds. But we're almost back to normal. Then there is my "other" job, editing an online magazine in a decidedly NOT speech genre, and while it doesn't usually take too much of my time, we launched a big edition AND I had an article in it AND I just interviewed an artist for one of the upcoming editions... And through THAT, I was asked to do some pro bono editing work for a non-profit which went from a loose timeline to a OMG WE HAVE TO LAUNCH THE UPDATED WEBSITE TONIGHT in about 4 minutes. And I did their press release. And email blurb. All outside of my speech stuff. Oh, and I've taken on about 13 kids at another school, spending one day a week there and cramming the rest of my students into 4 days, to help out an overloaded SLP. Oh, and our new SLPA started and went from 2 days with me to basically 4 (because no one else has time to train). So a little busy... I've taken to highlighting different things in my planner (I had to go back to my paper planner!!) with color coding, so I know what I'm doing when!!!!

On the speech front, I have kids making great progress!!! And kids making no progress.... And new kids who have Reputations. And old kids who have Reputations. As it always goes!!! Standardized Test Season has begun, and I've been working on Complete Sentence Usage with my 3-5th graders. I had great winter sentence mix-ups and questions from TpT (I'll update with the actual source when I'm at work and can check...), but needed spring-themed materials. So I made some today during a "Woo Hoo! THAT student is absent" break. I loved the little mushroom!! I'll make different cards with differently colored mushroom clip art, (I'm LOVING the Educlips Gnome Clip Art), but for now, please enjoy the Blue Edition!!! I've been having my students write them out on a dry-erase board or sleeve so they remember to Capitalize and use punctuation. This has the conventions in the list of words, so it is a scaffolded activity. Most of my students aren't ready for "just" a list of words without some visual cues.

Today we also broke out some Social Thinking Thought Bubbles. With 2 fourth grade boys. It was very interesting to see how THEY interpreted the activity!!!! And how very difficult it was to even get them to participate with the same STICKY NOTES, much less the SAME IDEA!!! We have a long way to go, but they are good sports!!!!

Hope Spring is showing up where you are!!!!

Sarah
The Scattered SLP

Eeeeek!

I'm trying to be productive on this Sunday. Although my cat has tried to thwart me, I managed to make a logo and a copyright image to throw on products. And eventually she gave up on trying to subdue my arm and ran to another room.

And I have my clip art and fonts and borders and papers on the memory stick devoted to that. I'm still working on organizing it. And am blog hopping to figure out how other people do it!!!


But for now, here's the logo image!! :) I wanted something to throw on Instagram and on products that I'll eventually post on here. I'll see if I like it. Not sure yet. But I'll try it out for now!