To end Red Ribbon Week, our campus encouraged students to dress up as their favorite story book or fairy tale character. If you haven’t read Shel Silverstein’s precious little book The Giving Tree, make it a priority to buy for your classroom library. It’s a beautiful book that follows a boy and his tree through life. The kids love predicting…
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It’s mid-October in Texas and the high temperature is still in the 90’s. We are anxiously awaiting some Fall weather, even going so far as to wear scarves with sleeveless tops. Apparently The Persistent Principal was longing for frigid weather because she bought a pair of skis at a yard sale to use for our morning vocabulary lessons. It’s not often…
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After working as a rehab director in a SNF and LTC facility for a few years, my opinion of how things should be have changed tremendously. Even though I now work full time in the public school setting, my experiences and former position has continued to affect the way I view not only this profession but business in general. I…
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My students are learning about community helpers and occupations in their Pre K and Kindergarten classrooms. I am always looking for better ways to correlate their speech and language IEPs with their curriculum objectives. I like using these (FREE!) no prep worksheets where students match what tool is needed by what occupation to target associations in speech therapy. So many students have…
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One of my favorite things to reminisce with patients about is their childhood. With everyone getting back to school this week, let’s focus our attention to school days in the SNF as well. Today’s post has a free download of reminisce questions to use during therapy this week. To access these questions, visit THIS LINK. Download my Winter Reminisce activities…
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