I can't remember exactly how I learned about the Global Read Aloud last year. It's highly likely that my friend Natalie introduced me to it because she's awesome. I loved reading the Lauren Castillo books to my class and we loved connecting in the ways that I was able. This year's K-2 author is Mem …
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Fall term at UNR
Zack was able to start the Fall Term seeing a new speech student, Hanna, twice a week. Here is her assessment. UNR Reassessment September 6, 2017 We're feeling doubly blessed because we learned last week that he'll be able to work with Jordan, whom we met at the Aphasia Recovery Connection gathering in Vegas this …
Summer Speech data
We just got Zack's final evaluation from the UNR summer term. Zack summary of progress Summer 2017 I don't know why it won't post as an image but let me know if you cant click on this and get to the pdf. I also wanted to give a big shout out to Zack, of course. …
Mile Run for the Kindergarteners
I love that Coach Jon, our awesome PE teacher, includes the kindergarten class in the K-5 mile run challenge that he does. His high expectations for all of his students perfectly reinforces the kinds of expectations that I try to present and support in the classroom. Last week each K-5 student ran a timed mile …
Bucket Filling For a New Year
I had lots of fleeting ideas for school blog posts over the summer but none seemed to stick. So now the new school year has started, I had my 13th first day of school on August 21st and we are 3 weeks into the wonder that is Kindergarten! We started our Year of Bucket Filling …
Yes/No Questions
Belatedly, I wanted to share a victory in Zack's independent speech therapy. Yes/No questions have been challenging since Zack's first days of speech in May 2015. Even when he knew which was correct, the other word would come out and this makes some transactional conversations hard. i.e. Do you want to take the Subaru today? …
Data updates
Zack got his Plan of Treatment for the UNR summer term of speech therapy with Elizabeth in the mail so I thought I'd share this along with today's update from Constant Therapy, one of the apps he uses regularly.
Hiking with Aphasia
[side note: I started this post after a hike on July 9th. Since it's now August 1st, I figured it's time to publish it. Yikes! ] Passing by the lakes on the way up and down, Zack says, "America". Oh, we hiked here on the 4th of July? You, Jack and Molly came here on …
Last Week in Tahoe
We moved to Truckee, CA in the fall of 1999 and bought our condo in Incline Village, NV in early 2000. Although we're living in our 4th house in Incline, we've lived here since then. 17 1/2 years! And if our current home weren't on the market (by the owner, we're just renting it!) nd our …
Last Kindness Parade of the Year
My voxer, twitter and instagram friend, Karen, taught me about Kindness Parades. In the past, I have loved helping kindergarteners learn about gratitude by sharing holiday greetings with school staff and knew that with Karen's inspiration, we could really up our game. This year, I teach at a small, independent school and my class made and …
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