I wish I had a picture of my classroom door bird bombing last month, but unfortunately it didn't arrive in my inbox from the tablet-camera that took the picture. The story is still fun: I put the holiday du jour on my door each day, and on National Bird Drawing Day, Ms. Selby and her students took it upon themselves to draw birds on sticky notes and cover my door with their artwork. What a fun way to end the day! I did save the notes and taped them to construction paper for posterity.
Since then, I have been the lucky recipient of a Region XIII education intern in my resource room! We just wrapped up week one of two, and it's been wonderful having an extra teacher for my students. She is doing so well, and feels so comfortable teaching, that she's going to take over for an entire day next week. I'm sharing as many resources with her as I can: professional and children's book recommendations, websites, social bookmarking, my self-created open-ended reading and writing work for students, anchor charts, etc. We've reviewed our electronic special education paperwork program, talked about developing PLAAFPs and IEPs, attended an SSI meeting and an ARD (with parent permission, of course), behavior plans and modifications...We've done a lot in one week already!
The picture above is of my coffee table, from last year. The piles of books have changed titles, but they still remain. We are a family of readers, and I'm already saving book recommendation emails to spur my summer reading into action. Four more weeks, and I'll be basking in the sunshine of my backyard with book in hand, enjoying our summer break!
Since then, I have been the lucky recipient of a Region XIII education intern in my resource room! We just wrapped up week one of two, and it's been wonderful having an extra teacher for my students. She is doing so well, and feels so comfortable teaching, that she's going to take over for an entire day next week. I'm sharing as many resources with her as I can: professional and children's book recommendations, websites, social bookmarking, my self-created open-ended reading and writing work for students, anchor charts, etc. We've reviewed our electronic special education paperwork program, talked about developing PLAAFPs and IEPs, attended an SSI meeting and an ARD (with parent permission, of course), behavior plans and modifications...We've done a lot in one week already!
The picture above is of my coffee table, from last year. The piles of books have changed titles, but they still remain. We are a family of readers, and I'm already saving book recommendation emails to spur my summer reading into action. Four more weeks, and I'll be basking in the sunshine of my backyard with book in hand, enjoying our summer break!
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