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This is how my dad makes his stuffing. He takes an unmeasured amount of butter and places it in a frying pan to melt. He then adds his spices. Usually its thyme, sage, Italian seasoning, poultry seasoning and garlic to taste. Then he adds chopped onion and celery and lets it soften in the butter. Next you toast a loaf of bread (or however much you want to make). After the bread is toasted, you cut the bread into cubes. The dry bread allows the bread to soak up the moisture from the butter mixture. Next comes the fun part! Put some of the cubes of bread into a mixing bowl, then pour some of the butter mix in the same bowl. Your hands get to do some dirty work! Start putting those puppies to work! Mix and mix and scrunch and scrunch. Then add more bread cubes and more butter mix until it is all done. </div>
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When the turkey is finished cooking, place the stuffing mixture into the oven to bake up a little bit. I know this "recipe" doesn't include many measurements or times, but i think that's why Thanksgiving is the way it is. Each family does it a different way and that's what makes each Thanksgiving unique!</div>
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Enjoy eating all of the fun foods and you can still have a yummy Thanksgiving if you have to eat gluten free!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This double-decker consists of The Thinkables and The Unthinkables. These cards were designed to be used with 3rd-5th graders, but since I am at a junior high only this year, I decided to adapt them to use with my older student caseload. My caseload is quite diverse this year, so I have many students with social goals that are at junior high grade level, but are actually functioning at an elementary level. These cards were perfect to utilize with that sub-section of my caseload. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first introduced all of the characters from the card decks. We started our with the Unthinkables, then moved to the Thinkables. We spoke about various situations that each character would participate. We personified these characters as if they were members of our speech room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some of the example cards from each deck! There are 4 copies of each card and since my groups are no larger than 4, it was perfect! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) I made up a series of situations that involved the characters of the card decks. I would place the character options in front of the students. I read the story, then the students would take turns telling me which Thinkable or Unthinkable was present in the story from the multiple choice cards in front of them. As the students became more proficient with the characters, I would not give them answer choices and just have the student let me know which character was present in the situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) I would give a student a social situation. I then would ask "How would the Unthinkable Brain Eater change this scenario?" The student would then have to analyze how the Unthinkable would affect that particular situation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) If a student acted like one of the Thinkables or Unthinkable in the speech room, I would pause and say "which character are you acting like?" it was amazing how quickly my students related to these characters. It gave the students a chance to visually and emotionally connect with the social curriculum being presented to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) I played a charades type of game. I would give a couple students each a character and they would be required to brainstorm a short skit to show how each Thinkable or Unthinkable would participate in the scenario.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5) Another way I chose to use the cards is I would develop a social scenario. The student would then tell me how each Unthinkable would interfere with a situation and how each Thinkable would help the situation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6) Lastly, I used this cards in pairs. I would find a Thinkable and an Unthinkable to pair up. The Thinkable was used to counteract the Unthinkable's part in a situation. For example, I paired up Meditation Matt and Brain Eater. Meditation Matt countered Brain Eater (who distracts people). Meditation Matt used his powers of staying calm to counteract the feelings that Brain Eater might create by constantly distracting others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were some days where a student would say "Worry Wall invaded me this morning". Or "Don't be a Topic Twistermeister!". I personally think my students connected more with the Unthinkables than the Thinkables, but they did incorporate both sets of characters into conversation a lot more than I thought they would. These characters were so easily generalized into everyday scenarios. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So once again, I believe <a href="https://www.socialthinking.com/index.php">Social Thinking</a> does it again! The only thing I did not like about the product was the packaging. We used the cards so much that the packaging is already falling apart =) I really like that the cards were made out of an non-destructible material! Michelle Garcia Winner definitely knows what she is doing when it comes to developing products for social goals. This item has been a definite winner in my speech room. It was a genius idea to come up with characters to impersonate the various social concepts that happen in this world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for reading! You can purchase these cards on the <a href="https://www.socialthinking.com/books-products/products-by-age-range/grades-3-5/thinkables-unthinkables-double-deck-detail">Social Thinking Website</a>. </span></div>
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This was a fun blog hop made up of some of the bloggers that couldn't make it to ASHA this year! We are all so jealous! I've always wanted to go to ASHA! Maybe next year! My sister lives in Denver, so it might be a good opportunity to visit her AND attend ASHA =)<br />
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If I were to present at ASHA, I would present on the topic of adapting materials to fit every student. It's amazing what I can do with any material and any student. Often the items I buy from big box companies or TPT, I adapt to fit all the students in a particular group even their particular goal isn't addressed in that particular activity. For example, take my emotions packet that just entered my TPT store. I used that all day with my junior high students. The packet obviously addresses primarily social skills/emotions, however, in the packet there are areas where questions are asked. I had all the students complete a section of the packet. We spoke about all the answers written. If a student was working on grammar, then I might collect data that session on their grammatical accuracy when writing sentences. If a student is working on articulation, then when the student states the answer to one of the questions, I assess their intelligibility with whichever speech sound the student is working on. Of course, I do not do this every session, BUT it is nice when I am using a themed activity or an activity that all of my students can benefit from even though their particular IEP goals aren't specifically targeted. Another reason I feel this benefits my students is because I feel that this makes addressing their goals more "real life". Sometimes the biggest learning opportunities come from working on a goal indirectly ESPECIALLY with my junior high students.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The Speechbook will be a work in progress, as I have full intentions to add to it over time. As I add speech sounds, the price will go up. That means if you purchase now you will be getting all the additions for free over time! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">There is a /s/ freebie version for your convenience. Go ahead and download it, use it with your kids and I'll be surprised if you don't come back and purchase the full version! Many people have done this already! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Ok so here is what is entailed in the product! </span></div>
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1) "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Awesome way to target articulation skills in a creative way!! I am looking forward to using this resource with my students. I really like the rating cards, and my students can use them to self-monitor their productions. Also, the different levels are the perfect way to differentiate to meet the ability level of students. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">hank you for such a great product!!" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">-- Merritt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">2) "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Awesome! I work exclusively with secondary students who have a broad range of reading and comprehension skills. Several of my life skills students are working on intelligibility (not necessarily just a certain phoneme) and ALL of them are interested in or curious about Facebook! Way to pick a theme that will definitely grab their interest! I'm excited that you'll be adding to it;" --Speech Ninjas </span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-28319505614852466902014-08-25T15:00:00.000-05:002014-08-25T15:00:02.201-05:00Monday Muncher--Grapes and Yogurt or Pudding!ok I know I did a monday muncher a while back about dipping grapes in pudding for a snack, but here is a fun new twist! I took grapes and covered them in yogurt and covered other ones in pudding. I put them all on a baking sheet and I placed them in the freezer for a few hours! I pulled them out and they were an awesome cool treat for these hot summer days we have been having here in Oklahoma City!<br />
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Here is the awesome shelf space I have! In the baskets, I have some of my go-to TPT materials and some other card decks so I can easily grab them!</div>
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Here is my awesome stash of materials. Hi my name is Amy and I am addicting to buying speech therapy materials!</div>
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I am so excited to welcome my junior high students into my room this year! I have worked hard prepping my room and getting my schedule done this first week! Next week-I meet students! Yay!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-14052362510242131452014-06-18T21:12:00.000-05:002014-06-18T21:14:54.204-05:00Dear Parent.....Dear Parent,<br />
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I am writing to you as your child's speech pathologist. I only get to sit and talk with you at length once a year during the annual IEP meeting because you are a very busy person. You have seen me a handful of times in your life. I don't really feel like you know me, know my heart and dedication although I try to show you each time I visit with you. I see your child every day. I try to show your child my heart, dedication and love everyday whether they come to speech or not that day. I show all of my students that same love.<br />
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I am the person you yelled at today. Me, Amy Minor. You kept calling me the speech teacher, but I am a person with a name. The words you say to me hurt sometimes. My job title is a speech pathologist, but my job is to help your child be as successful as possible inside and outside the speech room. I remind myself daily how important my job is before I walk into these school doors. You talk to me as if I am trying to decrease services "just because I want to". You told me I am not doing what is in the best interest for your child. Instead of yelling at me, I gladly would have listened to your input and concerns. I am very open to what you have to say. You brought your threats to the meeting about a lawyer and yes you scared me. Did you realize that? I may have continued to act professionally in that moment because thats the kind of person I am; but as a person who makes significantly less money than you, I was scared. You told me I don't care about your child and questioned my intentions all while I was sitting in a meeting after school hours (hours that I am not paid for) listening to you criticize my skills as a speech pathologist. Skills that I acquired after 6 years of college-a bachelors degree, a minor in psychology and a masters degree. Skills that I continue to pay for through student loans and yearly continuing education hours. Skills that I have acquired through experience. This is what I want you to take away from this letter, parent.<br />
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I am a speech pathologist. I am a person, a wife and now have a child of my own. I LOVE my job. I love my job so much that I get to school early in the morning. Yes I am one of the first people through these doors every morning. Many times it is to prepare for the upcoming speech sessions that day. Your child was the most difficult child I have ever encountered in my speech career, but that made me want to work even harder. I have researched behavioral techniques. I have bought special materials to help your child accomplish the goals we have set this year and took time out of my day at home to even make materials specifically for your child. I love my job so much that I will drop my child off at child care this next school year. Yes I will drop my child off at child care in order to come help children like yours here at school. Do you realize that I do that? Do you realize that I was so eager to help your child succeed that I used to lie awake at night trying to think of a new way to tackle a goal in order for your child to succeed? There are minutes on IEP paperwork and I saw your child for those minutes every single week. I am so dedicated to your child and all my students that I made up sessions even though I didn't have to. I spent countless more minutes talking to teachers, administrators, making activities, buying activities and setting up a successful environment for your child. I sent home homework and activities over break for you to work on with your child. I spend a lot of my own money each year to provide the newest of materials for your child and the rest of the students on my caseload. I worked extra jobs so I could do that which was more time away from my family.<br />
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At the end of the school year, your child who was moving on to a new school gave me a HUGE hug, a kiss on the cheek and said "bye minor". This brought me to tears because when I first met your child, there was no production of the sound /b/. Your child went from throwing tantrums because your child had no other way to communicate to three years later being able to tell me "bye minor" using words. So, when you told me that i don't care about your child. It struck my heart. Please know this parent. I do know your child. Unlike you, your child knows my heart. I would only recommend for your child what I would recommend for my own. A lot of my recommendations came from hours of contemplation over your child's best interest for the remainder of this school year and the for the transition to a new school. I gave up a lot to be able to help your child every day and I make that choice everyday and will continue to make that choice when the new school year begins next year for my new students that I will receive. I love all my students. I love your child. Please keep these things in mind when you want to yell at someone who works with your child. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-61648590272532992172014-04-22T09:50:00.003-05:002014-04-22T09:50:38.696-05:00My first real post (post-baby)! Hey everyone! I am finally able to squeeze in some time to jot down a post so I decided to let you all know whats been going on in my house. I wanted to explain where I've been for the last 10 weeks!<br />
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My son, Kade, was born on Valentine's Day this year. He turned breach the day before his due date (stupid me tried to get off the couch without asking for help when I was having trouble). I had a c-section the next day! I had a really easy recovery thank goodness--up walking the day of and we got to go home a day earlier than planned.<br />
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Kade was a VERY tough baby from the day he was born. He battled really bad reflux and has had issues with that ever since. Medicine didn't help my little man at all and if he wasn't sleeping (which was very little) or eating, he was screaming. It was very very hard on this momma's heart. We ended up going to see a pediatric chiropractor and it helped a lot, but we still battle the reflux every day. I hear from everyone that the baby eventually out grows it, so I am really hoping it happens soon so my baby can have some relief. He deserves it.<br />
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Anyways, the reflux (among other things like severe gas and tummy issues), made him not be able to sleep well for the first 6 weeks of his life. After that things got a little bit better, but only until now is it getting much easier for him during the day. When you don't have a baby that sleeps during the day, there is little time to eat, rest or do chores much less be active on my blog FB page or blog.<br />
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You all are wonderful and I really appreciate you guys continuing to follow my blog despite this hiatus I had to take to take care of my son. Hopefully now that he is taking some much needed naps during the day I can squeeze in some more time to blog. I look forward to interacting with you guys again and being an active participant in the speech blogging community.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-73780954811106548312014-04-03T07:00:00.000-05:002014-04-03T07:00:27.735-05:00Guest Post! Ways to Spice Up Any Word Therapy! by Allison's Speech Peeps!<br />
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Today I'm going to talk to you about some fun ways to spice up word therapy. In my mind, "word therapy" can mean anything from practicing articulation words to consonant-vowel-consonant words to synonyms/antonyms. All you need are some flashcards with words on them. My groups were working on learning sight words this week so that is what I used. </div>
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First I will talk about <a href="https://www.socialthinking.com/books-products/social-thinking-products/should-i-or-shouldn-t-i-what-would-others-think-detail">Should I or Shouldn't I?</a> It is a set of multiple card decks full of age appropriate scenarios for the middle school/high school population. You can see some examples from the pictures below that appear on the website. There are prompt and challenge cards with situation scenarios. There are also number cards. There are many ways you could use the stimulus cards. The way I found the game best utilized in my classroom was to have a student draw a card and answer the question. The other students in the group would then rate the students answer according to the rating scale that each of them were provided with (this comes with the game as well). I then had my students write down WHY they gave the rating that they did. It was really interesting to see WHY and it really ended up in some really beneficial discussion following each stimulus card. We found out that some people take certain words/answer differently and it increased my students social knowledge/awareness even after a few sessions using these cards. </div>
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The anime alone was a hit with my students. There is a social fate and social fortune ending to each comic depending on which way you have the book facing. (See above) I first introduced the concept of social fortune, social fate by explaining how words can determine how someone else reacts. We have some control over how a situation plays out based on the words we choose and how we choose to proceed with the conversation. Many of my students needed to learn that "just because we think it and we think its good to be honest, doesn't mean its the RIGHT thing to say". I think it was another eye opening for my students to learn that social situations are everywhere! Everywhere! I had one student tell me "its like we live in a social world!!". I wanted to say "well DUH!!!!" I was SO very glad he picked up on that by himself though. With my students with social goals, it doesn't matter how many times YOU tell them, it matters when the student has THEIR aha moment and it makes sense in THEIR head. To be completely honest, some of my eighth graders thought the graphics were a little "young", but I still was able to incorporate the concepts of the book into social scenario discussions about situations that were occurring in their everyday lives. </div>
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For those skeptics out there, this is how mine looked when it was done! I first made this recipe when my husbands family was in town and it was a hit! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-21985834513048798382014-02-05T07:00:00.000-06:002014-02-05T07:00:02.080-06:00Graduate School Off Site Series: My public school rotation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So today is post #2 in my series reflecting on my graduate school experience! One of my favorite off-site experiences was my school supervisors. Looking back, I was such a suck-up to these two supervisors! I remember saying something to Kelli (the first supervisor I spoke to on the phone), " I always like to go into my rotations with an open mind". Kelli replied "well I like your optimism Amy Minor". We started off on the right foot and I liked her immediately.<br />
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The university I attended was a medical based university, so I feel like were streamlined to go into the medical side of Speech Pathology. Since my hospital rotation didn't pan out as lovely as I had in my mind, I had a very open mind about the school based part of Speech Pathology. I got placed in Moore Public Schools and once again I had two different supervisors. I was at an elementary school 3 days a week and a junior high 2 days a week with my other supervisor Amy.<br />
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I went to my elementary school the first day and I was really overwhelmed at the amount of work there was to do. In my head, there were evaluations and treatments. BOY was I WRONG! There is duty, faculty meetings, RTI, morning announcements, more meetings, attempting to eat lunch, and planning. Kelli had "this way" with her kids and I thought to myself then wow she is SOO good at her job! I need to learn a lot from her because <u>she knows what she is doing</u>. I would watch her with the most difficult of kids and think-geez she does this so easily. It wasn't until after the sessions, that she would say "that was a difficult session for me" or "he really did well didn't he". Then I at that point realized that she didn't think she knew it all either! Well if she had been a SLP for years and she didn't know it all, then how in the world should I have to know it all. It really was a sense of relief to see her mind boggled about a session or two because it made me realize from a really early on time in my career that we are never going to "know it all" or "have a perfect day". There are going to be messed up sessions! Great sessions! Sessions where kids just need to talk about their home life! Sessions where a child just needs to be hugged! It was a very necessary part in my adventure to being a SLP.<br />
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The next day I met Amy. Not only did we share the same first name, but we were so much alike in how we did things, it was unreal. I immediate fell in love with the secondary level! She had such a passion for it that it really initiated my passion for the secondary level! I felt I could talk to the students without having to "fake talk" all day. I then began to realize that even though the public school was one rotation--there were two whole different worlds within the public school--elementary and secondary! The students eventually warmed up to me and the funniest part of this rotation was the students in the ID program began to call me "new Ms. Amy" and they called my supervisor "old Ms. Amy". It still is a joke between us to this day!<br />
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Throughout my adventure at the elementary level, I learned it is NOT easy to be a school based SLP, but at the same time it wasn't as bad as I was told it was from my other friends that went through their school rotation. I think it had a lot to do with my 2 awesome supervisors. Anyways, I learned in elementary that I loved the older kids and the preschool kids weren't my favorite, but I enjoyed the sessions. (if you have been reading my blog for long you'd know there isn't much in life that I can't find joy in). There was one day that Kelli wanted me to start seeing a preschooler that she had been working with. I was prepared and everything, but with a preschooler I knew prep didn't mean success. So I over-prepped for each session, so if I needed to I could just pull things out of the air to go. Through some help from Kelli, I got much better at working with this little guy and eventually began to get creative on my own. I developed a visual schedule for him and a new rhyme. Da da da dada dog sound..... it was my dog sound rap! My preschooler LOVED it and was able to score a d initial because of it! I for the first time in my school experience saw that "aha moment" from a student and I was HOOKED!<br />
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At the secondary level, I didn't see as many of those aha moments regarding "traditional therapy" but I saw more aha moments re: life skills and social skills. Amy was so good at bringing in life skills to her therapy sessions and I really liked the idea of going from "prep for school success in elementary" to "prep for life success in secondary". Again let me reiterate--they were two entirely different worlds!!<br />
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Kelli and Amy are now two of my best life friends! They are actually my "back up family" in case I go into labor and my husband can't get there right away. Not only did I gain an appreciation for the school setting, an appreciation for the amount of work involved and love involved in the schools, but I gained two lifelong friends who continue to support me in every way possible. I now work alongside both of them and now I feel like I make a good contribution to our "team of friends". It makes me proud and it should make them proud that I am the SLP today in the schools because of both of them!<br />
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<b>Take away message:</b> just because your university is a school based program or medical based program, try to go into your settings with an open mind! You never know the direction your supervisors might lead you to and you never know what unknown passion they bring out in you! Your friends are going to have opinions about different rotations and of course listen to them, but try to not have their experiences influence yours.<br />
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<b>Another take away message</b>: Just because you don't like a rotation during grad school doesn't mean you won't come back around to it. I worked in skilled nursing for a year before I came to the schools (even though I happened to love my rotation). I had another friend who HATED, I meant HATED her school rotation. She went to work in the medical field for 2 years and ended up not liking,. She transitioned back into the schools and is now going to get her PhD in administration because she wants to be a principal. So you never know where your life will lead, so don't burn bridges just because you THINK you don't ever want to work in that setting....<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-81126216829912088702014-02-04T07:00:00.000-06:002014-02-04T07:00:05.098-06:00Valentine's Vocabulary FreebieGood Morning All! Today I have a short and sweet vocabulary activity that you can use during the next few weeks. It includes some general course based vocabulary that I have had to define to my students lately (some of them are just added in from kids asking me what words meant). Head over to my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Speech-Therapy-Major-Speech-Minor-Girl">TPT store</a> to grab the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-Classroom-Vocabulary-1089212">freebie </a>and be sure to check out my other <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Speech-Therapy-Major-Speech-Minor-Girl/Category/Vocabulary">vocabulary activities</a> while you are there if that is something you target with your students. The vocabulary words are more on an elementary level, but secondary population caseload contains a lot of low level language goals. So with that being said it may or may not apply to your caseload specifically, but you might be able to pick and choose words from the 8 pages of vocabulary words that best fits your caseload!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-10478318100912447762014-02-03T07:00:00.000-06:002014-02-03T09:56:00.525-06:00Four ways I use index cards in my speech classroom!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I am talking about how I use index cards in my speech room! I love index cards for so many reason and I am sure I use them in more than four ways, but I will only talk about four today.</div>
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1. The first way I use index cards is for stimuli. They are such an easy way to create stimulus cards specific for a student in ten minutes or less. For example, if I have a student working on subject verb agreement and I know we aren't going to have a lot of time, I will quickly jot down some verbs and some nouns on note cards. Then during the session, the student will choose a card from each pile and create a sentence using proper grammar structures. See! Quick!</div>
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2. The second way I use them is on the administrative side. Whenever I get a new referral or information about a student, I create a note card on the student. I use this as my "tracking system" for what I have completed during the process. If there is any important information on the student that I have received verbally, I write it down on my personal note card as well. I attach the note card to the file folder with all of the important paperwork I receive and I constantly have a running reminder of where I am in the referral process. So for example, I might have received only a goal sheet from the IEP holder for a move in student. I pull out a note card and put his name on it and put the paperwork in the attached folder. The teacher also states his grandma just died and so he is living with his uncle. I write that down on the note card so I remember this very important emotional situation for the student. This student "happens" to need new testing, so when I am done getting consent and done testing the student. I write on the note card: received consent, testing completed:qualified or did not qualify. When all of my referral process is completed (using many more steps than what I just vaguely listed) then all I do is shred the note card! </div>
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3. I work with secondary students, so I have them write a lot of their answers down instead of say them verbally. I like this aspect because I can have the whole group create a sentence independently and then we review their sentences when everyone is finished or I can have them easily switch note cards and have the students critique each other's answers. I like this method of integrating written language into my session and it uses significantly less paper because we can fit 5-6 sentences per note card. </div>
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4. The final way I use note cards in my session are to communicate to my speech students during a group. For example, if my fake student Jimmy is not paying attention and my other student is thinking about an answer to a question, I will quickly jot down on a note card "Jimmy, you need to pay attention to her answer please". This does 2 things. 1) it lets the student know I am observing a behavior that I don't necessarily like in my speech room. 2) It allows me to tell the student without disrupting the entire group. </div>
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I hope you have learned some new techniques to using note cards in your speech room! I buy them in bulk at Staples at the beginning on the school year during their big teacher sale!</div>
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Thanks for listening! I am going to link up to <a href="http://speechtimefun.blogspot.com/">Speech Time Fun</a>'s <a href="http://speechtimefun.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-do-you-use-it-february-index-cards.html">linky</a>- so be sure to head over to her blog to learn how other's use index cards in their speech room!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-71033904628369529702014-01-14T15:00:00.000-06:002014-01-14T15:45:35.331-06:00Pragmatics (Descriptions, Feelings, Connotations and Registers of Language) Mini-Lesson and FREEBIE!I have been very busy prepping for my maternity leave from school and nesting around my house. My baby boy should be here within the next month, so I am very excited! I have a few more items in the works and hopefully I can get them out to you before he comes!<br />
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This new product is a <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Descriptions-and-Pragmatics-Mini-Lesson-with-Student-Worksheets-1060257">mini-lesson</a> that I finally put on paper. A lot of times the connotations and emotional meaning behind words are very abstract for my students with social goals. In years past, I have started out with them describing objects with concrete features and transitioning them to describing words and people with more abstract thoughts. When a child learns that emotion can be concrete and felt to a listener, I feel the student can be more aware of how words can "hurt" others or have an attached meaning that maybe the student did not intend to attach to his words.<br />
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There are 8 sets of worksheets included in this product. The first description worksheet set I have made available as a <a href="http://data11.teacherspayteachers.com/Preview/Descriptions-and-Pragmatics-Mini-Lesson-with-Student-Worksheets-1060257">freebie</a>. This can be used to enhance vocabulary as well, because I picked higher level description words for the activities that are more fit for a upper elementary, junior high or lower high school student.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was browsing on Facebook and came across one of my supervisors and her son singing a Christmas song. It kept popping up on my newsfeed throughout the week. I then had lunch with another previous supervisor for lunch the same week. Simultaneously two of my former school speech supervisors are planning a baby shower for me this month. It got me thinking how blessed I was that I had the opportunity to be a student under their supervision and how extremely blessed I am that I am still in contact with them! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">SO I was in the shower today after working at the hospital and I was thinking about how blessed I was to have the speech supervisors that I did in graduate school and thought I need to write a post about my experiences (the good, the bad and the ugly) with my off site rotations and share a few of my thoughts as I went through some of them. I will begin a short series of posts that talk about some of my rotations. So here is a post about my hospital off site clinical experience and how it lead to my future. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My first off site clinical experience was at a local hospital. I was STOKED! This was what I wanted to do and I was DEAD SET on being a medical speech pathologist. My clinical director told me the information for the start date and I showed up on that day (and early) haha for my supervisors reading this I know you are laughing because I am always early. I walk down to the basement and ask for a guy named Chad. He was the one in charge of all the student placements at this hospital and is a PT. He greets me and states "I thought we cancelled you". (In my head I'm freaking out). I reply "well this is where I was told to come today. My supervisor is supposed to be Christina". He says "OOOOO you are the speech student. I thought you were my PT student". He brings me back to the kitchen area and says "Christina should be here soon". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So I wait and wait and wait. An hour and a half goes by and Christina comes through the door with a huge smile and a "Ready lets go. We're busy today. I'll talk on the way". She tells me I get to just observe for a while then I will slowly start to get my feet with and work with patients. She was pregnant at the time so my first day at my first off site rotation I get to feed the patients for the 3 MBS's we did. Welcome to acute care haha LEARN FAST! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Shannon I met the next day and she was bubbly and a talker! It was neat having two supervisors at my off-site because I got to see how both problem solved, wrote notes, interacted with patients and other medical professionals. In any case, I got a lot of great experience and advice from both Christina and Shannon. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The last day of the rotation. It was Shannon who got the job of giving me my grade for the rotation. My ability to do swallow related therapy/evaluations was stronger than my ability to do cognitive related therapy/evaluations at the time. I remember the words "your scores averaged out to be a B". Those words rang in my head saying "you will never work in acute care. You got a B" even though that was NOT how it came out of her mouth. But thats what I heard when I heard the letter B. I teared up. Here this hospital rotation was supposed to be the rotation my life was meant for and I couldn't even get an A. Shannon started crying because she felt bad that they got cancelled at times during my rotation and not giving me the "best student experience" even though that was so far from the truth. They gave me an awesome rotation. So here we both are in the basement of the hospital crying and apologizing to each other hahaha for crying. It's funny now! We still had 1 last MBS to do so we went to radiology to do it. She let me do all of it at that point, but there on the last swallow she goes "o he aspirated that. We're done" and I said "yup". (Now did I really see it???? NOPE! Was I WAY too embarrassed that on my last day of this rotation I couldn't even see aspiration and feel comfortable doing a MBS on my own?????? YUP) Was I ready to just get the heck out of Dodge and go home? YUP! I was just beating myself up in my head as if the world had just ended.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We got done with the day, we hugged and Christina came over from rehab that day to say bye. I moped out of the hospital on that last day thinking "maybe I'm not cut out to be an acute care therapist". My head was low and I just thought my whole life was turning in a direction I just didn't expect. I drove home. I get there and I just cried and cried and cried. My boyfriend (now husband) came home from work and he did his best to tell me I was going to be a great SLP someday. He says "You just watch. I'm sure no one is good in grad school at all that hospital stuff." He goes on "did you even have your swallow class yet in school". Then it dawned on me. NO I didn't have my dysphagia class yet. So a ton of bricks lifted off of my shoulders and I think wow I just did an acute care rotation without knowing 1 lick of dysphagia prior to entering the doors. It made me feel a lot better. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I go to school the next day and my clinical director sits me down and talks about my grade. She says your grade for the semester ends up to be an A for your clinicals. (At the time I forgot my 8 week in house rotation at the college was averaged with my 8 week off site so I ended up getting an A overall). She says "You look surprised. Did you REALLY think you weren't going to get an A?". I remember saying these words "The student in me always worries about grades. The potential clinician in me knew I would be ok". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today, I am still friends with both Christina and Shannon. I got hired as an acute care SLP at the same hospital I did my rotation after working 1 year in a SNF post graduation from grad school. When I was hired, did I feel extremely comfortable with MBS's? NOPE. Did the other SLP on staff help me get to the level I needed to do them on my own YUP! I worked along side Christina for a year and it was great because since I was her student we really functioned like 1 therapist throughout the week even though we split the week up working different days and shared a caseload.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I also still work with Shannon at a different hospital in the city. I had lunch with her the other day! We still laugh about some of the funny times that happened while I was her student and it is really fun now knowing each other in a co-worker way as well as a friend in life way. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How great is it that I got to work alongside both of my hospital supervisors from grad school when I thought I didn't have a future as an acute care speech pathologist. I feel like I am a competent medical SLP now and I laugh when I think back to when I thought about that B I got on my off site rotation. Who knew that B had NOTHING to do with my potential as a medical SLP. It was the educational clinical experience, awesome supervisors, my hard work post grad school and my constant drive to learn more that has contributed to my status as a medical SLP today. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ADVICE: Don't think your life is over or that you don't have the potential to be an awesome clinician just because you didn't do as well as you thought on a grad school rotation. It's your passion, motivation and ability to learn from that point on that determines your potential. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">O we have had so much fun getting to know each other over the last year or more that this year we decided to do a secret santa with those who wanted to participate from my circle of my best blogger friends! It was so much fun shopping for each of our secret santa's, sending the package, then waiting for our own package to come in the mail!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">So here is my package ready to be sent to California!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">I was so excited to see what was under all these spacers!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">I found a bright pink bag with a sweet card from my friend, Ms. Speechy, over at <a href="http://speechtimefun.blogspot.com/">Speech Time Fun</a>!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">My gift included an awesome cup that says "I help people communicate. What is your super power?", some cool speech themed pencils, some decorative socks and a gift card to Itunes! I have been on the lookout for some new apps to purchase! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">This was a such a fun experience and I am so very glad to have shared with my blog friends!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">I was a "secret santa" for my friend Felice over at the <a href="http://www.thedabblingspeechie.com/">Dabbling Speechie</a>! </span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05240239997507751525noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757110186822246837.post-68760711279344722052013-12-28T13:51:00.000-06:002013-12-28T13:51:56.012-06:002 freebies is better than 1!This month's Speechie Freebies from my blog are here! I have had some challenging students with "ch" and "dj" goals, so I made these a while ago and really haven't premiered them in a while on here so I thought this was a good time of year to do just that. It is a short and simple activity so its meant as a quick activity and not a full blown articulation activity. I have given these to students for homework and it worked out really well.<br />
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<b><u>The SLP Christmas Song</u></b></div>
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<b><u>Major Speech Pathology Fun by a Minor GIrl</u></b></div>
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On the first day of Christmas my students gave to me<br />
A smile when they came in the room.<br />
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On the second day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Two Idioms<br />
and a Smile When They Came in the Room!!!!!!!<br />
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On the third day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Three Irregular Verbs<br />
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the fourth day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Four Synonyms<br />
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the fifth day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Five Minutes of PEACE<br />
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Four Synonyms</div>
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the sixth day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Six Perfect R's<br />
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Five minutes of PEACE</div>
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Four Synonyms</div>
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the seventh day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Seven Fluent Phrases<br />
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Six Perfect R's</div>
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Five minutes of PEACE</div>
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Four Synonyms</div>
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the eighth day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Eight Listening Ears<br />
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Seven Fluent Phrases</div>
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Six Perfect R's</div>
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Five minutes of PEACE</div>
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Four Synonyms</div>
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the ninth day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Nine Associations<br />
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Eight Listening Ears</div>
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Seven Fluent Phrases</div>
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Six Perfect R's</div>
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Five minutes of PEACE</div>
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Four Synonyms</div>
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the tenth day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
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Ten Multiple Meanings</div>
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Nine Associations</div>
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Eight Listening Ears</div>
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Seven Fluent Phrases</div>
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Six Perfect R's</div>
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Five minutes of PEACE</div>
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Four Synonyms</div>
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the eleventh day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Eleven verbalizations<br />
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Ten Multiple Meanings</div>
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Nine Associations</div>
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Eight Listening Ears</div>
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Seven Fluent Phrases</div>
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Six Perfect R's</div>
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Five minutes of PEACE</div>
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Four Synonyms</div>
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Three Irregular Verbs</div>
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Two Idioms</div>
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and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!</div>
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On the twelfth day of Christmas my students gave to me:<br />
Twelve Reasons I Love My Job<br />
Eleven Verbalizations<br />
Ten Multiple Meanings<br />
Nine Associations<br />
Eight Listening Ears<br />
Seven Fluent Phrases<br />
Six Perfect R's<br />
Five minutes of PEACE<br />
Four Synonyms<br />
Three Irregular Verbs<br />
Two Idioms<br />
and a Smile When They Walk in the Room!!!!!!<br />
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