Welcome to My Classroom

Well, actually 2 rooms. Yes, I have 2 classrooms and it is takes every inch of space with the 16+ preschoolers (special ed. and some typical). The first room is in a fiesta theme and the second room is a western theme.

Here's the tour!

The door to the first classroom. Students will enter here in the mornings, drop off back packs, go potty and have a seat to watch a short video while we wait for all of the buses to arrive.



"Nacho Ordinary Preschool" I scanned a dorito off of a bag of chips to make the paper chips with their names on it.



The view from when you first walk in. We also have Circle Time, lunch, snack and the occasional movie time in here.


Other views of this room. Yes, that's my little Emily! She's in several pics. She helped mama get the room ready. Actually she strowed toys while I tried to clean things up. :)




My Character Ed. Bulletin Board. See, you can do a black background.


Outside the door of my second room. "WANTED: Preschoolers Who Are Ready To Have Fun!"


The view inside from the door.

Other views of this room. The shelves by the fridge will be where they snack baskets go.



The round table near the door will hold my 2 computers for my computer center. I haven't got them out yet.

Boot Scootin' Into Preschool. I am going to put little boots with their names on there later. I haven't got them finished yet.


My Floor Time area.



My Hands On Center area (fine motor skills, matching, puzzles, stringing beads, Mr. Potato Head, sorting, pegs, language games, etc.


The "Table Work" area (pre-academics, writing, etc.)


Nap Mat Storage... I know you really wanted to see all those mats and blankets all stacked up. Ha Ha!


And last but not least!!! The POTTY!! LOL We actually have 2 bathrooms side by side between the classrooms and a changing area, too.


Well, that concludes the tour of my preschool special ed./inclusion classroom.
Hope you enjoyed it! Y'all come back now!

Just an Awesome video clip

Some of you may have seen this video on youtube, some may have gotten it in an email. I just wanted to share it with you.

http://www.mychurch.org/blog/30635/coolest-video-ever

Just some Emily stuff

I tell you, she never ceases to amaze me.

1. We went shopping at the mall with my mom Sat. and she wore cloth training pants and had NO accidents!! Woooohoooo! I was worried because you know how bathrooms at the malls can be far and few between. She told me when she had to go and she used it. They had the family bathrooms w/ the little potties. She said "it fit me" when she sat on it. LOL

2. I tell you, this child has no fear. She jumped on one of those trampolines with the harness and bungee cords. That gal got some big time height! Not the best pic... cell phone camera, moving target... lol


3. She's getting witty with the stuff she tells us! Norman was asking her if he could have a drink of her Bug Juice. She told him "should got own at da store". Guess she told him! Then when we were at another store and walking back to the car another car went by us in the parking lot... ample space from us but Emily goes "Shew, that was a close one" and wiped her forehead. :D

ANYWAY! Just thought I'd share what stinker was up to!

HEY BIM06 Mamas!!!

We're moving boards. Leslie, the admin for TFGII, has posted a message on our board.

Here is the link to our "new" home. If you haven't registered before on there, you will need to.
http://www.toastmoms.com/index.php
I hope everyone likes our new place. There are BIM06 public and private boards. There are several other boards, too. It is a neat place. It is set up like the old TFG. GhostRose of the BIF06 mama's set it up.

Please, pass the word through email to the ones you have. I'm going to email everyone once my email for Toast To Moms is set up. The last time I tried to email everyone on my urisp.net email, most of them went to bulk or spam and no one got them or if they got them it was by sheer luck by them looking on bulk/spam.

Photo Challenge - Negative Space

OK, this week's thing was negative space. Here are my shots!




This one falls under negative space and sillouette. :) I lined the sun up behind the globe of the light. I think it turned out pretty cool. :)

I'm Back!

The training went great! I was the only one there. There was supposed to be someone else, but they never showed up, so I got one -on-one training! I was done around 2pm each day, so I had to find ways to entertain myself in the evenings. Staying in the motel with little to watch on TV got bored QUICKLY! I kept the road hot all over Tuscaloosa and Northport... hit Walmart, the malls, Target, some antique malls, a couple of teacher supply stores and a few Bama campus bookstores. I also found the Bama Belle Riverboat. Here are some of the pics I took. ENJOY!!

The Bama Belle




A couple of pics of a branch off of the river.



Pics along the riverwalk.



A statue of the great Paul "Bear" Bryant, former coach of the Crimson Tide.

Sillouette with sunflare shot of him. (It was not the best time of day to get the shots, but you work with what you got.)

All of the former coaches... not the best shot either.


This is just something I found funny at the motel I was staying at. I was in a non-smoking room. Tell me something - Why put an ashtry upside down in a non-smoking room with a no-smoking sticker on it? WHY? LOL How goofy is that???


Go Figure!

It was a nice trip and all but I'm glad to be back home! Now, if Emily will just come back tomorrow! She's been at my mother-in-laws this week. :)

Going to be MIA

I have a week long preschool autism training workshop this week. I'll be back Friday evening. I hope I learn something useful this time. I went to a training last summer that was a week long and free. I learned a lot but not what I really wanted. I want to learn more on how to use boardmaker and pecs (picture exchange communication) in the classroom. I REALLY need to know how that goes. This training wasn't free (not out of my pocket though), but it better be more information wise than what I got last summer. At least this one is totally preschool related. The other covered preschool, middle and high school. Let's hope for a great week. I'm done each day by 3pm-ish. Then off with my camera to take pics of whatever I can find that is interesting. I'm hoping there is a park or gardens somewhere down there. I know I might find some neat things to take pics of on Bama's campus. :)

Photo Challenge - FILL THE FRAME

I'm in a lollipop phase or something. :) Gotta make the most of the prop before it gets eaten up.

Here is this week's photo challenge - Fill the Frame. Is this full enough for ya? LOL



Kinda bright and psychedelic... almost gives me a headache to look at it for long periods of time. :)

Papa's Birthday Cake

Yesterday was Papa's birthday (my dad) and Emily decided to make him a cake today. :)

She baked her invisible cake all herself. Love those kind of cakes... no fat, no calories, no carbs.



See her cake? TA DA!!

Googled!!

I was checking out the live feed widget over to the side that tells me who's been here, where they are from, etc. Three people found me by googling another topic! LOL

I've had 2 hits from people looking for info on burning feet on pavement and my post about Norm's burned toe on the pavement popped up 3rd on the list! Ha Ha!

Then someone looked up virus bug and my post about a VBS meaning Vacation bible school turning into Virus Bug Spreading popped up as the 1st one on the list!

Ok, so I'm easily amused. :)

Photo Challenge - Texture

Here is my pic for texture... going for prickly!

The spider was an added bonus! I guess you could count the web as a soft texture, too.

Happy 4th Of July!!!

Ok, so I'm early, but I won't be here to say it on the exact day. We are leaving tomorrow and won't be back until Sunday. We are going to visit Norm's mom for a few days. She's been recooping from having her appendix removed.

Talk to everyone later!!