rewind

Instead of sleeping, I just spent the last hour rereading blog posts from the last two and half years.  I will have to say I was way funnier when I first started teaching!  I am thinking about making the blog into a book.  I know very few people have actually ever read a single post, but I think my experience will be good to have for the future.  What neat and absolutely crazy memories.

MIA

I have been missing in action from this blog for a while.  The past nine, now almost eleven weeks of school have been crazy but GOOD!  The boys have grown so much! 
Lets just say Autism and the idea of being nonverbal have taken a big kick in the butt from my kiddos these past few months. 
For a class that was suppose to be nonverbal you have the kid who won't stop asking for what he wants and even adds a dramatic please to the end of his request.  You also have the kid who has been eating crayons coloring very nicely in art class...now if Miss Galvin could figure out Ms. Lori's magic trick.  You also have a "nonverbal kid" singing to the morning songs.  He keeps up very nicely in the alphabet till about I and gets to about 12 in his numbers.  He also counted in Spanish for me one morning.  Fourth, you have the boy who does all the car sounds from his favorite song and has a favorite word of "huh?".   Last but not least you have the boy who looked at a poster of Garfield and said "cat"!
Oh, two days of conferences here I come.