Arrrgh, me hearties!

I was going to wait to do a pirate themed post until the end of this week, but I decorated my door this morning, and I wanted to post a picture!

 

Hopefully this will give you some inspiration to celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day and the fun festivities that go along with it!

First Month of School + TpT Freebie!

The first month of school was over in the blink of an eye, and I am absolutely loving my job :) I have already held an IEP meeting, met with quite a few of my parents, and began screenings on several students. I love that I have been able to jump right into things! My biggest fear was making my schedule, but that turned out to be way less of a headache than anticipated. All of the teachers have been great and accommodating, which I really appreciate. Parents and students have been wonderful, too, so I am looking forward to a great school year!

The past few weeks have been crazy busy for me, but last Friday was a teacher work day, so I was able to sit down and get lots of things crossed off of my to do list. After receiving requests for my alphabet wall cards, I thought that they would be perfect to post as my first TpT freebie! You can download them here.

 

September 19th, which is this upcoming Thursday, is National Talk Like A Pirate Day! We are going to celebrate all week long in speech! Look for another post this week to see what my little mateys were up to!

 

 





Welcome to The Speech Beach!

Welcome to my new blog! I am so excited to jump into the world of blogging! I am a first year school-based speech-language pathologist working in Pinellas County, Florida. I work with children from pre-k through second grade. I graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders. I will be applying to grad school at USF this upcoming year. Here's a quick peek into Ms. Christine's Speech Room...

I thought that starting The Speech Beach would be the perfect way to share my therapy and organizational ideas, get inspired by all of yours, share some of my money saving secrets, and (fingers crossed) document my progress through grad school for any aspiring SLPs out there :)
 
Luckily for me, I worked at my school last year, so the kiddos and staff are all familiar faces to me. I am three weeks into our school year, and I could not be loving it more! I have been gathering materials since I graduated last December, so I am very excited to be putting them to use and working with the kiddos!