Christmas always gets me in the mood to decorate and organize-what about you? I thought it would be a fun night of sharing some ideas. Come along with me and step into room 134 🙂
First, I found these adorable “12 Days of Christmas” flags for free from Kevin and Lori’s blog using clipart from Melonheadz Illustrating. I decorated my door at school with them but thought they would be cute enough to use even at home!
For a way to incorporate Common Core Standards into your therapy room, try using my Superhero Posters. Debi emailed me some great pictures of how she is using the “I Can” or “I Will” statements as a bulletin board! What better way to show your school how speech and language therapy ISaddressed in the Common Core?! I cannot wait to revamp my bulletin board next year!
I was sooo excited when I saw this little number at our local TJ Maxx store. It’s a jewelry organizer but fits my cards perfectly! I have been collecting tons of these little treasures from TPT- and with 60 pockets, I now have an amazing place to store them within reach and sight.
I also have a few items on my “Organizing To-Do” dream list. I love this idea of decorating a tool organizer from Pinterest. I found one of these at our local home improvement store for under $5. Now, I just need to spice it up!
I also love the idea of using jars or buckets for organizing pencils, crayons, pens, super speechie cards, and other gadgets for students to grab. (Another great idea I saw on Pinterest).
For more container ideas, check out Danielle’s blog (she has some great ones!)
Finally, I wanted to keep you in the loop on my Winter Bulletin Board, it looks like I’ll be busy making cupcakes this weekend!
What about you? I’d love to hear how you’ve been busy organizing or decorating this season!
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Rachel Osborn says
December 14, 2012 at 2:39 amI have some pictures of my speech room at http://queenspeech.blogspot.com will be posting more on Friday. Trying to come up with crafty decorating ideas is so fun! Love the winter board poll idea! I had students fill up two sticker charts (60 stickers) in order to go to Christmas “party” next week (popcorn party, Christmas themed games from Speech Room News, board games, following directions crafts etc). Next year will have to try this bulletin board idea. Thanks!
Nicole Allison says
December 17, 2012 at 8:38 pmThe popcorn party sounds like a blast! What great ideas! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Amy Carlton says
December 14, 2012 at 2:06 pmI used your bulletin board idea and my kids loved it! I am quite surprised, though, that cookies are winning by a landslide! I thought for sure that cupcakes would win! Thanks for the inspiration…I think I will keep using this idea (just changing the choices) as my motivator/rewards for therapy! Thank you!
Nicole Allison says
December 17, 2012 at 8:39 pmWow! That’s definitely a different result than my school! I spent quite a lot of time this weekend making some cupcakes and it’s been hard for me not to gobble them all up! Thanks for sharing!