I frequent the Dollar Tree and Target dollar aisle for things I can use as reinforcers and skill building. I also ALWAYS say yes if someone asks me if I want something (bubble wrap? a cardboard box? yes please!). Yesterday morning my husband and I saw a sign for a yard sale and decided to walk over to check it out. I spotted this laughably large stuffed Sulley from the movie Monsters Inc. from the other side of the street and got pretty excited. Once the people hosting the sale realized I was a teacher, they were all about giving away things that I might be able to use and happily offered me the ridiculously over-sized Sulley. I also got a gallon bag full of plastic dinosaurs of all sizes and a bag full of toy cars - and not just regular cars either... the real Cars cars, like the Pixar movie ones! (Cars and Thomas the Train are unbeatable with my group)
Moral of the story is: hit up the "free" section on Craigslist, go to yard sales, check out Goodwill and other thrift stores, sign up for www.donorschoose.org, send cutesy letters home to your parents listing items you need... do what you can to fund the materials you need in your classroom. Materials are very important and they can get rather expensive.
So thank you generous neighbors for the lovely addition to my classroom! I can't wait to see the look on my students' faces on Monday when I use Sulley as a reinforcer.
my husband got conned into carrying him in the 98 degree heat for the 1/2 mile walk back to our apartment
they became good friends by the end of the walk (despite the odd stares and funny comments from the occasional passerby)
*Just a side note: I do not recommend having a collection of stuffed animals in the classroom since they can easily carry germs and are not easy to clean. I plan on keeping Sulley out of the classroom for the most part (stored in my office) and using him sparingly for reinforcement during circle time and table top activities. This means the students will be in full supervision when they are with Sulley so I will be preventing any kind of germ inducing behaviors (licking, biting, etc).
I have an awesome "Teddy Needs a Bath" laundry bag to wash my stuffed animals in. I have two scented animals for calming that occasionally must be washed, especially since one of my kiddos uses it to bite on rather than himself
ReplyDeleteYour work here is amazing! Thank you so very much! Greetings from Belgrade!
ReplyDeleteThis testimony is worth sharing to the world. I am here to tell the world of the good works of Dr BALBOSA. My name is Olivia Bolton am from the UK.. My man left me and my kids for another older woman. It was not so easy for me.. I love my husband so much and I did not lose hope and I kept praying and God finally answered my prayers...i searched online for a spell caster to help me unite me and my lover back forever and i saw so many testimonies of how DR BALBOSA has helped so many people online and i decided to give him a trial … I contacted him and explained to him. He told me not to worry that he will bring back my man within 24 hours. He consulted his powers and assured me not to worry . He did his work and cast the spell and to my greatest surprise, my husband came back the same day begging and crying just as Dr BALBOSA said. He begged me for forgiveness and he promised never to leave me for any reason. We are happy and we live together as one. Contact Dr BALBOSA now on: balbosasolutionhome@gmail.com and you can also contact him on WHATSAPP +2347048047728... don't lose hope have a lovely day
ReplyDeleteThis testimony is worth sharing to the world. I am here to tell the world of the good works of Dr BALBOSA. My name is Olivia Bolton am from the UK.. My man left me and my kids for another older woman. It was not so easy for me.. I love my husband so much and I did not lose hope and I kept praying and God finally answered my prayers...i searched online for a spell caster to help me unite me and my lover back forever and i saw so many testimonies of how DR BALBOSA has helped so many people online and i decided to give him a trial … I contacted him and explained to him. He told me not to worry that he will bring back my man within 24 hours. He consulted his powers and assured me not to worry . He did his work and cast the spell and to my greatest surprise, my husband came back the same day begging and crying just as Dr BALBOSA said. He begged me for forgiveness and he promised never to leave me for any reason. We are happy and we live together as one. Contact Dr BALBOSA now on: balbosasolutionhome@gmail.com and you can also contact him on WHATSAPP +2347048047728... don't lose hope have a lovely day
I was able to overcome senile dementia via a complete naturopathic process.
ReplyDeleteAbout two years ago, when I was 56, I started feeling foggy and had occasional memory lapses. My wife, Mary, started to notice it, too, but I also have hearing issues so she thought that was the problem. My memory worsened very gradually over the years, and we lived with it, compensating as needed. I became less social. After some months thereafter, it got to the point where we couldn’t keep making excuses or ignoring it. I had gone from doing our grocery shopping without a list to going with a list, to having the list but not buying what was on it.
Mary went online to do some research, and it was during this process we had been fortunate enough to come across Dr. Utu Herbal Cure: an African herbalist and witch doctor whose professional works had majored on the eradication of certain viral conditions, especially dementia, ( improving the memory capacity positively), via a traditional, naturopathic process and distinguished diet plan. It was by the administration of this herbal specialist that I had been able to improve my condition for better. So to say, the encounter with the above-mentioned herbal practitioner was the first time we ever heard there was something that possibly can be done to improve my memory functionality.
By the existence of such an encounter, I was able to learn of the new approach by which this herbalist successfully treated dementia conditions, which included a distinguished herbal therapy and lifestyle changes of which I had undergone to a tremendous, positive effect.
It was after the completion of the herbal therapy I had started to experience a great deal of cognitive improvement when it came to rational decision making.
In brief, I was able to go through the dreadful hollows of senile dementia without any further hazardous damage to my health condition, and within a short period. Had it not been for the support of my wife, of whom had encouraged me to undergo the above-mentioned therapy and that of the herbal practitioner of whom now happens to be benefactor - I would have been long exposed to the further perils of this condition and of which had been apt to result to a calamitous end.
I would also wish for the same positiveness upon patients who may happen to be suffering from this debilitating disease, and would warmly beseech them to find a confidant like this herbal specialist with whose professional service I was able to attain a divine recovery.
For further information concerning this African conventional cure for Alzheimer's disease; feel free to contact Dr. Utu directly via email: drutuherbalcure@gmail.com