Craziness

I saw Chanan yesterday and she reminded me about this blog..so here I am again. I cannot wait until TSHA. It will be so exciting to see everyone again. It will be a nice break from all of the craziness at school. One of my campuses houses all of the pre-k and kindergarten classes in Waxahachie. At the beginning of the school year, my supervisor informed me that we had to screen every kid in that school. We finally got through it, sent home notices for those 40 something kids that needed further testing, tested the kids and then the greatness that was my life turned into the craziest, most stressful part of my life. I have done almost 30 ARDs between the end of November until now and I still have tons of kids to test and ARDs for those kids and ARDs for other kids that I tested. I have to say, I was very frustrated to find out that even though it was my supervisor's idea, I ended up doing 95% of the testing and ARDs by myself and they have all been added to my case load including a few that he tested. I did find out that it turned out to be okay and I love my kids, I was just frustrated at the time. I do have to add that he sees both PPCD classes and all of the private kids. Still, irritated would be my state of mind through this whole process, especially knowing that the head of special education hated the fact that we did this because it made our numbers going through the roof. I am relieved, however, that it is slowing down just a little bit but then I had to attend a workshop that basically said that I have to do this progress type form for all kids that entered the school district ages 3-5 and then have to do an exit form for those kids that turned 6. Luckily, not all of those kids are mine, but all of those 30 something kids I just added to my caseload do fit the criteria. The stress has returned. Needless to say, I still love my job, but I am so looking forward to TSHA just to get away from all of it. I hope everyone is doing great and I look forward to seeing you guys next month.

I know it's been a long time since I've been on here, but I just wanted to let you know I am still so glad to have this blog. I love reading about everyones experiences even if it is not as much as I would like. I have really been missing you guys lately. The other speech pathologist at my school has a graduate student working with her right now. I talked to her today about her school and how much longer she has left. It was so weird to think about how I was in her place last year! I can't believe I've finished working a whole semester and what a crazy semester it was! This semester is off and running. I have several kids to test and do progress testing on. It seems like everyones ARDs are due in the next three months and I will be sitting in them all the time! Somwhere in all of that I have to see my kids! Craziness!

Those of us going to TSHA should get together.

Hope you all had a fabulous break because I sure did!
When we got back to school I asked my students what they did over the break. One of my first graders informed me that they took out her uncle's throat and put in a new one...