The rest of the work week, Monday through Thursday, I have my own classroom, working with children 3-6 years old who have highly unintelligible speech. It is essentially group speech therapy and looks like a preschool classroom. It is really the best job in speech as the kids make a ton of progress and are so adorable and innocent. And to make it even better, I work with awesome people. In addition to our in-house Mrs. Fix-it (see the previous post), I work with a woman who has this incredible sixth (sick???) sense when a child is going to vomit! We have had some stomach flu going around and twice in the last week, Ellyn has accurately predicted, to almost the second, when a child was going to get sick and was able to catch it. I am not sure where she acquired these skills, but we are so thankful that she did! It is traumatic enough for kids to get sick at school and it is even worse when it gets all over and you have everyone saying "Ewwww! Gross!" Plus Ellyn is so calm and reassuring with kids. Well, unless there is a mouse involved :) Here is one of the tricks/tools of her trade.
Our next door neighbors on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons are Lisa and Jean. We eat lunch together in my classroom on those days (and on Thursdays, Sally is there for lunch, too) and always have fun. Lisa had a small lunch yesterday...
And here is Jean, working hard.
We often say how lucky we are to work with people we genuinely like and respect. It would be miserable to have to spend that much time with people that were difficult to get along with. We don't really socialize outside of the workday, except for our annual summer get-together at Lisa's. Here is a picture of us from last summer.
I am also lucky to work with and for very supportive administrators, Eileen and Deb. I will post about them and my "Fun Friday" (as we like to call it) friends another time. For now, let's get this weekend started!
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