Speech Therapy: The Middle of the After plus Summer of 60 Pins, #33-36

Thanks to my wonderful son J, my awesome sister Amy, my niece-by-heart Emily, my friend Sarah, and my super husband, Jim, the speech room is looking better!

By far, the most detailed and time-consuming part was covering the file cabinet drawers which came from this pin, #33 for the Summer of 60 pins.
The Pin:
                                                 Source: teachinginroom6.blogspot.com via Laura on Pinterest

My Version:
The first pin has contact paper, but I was a little nervous about covering school property with something that wouldn't come off, or least come off easily. Earlier in the summer, I bordered year.o.graphy and summer fresh 12 x 12 papers from Simple Stories with Mud Pie card stock from Bazzill. My friend Nancy selected the collections after I told her what I wanted, and I used Chip It! from Sherwin-Williams (Summer of 60 Pins #34).

The Pin:
                                          Source: letschipit.com via Laura on Pinterest

My Version: Chip It! is sooo easy to use. I just dragged a picture from year.o.graphy in and got this:

                                 Source: letschipit.com via Laura on Pinterest
Just taking off the hardware, waiting for the laminator to heat up, and putting everything back on took longer than I thought. But before I was through, J showed up to help. Well, he showed up because I told him I had lunch. It was Pioneer Woman's Chicken Spaghetti Casserole made with turkey in the crock pot, Summer of 60 Pins #35. I forgot to take a picture of it, but I'm sure it looked just like Pioneer Woman's.

The Pin:
                                  Source: thepioneerwoman.com via Laura on Pinterest


Here's a close-up. I still need to put on the labels.
Amy and Emily showed up around lunch with Sonic drinks.  I knew I had invited the right people. They got right to work, despite Amy not feeling well because she had reactions to her allergy shots.

Amy is an elementary-school librarian, so she organized my books on the bookshelf Jim repainted. It was originally in the kids' nursery and has been repainted a couple of times. Amy figured out I had units for body parts, dinosaurs, and the circus without even asking me. She put author books, alphabetized of course, on the top shelf, units on the middle shelf, and books from January-December on the bottom shelf.

Meanwhile, my friend Sarah and Jim showed up. Here are pictures from the afternoon.

My diplomas, CCCs and license above the desk along with a cute magnetic board with daisy and swirl magnets from Amy:
And isn't this cute? Amy took two buckets, tied them together with fabric and leopard-print ribbon, and hung them from a wreath hanger on the side of the chalkboard. She also brought me these darling speech bubble magnets that can be written on with dry-erase markers.

Here is Sarah cutting out letters for the mesh wreath. I used g/k, s/z, l, r, ch, sh, f/v, and th, common sounds I work on with students. I originally had phonetic letters, but no one understood them and thought they were gang symbols! So I caved in and did regular letters on the Cricut using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. Sarah is cutting them out.
 Emily is hot gluing them on.
Here they are! Except for the /k/, which dropped out of the pile and didn't get laminated. Amy wouldn't let me put it on.
Here are the speech word art and wreath from my cousin Lisa hanging up.
And I got my big file cabinet back in order. Yes, I know about all the cute labels and stuff, but my cabinet has doors, and I just want it to be functional for me. That means labeling and visibility.

The top-top has a picture of my childhood playhouse that my grandmother painted. Jim attached Velcro strips so it won't slide off/down/around. The top shelf has stamps, my styrofoam snowman, and a box of stickers that may not stay there. The next shelf has oral-motor, Jim's hammer (at home now), and a possum puppet in an awkward postion. J is almost 17, but he had fun today!
The next shelf has clear plastic drawers with labels, plastic spoons and plates, wax paper and baggies plus Super Duper game things that I'll probably move.
This shelf has my games. I don't display them in the open because I have a few students who think they should play these games every time. The spirals are all old lesson plans I have to store.
The bottom shelf has two milk crates of file folder and Treats games along with my laptop case I never use and Dottie Zimmermann books.
One last pin for the Summer of 60 Pins, #36. I liked how the Super Duper cards were in book binder rings at the display at TSHA, and I also liked this pin, so I combined them.


The Pin:
                                               Source: 1.bp.blogspot.com via Laura on Pinterest

My Version:
What's next? Fabric to cover the metal cabinet doors and to create a "bulletin board" for student incentive charts. Whew, I'm tired, and I KNOW everyone else is! Stay tuned!




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11 comments

  1. Love the speech room! The filing cabinets looks fantastic!!

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  2. Lookin good! I may have missed something, but how did you attach the scrapbook paper to the cabinets?

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  3. Carrie, I may have made it more complicated than it needed to be. I laminated the whole square. Then I took off the label tags and handles from the drawers. I attached the squares with Mavelus tape and then used an exacto knife to slit the spaces open. Then, I just reattached! So there is a tape border, but I think hot glue would work, and the screws holding the handle go right through the paper.

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    1. Thanks! I was going to do the contact paper, but I might try your way instead!

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  4. It looks fantastic! Sorry we didn't get the fabric on the big metal cabinet.

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    1. Amy, I can't tell you thanks enough for everything! The fabric will get up. The floors are being waxed, so I think it's a sign that maybe I need to do something at home, like make dinner!

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  5. Cute, cute, cute, cute, cute :)
    SO nice to see someone sharing "real life" versions of these pins that are sometimes too good to be true. Thanks for all your hard work!
    Rachel
    Let's Talk Speech Therapy

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    1. Thanks, Rachel! I'm a new follower of yours and am looking forward to reading more!

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  6. I love your office! So cute and colorful-the kids probably love coming to speech! Thanks so much for sharing-I have lots of ideas now :)

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    1. Thanks, Nicole! This room has been a long time coming, and believe me, as much as I want ALL of my students to love coming to speech, it doesn't always work out that way.

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