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Almost always, you're the only SLP at a school.  Often you're the only SLP at several schools.  Particularly when you're new you have questions and no easy way to get answers from other professionals.  Even once you have more experience, you're always encountering a new type of client (apraxia, fluency, hearing impairment, anything less common than language and straightforward articulation) or a client who just isn't responding well to typical interventions.  I've often wanted to find an active message board.  One where you can post a question or comment and get several replies in a timely manner and I think I've found one.  Speaking of Speech has a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://members4.boardhost.com/slphelpline/index.html?1352130120\"\u003emessage board\u003c/a\u003e set up and it appears to be pretty active.  Check it out.  If you know of any other active message boards for SLPs, link to them in the comments.  I'd love to check them out.  \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Michael\u003c/h3\u003eFive!!!  Michael turns five this weekend.  I am just so lucky that I am one of the people that gets to watch him grow into the amazing person he's already becoming.  We are so excited to have my husband's parents coming in to town to help us celebrate.  Michael is also having some school friends at his party for the first time.  It should be a great weekend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cBr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Ava\u003c/h3\u003eAva has an under-appreciated generous streak.  I say this because she's a bit of a drama queen and is quick to play things up when she feels slighted.  This dramatic behavior distracts from her consistent, unsolicited generosity with her brother.  She automatically thinks of him when she gets a treat.  If he finishes eating first and is still hungry, she will offer him some of her food.  If he wants a turn playing with her toy she will often hand it over (Although she will qualify, \"Just for 3 minutes DD!\").  I love this about her.  I have difficulty finding words for the feeling that spreads through me when I watch my children truly care for each other. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Weight Loss\u003c/h3\u003eIt's been three weeks since my last check-in here.  I'm 3.2 pounds down from that week.  Of course that week was so bad that I didn't even report a number.  :-)  The stress of getting the vowel therapy kit done on such a tight timeline wreaked havoc on both the weekly-review and on my diet.  I broke out of low-carb for about a week and haven't gotten fully back in line yet.  I'm working on it though.  I learned a lot from working with a low-carb diet and so even when I'm indulging in some carbs I'm still not eating like I was before.  That helps a little.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm down almost exactly 25 pounds from where I started.  I am a little miffed that no one seems to have noticed!  How is it that I can lose 17% of my body weight and no one notices? \u003ci\u003e(Grumble, grumble.)\u003c/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Speech Resource Kit Update\u003c/h3\u003eClose your eyes and imagine me doing a happy dance.  That's how I feel about having the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/11/speech-therapy-kit-simple-vowels-card.html\"\u003evowel kit\u003c/a\u003e done.  The next 6-8 weeks are going to be crazy.  During those weeks I'm handling three major holidays, two school breaks, one birthday, one family vacation, and one surgery on a close family member.  New speech kits are going on the back burner.  I am going to try to do some edits and revisions to the first three kits.  If and when I get a revision done I'll either send everyone who has already purchased the kit an email (or just do a post here on the blog) letting you know a revision has gone up so that you can contact me if you want a code for a free copy of the revised kit."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/feeds/8488565722749245516/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-weekly-review-week-84.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/8488565722749245516"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/8488565722749245516"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-weekly-review-week-84.html","title":"The Weekly Review: Week 84"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dala"},"uri":{"$t":"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09390391982768152147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"35","height":"35","src":"//lh3.googleusercontent.com/zFdxGE77vvD2w5xHy6jkVuElKv-U9_9qLkRYK8OnbDeJPtjSZ82UPq5w6hJ-SA\u003ds35"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2522593221428423055.post-3634495277379486456"},"published":{"$t":"2012-10-26T05:00:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-10-26T05:00:06.774-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weeklyreview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Weekly Review: Week 83"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ch3\u003eSLP Resource of the Week\u003c/h3\u003eMel at \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.classroomfreebies.com\"\u003eClassroom Freebies\u003c/a\u003e made a free downloadable\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.classroomfreebies.com/2012/01/snail-or-slug-use-it-million-times.html\"\u003e Snail or Slug game\u003c/a\u003e that would be perfect for working on production of /sl/ and /sn/ blends, auditory discrimination, and simple sorting skills.  \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAva/Michael Weekly Contrast\u003c/h3\u003e\u003ci\u003ePotential spoilers ahead - do not read if you want to watch the new Tinkerbell movie without any hints of what the movie contains.\u003c/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cBr\u003eWe watched the new Tinkerbell movie last night.  It was a great movie.  We all enjoyed it and the children are itching to watch it again today.  I enjoyed watching the wonder, joy, and laughter on their faces as much as I enjoyed watching the movie.  There were some sections of the movie that were emotionally intense though.  I found it interesting that the children responded entirely differently to them.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMichael was in tears when Tinkerbell and Periwinkle were forced to separate against their will and the audience was led to believe they would never see each other again.  Ava was relatively calm during that section of the movie.  Closer to the end when the fairy dust tree was in danger of being killed by a freeze Ava was sobbing and needed to be held and comforted.  That part of the movie had Michael excited and engaged, but certainly not breaking down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cBr\u003eIt was fascinating that the children reacted so differently at different parts in the movie.  I'm not reading too much into the specifics.  I was grateful there was only one child to comfort and reassure at a time. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Weight Loss\u003c/h3\u003eLet's just agree to \u003cb\u003enot\u003c/b\u003e discuss the slight backslide caused by our first (delightful) cheat night and monthly hormones, shall we?  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Speech Resource Kit Update\u003c/h3\u003eSo close.  I'm probably working on writing the new table of contents, final editing, and conversion to PDF as you read this.  I need to tackle the mechanics of getting it added to the store and writing the details page.  But it is close.  I should be on schedule for getting the /k/ set available to you all by the beginning of November.  I'm particularly pleased with this set.  There are a ton of cards, a full printable \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/03/speech-card-set-activity-speech.html\"\u003eSpeech Switcheroo\u003c/a\u003e set for initial /k/, and a new Race to the Top Game I made for the Mixed /k/ section just to name a few highlights."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/feeds/3634495277379486456/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-83.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/3634495277379486456"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/3634495277379486456"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-83.html","title":"The Weekly Review: Week 83"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dala"},"uri":{"$t":"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09390391982768152147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"35","height":"35","src":"//lh3.googleusercontent.com/zFdxGE77vvD2w5xHy6jkVuElKv-U9_9qLkRYK8OnbDeJPtjSZ82UPq5w6hJ-SA\u003ds35"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2522593221428423055.post-7290357238557890087"},"published":{"$t":"2012-10-19T05:06:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-10-19T05:06:00.653-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weeklyreview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Weekly Review: Week 82"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ch3\u003eSLP Resource of the Week\u003c/h3\u003eI saw another activity that would be great for working on sounds in isolation and as a bonus, practices letter recognition as well at the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://tonsoffunpreschoolactivities.blogspot.com/\"\u003eTons of Fun blog\u003c/a\u003e.  On her \u003ca href\u003d\"http://tonsoffunpreschoolactivities.blogspot.com/p/printables.html\"\u003eprintables page\u003c/a\u003e you can download letter paths which are simply a grid of letters where the target letter works its way from a starting point to an ending point like a maze.  You give the child a bingo marker, stamp, or stickers and they practice the target sound each time they take a step along the \"path\".\u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAva this Week\u003c/h3\u003eAva knows things I don't even know that she knows.  She and her brother like to play together and so if he is playing a game she wants to play too.  I have educational games installed on our phones and computers and Michael is playing them regularly.  Ava is jumping right in and doing a pretty great job of keeping up.  She's doing basic addition problems and learning her letter-sound correspondences. If she's not quite ready to go to bed at night I'll find her in the morning surrounded by books in her bed.  There's nothing quite like the sight of your child sleeping in bed surrounded by books.  It melts a mama/slp/educator's heart. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Michael\u003c/h3\u003eI grabbed a little map skills workbook from Scholastic when it was on sale for $4.99 to add a little variety to our homeschooling.  Michael's eyes lit up when he saw it.  It was a bright colorful book of his own that he was going to get to write in!  The very first activity was looking at a map of Buddy Bear's bedroom and answering some questions about it and then drawing a map of his own bedroom.  He did a great job and even wanted me to label all the things he drew just like the items on the other map were labeled.  I was pleased with our first activity in map skills and he was excited and I thought that was the end of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLater that day, after I finished putting Ava down for nap, I went in to check on Michael in his room.  He explained, \"I just moved you from Ava's room to my room.\"  I brilliantly responded, \"Huh?\"  Then he showed me the \"map\" he had made of our house with various small toys representing people and pets in various rooms.  When he heard me opening his door, he took the small toy representing me and moved it from the space on his map that was Ava's room to the space on his map that was his room.  That boy never fails to amaze me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fk9lTySwmNI/UIAftecwirI/AAAAAAAADkg/BTA3La2XoXc/s1600/Michael%2527s%2BMap.JPG\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" height\u003d\"210\" width\u003d\"320\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fk9lTySwmNI/UIAftecwirI/AAAAAAAADkg/BTA3La2XoXc/s320/Michael%2527s%2BMap.JPG\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Weight Loss\u003c/h3\u003eAnd one week later I'm down another 2.8 pounds.  That's much better than the two-week stall that preceded this week.  At this point I'm down 20-25 in the four months or so we've been dieting.  I'm hoping to go another 10 before switching from weight-loss mode to figuring out a reasonable maintenance plan.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Speech Resource Kit Update\u003c/h3\u003eThe /k/ kit is well under way.  The initial section is complete and has a vowel worksheet, 44 illustrated one-syllable therapy cards, 18 sets of minimal pairs, three pivot phrase worksheets, 3 homework sheets, two story booklets, and a speech-switcheroo game to print out and use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final section is complete and has a vowel worksheet, 59 illustrated one-syllable therapy cards, 18 sets of minimal pairs, 3 pivot phrase worksheets, 3 homework sheets, 2 story booklets, and a speech caterpillar printable activity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe medial /k/ section is also finished and has 44 illustrated two-syllable therapy cards, 9 minimal pairs, 3 pivot phrase worksheets, 3 homework sheets, 2 story booklets, and a Speech Match printable activity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mixed section, introduction, and appendix are still in progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Communication Fail\u003c/h3\u003e  I had a customer contact me for help downloading the speech kits she had purchased.  (Thank you again, to everyone who is buying the speech kits.)  One thing I did to assist her is resend the email with the download link.  When I emailed her to let her know she should look for it I said, \"I resent that email...\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomehow, not once in my life, did it occur to me that resent (I sent that again) and resent (take offense) are spelled in exactly the same way.  She thought that I was telling her I was offended that she had emailed me with a question.  I felt terrible!  Nothing could be further from the truth.  I immediately sent her a very apologetic email trying to clear up the completely unintended confusion.  I hope she received my apology.  I was actually quite happy to help.  And so, from now on I will always hyphenate.  \"I re-sent that email.\"  Hmm.  Perhaps I'll just rephrase that entirely so there is no chance of ambiguity at all.  "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/feeds/7290357238557890087/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-82.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/7290357238557890087"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/7290357238557890087"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-82.html","title":"The Weekly Review: Week 82"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dala"},"uri":{"$t":"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09390391982768152147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"35","height":"35","src":"//lh3.googleusercontent.com/zFdxGE77vvD2w5xHy6jkVuElKv-U9_9qLkRYK8OnbDeJPtjSZ82UPq5w6hJ-SA\u003ds35"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fk9lTySwmNI/UIAftecwirI/AAAAAAAADkg/BTA3La2XoXc/s72-c/Michael%2527s%2BMap.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2522593221428423055.post-6147640927045962666"},"published":{"$t":"2012-10-12T05:02:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-10-12T09:29:30.798-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weeklyreview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Weekly Review: Week 81"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ch3\u003eSLP Resource of the Week\u003c/h3\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.speechlanguage-resources.com/speech-sound-errors.html\"\u003eSpeechLanguage-Resources.com\u003c/a\u003e has an excellent set of guidelines on eliciting /s/, /sh/, /k/, /l/, and /f/.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the links.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAva this Week\u003c/h3\u003eAva is in the midst of a huge developmental growth spurt.  She's taking 2 hour naps daily.  Shoes that were loose six weeks ago are snug now.  She's understanding concepts and communicating on a whole new level.  She's also feeling needy.  She will come to me as I am busy with some task and sweetly ask, \"Mama, when you are done with your work can you please come play _____ with me?\"  She's learned that I have much more difficulty resisting specific activity suggestions.  If she just asks me to play, I can often say no.  If she names the specific activity she wants to play (build a marble run, play with squinkies, color with her) I have much more trouble resisting.  They can be so sweet when they're little and all they want is some of your time and attention.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Michael\u003c/h3\u003eAs we were walking to school last week we stopped to examine a patch of clover.  I showed the children how each clover has three leaves.  I told them that very rarely, a four-leaf clover grows and people search for them because they are supposed to be good luck.  I said it happens so rarely that I had never found one in my entire life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne afternoon this week I had sent the children into the backyard to play.  Michael came running inside calling that he had found something for me.  He was trembling with excitement and anticipation and was obviously incredibly proud of himself.  \"Mama, I brought you a six-leaf clover!\" he declared.  I figured he had pulled up two that were tangled, but as he brought it over to me I could only see one stem.  I took a close look.  He had carefully torn each leaf of the three leaf clover in half.  He explained that he was going to make me a four-leaf clover, but decided a six-leaf clover would be even better.  It was so sweet and creative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HU5uB8l4c10/UHbUrJ6YY2I/AAAAAAAADdg/DPmjlOLXet4/s1600/six-leaf%2Bclover.JPG\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" height\u003d\"320\" width\u003d\"253\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HU5uB8l4c10/UHbUrJ6YY2I/AAAAAAAADdg/DPmjlOLXet4/s320/six-leaf%2Bclover.JPG\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Weight Loss\u003c/h3\u003eI am off the antibiotics and have started probiotics.  I am down 1.3 pounds from last week. Essentially, that is a net stall for the last two weeks.  I went low-carb five weeks ago.  I lost about 9 pounds in the first three weeks and then gained and lost a pound in the two weeks after that (the antibiotic two-weeks).  I am sincerely hoping that I will return to losing a little weight for all this effort and willpower over the next week.  Time will tell I suppose.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Speech Resource Kit Update\u003c/h3\u003eThe survey is complete and /k/ was the clear winner.  I have started the /k/ Resource kit.  I've finished the initial /k/ section and I'm most of the way through the final /k/ section.  I still have to do the medial and mixed /k/ sections and work on the intro and appendix resources.  I'm hoping to have the kit up by the beginning of November.  I'm going to try to stick with a schedule of adding one new kit a month to the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/p/testy-shop-speech-therapy-kits.html\"\u003estore\u003c/a\u003e.  "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/feeds/6147640927045962666/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-81.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/6147640927045962666"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/6147640927045962666"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-81.html","title":"The Weekly Review: Week 81"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dala"},"uri":{"$t":"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09390391982768152147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"35","height":"35","src":"//lh3.googleusercontent.com/zFdxGE77vvD2w5xHy6jkVuElKv-U9_9qLkRYK8OnbDeJPtjSZ82UPq5w6hJ-SA\u003ds35"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HU5uB8l4c10/UHbUrJ6YY2I/AAAAAAAADdg/DPmjlOLXet4/s72-c/six-leaf%2Bclover.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2522593221428423055.post-4654068858006798338"},"published":{"$t":"2012-10-05T05:05:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-10-05T05:05:00.960-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weeklyreview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Weekly Review: Week 80"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ch3\u003eSLP Resource of the Week\u003c/h3\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.wegivebooks.org/\"\u003eWe Give Books\u003c/a\u003e is a website that has dozens of fiction and non-fiction books for children 0-10 years of age available for free online.  Sign up for a free account and then sort books by age-range, subject, or author and a bookshelf full of amazing titles appears before you.  Many of the nonfiction books are DK Publishing.  Other familiar titles are classics by Jan Brett, the Skippyjon Jones series, and the Llama Llama series.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAva this Week\u003c/h3\u003eIt sounds like a little thing, but Ava finally let me buy her a leotard for gymnastics.  She absolutely refused to put one on before now.  Then, this week, she saunters over to the leotard display they have in the waiting area and asks why I hadn't gotten her one?  I asked her, rather suspiciously, if she'd actually wear it if I bought her one.  She assured me she would, so we picked out her favorite and I bought it.  She wore it for the next 24 hours before I peeled it off her and told her it was just for gymnastics from now on.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Michael\u003c/h3\u003eMichael and I have been homeschooling while Ava is in speech.  So, twice a week for 45 minutes we do a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/04/rightstart-mathematics-level-review-and.html\"\u003eRightStart Math Lesson\u003c/a\u003e and work with our \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/04/usborne-very-first-reading-boxed-set-of.html\"\u003eUsborne Very First Readers\u003c/a\u003e.  We have the best time.  The child takes in math like breathing.  Reading takes a little more effort, but for 4 1/2 he's pretty darned good.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Weight Loss\u003c/h3\u003eThis week I'm up a pound.  I have to say that compared to the 3.5 pounds a week I've been losing on the low-carb diet I was very disappointed.  I was hungry all the time and craving carbs for the first time in weeks.  I had started to slowly increase my veggie intake and even add a slice of apple or two here or there and I thought that was the problem at first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen I realized the weight gain, cravings, and water retention began at almost exactly the same time I began a 10 day course of antibiotics.  I did a little research online and found that water retention, cravings, and other unpleasant side effects often accompany antibiotics due to all the good bacteria in the gut being wiped out along with the bad germs.  Too bad I wasn't prepared with a really good probiotic a week ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cBr\u003eI took a closer look at my data and realized that although the scale has gone up by a pound, my fat mass (as measured by my fancy scale) had gone down 1.2 pounds which seems to confirm that the gain I'm seeing on the scale is water weight.  We'll see if things turn around next week after I finally finish off these antibiotics.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly All Consuming Obsession\u003c/h3\u003eNot working!  Other than daily blog posts I took a complete break from working on \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/p/testy-shop-speech-therapy-kits.html\"\u003ethe speech resource kits\u003c/a\u003e this week.  I needed a break after the big push I made getting the first two products ready to go and getting the store and back end stuff set up.  I took the opportunity to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/gratitude-and-request-for-information.html\"\u003esurvey \u003c/a\u003eyou all to see what phoneme you'd like to see in the store next and I'm glad I did.  I wouldn't have guessed /k/, but that has the lead by quite a bit.  This week I watched some fall tv on Hulu and read several books.  I'd better not count up quite how many books I've read this week, but they were a great change of pace.  I'll start working on the /k/ resource kit next week.  I'm hoping to have it up by next month, but until I get into it, I can't be sure how quickly the project will come together."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/feeds/4654068858006798338/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-80.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/4654068858006798338"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/4654068858006798338"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-review-week-80.html","title":"The Weekly Review: Week 80"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dala"},"uri":{"$t":"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09390391982768152147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"35","height":"35","src":"//lh3.googleusercontent.com/zFdxGE77vvD2w5xHy6jkVuElKv-U9_9qLkRYK8OnbDeJPtjSZ82UPq5w6hJ-SA\u003ds35"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2522593221428423055.post-7588928839801331697"},"published":{"$t":"2012-09-28T05:06:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-09-28T17:08:45.142-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weeklyreview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Weekly Review: Week 79"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ch3\u003eSLP Resource of the Week\u003c/h3\u003eOrganizing materials is a huge pain.  I think Jackie at Teal and Lime has come up with a perfect, compact way of \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.tealandlime.com/2011/07/flash-card-organization/\"\u003eorganizing card decks\u003c/a\u003e.  She uses index card holders in a tray.  Click on the link and take a look.  It is adorable.  If you're using full-size, commercial decks, you'd fit one deck per index card holder.  If you're using \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/p/downloadprint-free-speech-articulation.html\"\u003emy free decks\u003c/a\u003e, you could probably fit all the decks that go with a particular phoneme in a single index card container.  I would probably take the step of labeling the top of each index card holder with the phoneme of the cards inside so I could grab the one I want in an instant.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAva this Week\u003c/h3\u003eI believe I've already mentioned \u003ca href\u003d\"http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/09/pneumonia-is-contagious-imagine-that.html\"\u003epneumonia 2.0\u003c/a\u003e.  What impressed me most about my little girl this week is how she just doesn't let much get her down.  Even through five straight days of 102.5ish fever she still woke up at her usual time, played (in a low-key manner), and was relatively cheerful.  She was handling it so well we didn't even give her a fever reducer most of the time.  I need to keep her fortitude in mind the next time I'm trying to decide if she's \"sick enough\" to make a pediatrician appointment.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Michael\u003c/h3\u003eMichael:  \"Mama, there's a girl at school and Guess What?!?, she wants to marry me.\"\u003cbr /\u003eMe (thinking-not saying):  You've got to be kidding me!  It's preschool!\u003cbr /\u003eMe:  \"That's nice sweetheart.  Maybe when you're grown up.  What's her name?\"\u003cbr /\u003eMichael:  \"I don't know.\" \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly Weight Loss\u003c/h3\u003eThis week I'm down 3.2 pounds.  That's exactly the same as last week.  Everyone's got a unique set of genetic, dietary, medical history, exercise patterns, etc, but here's the evidence for me.  I used a strict calorie-in/calorie-out method of dieting for 11 weeks and lost 9.5 pounds (0.86/week).  Then I eliminated carbs from my diet.  I eat as much as I'm hungry for, as long as it isn't carbs.  (Ok, there are a few here and there in veggies, but not much.)  I've been eating low carbs for 2.5 weeks and I've lost 7.9 pounds (3.16/week).  That's a pretty dramatic difference.  For whatever reason, drastically reducing carbs in my diet works really well for me.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWeekly All Consuming Obsession\u003c/h3\u003eI have been working every spare minute on getting the books ready for opening the store next week.  My mother generously offered to watch the kids \u003cstrike\u003ea little bit\u003c/strike\u003e a lot of extra time and my husband is helping out with \u003cstrike\u003esome of\u003c/strike\u003e a lot of the technical coding.  The pieces are coming together.  My proofreaders were amazing.  It looks like the store will go up sometime next week and will have two books available at opening: /s/ and /s/-Blends.  Once I take a break, I'll be working on adding more books regularly. (One a month or perhaps one every two months?  These things take a lot of time to put together.)"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/feeds/7588928839801331697/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-weekly-review-week-79.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/7588928839801331697"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://www.blogger.com/feeds/2522593221428423055/posts/default/7588928839801331697"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-weekly-review-week-79.html","title":"The Weekly Review: Week 79"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dala"},"uri":{"$t":"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09390391982768152147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"35","height":"35","src":"//lh3.googleusercontent.com/zFdxGE77vvD2w5xHy6jkVuElKv-U9_9qLkRYK8OnbDeJPtjSZ82UPq5w6hJ-SA\u003ds35"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});