May Box Reveal...

It's time to take a peek inside my May box to see what types of things I have collected for this month and for my session strategies.

I started this series last month with the reveal of things that I have stored in my April box, and since it is the first of May, it is time to show you what I have in my May box.

I think you may discern a theme here...

My May box is one of my favorites because it means the end of the "regular" school year, my birthday month, a break before summer session, and, of course, May the Fourth! As I am sure you can imagine, I have all sorts of things that I include in my May session strategies that include some sort of reference to the splendiferousness of Star Wars! Most of those things are not in my box. I am going to be adding some things to this box for next May - some small board games, a CD of specific music to use during the week of May the Fourth, and some laminated direction sheets for the R2-D2 robot that goes to visit every year!

The rest of the box is just blah compared to Star Wars week. Sigh.

Kidding. There is plenty included in this box that offers me lots of options for my session strategies and for my varied clientele.

There are file folders that I have developed over the years - some of them are so old that I covered them with contact paper back in the day before I had the best tool for me, EVER, my laminators. (Yep, I have more than one...) We cover schedule design, composition, songwriting, symbol to symbol recognition, games, and all sorts of sit down file foldery-type things to do with clients. I will eventually be making these into digital files as well as in my old-fashioned file folders, but I'm not quite there yet. 

In the meantime, thanks for watching this reveal of everything that I have managed to cram into my May box (so far - I am putting the mini flashlights in there after I finish using them next week!).




 

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