Wow...

I started this blog on the 1st of August.
In just over 2 months we now have...

978+ Page views

We have readers from 10 countries

United States 870 Canada 32 United Kingdom 6 Russia 6 Australia 5 Germany 5 Ireland 3 Israel 3 France 2 Greece 1

And I've made 10 posts! 


Thank you to everyone that takes the time to read our blog. I thank the community of A4cwsn for helping to spread the word! I look forward to watching it all grow!!

Mobile Education Store

Mobile Education Store is a huge supporter or Apps For Children with Special Needs (www.a4cwsn.com). They are an app developer with many apps aimed at helping children develop skills in the areas of speaking and writing. It is designed to help special needs children and those on the autism spectrum. However there is no reason it wouldn't also be beneficial to neuro typical children. So let me break it down for ya. I credit A4cwsn for reviews and app descriptions. For video demos of the apps and full reviews please check out the links after each one on the Apps For Children with Special Needs website! Most apps are in the $2.99-$5.99 range and geared towards but not exclusively for special needs children. Please check out MobileEd's apps and spread the word to your friends. They do amazing things and their generosity towards A4cwsn knows no bounds! Thank you Gary James and Mobile Education for doing what you do for our very special kiddos! Now, share this blog post to anyone and everyone. Facebook, Twitter, Cafemom, if it'll let you share this do it! lol Now back to my PTO stuff, Open House is tomorrow! Eeeek!

Conversation Builder:

ConversationBuilder™ (Pat. Pend.) is for elemetary aged children to help them have multi-level conversations with their peers in social settings. For a full description, reviews, and a video demo here is the link to A4cwsn  a great place to get information on apps! 

http://a4cwsn.com/2011/04/conversation-builder/

 Language Builder:

Language Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create grammatically correct sentences. View video demo and complete description by A4cwsn here. http://a4cwsn.com/?p=2115

 Question Builder

Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. View video demo and complete description  by A4cwsn here. http://a4cwsn.com/?p=2185

 Sentence Builder

Sentence Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. View video demo and complete description by A4cwsn here. http://a4cwsn.com/?p=137

 Story Builder

Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference. View video demo and complete description by A4cwsn here. http://a4cwsn.com/?p=131

 Speech Journal

Speech Journal is a customizable voice recorder that you pair recorded messages with your own imported images and image sequences. View video demo and complete description by A4cwn here. http://a4cwsn.com/2011/08/speech-journal/

Check out all of them together HERE! http://a4cwsn.com/mobile-education-store/

Legos, not just for building things!

I know I know I know, it's been too long since I've posted. Back to school has been crazy. I thought once I had all three kids in school I'd have some free time, but oh no! Let's just say our flexible spending account is looking like Paris Hilton on a shopping spree. Oy vey. Yes this has NOTHING to do with Legos.

So, I was cleaning on Friday and it was nice so I had the curtains and windows open letting the fresh air in. For ONCE it wasn't too hot and before long it will be too cold. Yes, I know STILL not talking about Legos. Well, because I had the curtains open (normally have them closed to keep the heat out) I noticed, geesh those windows are nasty! Between the dogs and Shelby they never stood a chance. So, I know that it is going to take some serious scrubbing and scraping to get that crap off, but I couldn't find my straight blade. Then I spotted it, a bright orange Lego on the floor! Aha! Flat edge, but not dangerous to leave around like a straight blade, well not dangerous to children anyways. I'm sure many of us has stepped on one of those suckers at the wrong time! And wouldn't you know, sprayed that window down, scraped my Lego, and presto chango, clean windows. I was so stinkin' thrilled with myself for thinking of that I wanted to say go you, but nobody was around for me to brag to, hence the blog post. And you know what? It's about time those suckers started earning their keep, I might think twice before throwing the next one I step on away!

Planned upcoming blog posts (to hold me accountable)....
1) Doctors, blood draws,IEP's, OH MY!
2)Organized Chaos

I've posted before and I'll keep posting about it until everyone in the world knows and loves Apps For Children with Special Needs. Please go to http://www.a4cwsn.com and look into supporting the campaign to get 50 ipads/ in 50 states/ for 50 special needs children!

Favorite app of the week: Injini!!! Yes it is a pricey app but SOOOOOOOOOOO worth it. It's like a dozen apps in one with more add ons promised to come. They now have a lite version so you can try it out before purchasing! Read more about it through A4cwsn!

And now a new "Shelbified" pic....No I did not give my dog highlights, that would be my lip gloss.