Social Stories: Don't Pay for Them!

Okay, SO....
I HATE to get on google thinking that I'm going to find something cool to use for my kids JUST to be taken to a website that requires my credit card info! Like...EW!

I don't understand the whole teachers-pay-teachers idea. Like, first of all, my butt is broke. Second of all, I can probably make whatever it is that you're charging $1.99 for --and do it BETTER! 

For anyone who gets overwhelmed and decides that they should just "invest" in this stuff, I hope you realize one day that you don't have to! 

There is a boy at my school who I LOVE! He is in the 4th grade and is not on my caseload. In the beginning of the year I had scheduled some lunch dates to work on social stuff with him and I'd always stop to chat with him around campus. Lately, I have been so booked that I rarely stop to have conversations with anyone. 

I recently invited this 4th grader to my classroom for some snacks and he declined. He let me know that he was sad at me for not spending time with him like I had before and that he did not want to speak with me at all. I tried to explain the situation but it was not getting us anywhere. I thought a social story would work better.

I went to my classroom and entered a million things into google only to find that people were charging for social stories as if they invented freakin' ice cream. I was like, "Mira, vato! I don't need your social stories that are probly hella dumb anywayzzzz!" And then I giggled to myself and wrote my own (IDK why I didn't do this in the first place). 

It's so easy, guys! Like, for realzzzzzz! I just wrote the story, googled a few pics that I liked and put it all together using Google Docs! THEN....I even turned it into a legit book by choosing the "booklet" option on my printer! OMG! Like, #yaaass

So next time you need a social story (or anything else) just get on your Google Drive, schedule a few minutes out and put your own personal style into it! Teachers all over the school are SO down for my work and I literally don't try that hard! I just use my big ol' noggin (It really is big. I need plastic surgery. Another reason why my $1.99 is not going to some dumb teacher who thinks that they're worth the same amount of money that I use to buy my Keeping Up with the Kardashians episodes on YouTube)! :)