Thursday & Friday

Yesterday I worked a while with Alex tracing her letters. She is still very shaky but tries very hard and is doing better. Then we played with blocks and practiced in/out, on top/under, beside/front/back, full/empty, etc. Emma is the one that really needs help with this. Alex is moving on to learning more complicated spatial terms in speech therapy... through, middle, etc. Then we spent some time pretending with blocks and Disney characters. I was Minnie, Alex was Mickey, and Emma was Daisy Duck. We built a house of blocks and spent some time doing make believe. That isn't my strong point and I think they miss out on that with Drew being gone. He is much better at the the fun silly stuff, but it is very important. We also practiced what does NOT belong in a group. When Emma hears, "Which one is not a block?" she only hears the block part. We are trying to learn what 'not' means. She didn't get it at first, but got much better with a little practice.
Today we spent the morning in Fayetteville and the afternoon taking Dad to doctor appointments in Rogers and Gentry. In the car we spent some time with speech worksheets to practice what does NOT belong. This one was actually Alex's homework from speech because it was more complicated groups. Not 3 of the same thing and one that was different, but 3 that belonged to one group and one that didn't. For example... 3 pieces of fruit and 1 airplane. She had to notice that the airplane didn't belong. I just assume that they know this stuff, but they don't automatically. So we work on it. We are all 3 exhausted from our day out, so I don't imagine we will get much more homework in today.