Monday

No postings since last week because Drew was home for the weekend. This morning we did school work together before he left. We all sat in the floor and played games. The first game was a number game. There were cards spread in the floor and more in a pile. They had to pick a card with a number and find the card with the same number of dots. Then we played a few games of dominoes. Matching pictures, same/different, taking turns & fun. Then we matched upper case letters with lower case letters. They took turns drawing a card with an uppercase letter and had to find the corresponding lower case letter. Since there are 26 letters they begin losing attention toward the end, but both did very well. Improving every time. Emma especially impressed me with being about to make the matches. If she couldn't find a match then we would pull 3 or 4 choices out and she almost always chose the right one. Having too many choices made it difficult at times. They really did great with this.
This afternoon we spent a little bit of time on speech homework. Emma is working on putting the 's' at the beginning of words. Example. She says 'wimming' instead of 'swimming'. We worked on that for a while. Also on the 'y' sound. Example. She sometimes says 'oh-oh' instead of 'yo-yo'. That is also getting better. For Alex we worked on cause and effect. Example. If you play in the mud you have to ____ (take a bath).
Tomorrow afternoon is therapy. The only day this week because of staff training. The rest of the week we will be available for fun stuff and school work.