tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63190004000508435572024-01-28T01:02:00.200-08:00Making the Most of TodayTwilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.comBlogger729125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-89107836541631337572014-05-30T22:46:00.001-07:002014-05-31T07:45:11.915-07:00Number Recognition (phone post)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been a long time since the last posting and truthfully, I don't know when I'll be able to get back for the next update, but I had to share this with everyone..,<br />
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Today Vada and I spent a little over an hour going through the numbers 1-5. We used several different objects that we had in our classroom and grouped each number separately as their own individual lesson. </div>
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Vada is awesome at sign language. She knows more than we do, which is funny because am the one teaching her the signs. However, I do have to give props to Rachael from Sign Time because obviously Vada is picking up tons from her shows as well! Because Vada uses more signs than verbal language her abilities can be easily underestimated, not just by those who don't know her, but us as her parents as well because there is a slight language barrier. Today I quizzed Vada on her number knowledge and she blew me away! While she acted bored and not overly interested in what were doing at times, she clearly was paying attention. And I realized that I need to step it up a notch (or two) in our next numbers activity!</div>
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Check out the below video see Vada showing off her number knowledge...<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blessings,
T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-62526900428567290372013-09-29T14:52:00.002-07:002013-09-29T15:08:35.293-07:00Saying Good-Bye to the Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I feel so blessed to have this life that I am living. I mean that whole heartily and while that may sound as if I am trying to convince myself more than I am trying to convince all of you, you can rest assured that I am actually not trying to do either of the two, I am simply stating how grateful I am and that is the main purpose for this post. </div>
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I have put a lot of time and effort into Making the Most of Today. The blog has almost become a part of who I am, in ways. Its important to me. I initially started it to keep everyone updated on Vada's and my medical issues while I was pregnant with her and then I continued with the blog after she was born. I often wrote about our hospital experiences and I always tried to write from my heart as I wanted others to take some knowledge away from what they were reading. Most of all I wanted everyone to see what a blessing Vada was, that this sweet little girl whom God had entrusted to our family was not a burden but a miracle. So many people say that God wont give you what you cant handle or God only chooses those to have the children with special needs who are <i>capable</i> of raising those children. I have come to believe that this isn't always the case. God does however have a purpose for each and every child that He creates and I believe that He created Vada for us and us for her. I wanted people to see <i>that</i> in this blog.<br />
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As time past and Vada grew healthier we as a family could breath normal breaths again. We could look into the future with more certainty and hope and we all began to live our lives a little more. Talk of early intervention for Vada was on the top of our conversation list and as most of you know,<i> that</i> option just didn't feel like the right path for our family to take with Vada and so we choose to homeschool her and here we are today with a blog all about our homeschooling and what we do with our three and a half year old princess who happens to have Down syndrome.<br />
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I have been asking myself and talking with my husband for some time about this subject, <i>why do I do this? Why do I continue to blog?</i><br />
Is it that I feel so strongly about the capabilities that individuals with Down syndrome possess, that I hope to inspire others to feel this same way? Well, yes, but I don't actually believe that I alone am not making that much of a difference just by sharing what Vada and I am doing in our homeschool classroom. To completely honest, I don't think that many people will understand how awesome it is to have someone as a friend or family member with Down syndrome until you actually have a friend or family member with Down syndrome.<br />
Homeschooling in general is important to me as well but do I write this blog because I want others to homeschool their children with Down syndrome? <i>Heck yeah! Homeschool all of your children! </i>But that's not really why I am writing the blog. I believe that homeschooling has its place and while I think it is a wonderful option, I also know that it is not for every family or child. One reason that I share what Vada and I do in our homeschool classroom is so that others can get ideas from me. I love looking at other homeschool blogs and finding new ideas through them, to do with Vada, and I hope to do the same for others. The thought of inspiring others inspires me to be more creative!<br />
One main factor to my blogging (and I wouldn't have to look too deep inside to find this), is that I am looking for others acceptance and approval. Im not an overly accomplished person at least not in the eyes of many and so the numbers of views and the comments and emails that came from this blog became comforting and almost uplifting and then kind of obsessive, in a silly immature school girl type of way. That's when I began to realize that I may be doing this for all of the wrong reasons.<br />
On top of all of this, each post I write, takes a great deal of time from me. This time I could be cleaning my house, helping my children study, exercising, reading a book, preparing for classes, doing a Bible study and so on.<br />
When it comes down to it, I really wanted to inspire others with this blog and somewhere along the way I kind of lost sight of something really important. The people who I want to inspire the most, who I want to make proud of me and who I want approval from are right here under my roof and in my family. They are my close friends and members of my church. They already know how awesome Vada and my other girls are. They know the great man, father and husband that I have and they know that I work hard and sometimes that I screw up but also that I always get on track. While I appreciate all of your comments and emails, all of your support and kind words I need to step back and focus on whats really important. I need to make God and my family first again and work on making them the focus of my getting their approval, appreciation and admiration.<br />
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Time goes by too quickly. If we waste what we have today we may not have tomorrow to get it back and so it's today that I say good bye to Making the Most of Today so that I can focus more on what I do have today, my family.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blessings,
T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-66934518424885060472013-09-20T20:53:00.000-07:002013-09-20T20:53:40.298-07:00A Rainbow-rific Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i> This post is actually a day late. Our internet has been all wigged out and I was unable to post it on time. </i></div>
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On many posts I have shared Vada working on different color recognition coloring books. I've never followed up on what we do with these books and recently I have had a couple of emails from curious parents wondering what we do with the books after Vada colors in them...</div>
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I save them. I laminate them all, place little rings in them to keep them connected and we keep them by the rocking chair in Vada's room where I read to her before her nap and bedtime and where she has easy access to them.</div>
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Today Vada and I read through her color recognition book once all of the way through and then on the second time around we matched the colors on the pages to the colors on Elmer the stuffed elephant.</div>
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We followed that activity up with an Elmer's book.</div>
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And continued to do some more color recognition activities with this gear puzzle from Melissa and Doug. </div>
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We did more color sorting with the Farmer's Market set from Learning Resources. She seemed to have a hard time with this certain activity the other day. I am having a hard time knowing if it comes from not knowing the actual colors, not paying attention or being bored. So I thought that we should try again, at least once more this week.</div>
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She did great with this when she was focused but she <i>really</i> had to pay attention. Again, it was hard to tell if it was just luck when she was getting it correct so I brought out the crayon color sorters again as well. She really likes those and I figured repetition of a good thing never hurts.</div>
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The same thing went with this color sorting activity. <i>Was it by chance or was it on purpose? Hmm...?</i></div>
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Vada and I did two<i> interesting</i> coloring worksheets. I say interesting because it was hard for Vada, yet I really wanted to have her finish the activity, yet I wasn't for sure if it was age appropriate and should press it. It turns out that we did two of the worksheets. The uppercase 'E' and the lowercase 'e' worksheets. They had Large, medium and small sizes for each upper and lowercase letter and for each size you were suppose to color each a different color. It was difficult and took a great deal of restraint on Vada's behalf but with my help and guidance, she did do it. She yelled at me a bit, she got frusterated a little but she completed the pages and I was proud of her but I did question myself...should I have stopped the lesson when she got frustrated? or what it good to push her a little even though she wasn't pleased about it? Seriously...Im looking for opinions and advice here...what do you think?</div>
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While Vada did put up a stink about coloring the upper and lowercase 'Ee's, she was all for writing practice, We used an orange dry erase marker for our hand over hand practice writing but Vada used a purple marker on her own. If you haven't already figured it out, I chose these two colors because they are are our colors of the week.</div>
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Vada's grasp <i>does</i> seem better with the mini markers. <i>Thanks Christy, your awesome!</i></div>
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Check out Vada's horizontal line attempts! Not bad for a three and a half year old, ehh?</div>
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Notice the little 'v' as well...</div>
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Now check out this uppercase 'V'. Pure accident? Probably, but I am telling myself that there was some effort put into this letter 'V'.</div>
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I asked Vada to connect the "big E to the little e" and look what she did! All on her own! With NO, assistance or guidance from me! She is awesome, right? This is great, right?!? Oh my gosh, I am just smitten with this little girl!</div>
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Since I used the last activity as a counting activity (as well other things) I also used it as a sort of transition activity. We went from the puzzle onto the number one TouchMath flash card and counting single object activities.</div>
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After doing everything we did in our last activity yesterday, I added another step. It was simple but added more counting. I had Vada put each object, one at a time, into the cup. As Vada added objects into the cup I would count them, "One orange Numicon, One gray cat, one purple cup", and so one. I just wanted to highlight on the fact that we were focusing on <i>one</i>.</div>
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After Vada put everything into the cup I brought out the book that we worked on the previous day and we read through it then began coloring more in it.</div>
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We spent half of our morning in our local public library today looking for letter 'E' books and left with a whole stack of Elmer the Elephant books! </div>
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I was hoping to find at least one Elmer book so that Vada would be able to relate the Elephant to his character. I was surprised to have found this many!</div>
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Once we got home from the library it was time for lunch and then Vada was very tired so I laid her down for a nap. It wasn't until this evening when my older two girlies were at church for their weekly youth groups that Vada and I went into the classroom.</div>
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We only had a little over an hour, so we couldn't do a full days worth of activities but I wanted to get in somethings today. I always feel so guilty when we miss school time. Vada and I have such a good time, she gains so much from it and well, its my job. </div>
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Yesterday Vada's occupational therapist (Christy) made a comment on one of my recent blog posts. (I love that she follows along and offers me advice, she rocks!) She said that I should look into getting mini dry erase markers for Vada to use for writing practice. So I went out and found some. At first glance I thought the markers just looked shorter. I had the packs of mini's in my hand but actually rehung them on their hooks and almost didn't buy them because I didn't <i>get </i>what the big deal was about them. I was half way out of the store when I decided to compare them to a regular sized dry erase marker (duh!), so I turned back around and did just that and guess what, they were smaller. Christy didn't just recommend the mini's because they are shorter but because they are smaller in every way and would fit into Vada's small hands better. In the words of my teenager "she's so smarticle!"</div>
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We used Vada's new mini dry erase markers on a letter 'Ee' pre-hand writing worksheet.</div>
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We then used it on the Pre-Writing Practice worksheets that also came from our LOTW, letter 'E' binder.</div>
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Check out those <i>almost</i> number ones!</div>
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Vada finished her color recognition 'Ee' is for Elephant book, from <a href="http://3dinosaurs.com/">3Dinosaurs.com</a>.</div>
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I will say this about these coloring pages and Vada's work efforts. I think that she was just not into it. Look at these scribbles. They are the same and she doesn't really color like this when she is trying and yet the coloring is almost exactly the same on each page. It was like Vada was saying "fine", <i>scribble,</i> <i>scribble</i>..."here, now I'm all done. Can we please move on!"</div>
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Earlier today, after the library and right before Vada took her nap we read a couple of the Elmer books that we borrowed from the library. One of the books was Elmer's Special Day. It was about the day that all of the other elephants paint themselves in beautiful colors and Elmer makes himself look like a <i>regular</i> grey elephant. Anyway, it made me think of decorating our own elephant. I got onto google images and found a perfect Elmer printable page. I made two copies. Today we made our own Elmer, later we will decorate the second elephant in a more creative way.</div>
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I gave Vada a glue stick and told her what I wanted her to do with it. <i>Elmer</i> needed to be fully covered in paste.</div>
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I then began to hand Vada 1x1 pre cut squares of different colors of tissue paper and asked Vada to push them onto <i>Elmer</i>.</div>
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Eventually, the whole elephant was covered with tissue paper. We then took out the scissors and together Vada and I cut Elmer out.</div>
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Some areas, like around the mouth and around the feet were too difficult for Vada and I to cut out together so I did that and after everything was cut I took a black marker and re-drew Elmer's features so that it resembled a elephant. After I added the features Vada and I added a dot of Elmer's glue and she pushed on a googly eye.</div>
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Tonight, before bed, I read another Elmer the elephant book to Vada. My daughter Jasmine took this picture and I had to share it because we snuggling with the blanket that my grandmother made for her, Vada is so sleepy and I just think it's precious.</div>
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Today we started letter 'E'!<i>This curriculum comes from a whole alphabet kit called "<a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">Letter of the Week</a>" and I purchased through <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>. </i></div>
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It's almost like starting a whole new curriculum because from here on out these letters are new to Vada and I. However, the work inside of these binders are pretty similar to every other binder so its not too new but its still exciting to be making progress!</div>
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Our memory verse this week comes from the book of Proverbs 20:11, <i>Even a child is known by His doings.</i></div>
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We also got to read and look at a new page from our Big Thoughts For Little People book. </div>
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<i>"E is for everyone. God loves us all. The black and the white and the short and the tall."</i></div>
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I really enjoy reading these pages along with the LOTW curriculum to Vada. However, this specific poem made me pause for a second. I have friends who don't like to be referred to as being black and I also have friends who are Caucasian and don't like being called white. Neither preference is insignificant, they both have their own reasons behind their own preferences. This poem made me wonder even as the Christians that they are, would they be turned off from this book because of this poem even though this book is clearly geared more for followers of Christ. Clearly our skin colors vary in tones and are more than just a simple name or title to a large category of tints and shades...and <i>there</i> was where I solved my own personal question... this poem and the usage of "black and white" described a persons skin color in two large lump sums. I had to go back to my elementary art classes where I learned about colors and where I was taught that 'black' and 'white' were not considered <i>colors</i> but a shade and a tint. This poem is just saying that God loves everyone no matter what their skin color is.<br />
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For me, Im kind of pinkish but I prefer to just be called "white". Tonight, right before I wrote that last sentence, I looked up from my laptop and asked my husband "what color is my skin?", I was hoping he would give me some details but he just went with "White". Yep, I'm white and God loves me regardless.<br />
Sometimes, I think that I just worry too much about other people and sometimes I think that I just think or read too much into things!</div>
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'E' is for elephant and since we already had an Elmer the elephant, I thought that we would use him as this weeks mascot.</div>
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After some one on one time with Elmer Vada began coloring her color recognition pages for her letter 'E' book that came from <a href="http://3dinosaurs.com/">3Dinosaurs.com</a>. </div>
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There were quit a lot of color pages to do, no more than normal but we were having a lot of loud noise coming from the outside construction and Vada was having a hard time staying focused on coloring. So we cut this activity short for today and will finish the remaining pages tomorrow.</div>
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Next we worked on some puzzles. I think this one actually came from Wal-Mart and quite some time ago but I chose it because it had a elephant on it and 'E' is for elephant! Vada and I worked on this puzzle three times in a row together.</div>
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We also did an alphabet puzzle. I had Vada take all of the pieces out one by one and as she did I said what the letter was. Then I had her point to what piece she wanted to fill. Each spot had a picture of an object that began with what ever letter that happened to fit into it. So I would say something like "That's an apple. Apple starts with the letter 'A'. The 'A' says <i>ahhh</i>.". This is the way we did the whole puzzle! </div>
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As I am looking at this next photo I think it's kind of funny how I could of read both of these for letter 'A'. However, I chose these two books as starter books and before we went to the library because they both had elephants in them. <i>Just staying with the theme.</i></div>
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Vada cuddled with Elmer, ate her snack while listening attentively to the two stories.</div>
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Before snack time I asked Vada to pick out two different colors of bowls to put our animal crackers in. She chose purple and orange. Those are going to be the two colors that we will be focusing on this week. I brought out those two colors of baskets from our Farmer's Market game and had Vada attempt to sort out the fruit and vegetables. </div>
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She did alright with the Farmer's Market color sorting activity but she didn't want to put much focus into what she was doing (it wasn't fun or interesting enough today). After her first full attempt we moved on.</div>
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I figured since we had these two colors in our crayon sorters and hadn't used them yet, now would be a good time. </div>
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She really likes the mystery of <i>what's inside</i> so this <i>did</i> keep her attention.</div>
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I started with the orange crayon and then we moved onto the purple. We kept all of the colored objects separated by their colors until the very end and then I mixed them up. </div>
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One by one I handed her an object. I named the object, "this is the big fish". Then I named the color, "this fish is purple". I would then ask her to put the object into the appropriate crayon container, "Vada, will you put the big purple fish into the purple crayon container". She did much better with this activity than she did with the Farmer's Market activity. We will do both of these again at least once, of not more, throughout the week.</div>
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We started working on single number recognition today. I brought out many visual stimulants for Vada today. Awhile ago we purchased <a href="http://www.touchmath.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=prek.products&CATID=94&Pid=170">TouchMath Texture Cards</a> as well as <a href="http://www.touchmath.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=prek.products&CATID=94&Pid=169">TouchMath 3-D Numerals</a>, these two things came in very handy today and were the first to be introduced to Vada for our 'number one' lesson. (We will be focusing on zero some as we go through the numbers but mainly after we have completed number nine.)</div>
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Another great thing we used today was the number peg board, this actually came in a set which was purchased from <a href="http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=15915&keyword=number%20peg%20boards&scategoryid=0&CategorySearch=&Brand=&Price=">Discount School Supplies</a>.</div>
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After we examined the flashcards, the TouchPoint numeral and put the one peg into its place on the peg board I brought out many different objects to count. Some of these counting objects were specific to math, like the disk, the ring and the <a href="http://store.dseusa.org/collections/numicon/numicon-kits">Numicon</a>, others were just random toys and every day objects. </div>
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Once we were done counting all of our objects we moved on to a numbers workbook that I ordered last year before our classroom was even complete! This was kind of an accidental order (you can purchase a individual set or a classroom set). I did mean to order the books but I meant to order the individual set. So now I have like fifteen of each, <i>or</i> something like that! </div>
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Anyway, the booklets came from <a href="http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/CKMN/GSS">Handwriting Without Tears</a> and I figure that this large quantity is a benefit to us. We can go over the number books as much as we need to. I don't need to do any extra copying and Vada will get lots of practice!</div>
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Today, we went through the whole booklet, its pretty short, and traced all of the number one's and then we began to go back through and look closer at the pictures and color them. Tomorrow, we will spend more time coloring the pages and counting the pictures and then on Thursday we will start on a new packet but on number one again. Hopefully, her tracing skills will be slightly improved and maybe even her pointing/counting skills as well. That's my goal for her, for now.</div>
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We added the upper and lowercase letter 'Ee's to our Alphabet Center and sang the alphabet song three times today! </div>
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Vada is very good at letting me be first at singing the song now. She waits patiently and follows along with the pointer and then when it is her turn she seems to get a ton of letters correct when I am singing the song for her, I am uncertain if this is by chance or not but I have noticed it many times and with the same letters, so I am thinking that things are clicking for her! </div>
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Were are going to just continue with what were doing. Im not going to stop and try to quiz her and see what she knows and what she doesn't. I am going to keep doing what works, step it up a notch here and there where I see fitting for her and go with her pace. I think, as her mom and teacher, that she is making great strides and I am so pleased to be able to home with her and to be teaching her. In return, she is also teaching me!</div>
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I decided that we would only work on letter 'D' for two days, this being our second and last day. Vada seems to be able to recognize the letter 'D' and she knows how to make it's sound. So for now, we are ready to move on.</div>
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Today we started with writing practice! I just love writing practice! Vada is not fond of the hand over hand method that we use in the beginning and sometimes puts up a stink but I thoroughly enjoy watching her concentrate afterward. I like seeing the progress that she makes each and every lesson that we do. She is so determined. It's great. These worksheets below cam from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a homeschooler</a>, <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">Letter of the Week curriculum</a>.</div>
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Because Vada was so successful with the letter matching <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-dino-mite-day.html">yesterday</a> I thought that we really needed to continue to focus on this activity and more than just once a week. I think that the LOTW curriculum calls for it to be done once a week (I don't have it in front of me to check and see) but I think that I may throw it it two to three times a week, unless it seems to become boring to Vada.</div>
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To stay with the green theme, I pulled out this dollar Crayola puzzle. I mostly did it myself but I did have help from Vada. Vada turned all of the pieces over so that the photo side was correctly facing up, she also handed me the pieces and then when it was time to clean up she picked up all of the pieces and put them into the box.</div>
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Before we put the puzzle away, we did talk about all of the green objects on the puzzle. We did all of the signs that we knew, sounds that we could think of to go with the objects and then I asked Vada to find certain things for me.</div>
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I choose this puzzle because it had a dinosaur on it and this is where the green theme came from! I pointed out the dinosaur specifically to Vada and said "Look Vada, a dinosaur! 'D' is for dinosaur and 'D' is our letter today!"</div>
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I then pointed out the green crayon. It was perfect for our next activity.</div>
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Learning Resources and this great color recognition game where each crayon is filled with corresponding colored items. Vada loves the Alphabet Soup Cans and the 1-10 Counting Cans, so I knew that these would be a perfect addition to our classroom and for her learning style.</div>
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This crayon had a vine and a bug, celery, grapes, a Christmas tree, frog and a grasshopper!</div>
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This game is intended to be a tactile and matching game. We used it as that today and only highlighted a <i>little</i> on the "D" aspect of it when we found Ruff in the mix of the bones in his dog house.</div>
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We also brought out our Alphabet Soup can for letter 'D' and discovered what was inside of this can.</div>
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After bath time, while I got Vada ready for bed, all of us sat down and watched a couple videos from this DVD.</div>
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And then (because we always read at least one story before naps and bedtime) we read a story from this book. And that was our final day of letter 'D'.</div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-52591869807231712792013-09-15T19:35:00.000-07:002013-09-15T19:35:21.293-07:00A Dino-Mite Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today we finished our patriotic theme, this was actually our Fourth of July packets and worksheets. We began with a matching sheet from Overthebigmoon.com. Vada shocked me with her matching skills, I just hadn't realized she could do this yet but she showed me!</div>
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I have fallen behind on posting our days activities (go figure!) but I did record Vada doing this matching activity and posted it the day of, you can <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/vada-matching-during-school.html">click here</a> and <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/vada-matching-pt2_11.html">here</a> to watch both video's, if you haven't already seen them.</div>
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We then did some puzzles. These are difficult for Vada to do but with more practice she will get the hand of it again. These past couple of weeks and through the last couple of letters we haven't been sticking to the "<a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">LOTW</a>" curriculum entirely, since we have just been doing a refreshing course through them. Next week we will begin new letters and we will be doing most of the activities in each binder for each letter.</div>
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When I told Vada that we were "all done", she was <i>so </i>happy! She loves to be read to and she loves books but these activities, the harder ones, well they're hard and it takes a lot from her.</div>
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"Catch" begins with the letter '<b>C</b>', so we decided to have some fun <i>catching</i> fish!</div>
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This is a very good attention and control game. It is also quite difficult to catch those little boogers! I caught ten and Vada alone could not get any bites but she didn't get discouraged! After trying for a very long time we decided to move onto another activity but not until we picked up our mess here. Together we counted the fish that were caught and then Vada put them back into their little slots. </div>
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"<b>C</b>ookies" begin with the letter '<b>C</b>' and so we "<b>c</b>ounted" the "<b>C</b>hocolate<b> C</b>hips" on the "cookies" for a fun math lesson.</div>
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Once we had counted all of the chips on the cookies I pushed them all into a pile in front of Vada and asked her to flip them over so that we could see the numbers on the back side and then I put them in order, in front of her.</div>
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We counted them one time all of the way through and then counted them as Vada took them one by one and put them back into the cookie jar.</div>
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We also played with the ABC Cookies. For this activity we kept it simple and just did letter recognition and singing for each letter.</div>
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"Colors" also begins with the letter 'C' and so we played with this fun Elmo toy that teaches red, orange, yellow, green and blue and then numbers one through five. "Elmo" asks you to find the colors, or the numbers and then you have to push the correct buttons. "Elmo" will also ask you to count the crayons that are lit up and to then push the number, so counting is required. It is fun and simple but it challenges Vada to listen and to work on her color recognition as well as her counting and number knowledge. </div>
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We worked on letter 'C' all week, longer than any of the other letters that we were going back over. I really wanted to hear Vada make that 'C' sound but as much as she made sounds when asked "What does the 'C' say?", she wasn't quite getting the correct sound out. Last Fall she had this sound, so I know it is possible and I know that it'll come again so I decided to move on to our last letter that we needed to go back over before beginning new ones. I'm excited to move on to some new letters.<br />
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Our next letter was letter 'D'. 'D' is for dinosaur.<br />
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We began with some very simple handwriting practice on the upper and lowercase letter 'D's.</div>
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Followed by some pom pom magnet 'D' is for dinosaur page.</div>
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And then Vada "WOWed" me with her skills during this uppercase and lowercase letter matching activity. She was amazing! I mentioned earlier that I have fallen behind on posting but I happen to have recorded Vada during these activities and I shared them the day of. If you haven't already watched the videos you can do so <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/vada-matching-lowercase-letters.html">here with the lowercase</a> video and <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/vada-matching-uppercase-letters.html">here with the uppercase video</a>.</div>
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Last Fall when we were working on letter 'D' we did all kinds of fun things! We dug for dinosaur bones, had fossil cookies and even made<a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/05/digging-for-dinosaurs.html"> our own dinosaur fossil</a>. I set the <i>fossil</i> aside to dry and it was forgotten. Today I brought it back out and let Vada paint it.</div>
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Vada is working on the uppercase letters sheet from letter 'D' of the "Letter of the Week" curriculum (created by Confessions of a Homeschooler).</div>
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Vada did this uppercase worksheet a total of three times (that is including the time in this video) in the last two days. She also worked on this worksheet <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/05/d-is-for-dinosaur.html">last Fall</a>, only last Fall I am the one who did most of the matching. Prior to this video Vada did the matching almost instantly and just blew me away! I was shocked! She hadn't done this yesterday, so I didn't know that she could do it let alone all of the letters. We had done our school time at night today and so Jasmine (my oldest daughter) was here and I called for her to come and film Vada doing the letter matching for me. Vada was pretty distracted with her hang nail and her sister being in the room but she did the work on the page and if you continue on to <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/vada-matching-lowercase-letters.html">the lowercase matching video</a> you will see that Vada <i>really</i> knows what she is doing!</div>
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Working on lowercase letters from the "Letter of the Week" curriculum (created by Confessions of a Homeschooler). This is the first time that she has worked on this lowercase letter 'd' worksheet since last Fall!</div>
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Today we read about our National Anthem from our Patricia Pringy board book collection and this Little Golden Book called 'Our Flag'. </div>
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I'm not for sure what other homeschool classrooms look like. I know that they vary in appearances but I am referring to their actual schedules and structures. I often wonder what is important to other American homeschooler's and what is not. I often wonder if I am <i>too</i> structured but then I look at my child's success and I figure that what I am doing with her <i>is</i> working, so I stick with it. I want the Pledge of Allegiance to be something that Vada recognizes, something that she knows and eventually something that she will be able to recite each morning when we start our school day. Vada is a quiet girl when it comes to verbal words but she is getting more and more as time passes. As we are saying the Pledge of Allegiance each morning she knows to put her right hand over her heart and to look at the flag. It's pretty neat to see and for me it's hard to keep my eyes on the flag and not on her preciousness while reciting the actual Pledge but we get through it.</div>
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After reading the books on our flag I got our a coloring page that I "googled" through images and let Vada color her own flag. </div>
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I helped a little but only to show where the red went and where the blue went. We also had a small flag to look at and use as a reference as well.</div>
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After Vada felt that she had colored enough I brought out the loop scissors and together, hand over hand, we cut the flag out.</div>
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We moved onto some fine motor/sensory play with the blue homemade GAK that we made for when we rowed Blueberries for Sal. I took Vada's thumb splints off for this activity and if you pay close attention you can see where her thumbs go inward. I say this because I have had numerous questions about her thumb splints recently, which I love because I love to help. This is a great example of why she is wearing the splints...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a great photo of a "bad grasp". Look at her thumb and pointer. Her thumb is bent inward and is not holding the <i>jewel</i> in a pincer grasp. I probably should have just left the splints on for this activity, it wouldn't have hurt them.</td></tr>
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If you have noticed Vada's thumb splints and now think that maybe your child may benefit from them as well here is the information... They are <a href="http://www.mckiesplints.com/">McKie Splints</a> and their site is <a href="http://www.mckiesplints.com/">www.mckiesplints.com</a>. I have been told that to obtain these splints you will need to have a therapist order them for you.</div>
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I like to expose Vada to as many different textures as possible. <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2012/09/gak.html">This GAK</a> is a fun and "nasty" feeling sensory substance that is great for play and is easy to clean up.</div>
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Prewriting practicing has been <i>so</i> successful and Vada is all for doing it, so I have really been pushing it. For this time around, while working together, Vada and I used a<span style="color: red;"> red dry erase marker. </span>Vada used a <span style="color: blue;">blue dry erase marker</span> when practicing on her own. We used papers that I downloaded from <a href="http://www.overthemoon.com/">www.overthebigmoon.com</a> and then of course laminated.</div>
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Next we worked on noticing differences. I should have started with easiest first but I didn't. I actually started with sheets that were far more difficult than the second group. </div>
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Our next worksheets came from <a href="http://3dinosaurs.com/">3Dinosaurs.com</a> and was easier than the first sheets, however Vada was pretty much done with this activity so she didn't put as much effort into these pages as she did in the beginning.</div>
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To go along with what doesn't belong we did some worksheet on matching. Here I asked "where are the same pictures".</div>
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We answered the matches together using the dry erase marker in Vada's hand and my hand over her's.</div>
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Were still working on the letter 'C'. I'd really like to hear that "Cuh" sound again but it's a hard one and it seems as if Vada has forgotten it for now, so tomorrow will be out last day and then we will move on the letter 'D'.</div>
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We also worked on one more cutting exercise. </div>
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Like I already said, Vada is <i>really</i> working hard on <i>getting</i> the whole cutting concept. I always give her the scissors to handle for a minute to look at and to check out and then we cut together. If I were thinking today, I would have given her a typical pair of children's scissors verses the loop scissors to check out, but I <i>too</i> am a work in progress.</div>
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Today while working on <i>refreshing</i> our letter 'C' from the Letter of the Week curriculum, we worked on these fun Sesame Street alphabet flash cards. Vada loves Sesame Street!</div>
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We went through the <i>whole</i> deck and the whole alphabet, but stopped to <i>really</i> focus on the letter 'C' and the cookie.</div>
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Since we were already using something from Sesame Street, I thought that I would continue to work on the alphabet by using this cool Elmo toy. Vada received him as a gift during her second birthday and loved playing with him today. We spent a good half an hour going through the search / game mode today.</div>
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It was great for her listening skills too because she had to stop and listen as Elmo talked and asked for what he wanted her to find. I would then repeat what Elmo said, say that specific letter and then say the sound that that letter made and then I would find the block for Vada and she would put into Elmo's lap. On the next try she would have to remove that last block, listen to Elmo and then we would repeat all of the actions again.</div>
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I told you, Vada loves Sesame Street. More importantly, she favors Elmo and Cookie Monster, so when I find items that I can used for learning with these characters I get them. A few months ago I was shopping in Old Navy and I saw this Elmo bank and immediately thought 'fine motor'. Today, we used the bank for counting coins and as a fine motor activity. I know what your probably thinking, <i>months ago? </i>Well, We have used it before now but today I am sharing it with you because it goes right along with our other activities and <b>c</b>oin or <b>c</b>oins start with the letter 'C' and we are still working on that letter!</div>
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Typically, I focus on the main topics of our day and I don't go over our daily routine with every post because that would just be redundant. We do have a routine in the morning that we follow as well as one at the end of our day. It's funny how when our days slip away and I don't pay attention to the time I sometimes try to skip out on our end of the day routine. I feel guilty for thinking of doing it let alone admitting to thinking about it but Little Miss, never lets me anyway. She loves her routine and holds me to it!</div>
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First I use the pointer and sing the alphabet song while pointing to each letter of the alphabet while I sing it and then once I finish the song I start over and she uses the pointer.</div>
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This is also good practice for taking turns.</div>
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The final step in our end of the day routine is to read Kids Like Me Learn The ABC's. It's a board book and each page has a photo of a child who has Down syndrome. It's important to me that Vada has some things that are associated with Down syndrome. As she grows I want to be able to tell her that the children have Down syndrome <i>just like she does</i>. We don't plan to make a big deal out of one of her diagnosis' but we also don't plan to keep it a secret from her either. She really likes this book.</div>
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Pages 'K' and 'L' are Vada's favorites! She loves the baby holding the keys and every time we get to this point in the book Vada grabs the book from me and brings the book to her face and kisses both the girls. She loves them.</div>
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Another part of our routine is in the morning, we go over the weather and the season that we are currently in.</div>
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We go over the month we are in and all of the months of the year as well as the days of the week. We sing a song for the days of the week that sounds like the theme song from The Addam's Family. We talk about what day it is today, what day it was yesterday and what day it will be tomorrow and then we update our 'Days in Schools' and kind of talk about the addition factor that goes with that chart. We say the Pledge of Allegiance and then finally we go over our Bible verse or we read a story from the Bible and then we begin our day.</div>
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Once we have finished reading our alphabet book at the end of the day, Vada goes over to where she has hung up her book bag and grabs it. With help, she puts the bag onto her back and then we walk up the stairs together and go back into her room only to hang the book bag up in it's proper place once again.</div>
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After picking up Kiliegh from school, Vada, Kiliegh and I went to the library to get a couple of books. Some of the photo's on the worksheets that we are doing in class this week are unfamiliar to Vada, like the Statue of Liberty or the Liberty Bell. I thought if I got some books associated with those photos and we read about them she would be able to have something to link them to in her memory.</div>
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We found three books, they were geared towards children older than Vada and not quite what I was looking for because they weren't like the Patricia Pringy books but they were perfect in the aspect that they focused specifically on three of the major photo's on the worksheets that we have and they are also three important American monuments.</div>
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We were lucky to find three books by the same author, we found one on the Statue of Liberty, one on the Liberty Bell and one on the White House.</div>
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We also were <i>lucky</i> enough to find the yummy little cafe just outside of the Library where we sat for a little over an hour sipping, snacking, reading and enjoying each other's company.</div>
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After the library we all went to a local pet store to check out the fish. Kiliegh just got a Beta fish at her dad's house and wanted me to see what it looks like and was too excited to wait until we dropped her off. We were passing time until Jasmine got out of cheerleading practice so I figured this would be a fun was to pass some time.</div>
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There were all kinds of Beta's. Dont ask why I didnt take a picture of them, the whole reason we went there! We actually spent most of our time looking at the ferrets and watching them play! They are pretty cute! Every time I see them I think of that older movie, Kindergarten Cop, with Arnold big muscles in it... "It's not a tumor". </div>
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During the first three weeks of school I had let my girls ride their bikes to school. I thought it was good for them. Kiliegh's school is very close and Jasmine's is <i>not so much</i> but she is <i>almost</i> fourteen and I figured that she had a cell and it wouldn't <i>kill</i> her, <i>so again</i>, why not. Well, on a Friday during Vada's Kindermusik class, I had missed two calls. I had put my cell on silent, like I always do for those short forty-five minutes of <i>our time. </i>I got into our van after buckling up Vada and turned my ringer back on and checked to see that I had missed those two calls. The most recent call was from Kiliegh's stepmother, who never really calls, but shoots me a text message if she needs something, so I just listened to her voice mail, it began with "Please tell me it wasn't Jasmine...". That was all I heard because I then hung up from the voice mail and called her directly. See, her and I are on a pretty friendly basis, she had got an automated message from the school district (this was where my second missed call had come from) that said something in regards to two different girls that morning from two local Jr. High Schools had basically escaped an attempted abduction from two different men, one who was captured and one who was still on the loose.</div>
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Long story short, this all had nothing to do with either of my daughters other than one of the schools happen to be where one of my daughters were enrolled. I had actually drove my Jr. High student, Jasmine to school that morning and watched Kiliegh, ride her bike onto the school property that morning as well. I knew, without calling to check, that both of my girls were safe.<br />
After hearing this news, I knew that I would pick up Kiliegh from school that afternoon and my husband and I have decided that the girls are no longer going to riding their bikes to school.<br />
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More for Kiliegh than for Jasmine (my eldest) we watched this Stranger Safety DVD from <a href="http://www.thesafeside.com/products.html">The Safe Side</a>. It is geared more towards younger children or preteens than it is older teenagers but when you can watch television during the school week anything will do, so this kept Jasmine's attention as well as Kiliegh's who thought it was pretty funny.</div>
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On many levels the internet makes me SO paranoid. I would like to shield my children from it. Restrict them entirely from using it and in general get rid of most of their electronics but now I am just going to the extreme! I have talked with them about internet safety numerous times. I have explained the importance of it. While searching for the Stranger Safety DVD (above) I found that the same makes made this Internet Safety DVD as well. So I also ordered this one as well. </div>
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Vada is officially (today, 9-8-13) on seven days of no accidents in underwear! We have been celebrating like crazy! I looked for books to read to her about potty training but I have done things so differently with her that no book is quite right, so I haven't been able to get any. </div>
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I have however been able to find a couple of really great books on teeth brushing for her. Brushing Vada's teeth has always been a struggle. I have always done it but not without a fight. I thought that maybe if I could find a couple of her favorite characters in books brushing their teeth, then she may have an easier with the whole teeth brushing process. So far, it has helped a lot!</div>
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The best find is the Sesame Street book, which is one of Vada's favorite shows and it is a pop up book as well.</div>
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We get to count the monster's teeth. </div>
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We even get to brush one of the monster's teeth as well. Vada loves doing this! This is a book that we don't leave laying around because of its easy to rip out pieces but it is a book that we read on a nightly bases and one that I swear by if your child loves the Sesame Street monsters and needs a little help with brushing their teeth. </div>
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Being in underwear, with no accidents and brushing teeth are both part of <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/annual-goals-and-this-years-curriculum.html">Vada's goals</a> for our and she is well on her way!</div>
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Vada is unable to open the clothes pin in anyway, let alone the way that it is intended to be opened but together we did it and she is learning.</div>
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We then went onto some tracing and pre-writing exercises.</div>
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This next photo I just <i>had</i> to share. Check out that last line!! Keep in mind that together, her and I used the blue marker but <i>she alone</i> used the red. </div>
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Just in case you were having a hard time seeing what I am talking about, look at her red tracing line. Its fantastic!</div>
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Since we were tracing shapes, I thought I would use this opportunity to focus more on shapes and so we played a fun bean bag toss game from Learning Resources.</div>
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This game was fun and educational in so many ways. It worked on Vada's gross motor skills, her hand/eye coordination, color recognition, number recognition and shape recognition as well.</div>
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We also went through this deck of shapes and color cards. I showed Vada each card, named them and then continued to the next card. She paid attention to every single card.</div>
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Next we had a special treat. My mother in-law is the best sugar cookie decorator ever. Don't believe me? <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/03/celebrating-three.html">Check out these cookies</a> that she made for Vada's third birthday. Anyway, Annette (my mother in-law) made musical and cheerleader themed sugar cookies for my older two girls and their recent extra curricular activity choices. For Vada, Annette made hands with the letters 'V' on them as well as the numbers '3'. I swiped two cookies for today and since "<b>c</b>ookie" starts with the letter 'C', I thought it was a perfect snack.</div>
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While Vada ate her cookie, I read two alphabet board books. This was our "official" transition time into "<a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">Letter of the Week</a>" time. Were still focusing on letter 'C'.</div>
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"<b>C</b>olors" starts with the letter 'C' and so we played "Pop for Colors". Which in return helped Vada work on her color recognition.</div>
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She also worked on some fine motor skills with the spinner that you have spin to see how many piece you get to take, math, when counting out the game pieces as well as learning how to take turns and to share with others (being me today).</div>
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"<b>C</b>at" begins with the letter 'C', and so we worked on a cat puzzle today as well.</div>
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This puzzle was a four piece puzzle with no picture behind the pieces and no slots to slide the piece into, other than the actual frame that holds the frame.</div>
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Vada first worked on puzzles from this progressive puzzle set when she went to one of her OT sessions and I likes them so much that I found a set for us here at home through Ebay. </div>
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Vada was a little overwhelmed in the beginning but she was determined and you could tell it. Once we finished it together the first time, I wasn't going to push it for a second go but she flipped it over and began to sort the pieces out on her own! By the the third time she knew to flip the pieces over so that you could see the actual picture of the puzzle and by the fourth time she was finished. By. the.fourth. time! She did it four times. On. her. own. She rocks!</div>
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Next, we colored a sheet from our "Letter of the Week", Letter 'C' packet. </div>
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Now I don't like jello and neither does my husband, so this was not the desert for us but all three of the girls loved it and Vada was able to recognize the red and the blue colors from the cake, so I called it a sweet success to the end of our day.</div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-21716121182794571302013-09-02T07:12:00.000-07:002013-09-04T10:49:31.819-07:00Statues, Stars and the Letter 'C'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Remember <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-little-red-white-and-blue-action.html">Saturday's post</a>? It was <i>all</i> red, white and blue and themed right along with the Fourth of July. Well, today's activities as well as the remainder of this weeks lesson's will all be focused on patriotism. Well, kind of.</div>
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After our morning routine I had Vada color her Statue of Liberty color recognition book that I downloaded from <a href="http://3dinosaurs.com/">3Dinosaurs.com</a>. Last fall it took two days for Vada to finish a recognition book, she would get bored half way through coloring and not want to continue. This year one of <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/annual-goals-and-this-years-curriculum.html">her goals</a> is to finish entire activities that are given to her before moving onto a new one. She did very well at pushing through this activity. I could tell that she was a little bored towards the end but with my persistence and help in coloring she continued and completed the book.</div>
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You may only see scribbles but I am seeing circles being formed. This is good!</div>
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We stayed with the stars and strips theme of the american flag and focused on shapes with with these single shape puzzles from Lakeshore Learning. I made the star our first shape of focus.</div>
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At first we took all of the shapes out of their placements and we looked at them, talked about them and played with them for awhile. Vada got two of the shapes to stack onto each other, which I thought was pretty impressive considering how they are only about have of an inch wide.</div>
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We went through all of the shapes and placed them into their correct puzzle placements one at a time and then I steped it up a notch to challenge Vada a little. I gave her two empty puzzles with only one shape. After we did all of the shapes that way (and she flew through it easily) I did it again, only this time giving her two empty puzzles and two shapes that matched. </div>
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Eventually, we were up to three puzzles with three shapes and she was figure it out all on her own!</div>
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She even began to stack them, once she had finished each individual puzzle, like I was originally.</div>
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She was very proud of herself and I cheered and cheered for her because I was extremely proud as well. To me, she is just amazing! Everyday she is learning something new and continues to show me how determined she is.</div>
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Next we worked on colors, red and blue to be exact, to go with the colors of the American flag.</div>
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We went through both crayon containers individually and then I had Vada show me her understanding of each each color by having her put them back into their correct crayon containers. She. got. them. all. correct! (and with no help from muah). Well, that isn't the full truth, she actually, truthfully got two incorrect but that was because she was being a Miss. Sassy Pants and looking at me while she attempting to put them into the right places. So I don't actually count them as being wrong. </div>
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We then moved on the our <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">Letter of the Week</a> (were refreshing still so its more like <i>Letter for three</i> <i>days</i> and then move onto the next letter in the alphabet). Now 'crayon' and 'colors' also begin with the letter 'C' and I made sure to highlight on that as well. I also do this when ever our Letter of the Week comes up anytime through out the day or even night (more like whenever I think of it), not just when were doing school. I believe that it is important to point out the many different things that can be related back to our alphabet letter learning. My theory is that something I point out might help that specific letter and sound "stick" in her memory.</div>
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As you can tell, we are currently going back over letter 'C'. Were having fun with this letter but she is refusing to make the actual letter sound. She may have forgotten how..? It is an odd sound that comes from way back in your throat. So we may end up spending a who week on this letter again, which is fine. It is what it is. </div>
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"Catch" starts with the letter 'C' so we caught bugs today with one of Vada's Melissa and Doug puzzles. She loved it!</div>
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'Caterpillar' starts with the letter 'C'.</div>
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Like Vada's sign for "cat"? The ASL sign is to make whiskers, like a cats whiskers on your face. Vada like to grab her cheeks and pull. She hasn't always done this, it's a new thing. It's a cute thing. </div>
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We then colored a page that I downloaded from <a href="http://3dinosaurs.com/">3Dinosaurs.com</a>, everything on the sheet had to do with the letter 'C'. We printed the whole alphabet out and put them into our binders for Letter of the Week activities. They are great to have and a wonderful addition to helping learn and teach the letters of the alphabet.</div>
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Usually during our Letter of the Week lessons we do have more structured curriculum pages. I have kits for each letter of the alphabet that I have purchased from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/letter-of-the-week">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a> and I love them. However, since we are just refreshing on these letters, I am keeping it pretty easy going. Once we get to letter 'F' we will be back into lessons but I will remain keeping it fun and playful as well. </div>
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Starting this school year (officially) we gave Vada a book bag (just like her big sisters) and I have been having Vada wear it to and from her bedroom to the classroom. I have been having her work on putting it on, removing it and hanging it up. On the six day of school she hung up the book bag for the first time. I was so ecstatic! I couldn't believe she had got it in such a short amount of time! This will help her in <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/09/annual-goals-and-this-years-curriculum.html">her goals</a> towards independence in her self dressing skills. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">On the seventh day, today, she wasn't satisfied with just hanging the bag up any ol' way, no, it had to be correctly done and she knew what way the correct way was, without being told. She worked hard and on her own, she hung her bag up the correct way! </span></div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-48172095440780912592013-09-01T00:08:00.000-07:002013-09-03T11:34:50.824-07:00Annual Goals and This Years Curriculum and Materials <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, I did it...or at least I think that I have. I am sure that I will be coming back to this list and adding to it with numerous things that I have forgotten or haven't even thought of but the general goals of this year have been planned out and it feels really good to have this completed.<br />
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If your going through this and notice <i>anything </i>that I have forgotten or left out please<i> </i>let me know! I have never wrote one of these, <i>never</i> and I got most of my ideas and information from online posts of other children Vada's age who also have Down syndrome.<br />
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While I do realize that this"plan" is not for anyone other than for me and for my personal teaching goals to help Vada learn and grow this year, I would like to make it as accurate and realistic as possible. I'm not necessarily talking about using the proper terminology but more along the lines of what goes into our goal list for the year.<br />
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<i>So</i> as your reading this just please keep in mind that Miss Vada is currently a three and a half years old little girl and will be turning four in March of 2014 <i>and</i> that <i>every</i> child is different in their learning styles and in their growth patterns. Therefore, what is in your goal list for your child may or may not be appropriate for ours. However, suggestions are welcome.<br />
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<b>Vada will increase independence in her toilet training and teeth brushing skills to improve overall age appropriate self-help skills.</b> </div>
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<b>1.)</b>Work toward and eventually becoming able to push down her her own pants when prompted into doing so, during the correct times.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>Work toward and eventually become able to pull up her own pants when prompted into doing so, during the correct times. </div>
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<b>3.)</b>Remain dry through out the day and in between toileting intervals.</div>
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<b>4.)</b>Use toilet paper, flush, wash and then dry hands after each bathroom visit.</div>
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<b>5.)</b>Wear training underwear during the days other than during nap-time and at bedtime with no accidents.<br />
<b>6.)</b>Assist Mama in toothbrush preparation each morning and night.<br />
<b>7.)</b>Attempt independent teeth brushing time after Mama has done her initial cleaning.</div>
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<b>Vada needs to increase her self-help skills in order to increase independence with dressing skills.</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b>Work on training boards that include zipping, snapping, buttoning, lacing, tying and buckling and will use these learned skills with real life clothes and circumstances.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>Assist mommy or others with getting herself dressed.</div>
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<b>3.)</b>Zip her jacket or coat after it has been hooked.</div>
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<b>4.)</b>Pull on her own socks after they have been placed onto her feet.</div>
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<b>5.)</b>Push her feet into her shoes after they have been put on.</div>
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<b>6.)</b>Put her backpack on to her back correctly with minimal assistance and wear it to and from our classroom.</div>
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<b>7.)</b>Remove her backpack from her back and hang it on the correct hook in the classroom and then in her room after class.</div>
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<b>Vada will increase socialization, play, and attending abilities to develop overall age appropriate social skills.</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b>Say/sign her first name when prompted.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>Identify her written first name when prompted.</div>
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<b>3.)</b>Imitate simple motor actions and body movements during songs and fingerplays with minimal assistance.</div>
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<b>4.)</b>Participate in turn taking activities during play groups as well as her musical groups, when prompted.</div>
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<b>5.)</b>Demonstrate appropriate use/play with objects and toys.</div>
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<b>6.)</b>Make activity choices when given two choices.</div>
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<b>Vada will <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ambulate&rlz=1C1ASUT_enUS442US442&oq=ambulate&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j0j5j0.3207j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">ambulate</a> independently over all surfaces and elevations.</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b>Stand from the floor using a half kneel posture.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>Step up a 2-4" step independently.</div>
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<b>3.)</b>Ascend steps using one hand on a handrail and placing both feet on each step independently.</div>
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<b>4.)</b>Descend steps using one hand on a handrail and placing both feet on each step independently.</div>
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<b>5.)</b>Ambulate independently over <i>all services</i>, and stepping over obstacles that may come into her way.</div>
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<b>6.)</b>Jump up clearing both feet from off of the floor.</div>
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<b>7.)</b>Jump down from a 2-4" step landing on two feet with a "spotter".</div>
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<b>8.)</b>Continue to work on improving her overhand throw.</div>
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<b>9.)</b>Work on a underhand throw with a specific direction goal.</div>
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<b>10.)</b>Continue to work on her kicking a ball while moving abilities.</div>
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<b>Vada will:</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b>Identify 25 nouns by name via pointing.</div>
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a.)Identify 35 nouns by name via pointing.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>Increase understanding of 10 action words via pointing to presented stimuli.</div>
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a.)Increase understanding of 15 action words via pointing to presented stimuli.</div>
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<b>3.)</b>Identify at least 5 articles of clothing either on self or on a presented model.</div>
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<b>4.)</b>Continue to follow and improve skills on following verbal requests embedded with positional words (eg. in, out, on, off, under, on top of).</div>
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<b>5.)</b>Label presented pictures/objects via verbal speech or sign language.</div>
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<b>6.)</b>Produce noun+verb/verb+noun phrases (eg. go potty, eat crackers, read book etc.) via verbal speech or sign language.</div>
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<b>Vada will increase manipulative, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexterity">dexterity</a> and strength to improve overall age appropriate fine and visual motor skills.</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b>Stack 5 blocks on top of each other.</div>
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a.)Stack 8 blocks on top of each other.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>Put together 6 to 8 piece puzzles with blank backgrounds with limited assistance from others.</div>
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<b>3.</b>)Work on hand manipulation skills to twist two objects together.</div>
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<b>4.)</b>Complete start to finish activities with minimal assistance after initial prompting.</div>
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<b>5.)</b>String jumbo beads onto lacing string.</div>
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a.)String medium beads onto lacing string.</div>
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b.)String small beads onto lacing string.</div>
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<b>6.)</b>Nest graduated cups up to five sizes.</div>
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<b>7.)</b>Color in between the lines of specific shapes (eg. in a circle, in a square, only on the specific letter requested).</div>
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<b>8.)</b>Draw vertical lines with crayons, markers, pens and or pencils, when promoted (continue to improve her circular drawings as well as her horizontal lines).</div>
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<b>9.)</b>Continue to work with Mom on hand over hand activities to work towards the goal of more independent actions.</div>
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<b>10.)</b>Hold scissors in hand properly with limited assistance and cut paper.</div>
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a.Cut on specific lined area of paper.</div>
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<b>11.)</b>Wear her thumb splints 85% of the day and continue to work towards isolating specific fingers and her thumb when needed.</div>
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b.)Use her 'point' to point to things that she wants, needs and during activities to answer questions.</div>
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<b>12.)</b>Use fingers for <i>finger counting</i>.</div>
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a.)Isolate her fingers as she counts through them.</div>
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<b>Vada will continue to work towards academic progress in all areas of "tot-preschool" year.</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b>Recognize her written name in many different fonts.</div>
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a.)Get into the habit of writing her name by writing her name on all of her work sheets.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>Identify all of the letters of the alphabet.</div>
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a.)Vocally identifying the proper sounds for each letter of the alphabet.</div>
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<b>3.)</b>Identify the numbers 1-5 (and then the numbers 6-10)</div>
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a.)Count objects into groups that equal groups of 1-5.</div>
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b.)Use fingers to count 1-5.</div>
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c.)Identify number of objects in specific groups with minimal assistance and then use a numeral card to label the groups.</div>
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<b>4.)</b>Identify shapes by verbal or sign language naming.</div>
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a.)Using games, manipulative's and other objects on a regular basis to demonstrate her knowledge of the shape.</div>
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a.)Use games, manipulative's, color matching activities and other objects on a regular basis to demonstrate her knowledge of each color.</div>
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We will also be transitioning Vada's crib into a daybed this Fall!</div>
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<b>Main Curriculum and Materials:</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b><a href="http://fiveinarow.com/before-five-in-a-row/">BFIAR </a>(Before Five in a Row) </div>
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<b>2.)</b><a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/letter-of-the-week">Letter of the week</a> (often referred to as LOTW on this blog)</div>
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<b>3.)</b>Themed packets downloaded from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/">1+1+1=1</a>, <a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/">Homeschool Creations</a>, <a href="http://delightfullearning.blogspot.com/">Delightful Learning</a>, <a href="http://3dinosaurs.com/">3Dinosaurs.com</a> and <a href="http://royalbaloo.com/">RoyalBaloo.com</a></div>
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<b>Other Materials and that we will be using:</b></div>
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<b>1.)</b><a href="http://we-choose-virtues.myshopify.com/">We Choose Virtues</a> (<i>introducing</i> this into our family and into our day)</div>
<b>2.)</b>Keepers of Faith<b>-</b><a href="http://www.keepersofthefaith.com/product/005645.html">Little Keepers at Home</a> (<i>introducing</i> this and some of it's <i>easier</i> activities)<br />
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<b>3.)</b><a href="http://abcmouse.com/">ABCMouse.com</a></div>
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<b>4.)</b><a href="http://store.dseusa.org/collections/numicon/numicon-kits">Numicon</a></div>
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<b>5.)</b><a href="http://www.touchmath.com/">Touch Math</a></div>
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<b>6.)</b><a href="http://www.didax.com/unifix/">Unifix</a></div>
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<b>6.)</b><a href="http://www.hwtears.com/hwt">Handwriting Without Tears</a>; <a href="http://www.hwtears.com/gss">Get Set For School:</a> <a href="http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/TGNM/GSS">Numbers and Math</a>, <a href="http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/TGRW/GSS">Readiness and Writing</a>, <a href="http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/TGLL/GSS">Language and Literacy</a>, <a href="http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/WT/GSS">Word Time</a>, <a href="http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/IKMN/GSS">I know My Numbers</a>, <a href="http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/TB/GSS">Tag Bags</a>, </div>
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<b>1.)</b><a href="http://www.kindermusik.com/">Kindermusik</a></div>
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<b>3.)</b><a href="http://gigisplayhouse.org/math-program">GiGi's Math Program</a> (If it is age appropriate this school year.)</div>
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<b>4.)</b><a href="http://gigisplayhouse.org/literacy">GiGi's Literacy Program</a> (If there are any available spots open.)</div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-90697366996246053832013-08-31T16:20:00.000-07:002013-08-31T16:20:56.444-07:00A Little Red, White and Blue Action<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the morning's, after I drop off the older two girls off at their school, get my coffee and Vada eats her breakfast, the two of us go for a walk. It's been really hot these past couple of days so our walks have been lived and because it is so hot Vada usually gets over heated easily and begs for me to pick her up, which I prolong for as long as I can but I always do pick her up because there will be a day when I can't! The weather this morning was beautiful and Vada and I walked quite a distance together and she walked the whole way. It was nice!</div>
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Our neighborhood is "under construction" and has been since the very beginning of Summer. Below is just a snippet of what it looks like now. We actually have half of a new road!</div>
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The great thing about the construction is that there are all kinds of uneven surfaces to walk on, which is great for Vada. During her six month check-in with Kim, her PT, we discussed having Vada work more on stairs and curbs and uneven surfaces in general. It was already in her list of goals for this school year. (A list of goals that I made up of numerous things to work on throughout this "school year".) I have the rough draft of the goals and now I just need to file them and then I will share them here at a later date, I am hoping within the next week.</div>
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Every morning, or time that we go down to the classroom, I have Vada walk down the stairs. She needs my hand to help assist her because we are still in the process of refinishing the stairs and there is no railing. After class is done, Vada practices walking up the stairs as well. Right now we are attempting to have her get up the stairs while only using one of my hands to assist her. She can easily climb up the stairs without any help of mine but I want her to walk up them "properly". She is also beginning to gain the confidence in herself to come or climb down the stairs. She did five steps yesterday while we were at Kindermusik class. This is a huge accomplishment!</div>
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When Vada walked down the classroom stairs today she had a big surprise! The room was dark(ish) but glowing with red, white and blue glow sticks all over. This last Fourth of July we had family in town and we spent the whole week having fun and hanging out with them, so two month later I decided to take a break from our BFIAR and spend the week focusing on Fourth of July themed things. </div>
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We took turns pouring rice onto each other for an hour! It was almost therapeutic. It was relaxing and fun and we <i>both</i> enjoyed it!</div>
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The powder all over Vada's hands and body comes from the rice and we were covered with it by the end of this playtime!</div>
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After playing in our sensory bin we read some important books about America and its first leaders and what makes America great, for a three and a half year old little girl keeping things simple is kind of important so we're not going to get into huge discussions but we are going to stay on "theme".</div>
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We're starting to work on Vada recognizing her written name and well as writing it on every worksheet and craft that she does. </div>
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After I wrote her name, I gave Vada the marker so that she too could <i>write</i> her name.</div>
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I was so proud of her. I am so proud of her and all that she is accomplishing! When we were writing her name she started making sounds that sounded like she was trying to say her name. The more I repeated her name out loud, the more she sounded clearer. You got to see it or rather <i>hear it</i>... </div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-69146457552609998602013-08-29T18:57:00.000-07:002013-08-29T20:37:37.973-07:00'B' is for Jesse {Bear}: Day Five<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today we finally wrapped up Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? and I am using the word "<i>finally" </i>loosely because this book and this row has been another enjoyable adventure!</div>
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Since we have also been working on refreshing our "Letter of the Week" week of letter 'B' we tied the two together. We started off by finishing up Vada's lapbook/journal work pages.</div>
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We worked on coloring, cutting and pasting.</div>
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We then moved onto a game called "Find the Bears!"</div>
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After the game we continued to color more things that start with the letter 'B'. Can you tell that she was thrilled?</div>
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She was totally done! You may be wondering how I knew this. Call it intuition, if you will. It may have been the pretend sleeping or snoring noises that she was making that clued me off but the final moment was when she looked me directly in the eyes and began scribbling. It. was. too. funny! It was like she was trying to be like "okay Mom, I'm doing it, but I don't want to be!" I love her sass. Love it!</div>
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Next we did a gummy bear color sorting activity. We used <i>real</i> candy and guess what? Guess!!, I'll wait... ... ... She didn't eat any during the whole activity and not because she didn't know what they were, she did, but because she understood we had something that we were doing with them first! Call me what you will, naive, <i>whatever</i>, but I know she knew it was candy (she kept saying "<i>mmmm"</i>, like yum) and I believe that she understood that this was not the time to eat the candy. She. did. good.</div>
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Vada was rewarded for her hard work and mathematical dedication with some of very own gummy bears that I had set aside before we started this activity. She was grateful!</div>
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I forgot that the beginning of the public school year could be SO busy! I now have a fifth grader and an eighth grader both who already have BIG plans for their ending year in their schools. Kiliegh, my fifth grader is now working as a crossing guard or "patrol" and has decided to play an instrument, the Trumpet.</div>
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Jasmine, may or may not be in the science club again this year. It's still undecided if that group is even going to meet this year and she has "one really annoying student" who is threatening to join and that is ruining her motivation to participate in the group again. However, she is very excited about getting excepting into cheerleading this year.</div>
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It's just funny how much has come with all of these new journey's for the girls. Kiliegh had a night of instrument try-outs and then a huge meeting for the parents and then next week they will have a district wide lesson where everyone will get together and learn the first five cords, get their instruments (if they don't already have them) and their books. Jasmine had try-outs for five nights in a row for two hours and then now meets every night for four night of those nights for practice! <i>Whoever said cheerleading wasn't a sport, had no idea how hard these participants really worked! </i></div>
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We have had sports physicals, eye exams and unpack your back pack nights times two! Then we have started up Kindermusik classes for Vada and I and in the last two weeks we have had our six month visit with Vada's PT Kim (everything is great) and monthly with her OT Christy (again, all is well). I'm hoping that now things will fall into a well rounded routine! However, because of the heat and lack of central air, school here has been canceled today and probably will be again tomorrow! Therefore, that routine that I just mentioned, is again kind of thrown off of course for a couple of more days. </div>
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Making due with the time that we <i>do</i> have Vada and I fit in another fun Jesse Bear activity, "Alpha-Laundry" which was part of <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/bfiar-journal-pages.html">her journal/lapbook</a> download from <a href="http://www.homeschoolshare.com/">Homeschool Share</a>. Can you believe that we spent over forty-five minutes on this? </div>
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We actually have an "article of clothing" for each upper case and lower case letter of the alphabet but today we only used either or, which one didn't actually matter for our first time activity of alpha-laundry.</div>
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I colored the "clothes" myself but you can actually print them on colored paper to make it easier and then you could also use this activity for color matching but we have so many color matching activities that I thought that I would do it my own way.</div>
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I had Vada grab one letter at a time and with my help we would also remove the clothes pin and then she would put both into the basket. I would tell her what letter she chose and sing the letter song from the Leap Frog videos, "the 'e' says ehh, the 'e' says ehh, every letter makes a sound, the 'e' says ehh." We went through every. single. letter. singing this song and it was worth it. She loves that song and it stick in her head. I know it does because she is beginning to attempt to sing along with it and she knows how to make the sounds to many of the letters of the alphabet.</div>
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The printable's also came with some blank "clothes" and I used some to print Vada's name onto them, so that she can start to focus on recognizing her written name, which is one of her goals this school year.</div>
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Today we began with some of Vada's <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/bfiar-journal-pages.html">journaling or lap book pages</a>, "Rhyming Words", these were part of the Jesse Bear kit that was downloaded from <a href="http://www.homeschoolshare.com/">Homeschool Share.com</a>. Rhyming is a new learning concept for Vada and one that is going to take a long time (I believe) for her to fully get the concept of but then again, she is only three and a half and in my mind it seems quite young for this stuff. We worked on it nonetheless and she was very interested. I made it into a kind of game by turning all of the pictures upside down and having her flip them over one by one and as she found cards that went together I would verbally and physically match them up, all the while making a big deal about why and how they went with each other.</div>
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Once we made a match, I would hand each card back to Vada, one by one and then ask her to put them together, then into the Jesse Bear pocket.</div>
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After we worked on her lapbook rhyming activity cards we went on to a rhyming word match sheet from our <a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/">Homeschool Creations</a> Jesse Bear packet.<br />
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Her and I together drew the lines connecting the rhyming photos and then I gave her some free time to practice making lines on her own. She made some really impressive lines today!</div>
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Look how long those strokes are! I'm so pleased with how much improvement she has made in such little time.</div>
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We worked on primary color matching with these "color bears", a set that I made from a set that I purchased from a local teachers store in our area but you can also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Key-Education-Publishing-Color-Bears/dp/B000QDU2JK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377570691&sr=8-1&keywords=key+education+color+bears">order yours here</a>.<br />
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Vada did an amazing job. I could tell that she was bored however but as I was taking everything out of the bag and handing each piece to her I was watching what she was doing with the pieces and she was sorting them without being asked! Then, when it came to actually doing it together, she had practically already done it and had to be persuaded to do it again but she did.</div>
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Since we were already working on colors recognition I thought it was a good time to get out the math bears and work on patterns or sequencing. Vada and I have done this several times and she knows what I want her to do when it comes to these certain cards and these bears, she may not always do a perfect job but today I was so excited when she put the blue bear onto the correct blue picture and then the red bear into the empty box. In fact, while it doesn't look like it, she had all of these bears sitting in the correct placement only when she put that last blue bear onto the card her little hand pushed the others away from their spots. </div>
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We ended up spending fifteen to twenty minutes on the patterns. She was able to do the red and blue patterns twice and completed the red and green pattern once. She is not able to do this activity on her own yet. I do need to remind her that "the blue bears go onto the blue bears" and the "red bears need to go onto the red bears" but with my encouragement and patience she is able to complete a full pattern. I am hopeful that by the end of this school year she will have a much stronger concept of patterns.</div>
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We also did some sight word reading from our book with these cards that also came in the Homeschool creations kit.<br />
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After spending two days focusing on the letter 'A' from Letter of the Week (a <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a> product), Vada and I moved onto the letter 'B'. Remember, we already did the letters 'A-D' last Spring, therefore we are only spending a couple of days on those specific letters before we move onto new letters that we will actually be spending an entire week on again.</div>
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We worked on tracing the letter 'B', my hand over Vada's and then she got her free time.</div>
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We played Big 'B', Little 'b', a letter upper and lowercase letter recognition game.</div>
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We took some time to play with power magnets and used them on a "B is for Butterfly" worksheet.</div>
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Vada couldn't seem to see past her thumb splints, so we tried this activity without them and she actually did a lot better.</div>
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Next we opened a can of Letter B Alphabet Soup. Vada love's these cans! She is always SO interested in whats inside each one.</div>
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Believe it or not, we had a long morning and Vada ended up getting a little restless. She was happy to be finished, I think.</div>
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For lunch, I made a meal just like the one from our weeks Jesse Bear book, (<i>except I had an extra compartment in her muffin pan, so I added a little trail mix.)</i></div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-89416934938616065392013-08-21T10:38:00.000-07:002013-08-22T19:28:52.256-07:00What Would He Wear? Jesse Bear: Day Two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today we got to add to our "Days in School" number chart! Obviously, we will be adding to it every day that we do school but there was something extra special about days one and two. I think that I will also be excited when we hit then tens and then the hundreds place marks, but I had to share the little bit of progress that the chart has already made! If you like this chart and want one for your classroom morning board, you can download yours from <a href="http://homeschoolcreations.com/CalendarMorningBoardOlder.html">Homeschool Creations</a>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and I just realized, (<i>only</i>) a day after first posting this, that I have been using this chart incorrectly. Do you see where? Lol! And I am suppose to be the teacher! HA! </td></tr>
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After our morning routine we started by reading two Jesse Bear books, the first book was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Today-Jesse-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689824246/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377094848&sr=1-9&keywords=Jesse+Bear">How Do You Say It, Jesse Bear?</a> and then we read our <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/bfiar_7.html">BFIAR</a> book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Bear-What-Will-Wear/dp/068980623X">Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?</a> I gave Vada ten Teddy Graham cookies to snack on while I was reading to her but she couldn't snack on them until we counted them first! She did slip one into her mouth on number three, very quickly, thanked me, and then continued to put the bears into her bowl as I counted out loud for her. She is such a stinker!</div>
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Vada even shared her snack with <i>her</i> bear.</div>
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Vada finished coloring her color recognition book. Now I will laminate it and put a couple of hooks in it to hold it together and we will continue to read through it, for fun and memory.</div>
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Next we focused on the main theme of this weeks book, what Jesse Bear should wear <i>and what makes it appropriate and why.</i></div>
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The sheet above had four photo cards that went into squares on the actual page. I handed the photos to Vada and as I was giving the pictures to Vada I explained what the photos were and why we needed them and when we would use them, how we would use them and I then told her stories about us going to the pool this summer.</div>
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For Jesse Bears' ourfit below I compared the pieces of "clothes" to what she was wearing and also to the worksheet photos above. I also told her a made up story of how Jesse wanted to go to the beach so we had to help him get dressed to he wouldn't get too hot!</div>
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We did the same scenario above and below with the "rain" weather sheet and the "snow" weather sheet. We dressed Jesse appropriately to go with the weather worksheet and I told stories to go along with what we were doing. I also did a lot of motions and signs. Like the sign for 'rain' and 'cold'.</div>
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For Vada's <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/bfiar-journal-pages.html">BFIAR Journal</a> we also had a activity on "What Should I Wear?"</div>
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Together, her and I spent some time first coloring the page and talking about the characters on the page, what they were wearing and possibly why the were wearing it.</div>
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We then began to work on our <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">Letter of the Week</a> refresher for Letter 'A'.</div>
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For the capital 'A', Vada used Do-A-Dot paints in the three "apple" colors that we have been using.</div>
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For the lowercase 'a', Vada used tempera paint, also in the tree apple colors. I gave her QTips to use as paint brushes, however, we do actually own several paintbrushes. Right now, I like to use QTips with Vada to help her work on her grasp and on her fine motor skills.</div>
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We worked on some of our activity pages from our Letter of the Week letter 'A' binder. Vada did great with this a-p-p-l-e page. I lined up the letters and as I did it I said the sound for each letter (The 'a' says "ahh", the 'b' says "buh", the 'c' says ... well, you get the picture.) and after making all of the sounds, I asked her to put the letters onto the matching letters. Yes, they were lined up. Yes, I made it simple for her to do. But. She could have done anything AND she didn't. What she did do was, she put those letters onto the correct matching letters! I was and still am a very proud teaching mama!</div>
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Here's where Vada did struggle. This shape matching letter 'A' page. She just wanted to put all of the pieces onto the page and not pay attention to the shape size or colors. So instead of really trying to stop her as she pushed piece by piece onto the page I grabbed them and said the color and said that that color went onto its match.</div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-2983482194384903322013-08-19T20:13:00.000-07:002013-08-21T07:19:03.913-07:00Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? BFIAR: Day One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today's "first day of preschool" or tot school went so well!</div>
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We started off by taking some <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2013/08/back-by-popular-demand-school.html">"first day" photos with all three of the girls</a> and then after they were off to their schools Vada and I got ready for our day. First I had Vada put on her brand new backpack, this was time of having Vada wear a backpack to class. I know that it may seem like a silly thing to have her do when our plan is to homeschool her permanently, but we figure that she will need it when she goes back and forth from speech and it will help her learn to hang up things -like her coat when the weather calls for one. Plus, her older sisters have backpacks, so she can have one too.</div>
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After learning where her backpack now belongs in the classroom we discussed today's weather and the season that we are in right now.</div>
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Then we went through the months of the year, sang the days of the week song, marked our "official" first day of school and began our BFIAR work.</div>
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This week our BFIAR book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Bear-What-Will-Wear/dp/068980623X">Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by: Nancy White Carlstrom</a>. I wanted Vada to be able to associate one of her teddy bears with the bears in this weeks row. The funny thing was that this was the only stuffed bear that she had! She has like fifty stuffed animals, seven ugly dolls, four BlaBla dolls but only one,<i> one</i> teddy bear. The great thing is that this guy has a story! He is Vada's Heart warrior bear. <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/2011/05/recovering-whats-what.html">He was awarded to her after having gone through OHS</a> and has been with her ever since! Now they get to go on another journey together, a reading journey.</div>
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We read Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?.</div>
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Then began to work on another color identification book. Vada finished about half of it today. We will continue to work on it through out the week and then I will laminate it and put a ring or two through it and we will put it with her other color recognition books, we read them often.</div>
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Vada's coloring skills are getting to be quite impressive! She really stayed inside of all of the shirts!</div>
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Next we did some pretend play and color identification with some ice cream toys. I only used three colors, three of the four that she colored on the Jesse Bear shirts for her book. I would have done all four colors but the ice cream toy didn't come with purple.</div>
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For this game, I laid all three "ice cream" colors out onto the table and then I would ask Vada to hand me one specific color at a time. If she was correct at getting the color that I asked for then I would put it on the cone and ask her to share some with her teddy bear. If she was incorrect then I would tell her that she did a nice job at trying, put the color back, point at the correct color and tell her that this is the color "blue" and then ask again for that specific color. It never took her more than one mess up. She either got it right on the first try or she figured it out with the little help that I gave and corrected herself.</div>
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At the end, I asked for one color at a time and we stacked the colors as a way of cleaning up.</div>
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Next we worked on a page from our <a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/2011/11/jesse-bear-printables-free-learning/">Homeschool Creations packet</a>, "Did Eat" and "Didn't Eat". It was a reading comprehension page. Vada had to separate what Jesse bear did and did not eat and since this activity is beyond her abilities right now, I basically worked through it with her saying out loud everything that I was doing and why I was doing it. While she was quiet during this activity, I believe she was understanding some of what I was saying because she was putting the food cards in the correct places. Either way, she did great!</div>
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Vada's occupational therapist would be pleased with this next activity. It was suggested that I incorporate more puzzles into Vada's learning and play, so I have. This specific puzzle was perfect for this weeks row as it had bears on it!</div>
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Together Vada and I practiced on her handwriting. With my hand over hers we traced two pages worth of different curvy lines and once we finished that I let her have free range on the pages.</div>
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The "scribbling" is a normal part of her practice handwriting during her free time.</div>
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However, something new and something fantastic was that today she specifically circled and then colored over the shirts and the bears on each page, without being prompted to do so! I was amazed!!</div>
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Next, we practiced cutting with loop scissors. Together Vada and I cut all of the foods and drink pictures off of a piece of paper from a Jesse Bear packet that came from <a href="http://www.homeschoolshare.com/jesse_bear.php">Homeschool Share</a> (<i>Homeschool Share is a different site than the above link to Homeschool Creations. But both packets are free to download and I highly recommend both sites!</i>). These were the same foods and drink that Jesse Bear had for lunch in the story.</div>
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With a glue stick Vada covered the plate in paste and then placed the paper images of food into the place that she felt were proper for food items to go and then we hung it on the <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/i-did-that.html">I Did That wall</a>.</div>
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Next we did some rubber duck bath tub counting. At the end of the Jesse Bear book, Jesse Bear takes a bath before bed and on the wall are rubber ducks. Just like the book, we have a bath tub with rubber ducks and today we counted the ducks up to the number five.</div>
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For each "rubber duck" I would hand Vada the correct matching numeral card and ask her to put it into the correct place and she always did. I even made up a silly song that kept her attention and she loved this activity. Vada even took the numeral card and tapped it on each individual duck just as I did when using it to count the ducks. We also worked on isolating our fingers to show the same number on our hands as well as doing some finger counting.</div>
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Last Fall we got to letter 'D' in our <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">Letter of the Week</a> curriculum that I purchased through <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/letter-of-the-week">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>. I had planned to continue a pretty structured routine throughout the Summer but with my mothers passing I had a hard time following through with this plan and only did minimal school work. Therefore, my plan is to do a refresher of letters 'A' through 'D' for the next two to three weeks, depending on Vada's memory of them and then continue through the alphabet. </div>
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Today we started back with letter 'A'.</div>
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If you've been following along then you kind of know our routine, if not we start our <a href="http://twilsonismakingthemostoftoday.blogspot.com/p/letter-of-week.html">LOTW</a> day or lesson by reading from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Thoughts-Little-People-ABCs/dp/1414333102/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376970537&sr=1-1&keywords=big+thoughts+for+little+people">Big Thoughts From Little People</a>. I<i> love</i> this book and we read it every single day when we are working with LOTW because <i>it goes with it perfectly!</i></div>
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I used a letter 'A' alphabet rubbing plate and made this little coloring page for Vada. I gave her three colored pencils, red, yellow and green and told her that those are the colors that apples grow in, so that's the colors that we were going to color with on this page.</div>
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Vada colors longer and is more attentive if I color with her sometimes, this was one of those times. I colored the upper case letter 'A', just in case you were wondering.</div>
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Next Vada worked on some more fine motor skills by lacing this worm through the apple. She enjoyed this much more than she has even enjoyed lacing any other toy, paper, card or bead! I was thrilled to find something lacable that she liked! Although it was from Hong Kong or Korea so I have to make sure she doesn't put it into her mouth because i'm not 100% on that paint and while my daughter loves this toy, im in no was endorsing it.</div>
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We purchased our Alphabet Soup sorting game cans after we had finished letter 'A' last Fall, so the contents of this can was all new to the both of us!</div>
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Vada learned to make the Alligator "chomp" as it "walked around. She pretended to eat the apple and she learned how to beat her fist on her chest like any good Ape would. It was a very fun letter can indeed. </div>
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As our day was coming to an end and you could tell that Vada was pretty much at <i>her </i>end I did attempt to do some apple sorting. </div>
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She was more interested in throwing the apples and watching me scurry around to get them than she was at trying to match the colors into three nice coordinating groups. I did however end up getting her to hand me one apple at a time while I sorted them into three separate color groups. We will be using this set more tomorrow as we continue to refresh on the letter 'A'.</div>
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For the last fifteen minute I gave Vada free time. She really enjoys getting into one specific cabinet and pulling out the play-doh, which she payed with for awhile. After she was done with the play-doh I got out some "apple specific colored" Hexie Blocks and let her play with those for a bit. She was able to connect a few pieces together on her own -something else that is newer for her.</div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-70170339727012586402013-08-19T14:08:00.000-07:002013-08-19T14:46:38.740-07:00Back By Popular Demand<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today was my girls' official but unofficial first day back to school. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it? Let me explain. Kiliegh, my middle daughter, goes to her biological dads every other week for visitations (It may be a shocker if your just tuning in- we are a beautifully "blended" family.). Last week was our area's first week back to school so here is Jasmine's official first day of eighth grade pictures...</div>
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Today however, was their first day back to school together. So of course, being the mother that I am, I had them pose. I also decided this would be Vada's first "official" first day of preschool, actually, were counting this as preschool1, we'll see what next year brings. I'm sure we'll be doing a second year and I look forward to it!</div>
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a the below photo asking for "friends" opinions on which backpack to get Vada. We then narrowed it down to two choices and without telling anyone which one I liked the best (the paper dolls) and which one my husband wanted (the butterflies), the voting began! Believe it or not it was really close! In the end I think that the butterflies won but I had already made my choice to let my husbands vote win this one anyway and ordered the butterfly backpack before the voting had ended...</div>
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Here is Vada strutting her first day of school, in her new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sugarbooger-Kiddie-Play-Back-Flutterby/dp/B003AOWD4Y/ref=pd_cp_ba_0">"Flutterby" back pack</a>! </div>
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T</div>Twilson9608http://www.blogger.com/profile/05245911547204280399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319000400050843557.post-90772305046721538912013-08-13T21:59:00.002-07:002013-08-13T21:59:32.827-07:00Our {Blueberries For Sal} Week at a Glance in Photos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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