Workbooks and Sounds

We are using workbooks for sounds. She loves the repetitive work-go figure! Today she did 80% correct! The expo markers work great. This was a guided lesson. I did a lot of the sounds and said them into her hand so she could feel the difference in air flow and it seemed to work. After several pages, I said we could go the rest later and she said no I want to do more! LOVE IT!

Snackable Ideas

Take items out of large bags and place into smaller containers for little hands to get snacks for his/herself. The containers are placed in a drawer so the kids can help their self.

Valentine's Day Cards

Step One:
Picking a Theme-Catch the Love Bug

Step Two:
Where is your child? Devon really had a hard time copying her friends names from the list, so I first tried to only show one name at a time. She was still frustrated. That evening my husband came up with the idea to do "light box" tracing. So I got online http://handwritingworksheets.com/ and used this site for all the friends names. Devon was then able to copy the names using the light box. Devon did no more than 5 cards per time. It was GREAT! Now it is time to assembly!

Step Three-
Assembly the card to "fancy paper" and add stickers, stamps, or whatever you want to.

Step Four-attach the bug catcher!

Devon first 100 piece puzzle

Puzzles were really difficult for Devon due to her vision issues. Not 20/20 but vision processing (http://www.visionhelp.com/facts.htm). So this was a great development for her.

Caroline and sorting

I have decided to let Caroline put away the silverware herself. She is very proud of her work. It takes me a lot of paitence to allow this, as it takes three times as long.

Simple Start- Fruit Salad

Today Devon used her new cookbook "Betty Cocker Junior" to make a fruit salad.

Caroline washed all the veggies and then I prepared them for Devon to cut into bite size pieces with a paring knife. Both girls enjoyed eatting their work.

Recipie:
1 bag of frozen peaches, thawed
2 apples
1 pint blueberries
1 pinnapple

Topping: mix 8oz yogurt, 2TB honey, 2TB orange juice

Alphabeta Recognition

Today, I decided to do a recognition base-line today on the lower case ABC's:

idenifiy: r, u, v, x, z, e, p, s, o, l, j
unable to idenifiy: h, y, w, t, g, q, k, f, a, i, reversal n/m, b/d, c/k

I am going to do daily activities and blog about them.