Monday, 12 December 2011

A good mornings' work

A few weeks ago our new school ball pool arrived. this meant that Amy and I had to change over therapy rooms. Apart from the gym ball, crash mat and whiteboard I had nothing to shift but Amy had decorated her room and it took her ages to remove, move and re-glue all her pictures etc. I feel bad that my room is so tiny and plain so to this weekend I took steps!

  I've made 2 notice boards and put up photos of the children doing work with me.
Please note pretty lace border!
 

I've made and put up a VERY basic Christmas decoration and got the different textures board up. Hopefully with time I'l be a bit more inspired and do other stuff to make it interesting. Any ideas?

   This morning I did some work with one of our older girls. She is 15 but has the mental age of  a petulant 5 year old. She can recite colours, numbers, words etc but doesn't actually know much at all. Today in our session she was great! She separated out colours with no prompts,

counted to 7 (and seemed to realise it was more than 6), used full words instead of actions, recognised vowels
working on vowels (guessed which picture I did?)

 and finally mastered the intricacies of a star jump!!! I don't know if she was simply in a good mood, she was lucky and guessed everything right or she has miraculously made progress; either way it was a good morning!

After break time some ladies from our church visited and gave out Christmas presents to each child.

Needless to say the children were thrilled!

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