"Penguins, Antarctica, and the Arctic"
I am sooooo thankful that activities start up again. I must say holidays are no good for my girls. They have shown me very clearly that they NEED structure, routine, and to know exactly what is happening and what is going to happen and when.
Big A got a calendar for Christmas and we have filled up the month of January with as much information as possible. She also keeps asking when the cruise is - so that is also marked on the calendar...for end of May... at least I know where to send her now if she asks again :)
I am very much looking forward to my visit with our behaviour consultant (she is very helpful and a wealth of knowledge) this week too - although I am fairly certain that most of our drama over Christmas was due to the fact that there was no structure or routine, but it will be nice to have her in and be able to talk to a grown up.
January 6th
Today has really proved to me how much structure and routine is needed by the girls.
I wrote Big A a list of things that needed to be done today and she just plugged along doing the things on her list - asking for help when needed, and being a joy and a delight to accomplish her list - I was amazed at how great both girls were and in part I was able to have a very productive day of cleaning & laundry & lots of cooking...and then able to enjoy some great time with my girls as well... guess we need to continue with this daily list...
Here was monday morning list:
eat breakfast, get dressed, brush hair, read 2 stories to sister, play playdough, work on math work book, do art, play in room with sister.
i will need to start every day with a list like this and then add to it :)
January 7th.
Today is my birthday.
Today was a wonderful day all around. The girls got along wonderfully.
Big A was with her SEA for a nice chunck of the day.
It was the first day of swimming lessons for both girls.
We went to Olive Garden as a family to celebrate my birthday.
My friend from Winnipeg sent me birthday flowers.
I went out with 10 girlfriends to watch Saving Mr.Banks for my birthday.
Great Birthday!
PE:
This week the girls both start swimming lessons and Big A is continuing with gymnastics.
Monday - Neighborhood walk (30mins)
Tuesday - Swimming lessons (the girls did amazing!! there were no tears, they listened and participated in all the activities that the instructor was teaching... they worked on blowing bubbles,
putting thier faces in the water, floating on their backs...)
Wednesday - Gymnastics:
Thursday - Indoor - hopscotch, balance buckets, bean bags, dancing)...
Friday - Play Abby indoor playplace
MATH:
*7 pages in Jump math 2.1
working on shapes ...circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and polygons... it was all very easy till the pages on polygons, but I think we both got it :) haha - i had temporary trouble on this one too - had to go back to school myself on this one.
*Penguin addition / color by number worksheet = sums to 8
*2 pages in Jump Math 2.2
Working on counting by 2's, and 5's. Forward & Backwards.
*Canadian Money Pattern Cards & Counters (adding, subtracting, and using the counters to work on counting by 5's forward and backwards)
*hour on mathletics computer site (i dont monitor i dont know what she did)
SOCIALS:
We looked up on the globe where BC is, and then the North Pole (Arctic), and South Pole (Antartica).
Addition and Subtraction using Canadian money. Learning about the symbols on each coin and the title of the coins... nickel, dime, quarter, loonie, toonie.
WRITING / SCIENCE:
Big A did a page on unscramble penguin words:
(bird, swim, beak, chick, feather, penguin, Emperor)
Answered Questions about Penguins... for example:
*do penguins fly?
*can penguins swim?
*what is a group of penguins called?
*what is a baby penguin called?
Big A had to come up with words that make her think about penguins for each of the letter in the word penguin...(she came up with the list all on her own)
Penguin
Egg
North Pole
Gulls
Under water
Ice
Nest (only warm places)
Big A wrote a penguin report and had to find answers to questions in books.
SCIENCE:
Bill Nye the Science Guy DVD *Climates
NOVA: Secrets beneath the ice DVD (Talks about Anarctica and the warming planet.)
Animal Planet: DVD Growing up Arctic...
*Growing up Penguin
*Growing up Polar Bear
FINE ARTS:
MUSIC
*singing songs with her sister
*participating in Sunday school songs and church worship time
*listening to LOTS of music (there is usually always music being played in the house)
ART
Monday:
*playdough
*Big A made 2 beautiful paintings. 1 for my birthday , and one for my mom's newly decorated bathroom.
Read about and followed coloring instructions for Rockhopper Penguin, Emperor Penguin, and The African Penguin.
READING:
This months theme: "Penguins, Antarctica, and the Arctic"
BOOKS READ THIS WEEK:
(Big A had many extra hours for reading this week as she was grounded from TV for 3 days)
*Hand, hand, fingers, thumb. by Al Perkins
*Bears on wheels. by Stan and Jan Berenstain
*The Littlest Turtle. Author unknown. (The Clever Factory Inc)
(monthly theme) *Penguins, Penguins everywhere. by Bob Barner
(monthly theme) *I am small. by Emma Dodd
(monthly theme) *Tacky the penguin. by Helen Lester
(monthly theme) *Tacky and the Winter Games. by Helen Lester
(monthly theme) *Happy Birthday Tacky! by Helen Lester
(monthly theme) *Penguins, Penguins everywhere. by Bob Barner
(monthly theme) *Baby Penguin Waddles. by Smithsonian Institution
(monthly theme) *Penguins! (national geographic kids) by Anne Schreiber
(monthly theme) *Emperor Penguins. by Deborah Lock
(monthly theme) *One Cool Friend. by Toni Buzzeo
THERAPIES & SUPPORTS:
Behavior Consultant come out Wednesday - great helpful advice as always.
OTHER:
Sunday School & Church
Monday evening: Big A and mommy went to the library to find new books on Penguins, Antartica, the Arctic.
IEP GOAL #1: Playground awareness & Safety:
*when we walk Little A to preschool, and walk to Mill Lake we talk about being aware of the cars and stopping at the stop signs, and waiting for me before crossing the streets. Big A is doing very well at this.
IEP GOAL #2: Physical functioning: demonstrate awareness of her own physical strength...
*Big A is very proud of herself when trying activities at the park or at gymnastics, or at Play Abby. Being able to use the equipment like balance beams, trampoline, pulling herself up on the bars, doing sit ups, pumping on the swing by herself.
IEP GOAL #3: Emotional / Behavioual Functioning (trying challenging or non prefered activities)
*Big A very much impressed me when trying swimming lessons and we got to swimming and she tried to do everything the teacher asked of her and she had fun - no tears the whole time.
IEP GOAL #4: Academic / Intellectual / Cognitive Functioning...(difficulty with new information)
*I was very surprised and impressed this week when Big A was given an assignment to find out specific information about penguins, she read and searched in many books for the answers. The only answer that she could not find was about how much a penguin weighed and she asked me if I could google the answer. I did - It is nice to see her love of books being put to great use and looking up more information.
IEP GOAL #5: Math...work on sums to 20
*This week we worked on adding and subtracting with money, she did great!
TIME WITH SEA:
BIG A weekly report for Jan.5, 2014
Jump Math -10 pages –
review
-
Shapes – needed lots of reminders and
practice
-
Lines of symmetry and creating symmetry
-Did well
and enjoyed this part
Money
-recognition and
value
-practiced making
$1.00 using various coins
-used Money
Pattern Cards and Counters
-needed
some thinking but was able to do 10/10
questions
-practiced buying
items
Writing– 2 pages in
book
Days of the week
(knows well)
Arctic
Events Worksheets
-finding odds,
evens – did well
-Word search –
loves doing these
Penguin
Study
-read various
books and discussed information
- Egg to Penguin,
Penguins, and Penguins, Penguins Everywhere
- Worksheets – In
the arctic, I saw
- All about penguins
- Penguin Traits
- great start! She is
really enjoying studying this topic.
Art
-
Made a frog finger puppet
-
Good practice cutting, pasting and
threading/sewing
Shopping
-
Big A wanted to shop for gifts for Mom
-
We brainstormed about possible items, decided
how much money to spend and how to decide what is best
-
She did very well in the store. Was able to
go through 20 books and narrow it down to 1 within about 5 minutes.
-was very excited
to be back.
-met some new
girls and talked with them a bit
-complained about
a boy that was bugging her
- was able to
jump off of trampoline doing a somersault!
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