Adapting Education

    Lessons Learned

    Adapting Education

    • Hand puppets

      Out of odds & ends we created hand puppets today.  Maggie had a monster theme & Lily wanted the characters from Sessme street including elmo, Cookie Monster, the grouch, Ernie, & big bird.  And an elephant. We used feathers for the hair or hat and the kids had a chance to get sticky with glue.…

    • Worksheets May 27, 2015

      Worksheets today: the letter Cc (m) & words that begin with c. The number 7 & counting on fingers. Drawing flowers. (M) Coloring 6 items, the number 6. (M) pattern recognition & matching clothes to patterns (l) patterns and recognizing the first letter of words (l) Drawing a rectangle (m) matching number to counting items.…

    • Lily had a slow start–Maggie poor attention span

      Well, we started with good intentions.  Lily didn’t want to do her cards at first but eventually followed through but seemed tired & was hard to interest.  But she finished them.  She refused the matching game–this time at the kitchen table. Both Lily & Maggie wanted to play more than work but after some time…

    • Lily requested her cards

      May 26, 2015 Today Lily actually asked me for her phoneme cards.  She happily sat at her desk with tray and read through every single phoneme & word card.  She refused matching picture to word at her desk but she’d been there for 10 mins min. So that’s understandable.

    • Worksheets worked on: May 20, 2015

      May 20, 2015 Some subjects worked on via workbook pages: Sticker book of silly faces- position eyes, nose hair etc. spatial awareness Ovals and coloring diamonds and coloring triangle & rectangle coloring freestyle coloring book pages tracing & drawing the letter U lines diagonal diamonds trace ovals Tracing the letter A curved & diagonal lines…

    • Worksheets on May 21, 2015

      May 21, 2015 Paperwork today consisted of (M Maggie, L Lily or B Both) freestyle art M mazes M Square, drawing shape & spelling out the word M the letter c on handwriting paper M The letter D on handwriting paper M color by number M first page of common core workbook-storytelling & answering questions/writing…