Libby was seen in an office for a 45-minute treatment session with focus of session on improving her fine motor skills especially in the area of grasp patterns, ocular motor skills (saccades), self care skills, handwriting, as well as improving her flexibility for wearing different clothing and wearing her hair different ways. Upon arrival to pick Libby up she was independently brushing her hair in the art room. We began treatment in room with going over her last week's hair and clothes options. She didn't seem to have had practiced as much this week wearing different things or different styles of hair. Reviewed the first five letters of the uppercase alphabet that we we're learning and reinforcing from last week. We reviewed the letters A,B,C,D and E in a multi-sensory format. First we traced over our glitter letter index cards which had now dried from last week. OT had her say the letter, the letter sound and draw a little picture on the index card of a thing that started with the letter sound. Next, we made the letters out of sticks from Handwriting Without Tears Program. Libby was able to identify A,B,C, and E well but struggled with the uppercase letter D - wanting to call it B. We wrote each letter, using a coconut as a starting point and auditory cues for formations. She wrote them adequately with this type of assistance. Lastly, we worked on ocular motor skills with tracking and saccades activities. Libby did well trying to separate her head from eye movements. By the end of the session she was able to recognize D. Good work today and she is a pleasure to work with.

JPaul was absent for class. The time was used to update grades in Veracross.

MAP testing

MAP testing

MAP testing

MAP testing

We watched the movie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and discussed it.

MAP testing

Today PJ and I had two sessions. He had MAPS testing today, so we spent the majority of our time together doing that. The first period he worked diligently the entire class period. He did not finish the test so we resumed it during our second session. With about 15 minutes left in the class, PJ finished the test. We were having a conversation about countries and their names and I asked PJ how many countries he could name in 30 seconds. He said probably 4. I said NO WAY He could do more than 4. SO we made a bet that if he could name more than 10 countries in 30 seconds he could have the rest of the period for free time. He was up for the challenge. We set a timer and off he went. He named an impressive 19 countries in 30 seconds!! Way to go PJ!

I had a very productive session with Cade. I began with alphabetic awareness: a to z sequencing, identifying vowels and consonants, defining a syllable, and building closed, open, and silent-e syllables. Cade improved his a to z sequencing to 1:09 which is excellent, very close to my 1:00 goal. I reviewed /er/, and Cade read a word list and spelled dictated words (jerk, her, herd, term). Next, he syllabicated two-syllable words: silver, temper, master, winter, number, sister, number. Irregular spelling practice included dictation of the following: said, was, want. I am pleased that Cade is beginning to retain these spellings. Sentence dictation: I hope it will thunder. Her sister is under the fern. I introduced /ir/; Cade read example words. To reinforce all syllable types learned so far we played a round of Crazy Moose. To conclude, Cade read a decodable book from FlyLeaf Publishing, "Scamp Gets a Bath."