Q's ST Date - Week #2

This week we started a bit earlier than 9:30 (good thing too... see later in post). We got in and Q gave me his hat and he sat on the mat and waited to find out what was going to happen. His ST forgot the board with the list on it but that's ok. We managed just fine without it.

They started with bubbles. Q had to say "Pop" "Blow" "soft" and "more". The first 3 words were ones we had done last week with no issues but the last word, "more" was more of a problem. She ended up helping him say it with the "Mmm" sound with the lips closed and the "ore" sound with pinching his cheeks together to get the round lips. It worked out for a bit. Finally I think he got frustrated and said "I do it!" and he put his hands on his lips to get the "MMMM" sounds with the lips closed. It was too cute.

After bubbles they read a book. It was about the zoo sending this person (the reader of the book) some animals. He never kept any of them and kept sending them back to the zoo. The main point of this book was to say "open" since there were flaps in the book to open and see what kind of animal. As well as to say "Go back" when the reader had a reason of why the animals couldn't stay.

Once the book was over the ST used her bag she had and had all the animals from the story in there and had Q put them in a box that was a cage/zoo so they could say the animals names again.

They moved to the table with a box that has 4 animals on it. The ST helped Q pick an animal and all the 'food' that animal ate. So they started with Monkey. They worked on saying Banana (since this has to be one of the hardest things for Q to say). Then they moved on to elephant. They were getting out the peanuts and the power went out! They had to cancel the rest of the classes as they can't teach with the door open. Q had a bit of a freak out in the dark but he did ok.

We had to leave shortly after and it turns out the power was out for a good section of East Scarborough!

Q's homework this week was a few pages. The first page has the book we read and the things we need to focus on (Go Back). The next 2 pages are different animals that we talked about and the last page are a bunch of cages. These cages are for the animals to go in. I'm aiming to do this on Thursday or Friday with Q.

I was also told that we have to stop using baby words. She said for his maturity level we need to nix the "froggie, puppy, kitty cat ect" words. They now have to become "frog, dog, cat, ect". I'm kinda frustrated with this. Some of his words are so sweet! Like nore instead of more (something we love) as well as froggie. It's hard to give up on that.

Oh and I guess I'm laughing, or giggling. I have to stop that. When he uses the cutie words I have to stop having a reaction. I don't even know I'm doing it so I guess that's for me to work on next week.

On the bonus side Q is the 'pleaser' kind of kid so we might be able to get out of ST by the end of this 8 week session