Yesterday was quite the calorie roaster!! My day kicked off at 10:30am with the big undertaking of cleaning out the garage. Lara and I worked in the garage for 8 long and gruesome hours! We emptied everything out of the garage into the driveway amd then separated it all into 3 piles - goodwill, trash/recycle, and keep. We organized our keep stuff back in against one small wall nice and neat, had umpteen bags of trash and 2 full truck loads of giveaways! I had burned over 3,000 already by the time I hit the sack and had completed almost 13,000 steps! Woohooo!!! Hard work does pay off :)
I was so proud of my kiddo. I am so in love with that boy of mine. How did I get so lucky to end up with such an amazing child? He really is the light of my life. Yesterday he helped us for a few hours with the garage and then he came in the house. The guest room and his bedroom were a mess. i couldn't even see the carpet he had so many toys and crap on the floors. Well, when we got done with the garage we came in and saw that he had completely cleaned both rooms SPOTLESS. Everything was organized back in its right place, nothing tossed under beds or in closets. I was speechless. He even made BOTH beds! Wow! We earned 2 stickers for that! He is growing up so damn fast.
Before bed he was begging us to play his new "race car" game that we bought him at Barnes and Noble. Seeing as how it was a learning game how could we say no? Him excited about anything learning is golden so we broke out this game and I am so happy to say that he LOVED it!!! First learning game out of 4 to be a HIT! In this game you have a race car in a lane and you have to race to the finish line. On your turn you grab a sentence card and you have to read the sentence and fill in the blank with one of the two provided words. Then you flip the card over and see if you picked the right word. If so, then you get to race forward the number of spaces it says on that card. He was sounding out ALL his words and would get excited when it was his turn to get a card! Who knows, by the end of this very trying year of 1st grade we may end up pro's of getting kids with learning challenges to want to learn. LOL!
Had the SIT at his school on Friday with the speech pathalogist, his teacher, and assistant principal. What an awesome group of people at this school. I absolutely love his school! They mapped out an action plan. Speech pathalogist is doing a full evaluation on Cristian and will schedule resource time with him to work on memory and speech depending on outcome of eval. They also put him on a Tier II intervention. They have this new thing they started in class 45 minutes a day called "Target Time". During this time the kids are split into small groups and have someone working more one-on-one with them on concepts they are struggling with. For Cristian, during target time he will instead have one-on-one vs small group and it will focus on his reading issues and some math. They will map the progress every 3 weeks and if they don't see him progress on that plan like he should then they will move him to Tier III intervention. The assistant principal is also going to see if she can get a psych eval done for him so we don't have to pay to do one privately and let us know what they say about that. So, we are on the right track! He has also been reading his new BOB books and Phonics Books and doing SO much better! Go little buddy!
As exhausted as I was last night when I finally got to hit the sack around 11:30 I woke up at 4am and haven't been able to go back to sleep! Bummer...
Keep Moving,
M E
I was so proud of my kiddo. I am so in love with that boy of mine. How did I get so lucky to end up with such an amazing child? He really is the light of my life. Yesterday he helped us for a few hours with the garage and then he came in the house. The guest room and his bedroom were a mess. i couldn't even see the carpet he had so many toys and crap on the floors. Well, when we got done with the garage we came in and saw that he had completely cleaned both rooms SPOTLESS. Everything was organized back in its right place, nothing tossed under beds or in closets. I was speechless. He even made BOTH beds! Wow! We earned 2 stickers for that! He is growing up so damn fast.
Before bed he was begging us to play his new "race car" game that we bought him at Barnes and Noble. Seeing as how it was a learning game how could we say no? Him excited about anything learning is golden so we broke out this game and I am so happy to say that he LOVED it!!! First learning game out of 4 to be a HIT! In this game you have a race car in a lane and you have to race to the finish line. On your turn you grab a sentence card and you have to read the sentence and fill in the blank with one of the two provided words. Then you flip the card over and see if you picked the right word. If so, then you get to race forward the number of spaces it says on that card. He was sounding out ALL his words and would get excited when it was his turn to get a card! Who knows, by the end of this very trying year of 1st grade we may end up pro's of getting kids with learning challenges to want to learn. LOL!
Had the SIT at his school on Friday with the speech pathalogist, his teacher, and assistant principal. What an awesome group of people at this school. I absolutely love his school! They mapped out an action plan. Speech pathalogist is doing a full evaluation on Cristian and will schedule resource time with him to work on memory and speech depending on outcome of eval. They also put him on a Tier II intervention. They have this new thing they started in class 45 minutes a day called "Target Time". During this time the kids are split into small groups and have someone working more one-on-one with them on concepts they are struggling with. For Cristian, during target time he will instead have one-on-one vs small group and it will focus on his reading issues and some math. They will map the progress every 3 weeks and if they don't see him progress on that plan like he should then they will move him to Tier III intervention. The assistant principal is also going to see if she can get a psych eval done for him so we don't have to pay to do one privately and let us know what they say about that. So, we are on the right track! He has also been reading his new BOB books and Phonics Books and doing SO much better! Go little buddy!
As exhausted as I was last night when I finally got to hit the sack around 11:30 I woke up at 4am and haven't been able to go back to sleep! Bummer...
Keep Moving,
M E
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