2011-10-26 @ School

He kicked out his shoes today!

First time, Ms. Gibbs told him not to cuz you will lost your shoes!

And moments later, he did it again and this time, he kicked his shoe away to the back of the cupboard. So, he had to deal w/ himself to ask Ms. Gibbs to help him to find out the shoe. Luckily Ms. Gibbs helped him to move the cabinet and get the shoe out!

Later in Charlene's class, he lost his focus again. And he kept disturbing other kids while doing things in his own way. Charlene even said that he is spoiled other's quality time in reading!

I am so mad at him!

2011-10-25 Comments from Ms. Tina

I must share that every time I see Lawrence in the school day (and I see him around the building when I work with other kids as well), he looks so happy this year! It's so nice to see him enjoying himself :) He always greets me with a smile and I love that he brings in something special to share with me. Today he brought in a magic school bus book and taught me all about bones ;) I'm really seeing him spread his wings this year!

He did marvelously during our lesson today, which was on listening skills--more specifically, paying attention when someone else is listening. I asked him how he could tell I was listening to him when he was telling me about his book, and he was able to tell me (with a only a little prompting from me) that I used my ears, I looked at him, I paid attention to him, I was interested in him, and that I asked him questions about what he was telling me. We then had an activity where we took turns "interviewing" each other, practicing our listening to others skills. Lawrence got a bit silly during this activity, but I could tell he did listen to what I was saying. Good job today Lawrence!

2011-09-08: Lawrence

今天在往學校的路上, 我和zoe在聊天時說到：

zo, 你今天去學校要笑咪咪和大家說good morning! 媽咪給你一個hug和一個kiss就會離開囉！

不可以哭哭喔, 不然今天（下課回家）就沒有巧克力牛奶當點心喔！

樂在後座馬上傳來一句：mom, you said no threatening!

我連忙向他解釋說：

我沒有在威脅小妹啦！我今天早上吃早餐時小妹說要帶巧克力牛奶當點心, 我說不行！原因是他喝了牛奶就一定會吃不下水果/中餐! 所以我有和她約定好, 如果今天去學校上課沒有哭哭, 回家就可以有巧克力牛奶喝了！所以我只是在做一次提醒的動作！

小孩真的時時刻刻都在檢驗你啊～

Not only have to talk the talk, but also walk the talk!

今天在play ground, 樂與一位nursery的孩子相撞！因為兩人都沒看到彼此往自己的方向跑來！

可是樂被撞倒後, 不是先看看弟弟有沒有受傷, 而是低頭看看自己上週才掛彩的膝蓋有沒有流血！

請他去向弟弟道個歉說自己不是故意撞倒弟弟的, 也不是挺願意！

害得我一直得替他和弟弟的阿嬷道歉

幸好弟弟只有手肘處有些許擦傷的痕跡

看來要和樂提醒意外發生時的須知囉～

2011-09-07: Lawrence

我在往回家地路上, 在新生高架橋上飆速開車

Lawrence 便在後座說了句：

媽, 你以前告訴我不能做的事, 你現在（卻）做的話; 我會提醒你（不要犯錯！）

當場, 我整個人愣了一下之後, 回答說：

嗯, 樂, 謝謝你提醒我, 我有時候還真的很會忘記自己講過的話呢！

Lawrence似乎很滿意我的回答, 便回我說：嗯！以後我還是會提醒你的！

2011-08-22 Zoe: First day @ TES

Zoe was having a rather hard time for her first day!

She was having attitudes and pouting all the time!

Like to grabbing stuff without asking other kids first and looking worried all the time!

I left her around 8:35!

Ms. Karen said she was good after I left and she also wore a smily face while I picked her up today!

Found a scratch on her left waist! Zoe told me that she was grabbing and pulling from other's toy!

2011-08-22 Lawrence: Back to school day!

Today is the first day of school!

Lori said that he spent the playtime and lunch time reading his books instead of playing with other kids.

Books are: Magic tree house #38/#39

Not read it thoroughly, so I asked him to re-read it again and again!

Chess class @16:00

Learning new strategy about Pawn!

How to paint the portrait of a bird

It's also a lesson in capturing the moment, giving it temporary shelter, and then releasing the moment in order to re-experience it again in the future.

2011-06-09 zoe的童言

睡覺前在浴室刷牙時與Zo的對話

跟他說, 牙齒要刷乾淨, 因為晚上有吃很甜很黏牙的餅乾點心

如果不刷乾淨, 以後長大牙齒會黑黑的很醜

不然, 我們還是去請牙醫阿姨檢查好了～

Zo 說, 我才不要長大

K說, 好, 不要長大; 不然當北鼻好啦, 可是當北鼻也是要把牙齒刷乾淨啊～

Zo 說, 我又不是北鼻

K說, 那不然你是什麼啦？～

Zo 說, 我..我就是矮矮的人啊

2011-05-24

今天光光老師在課後與我談到樂樂目前處於穩定的狀況！

除了與老師較熟悉了之後, 分際拿捏有時會較不恰當之外 （身體界限/要求方式）

其餘都沒什麼太大的問題！

尤其在1-1的教學上更是察覺不出樂有什麼太過特殊的特質！

但是在團體的相處上, 關於自我情緒的管理, 以及過於直接了當的表達將會是樂今後的挑戰源頭！

光光老師提到“早療課程畢業 （告一段落）“的想法！

我的心裡其實有點不安的

樂從第一次和光光老師碰面到現在已有將近2.5y (2008.10~2011.05)的時間

一直以來, 每週一次的職能治療一直是我和樂的情緒出口！

我們 （樂和我）一起與光光老師發現問題, 處理問題, 調整問題, 解決問題！

實在很難想像如果有一天, 沒有了這每週一次的聚會

一旦碰到問題時, 我是該如何面對呢！

距離6月底還有一段時間,

樂與我要慢慢學習適應即將沒有光光老師的時間

學習獨立面對問題時的衝擊

加油！

2011-05-17 swimming class

Was complained about having swimming class twice a week in the morning time!

Said that he had a wonderful time w/ Mr. 光光 cuz they played shuffle on i-pad; this is to train his ability to figure out consequences!

Swimming class:

start w/ crawl stroke

then, backstroke

and then, breast stroke

finally, he had the time trial for the fun swimming contest on 5/29

47.94/47.03

The coach encouraged him that he can start practicing diving after he can break the record of 38sec.

Lori was pretty happy at the end of the class!

The Child's Plea

The Child's Plea

Let me do it myself.
That's the way I learn.

My fingers aren't nimble
movement's not refined,
my judgement is shaky
but don't keep me confined.

Experience is lacking
but how will I grow?
I need your faith and your love,
I have to stumble, I know.

Let me discover answers
it may be slower now,
but next time I'll remember
the "why" and the "how."

I'll think independently
if just given the chance,
then on future issues
I'll take a responsible stance.

Do me a favor,
please set me free.
Too much assistance
won't let me be me.

Help me do it myself
is all that I ask,
for I am becoming...
that is my life's task.

Patricia Feltin
1987

2011-02-22 Class w/ Ms. Tina Okele

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I want to brag on Lawrence! He did very well during our session yesterday! We worked on the social skills--manners. I turned the gamed "Go Fish" in to "Manners, Go Fish" in which we had to use 'Please', 'May I' and 'Thank you' for each turn or we lost our turn. Lawrence did marvelously! I was very impressed, especially since in a previous lesson, he refused to use his manners, insisting that he didn't need to use them. Lawrence definitely deserves an extra cuddle from you for how well he used his manners yesterday during our session. :)

........

Tina

2011-02-15 Class w/ Ms. Tina Okele

Hello Kristin,

I'm sorry I couldn't email earlier, I was needed at the Center all of the afternoon. Since Lawrence requested it last week, I brought in the game I had made again. I was amazed that he remembered the rules and directions exactly--better than I did! Again, he did a good job playing the game, although he insisted that he has never felt some of the emotions on the game pieces. You might ask him about that. Next week we'll move on to something different--I don't want to wear out a good thing with the game by playing it too many weeks in a row!

Best regards,
Tina

2011-02-08 Class w/ Ms. Tina Okele

Hello Kristin,

Lawrence and I had a great session today! I made a new game for he and I to play today and he did a fantastic job with it! I was really impressed with him! The game used a traditional set of tumbling blocks or Jenga as it's called in the States, but I wrote feeling words on the backs of the blocks. We then either had to act the emotion/tell a story about ourselves using the emotion word/or tell a story about someone else (in this case, my dog, Lance) using the emotion word. Lawrence did a fantastic job acting out the emotions. Some were hard for him, like bored and ashamed, but he tried. In the cases where it was hard, I tried to tell a story about Lance as an example (Lawrence likes to hear about Lance). I think he enjoyed the game because he asked me to bring it back next week so we can play again :)

I hope that you had a very Happy New Year!
Best Regards,
Tina

2011-01-24 Class w/ Ms. Tina Okele

Hello Kristin,

I hope this email finds you and Lawrence well!

Lawrence is doing well, but I do think that he would benefit from a group setting too. He especially needs to work on social skills--he and I do are doing this, but it would be most effective it were with peers his own age. I'm looking out for others who would benefit from something similar that I could work more intensely with, but in the meantime, I'll continue my work with him one-on-one! He and I are still working on emotions, and manners as well--social skills :) Again, I'll make an especially hard effort to remember to write you what we specifically what we do in the session afterwards so that you can know what's going on as well as talk about it with Lawrence!

I hope that you have a very Happy Lunar New Year!
Tina

2011-01-15 Charlene's studio

Theme book: The troll

Author: Julia Donalson/Illustrator: David Roberts

Theme book: Peekaboo bugs

by David A. Carter

2011-01-11 Class w/ Ms. Tina Okele

Hello Kristin,

Happy New Year! Thank you very much for the gift! I got it last week when I went back to the office. It was very thoughtful of you, and much appreciated! :)

In the meeting with Lawrence today, we worked on a making a feeling game. To do this, we made oversized paper dice. Lawrence drew faces that showed emotions on them while I wrote 'Act' and 'Tell' on my dice. We then cut them out and folded them into cubes. Next time, we will play the feeling game which is to roll each of the dice, then we will either act out or tell about the emotion that was rolled. Lawrence was fixated on the emotion 'anger' today. Four of the six sides of the dice were angry faces (the other two were silly and happy). He was quite set on drawing anger no matter how much I suggested different. The positive side is that he was very enthusiastic about drawing the angry faces and he even demonstrated the face to me :) I will continue to work on relaxing Lawrence's rigid thinking as well as exploring feelings and broadening his social skills.

Best regards,
Tina