2011年1月24日 星期一

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年1月15日 星期六

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年1月11日 星期二

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