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. :)

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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