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

......................

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

2010.11.24 Zoe

Today, when dad said bye and luv u to Zoe, "oh~see u tomorrow (喔, 明天見）"said by Zoe

We two were all stunned by what she said and I even corrected her that "it's seeing you tonite!"

but, we later realized what she said to her daddy is 100% true because she normally sees him only in the morning time!

100410' Lawrence

Lory told me that a child called Hector hit him on his chest w/ his fist, but he did not fight back!

I asked why?

L: "Because he was not behalf himself!"

K: "How so?"

L: "Because I was taking out his points?"

K: "What points?"

L: "Joyce (隨車阿姨）said that I (assigned leader) can taking out the points if kids were not sitting well in the school bus, so I did so to Hector in the playtime, and he doesn't like it, so he hit me!"

"He hit me while R--, Y--, and Na--- are around me, and I can't believe he dare to do that!"

Once again, he insisted that he did not fight back!

2010.10.5 feedback from Ms. Chang

I spoke and Ms. Lee did too with the boys sorted. Hope it won't happen again!

Thanks! Ms. Chang

Just for the record!!

Cuz someone's mom said that Lori hit her kid and she did not feel comfortable about it! I passed this info. to her class teacher, she replied me in the mail as below:

Dear Kristin,

I emailed all the staff but their replies were all positive - no bad
behaviours on the playground / break times. However, I will keep that
in mind.

Thanks,
Miss Chang

Can't help himself of mocking dog and cat!! while in the chess class~

Chess after-class practice: on-line game

092910' Lawrence

4th art-work class- Frog
材料：粉臘筆/油彩筆

很是自在揮灑的模樣！

BTW, Lori told me that he and other 4 boys have got 9 smily faces by Wed....

Good job, kiddo, please keep up!

092910' Zoe

Go to doctor- 劉建宏
診斷：鼻竇發炎！痰略多, 需排痰！
用藥注意事項：用藥後, 鼻涕會增多, 屬正常現象！

雖然掛病號, 食慾還是不錯！
不過更會耍小脾氣了！

092810' Lawrence

Ms. Woodall came to me and said that Lawrence goes and talks to her class everyday and smiles at her! She said that Lory is a bright boy!

Heather said that she saw Lory was walking with 3 girls (hand-in-hand)while she was bringing the lunch to Nat-Nat during lunch time. And that was a huge news for Lory c'z holding 3 girls hands (how?) and getting along with 'em freely... good boy!

Got 3 smily faces and 9 ticks at school today!

We found his snack pouch and "CLICK" at lost-and-found box!

092510' Lawrence

Chess homework: Use 2 knight pieces to capture all the opponent pieces.

092410' Lawrence- Year1 summer scrapbook winner!

2010 summer scrapbook

This summer we (Lawrence and I) spent some time to work on the summer scrapbook project. This project actually was assigned by the school before summer vacation but it's not a compulsory work. So, I thought it would be a great idea for Lawrence to start keep records on what he did throughout this summer.

It was a beyond description surprise that Lawrence did win this competition from his year group friends. Lawrence went on to the stage to accept this honor in front of everyone in Today's assembly. It truly was and will be a great encouragement on Lawrence, taking consideration that he was having a rather rough time during last semester.

Good job done, my Lory!

Principal, Mrs. Martin, also wrote a letter to Lawrence to honor him on winning this competition!

Dear Lawrence- You ARE A WINNER!

Thank you very much for your wonderful scrapbook. My daughter Sophie and my husband helped me to judge the competition and we all really enjoyed looking at all the scrapbooks. We particularly liked looking at the lovely drawings the children did, the photos they put in, and reading all the writing.

You obviously had a great summer Lawrence, going to so many interesting places and doing so many interesting things, you are a very lucky boy. It looks like you really enjoyed your holiday and putting your scrapbook together too. I loved all of the origami you did!

I hope you enjoy your prize, well done.

Well done.
Love from
R. Martin

092010' Lawrence

Today when I picked up Lawry at school, SEN teacher Nicole told me that I have to wait for another minute and I started to wonder why???

Then his teacher, Ms. Chang told me that "oh, he is enjoying his "Golden Time"!"

Guess what, teacher gave "tick" to those who followed the rules or behalf himself, and surprisingly my Lawry got 9 ticks yesterday! So, he got the golden time to do whatever he wish to do. Of course, he chose to play the on-line "educational" games.... speechless on his decision!

Also, Lawry started to bring back Turquoise color level (Level 7) book home (of course, accompanying with Orange color level (Level 6) book). Moving up 1 level in school reading! Well done, kiddo!

Lawry attended his 2nd Chess class (1.5HR) today, I was so afraid he couldn't make it to the end, but Teacher Tony said he was doing well in the class, and he did pay attention to what he was taught!

Today's homework: use 2 knight to capture all the opponent's 16 pieces.

091810' Lawrence

I found out Lawrence got 2 wobbly lower front tooth when helping out brushing his teeth last night.

One adult teeth just sprout right behind one of the wobbly one....

I started to worry about future expenses on orthodontic treatment!

091810' Zoe

早晨起來吃早餐

幫Zoe 準備好了之後, 將早餐放在她的面前

Zoe說：“謝謝媽媽幫我準備！“

你看！女兒就是這麼貼心～ umwa

媽媽說：Zoe, 說我愛你, 媽咪

Zoe 說：媽咪, 嘔艾泥～

（她的台灣國語腔還真正道地呢！）

竟然會背

春眠不覺曉, 處處聞提鳥, 夜來風雨聲, 花落知多少

其實約一週前不經意的唱出來...當時還含混著一首哥哥CD中的一首歌謠..做mix-match!

今天, 就很有自信的念唱出來囉～

091710' Lawrence

我和老妹發生爭執... 結果她趁著我下車接zoe時, 委屈地向Lawry訴苦

之後我一上車, Lawry 說：

媽, 你都沒有聽漂亮姨說話, （這件事情）她以前就說不要再這樣了...你還不聽....

那你以後叫我做事, 我也不要聽你的了

因為, 你自己也沒有做到（你說的話; 言外之意是我double standards）！

_ _||| 我簡直無言以對！

之後, 我忙著解釋我這麼做的原因之後, Lawry 接著說：

我知道....

可是, 你和漂亮姨說得都不一樣, 我都不知道要聽誰的了！

你們這樣讓我覺得我自己很不聰明耶

（覺得自己不聰明的感覺）這樣, 我很不開心耶！哼～

依舊無言啊！！！

091610' Lawrence

Lawry said:

媽, 你應該一次告訴我一件事！不要一次講很多事然後要我（照著）做

這樣我會不知道要先做什麼

而且會搞混！

老師分享樂樂上課時所做的表情; [ps]是老師的回饋留言

○喜

開 心

很開心

大 笑

[ps] 大笑看起來跟哭的表情一樣。

○怒

生 氣

一點生氣

[ps] 生氣跟很生氣一樣，要求要示範一點生氣，做起來比較像是想睡覺，但是

有露出牙齒。

○哀

傷 心

○憂

擔 心

累

[ps] 憂慮一詞不了解，改問擔心，表情跟生氣一樣。要釐清是表情或字詞不懂。

○懼

驚 訝

Dear 樂樂媽咪

樂樂最近的表現不錯

預計下周開始會有小朋友跟他一起上課

希望可以跟最近的表現一樣

可能除了人際互動的練習之外

會開始練習樂樂對於表情辨識的技巧

樂樂對於強烈的表情

比較有感受

對於細節的表情比較少

附件這是這週幫他照的表情

還真得滿可愛的

值得收藏起來喔

幫樂樂留一個紀錄

表情遊戲可以有空可以讓他多練練

因為表情辨識較弱

所有如果老師的表情比較少

樂樂的表現也就會比較好喔

Have a wonderful day

光光老師