1/25/2006--Meetings for Kindy
Well, we are in the process of setting up meetings for kindergarten. Right now he is 5 and is in a preschool class room. They actually teach most of what kindergarten does but it allows him speech therapy.
I have a meeting on the 2nd of February, just to inform them that he will be attending school. Then we will set up a bunch of meetings to test him. The IEP and the current preschool will send all the reports to the school district which will enable us to enroll him in special education. He mainly needs it for speech.
He is making small improvements in his speech. He can speak longer sentences but still can speak long strings of gibberish. But we are making progress and that is a big plus.
They informed us at one of our meetings that we needed to improve his memory and I'm not sure what type they are talking about. We repeat everything, make him repeat it. We play the game memory which he whips my butt in..LOL Seriously, I don't help him with it at all but he does excellent. I think they are talking about being able to recall things from a story. Like remembering what color a dog was on the previous page and such.
But we we were working more in our preschool workbooks and he does pretty good with most of the things. There are some items that can confuse him and I mark those pages so we can go back. Like which has less of something. He does great at more but less confuses him.
*He can write his whole name (first and last) which makes me laugh because a family member once told me he wouldn't be able to spell his first name. We never setteled for writing Chris but kept going til he could spell Christian. I told his teacher last year to not shorten it when they would practice.
*He can count to 30 (I haven't tried higher)
*of course he knows his ABC's
*He finally likes to sing songs and remembers them now. He used to hate singing.
*Knows his days of the week and even sings the song for them.
I know I missing a lot of the things. To some of you that may be small things but when you have a child who starts their life 2 1/2 months early, these are big things. Of course he can do the normal things most kids his age does. I'm just speaking academically.
Well I'm off. While he is at preschool, I have to get busy!
I have a meeting on the 2nd of February, just to inform them that he will be attending school. Then we will set up a bunch of meetings to test him. The IEP and the current preschool will send all the reports to the school district which will enable us to enroll him in special education. He mainly needs it for speech.
He is making small improvements in his speech. He can speak longer sentences but still can speak long strings of gibberish. But we are making progress and that is a big plus.
They informed us at one of our meetings that we needed to improve his memory and I'm not sure what type they are talking about. We repeat everything, make him repeat it. We play the game memory which he whips my butt in..LOL Seriously, I don't help him with it at all but he does excellent. I think they are talking about being able to recall things from a story. Like remembering what color a dog was on the previous page and such.
But we we were working more in our preschool workbooks and he does pretty good with most of the things. There are some items that can confuse him and I mark those pages so we can go back. Like which has less of something. He does great at more but less confuses him.
*He can write his whole name (first and last) which makes me laugh because a family member once told me he wouldn't be able to spell his first name. We never setteled for writing Chris but kept going til he could spell Christian. I told his teacher last year to not shorten it when they would practice.
*He can count to 30 (I haven't tried higher)
*of course he knows his ABC's
*He finally likes to sing songs and remembers them now. He used to hate singing.
*Knows his days of the week and even sings the song for them.
I know I missing a lot of the things. To some of you that may be small things but when you have a child who starts their life 2 1/2 months early, these are big things. Of course he can do the normal things most kids his age does. I'm just speaking academically.
Well I'm off. While he is at preschool, I have to get busy!
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