Speech Day!

Today Monster had speech therapy, with B. We go once a month.
B is a speech pathologist in the community centre, and she's been really great with Monster, he's quite drawn to her compared to our old speechie, K, who I really got along with.
Today we got some new vocab sheets to work on and we're working on promoting choices again, extending the words used in the choices - so "red apple or green grapes", "red apple or red grapes" and "red apple or green apple" are all valid options, different part 1 + different part 2, different part 2 + same part 1 or different part 1 + same part 2. We've been doing one word choices for ages now, and started spontaneously extending it recently, so B thinking its a good idea definitely tells me that we're heading in the right direction - both Monster + I (plus my Mr) and as a team with B.

We reused yesterday's yellow goop, complete with choices with words Monster doesn't normally use - sticky or smooth, bumpy, runny or pastey, drip and the normal ones - yellow and cold. Today rather than just putting his feet in it, he ended up sitting in it!

Beginnning Tot School

Being a stay at home Mum is HARD sometimes, and honestly, I know I often run low on ideas. Coming from an Early Childhood Education background, its not exactly a confidence booster and it feels a little low - I used to teach 15 kids a day (shared a room of 4 - 6 year olds with another teacher daily, 2 separate teachers through the week) and I can't even work out what to do with my own kids? Kids who I can take out to the park without a permission note, helpers and a bucketload of organisation?

SO this year is about pulling my socks up and teaching these kids both the normal things (we chew with our mouths closed, how to put on socks, new words to say and what they mean, to say thank you and how to listen... ha, stay tuned, that one might happen by the time they turn 18!), and the extras - science, math, sensory activities, art and craft, the beauty of independance and technology. I'm sure there will be plenty more along the way, but they're just my starters!