Week Three.

A new week and some new tasks to get to grips with. School sent children home with their magnetic boards to help learn phonetics (a new letter added daily) and Vee just doesn't take in information in a conventional way so we need to get some assessment of her learning style done formally (she isn't a phonetic learner either). That may be tricky...

We don't do a lot on a Monday afternoon, she is often quite shell shocked almost and incredibly tired. So we did the magnetic board and she then chose to play some games on the computer. Her style of holding the mouse is unique but it works for her and gets the job done! I can leave the room for a few minutes and nothing bad happens, we did have a few missing files in the first week though!

After she had some computer time we had another play on one of the dinosaur apps and she then went off to play with her favourite toys and to relax. 



On Tuesday there was more work on the magnetic board and we practised more base skills for learning handwriting. A few weeks ago I found this wonderful book in Waterstones, I can recommend the Collins range, great for the core skills require to hold a pencil and maintain control. 

 This sort of movement is quite tricky and I was really impressed at the control Vee had once she was focused.

I ordered and received a writing slope this week. Vee's hypermobility and hypotonia (coupled with an interesting pencil grasp) mean it's hard for her to retain control and maintain her writing consistently. We use pencils with a ribbed circular grip to cushion the pressure on her supporting middle finger. 

The Posturite writing slope was really expensive but for us it is worth it as our other two children benefit from using one and use one at their school desk. This thing will never break so we'll be using it for years. Up until now I had been using an A4 ring binder which is sufficient. 

 To round off the week we visited the library on Thursday, we had a chat about the lovely Marigold's on our way in too. Her class go to the library on a Thursday afternoon and as ours is only 10 minutes walk it is a lovely way to end the week (Edinburgh operates a half day on a Friday so no home learning on a Friday afternoon). 

 Vee helped to scan the books she chose using the 'self help' machine after choosing and playing with the library toys!