Done!
I’ve planned and prepared Micaiah’s Maths and Language lessons for tomorrow and JUST realised that once again, I put the wrong date for tomorrow’s Maths.🤦🏾♀️ Mow just for the two girls and school prep for tomorrow will be done.
But how about today?
This girl jumps around like ANYTHING! So all my photos are blurred. She had asked for wafer biscuits. Let’s take a detour down a well known path if you’re a regular here. Her twin eats a lot. Her appetite was always large but the anti psychotic makes it worse. At the same time, part of all their sensory diet is to have crunchy things or cold things … So when Twin B asks for “ yor-gurt” or “cookie,” then Twin A also wants something to eat. This has meant that we get as much sugar-free as possible. Today’s request by Naynay (Twin A) was wafers. But she hadn’t finished her breakfast. When I was done with teaching her for the morning, I told her she could have a wafer after she finished her food. Off she went to go eat at the dining room table while I got ready.
Just as I started teaching her sister, she came running back to the room, telling me she had finished her food and I had to go and SEE HER PLATE! Why?? I believed she’d finished! I really didn’t need to go see. 😆But, I went anyway As I turned the corner, she told me it was a “surprise” so I should close my eyes. She exclaimed, “ Ta daa!!” and I allowed her to “ surprise” me with a plate she’d already told me was empty! Parenting is crazy!
And what about school itself? She didn’t want to read this book. Why not? She felt the girl in the wheelchair would make her cry because she felt so sad for her! Tell me autistics don’t have emotions! I’ve seen adult autistics who say they sometimes SEEM shut down but that’s because they have too much emotion and are trying to control it. That is Naynay to a tee! She feels strongly! Did I tell you about the time her twin was upset and crying? She couldn’t urinate though she needed the toilet badly because she was “ so worried” about her sister!
She has a heart! She even gave me a hug when I helped her ‘sore finger’ feel better by putting a plaster on it and told me I’m a great doctor!🥰Lack of ‘feelings’ is not universal and I don’t even know if it’s even common for autistics like they claim it is!
But she read the book! I told her the girl would not be sad and I prayed I was telling the truth!
Whew!
Nobody who “looks like a princess” will make you cry.
This was a bit of our Maths with her older sister. It just occurred to me as I typed this that I share a lot of what dyscalculia and dysgraphia are like on my YouTube channel but not here. This is dyscalculia in action and this while using the curriculum designed for children with dyscalculia. I am VERY sure that many children are being overlooked and being forced to fail maths because nobody in their space realises there’s a condition like this. I wonder how many have been called stupid or told they aren’t focusing.
For the afternoon, I set up Khan Academy assignments for them.
Naynay had some b vs d issues in the morning when typing words so I made her practice – hence the second assignment in the list.
Lowercase E is a difficult letter so I got him to practice seeing it and tracing it with his finger.
Little Miss Ammy has trouble writing all letters in lower case so today was her e day too. As you can see, her ADHD doesn’t let her focus as well as the others can and she didn’t even try the reading ‘monitoring’ assignment. So I’ll make her do it in the morning with her meds still fresh.
And that, folk, was a very quick glimpse of our school day. I also created a new Afrikaans learning video for them which I’ll play for them tomorrow.
They said I should write a book 