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Trying to Find a routine

11/4/2013

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At the beginning of the school year, I knew I wanted Hope to do a type of "Workbox" system.  But right now, the biggest challenge is to get her to come to the table and work on a task. 

Today she was able to accomplish 2 activities at the table.  I was very happy.
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She did a cut & paste activity.  (I did the cutting part - Hope is working with her OT on scissor skills.)
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Then she worked on handwriting.
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After Hope completed  each activity, she hung them on the refrigerator.   
Then it was time for an art project.  So we headed out to the yard to collect some leaves.
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Once we had our leaves, we returned inside to do a glue activity.  Hope does NOT like to touch glue - she hates the sticky feeling.  So I was happy that she did so nicely on this.

She started with a template of a tree that her therapist drew.
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She added some glue. 
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Then it was time to add the leaves from outside.
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When Hope was done gluing, she wrote her name.
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All done!
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I thought she did a great job. 
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Trick or Treat

11/1/2013

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I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween! 

This was the first year that Hope went trick or treating and "got" it.  In the past, it was more  like just dragging her along with us.  She wasn't a part of the experience.    But this year, she proved to me that she understood what was going on.  She said  "Happy Halloween" and "trick or treat" several times throughout the night.  Last year, she could not say either.  So that alone was huge to us. 

We headed out around 5:00.  Julia dressed as a cat and Hope was Cinderella.  Julia's friend joined us as well.
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Ross wore his annual costume.  (He didn't shave for a year.) 
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Hope went up and up and down our whole street.  Then she was done. Ross returned home with her and handed out candy to the kids while I went with Julia, her friend and her friend's mom to the other streets in our neighborhood. 

It was a fun night.
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    I am a homeschooling mom who lives in New York State and homeschools my 2 daughters.  My oldest is 19 and Dyslexic and my youngest, who is 12,  was diagnosed with profound Autism. 

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