T t Turtle

We've been working on Tt Turtle for the last two weeks with the words to remember: "I don't quit, I persevere."  Here is the story of our days in pictures...

Nora made a turtle with pattern blocks using this template.  This week we focused a lot on puzzles and orienting shapes in certain ways.  This has been a difficult task for Nora but she is really improving and enjoying her work.

Picture Box Activity from My Father's World.  Every week she cuts out the pictures starting with the letter we are working on.  After 6 weeks she has built up a little box of pictures so she mixes them up into a pile and sorts each picture according to the starting sound.   Easy Peasy.

MFW worksheet - put the X over the pictures that don't start with the letter T.  Also easy for her at this point.  I remember the first time we did one of these and she had no clue how to draw an X.  It was surprisingly difficult.  Now look at those beautiful X's!

Her physical therapist still comes every Tuesday and Thursday.  Claire and Lucy join in.

Grocery Shopping.  She was mad at the turkey here because it was too cold and didn't cooperate as a pillow.

We went to the park later than usual and saw tons of deer - at least 40 scattered throughout the park!  This is just one shot of many.  They were everywhere.  

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We finally set up our thanksgiving decorations with ideas from here and here.  We finally had our piano moved upstairs. It's so great to be able to sing together and hear Mark play.  Plus, now I have a sort of mantle!  I've always wanted one.

She can curl up anywhere as long as she has her blanket

Playing with waterbeads

Bubble bath

Matching Game: Lucy was supposed to rolled the die (from a Scategories game which has all capitals) and Claire would identify the letter and find the textured capital letter.  Then Nora's job was to find the lowercase. 

It took waaaaay longer than I thought and some of the players left early.  After this photo was taken they started to use the couch as a springboard to jump on to the coffee table and knock all the letters off.  I freaked out.   But all in all I think it was fun for Nora and slightly educational.

 

Melissa and Doug Cube Puzzle - Turtle

At the playground with our neighbors

Building letters with foam shapes (templates found here)

We watched "Turtle: An Incredible Journey" and we read some books on Sea Turtles during the week.  I set up a sensory box area using this idea and these figures.  

Playing with the busy bag that Rachel made.  She loved these playdough mats!

Tangram puzzles

Turtle Tangram

Color by number

Claire and Nora's Sea Turtles

Connect the dots turtle found here

Lucy eating markers

She learned to get herself water from the filter this week.  I am amazed at how capable they are.  I had a migraine earlier in the week and I put on a video and tried to snooze on the couch for an hour.  I heard Nora ask Lucy if she needed a diaper change.  Nora changed her.  Then I heard Lucy ask for water.  Right away, Nora went to get her water.  Lucy promptly spilled it.  Nora got a towel and mopped it up.  Thank you, sweetie.  You are amazing.

She played a game where she had to reach in the bag and feel the textured letter to guess what it was

And that's the end of our Tt is for turtle unit.  Happy thanksgiving!