Froggy is making great progress at school. She's settled in enough now to misbehave now and then and I love that her teacher has a sense of humor about it. Usually though she behaves. She comes home with a "prize" every day so she's gotta be doing something right.
In a few days we should get her progress report home. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. On the one hand she got a great report last time and I've got no reason to expect anything different this time. On the other, a part of me is afraid that the first good progress report was beginning-of-the-year momentum. I know she's improving each week but I worry anyway.
She's developing a normal friend dynamic with her school friend. They won't play with anyone but each other and sometimes one gets jealous of the prize the other takes home at the end of the day. Friday, Froggy came home telling us all about how she "misses the whale" and how D took it home with her. Come to find out D got a whale squirty toy out of the prize box and Froggy wanted it. Her teacher seems to think it's cute for the most part. Like I've said before, I'm just tickled she even has a friend. It's even more exciting that they have girl squabbles and everything!
How are your kids coming along? Any news?
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Getting There
Little Froggy is doing well in school. She has a friend, which tickles me beyond words. Unfortunately she is also picking up some bad habits from a little boy in class. This little boy isn't as verbal as she is and I think his screaming fits stem partly from that, but Froggy doesn't have that excuse anymore. She's capable, even if she isn't willing.
So now we're back to screaming fits with the new addition of growling. Believe it or not, the screaming isn't the same as before. Before, there was this sound of frustration in it. Now, it's this indignant, how-dare-you-defy-me screech. If it wasn't ear-splitting and painful, I'd almost say it was impressive!
She's getting better in other ways though. Recently she's become obsessed with asking whether everyone is okay. It's precious but at the same time I'm worried that she's going to worry herself too much and make herself sick. She'll ask me a dozen times if I'm okay, and if I'm sitting with my eyes closed or with my head down she asks me that much more. Before he goes to work her daddy tells her to take care of me so I'm a little afraid it's giving her a complex. The flip side is that at least she's showing concern for someone other than herself or her toys, which is a big change from how things have been the last year or so. I'll take what I can get. :)
Her teacher is going to do an experiment in the classroom. Froggy scripts a great deal of what she says to people and most of what she says comes from her couple favorite tv shows and movies. Her teacher calls them movie phrases. She's had this idea to start using "classroom phrases" and trying to get Froggy to script off them and then gradually coax her into conversational language. Once she and her aid get it going they'll send a list of phrases home for us to work on. This should be a very interesting little experiment.
I've also discovered a website called MyAutismTeam. Maybe someone out there will find it useful. I'm still playing around with it so we'll see how that goes.
So now we're back to screaming fits with the new addition of growling. Believe it or not, the screaming isn't the same as before. Before, there was this sound of frustration in it. Now, it's this indignant, how-dare-you-defy-me screech. If it wasn't ear-splitting and painful, I'd almost say it was impressive!
She's getting better in other ways though. Recently she's become obsessed with asking whether everyone is okay. It's precious but at the same time I'm worried that she's going to worry herself too much and make herself sick. She'll ask me a dozen times if I'm okay, and if I'm sitting with my eyes closed or with my head down she asks me that much more. Before he goes to work her daddy tells her to take care of me so I'm a little afraid it's giving her a complex. The flip side is that at least she's showing concern for someone other than herself or her toys, which is a big change from how things have been the last year or so. I'll take what I can get. :)
Her teacher is going to do an experiment in the classroom. Froggy scripts a great deal of what she says to people and most of what she says comes from her couple favorite tv shows and movies. Her teacher calls them movie phrases. She's had this idea to start using "classroom phrases" and trying to get Froggy to script off them and then gradually coax her into conversational language. Once she and her aid get it going they'll send a list of phrases home for us to work on. This should be a very interesting little experiment.
I've also discovered a website called MyAutismTeam. Maybe someone out there will find it useful. I'm still playing around with it so we'll see how that goes.
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