Seriously doing the happy dance here. And Mark was as well. He grumped his way through reading. Then grumped his way through Word ID, so I was expecting spelling to be tantrums. And it wasn't. In fact when we started, he was grinning. And he kept grinning all the way through!!!! We used the chalkboard and alphabet magnets today. And he loved it. He put the correct letter on top of the written letter every time. And only had to be told he had the wrong letter twice. (Note: told, no HOH.) Then halfway through, he started doing it L to R without prompting! He got major hugs and cheers for that, which kept him on track for L to R for the remainder of the words. I had only originally planned 4 words but quickly changed it to 10 since he was doing so well. And spelling ended on a majorly positive note! (And I think Mark was as happy about that as I was!)
And his reward, which he loved just as much, was free play with the cookie cutters and Model Magic. Now he's out bouncing.
I'm only going to list one program today (there are more) because the focus of this blog is supposed to be how Mark is doing. And this has turned out to be one of his more favored programs. I'll try to list one each day as we keep going.
The program is Kids Preschool Puzzles by Intellijoy. http://www.intellijoy.com/
This program provides shape jigsaw puzzles for the kids. The number of pieces varies. And so far he's managed to solve every one of them without any assistance. No it's not the same as a regular jigsaw puzzle because the pieces can't be upside down, backwards, etc. But it is good for making him focus, compare shapes and moving them together. And even on a rough day, he can easily, and happily, do four or five of the puzzles. It provides skills, and fun.
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