Our Day

Thought I would post a little more of what our day is looking like right now.


Here is Hannah doing one of her phonics books. She is working on her new sound (th).


Here, having her mouth sound cards beside her paper helps her to make a decision on which sound she is making. Example would be 'bath'. She says 'baff', not uncommon, so we are retraining and reinforcing, by having her see what her mouth is doing (we do use a mirror if needed) and seeing what my mouth is doing.


So in this simple phonics lesson she is working her speech therapy, working her phonics, and working her positioning of sounds. You can't see the horse in this picture, but she is using it to determine where in the word the (th) sound is found in the word.


FYI These mouth cards are: top-t,d middle-f,v bottom-th, hard and soft

Caleb is here working at his desk.

Couple things to notice are the ever present timer to keep him aware that time is passing.

The new add on it the head phones. He is much better able to focus with them on.

Our final transition in the last couple of weeks was doubling up! Actually we do double of half our subjects on one day and double the other half the next day. Erinn's idea. For some reason we have seen an AMAZING improvement in Caleb's school since implementing this set up. My guess is he feels there is less to do and it is easier to accomplish for him this way.

So a small peak into our changes.