His Term 3 has just ended and was an eventful 10 weeks for him and all other childrens in school getting to appreciate Animals. They got to enjoy 2 outings for the first times in a term with visit to Singapore Zoo & Kids kampong Animal farm, offering an opportunity to promote interest to the kids on different types of animals, understand on its whole & parts, sound and action as well as learn some of the vocabulary associated with the Animal Theme. Kudos to all the EIP Teachers for doing such a great job and create positive impact to the children in this special communitiesWe are very happy for our Little STAR to have come this far in his learning journey and what is important he still enjoying every bit of it, he is our pride and joy. His weakest link has always been due to his lack in proper sensory integration and hence we have engaged more to elevate his learning via sensory approach to compliment his main core of learning at EIP. His weakness in Art & Craft has always been a challenge and we are determined to improve him by working with his special educator on his foundation for writing and drawing skill development to compensate this lack. Hand-eye co-ordination, line/curve tracking, visual and finger co-ordination & colouring within boundary are some integral part of this fine motor learning. We hope to see some frutiful results in Term 4.
Before end of term, our little STAR also has the previledge to take his blesing in giving thank you card to his teachers and others which I shared via email in appreciation via video msg from my little STAR, we are indeed very fortunate to have a special education team which are working and creating positive impact to Fabian & other children in continuous progress.His ST has been doing great with more resources provided in variation to elevate his expressive language in sentence construction and working on different pictures comprehension to cover more of the 12 aspect of learning mentioned in my early post. Some of the concept development provided for such as "Bubble", "Water", "Slide", "Ice-cream", "Apple & Banana are also
useful for him to understand and generalize the concept with Yes/No and also Wh & How questions after that.On the literacy front, he has learnt new song "Little Peter Rabbit", also been work on quiet reading & story telling, with "look & listen" 2-part instruction, form sentence relate to what, colour, function,action and feeling, what he love to do & why etc..?
For numeric, using 2 parts instruction look & listen to introduce ordinal number of 1st, 2nd, 3rd to 6th, concept of more, less, fewer & many. Continue with money value 10, 20, 30 cts. Doing addition worksheet within 10, writing homework fr 1-50, problem solving using "How many altogether". Time telling in half hour interval.
He is enjoying his kindermusiz as well, learning to listen & follow, imitate action, socialize and doing co-ordination work on passing object like egg shaker with music(ie take from one hand & transfer to the other hand before pass to his peer next to him, with slow and fast passing in variation), improve his body joint co-ordination such as tip toe or walk on heel which he has greatly benefitted.He is currently in his 3 cycles of disc 5 week 1 on the sound therapy.
My Mrs & I had attended the PCN for end of term just few hours back and found the session very enriching & fun especially the warm up team building game, inputs were shared for mutual acknowledgement and all parents naturally understand how each parents like us are feeling: some days hope is what we need, other days hope is what we have, we must continue to walk on this life long journey with love, and love without fear. Every challenges there is always a solution, it is how we think and act positively that matter.
Look forward to new Term 4 and also to make thing happen and possible for my little Star on first day of Term opening to ready next year challenge.
Winners Statement:-
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better'' (John Updike)
lovely. thanks for sharing Mr. Tan.
ReplyDeleteGripStrength and handwriting
ReplyDeleteHandTutor can help to improve children's eye hand co-ordination and treat children with fine motor skill problems e.g. poor handwriting and cutting etc. The HandTutor provides active exercises through rehabilitation games that can train and improve the specific deficit in the ability of the child to use the appropriate grip strength thumb and index finger) to hold the pencil or pen. Fine motor training intended to improve this disability needs to work on exercises that teach the child how to balance the strength in the index finger and thumb flexor (closing) and extensor (opening) muscles.