05 June 2008

Class Picnic

Thank you to everyone who commented or emailed about a reading program. I have a bunch of programs to look at now and a week before Julia is finished with school for the summer. I have an idea of doing our work together first thing in the morning. Julia will be going to camp for six weeks and will be riding on a bus that leaves from her school at 8:30 each morning. My thought, if I can get organized and stay motivated, is to get up as if we were going to school at 7:30 and spend the extra hour doing our reading work.

Tonight, we went to the end of the year picnic for Julia's class. Christy, Julia's teacher, pairs with another class taught by Jane. They planned a few activities during the year -- an ice cream party in the fall, ice skating in the winter and then this spring picnic. (We never got to do the ice skating although it was scheduled three times. We had a snow storm, much too cold weather, and a melt.) This is also a group of parents who are pretty good cooks. We had home made dumplings, pasta salad, pizza (okay, that was bought), fried chicken, salads of all sorts, and Desserts. And Julia had fund eating lots of different foods.
The above picture is of Julia and her aide, Amy. Amy has been an incredible help to Julia and they are very close. We are so very lucky to have Amy as part of our village. Julia has flourished with Amy's steady hand.
Christy told me that Julia comes to her when someone does something that hurts her. She has done this for a little while but now Julia uses better sentences to tattle to her teacher. Christy said that Julia is breaking through to some new stuff right now -- a fuller view of her world, noticing more specifics around her. She also has almost stopped her intense stuttering. She is using more and longer sentences at home as well.

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