Winter Jewels and IsoscelesTriangles and More!

Had a great lesson today... Ryan is so easily reading off the computer monitors theses days. had 9 different triangles and hand to determine if they were right triangles isosceles or equilateral triangles.. got them all correct!!!! Then they gave him word problems to figure out length of sides of triangles. Again..so easy for him .

This was a poem Ryan had to read in literature today. I asked him to interpret the poem in his own words...


Winter Jewels
A million little diamonds
Twinkled on the trees,
and all the little maidens said,
"A jewel if you please!"
But while they held their hands outstretched,
To catch the diamonds gay,
A million little sunbeams came
And stole them all away.
- Mary F. Butts

Ryan's interpretation of this poem:

YOUTHFUL MAIDEN TO TELL HOW SNOW MELTED. HOW UPSETTING

So, I asked him what is the metaphor in this poem. He spells:

TALKS KIND OF ABOUT SNOW...ON LIKE TREES AS JEWELS.

A very enjoyable school day!

OH!

So we just finished with our online class.. There is one other boy who does rpm and Ryan and the teacher in the virtual classroom. She teaches for one hour on a virtual classroom site.. with a white board. Ryan and the other boy are in different grades so she divides the screen so each boy can show their work... and many times gives different levels of work for each boy.

Well the teacher did only one math word problem for both boys to solve today. Ryan got one answer the other boy got another answer. So the teacher, trying to make the one boy feel better about making a mistake... talked about how she makes mistakes and how mistakes are fine... and kept trying to reassure the boys that the mistakes are just part of life...



Remember Ryan is more auditory than visual.. so she didn't actually say aloud and emphasize who made the mistake (again, as to not upset the other boy).. Well, she fixed the mistake on the boys side of the white board.(visual) The session ends and Ryan immediately is upset.. He starts crying and I said what is wrong? RYAN IS UPSET MADE MISTAKE? Let me tell you ...that was the furthest thing from my mind.. I of course was thinking he was sick of learning.. NOPE... He was upset he made a mistake in Math. So get this... I looked right at him and said NO ....... it wasn't you Ryan....xxx made the mistake and your answer was correct. ... He stopped crying.. I mean immediately.... instantly smiled.. yes .. a smile!...and spelled ...get this ... OH.. hands me back the pencil. It was so appropriate and his smile so appropriate.... yes.. it was so typical.... in expression and comment and remember ..he is auditory... so she really never said clearly who had made the mistake.

What is most important is this has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE I have never seen him act in a way that he was able to shut off his emotions so quickly and to combine a smile and a comment that was so direct and percise as it relates to the situation. I believe the pathways and the connections in his brain are becoming more integrated, do to the choice of sensory integration techniques we have been focused on.(Speech,PT,OT,RPM)
Yes, one incident .. however in the last 4 months family and outsiders have noticed an increase in the pace of cognitive processing he exhibits.

His senses are being integrated .............. I am no doctor but to see this happen is a milestone for Ryan in my opinion.

Weaping and the Crabs!

Ryan had is friends over Kate and Andrew..we were all watching a movie and everyone was talking and having fun.. Ryan left............ and I followed him and I said . your friends are here why are you running away.. and he said RYAN NOT WANT KATE TO SEE RYAN WEAPING RYAN WANTS TO TALK. ..so.. we both hugged and as I was trying not to fall to pieces we prayed and asked God again together to help us.. and then I said ..I will talk for you you just tell me what you want to say and I will talk for you .. so he said... RYAN SO HAPPY YOU BOTH ARE RYANS FRIEND Then I said..hey.. you can ask about Andrews crabs he keeps .. and RYAN SAID CRABS DIE Well... Ryan seems happier after talking he told me he was a while later. but we go upstairs and I told Andrew hey I told ryan to ask you about your crabs and ryan said they died...... Andrews face lite up. yah..but they lived longer then any on my friends crabs!!!!...on went the conversation and they all thought it was funny cause Ryan corrected his MOM!!

I am tentative!

So, Watching a Soma dvd Ryan and I asked him how can I be a better teacher for you......
and he said

RYAN HONESTLY REALLY VERY BORD WITH YOUR TEACHING....

Well, yep.. that made my day! So I said ok.. what is your favorite subject if I could just teach you one thing.. listed off. science history etc. and he said

RYAN LIKES READING STORY

Well... I said ok Literature... then I said.. why is it that you don't like to listen to the stories Mrs. Weber tell on line anymore and get this............... Ryan says..

RYAN IS TENTATIVE SHE TOLD STORY THAT WAS SO SAD!!

oh.. he is so right on with that comment!!.. Yes she did! I said.. I know.. I totally agree ...she told this story about a boys dog( Stone Fox) whose dog falls over dead minutes before he wins a dog sled race just shy of the finish line.. they end up carrying the dog over the finish line.!!

so I agree and now I know why yesterday when she did another book he was running away!!!

Now what to do..I told him I would talk to her and make sure the next story is happy or we are not listening ..so there! LOL!!