Tuesday was a good day, I printed out ‘Tokens’ for Ross to earn, each one gives him 15 minutes computer time for games.
This let me get past the initial refusal, so I was able to build some confidence and show Ross he can do it.
Second time we’ve done this sheet, but this time Ross put pennies out and actually counted out the answers by himself. Answer of 5 = red, 8 = yellow.
Not a problem, he was really pleased with himself.
He did work out the pattern and started just saying the colour, but we continued using the coins and he continued to get them right.
Matching phonics with pictures, very basic but as Ross has refused all literacy before I was please that he even did it, he can read the difference between ‘map’ and ‘mat’ and ‘pip’ and pan’. We will continue and try to build his confidence.
Wednesday had a lazy day playing in the sunshine as Ross had a late night. Also went to a play session in Northwich.
Ross found a nice building block set and started building himself a ‘Television’ with a toy tool kit he went and found. Unfortunately other younger children got too close and of course wanted to touch what he had, which annoyed him. Ross turned the TV into a wall and set up all the tools as weapons.
Eventually Ross put all the blocks away in their box, carefully stacking them symmetrically. He played outside and calmed down, refused the snack as before and left happily.
Again Ross stands out in a group as being very different, staff and parents all noticed.
