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Gracie day

Today I focused on Gracie's homeschooling. I've had some struggles with... motivation... for Ana this week, but she's doing better with that, so I was able to give Ana her handwriting work and then let her play StarFall while I worked with Gracie.

Gracie's work is revolving around the Ipad that we were gifted for her. I have an old baby mitten that I cut a hole in to help her isolate her pointer finger. Today, I put a tube of foam inside her hand for her fingers to wrap around as this sometimes cues her to keep the other fingers closed. Then her hand and the foam went into the mitten and her pointer finger out the hole. It worked pretty well.

We started with an easy shape game (Shapes for Toddlers app) - she rocked that one! I still have to hold her elbow so she doesn't overshoot the Ipad - I'm working on a set-up for this. So I even closed my eyes so that I wouldn't be subconsciously guiding her. She KNOWS her shapes - did awesome!

Then we moved to a different game that was a bit more complex ("which one is round" etc.) and she did pretty good. She got stuck on things that didn't surprise me like, "which ones are pets."

Finally, we worked on her actually communication app (Proloquo2). She was tired by then but caught on to getting hugs, kisses, and tickles for touching the right icons. The Ipad definitely holds real promise for her if she can get her fine motor under control!

Then we did read alouds and cooking - all in her wheelchair with tray for good positioning.

What a bright girl!

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