Things are gradually improving. She is physically still not back to herself, but her stamina is improving. Hoping her weight check tomorrow is good news, or at least not bad news. Food wise, she seems to be on a much better schedule with snack coming earlier at school. This has kept away the metabolic crash, which in turn has made her eat less overall and feel better after school.
This week things will get put to the test. She now has a full schedule with swimming on Monday and Wednesday and soccer on Tuesday and Thursday. She will miss her first soccer game on Saturday to go to Mckenna's tournament.
I thought I'd include this story as part of the "how does Ayden Jane think" lessons. This weekend, Ayden Jane needed to complete a book project for school. She read the book City of Ember in a small group in her class. They also read or used to compare, the graphic novel of City of Ember. The assignment Ayden Jane needed to complete was a comic strip of 6 boxes telling of an event from the book.
Ayden Jane was seriously struggling. She had plenty of time to get started and possibly even finished while in class. She continued to stress over a blank piece of paper. The first thing she was stuck on what picking the event. I was not sure how much of the book she remembered/understood so i asked her to retell the story to me because I had not read it. I was very impressed.
I realized the problem was in picking an event. Ayden Jane wanted to do a comic on an event that was mentioned but not really explained in the book. We talked and she realized that would not work and chose another event. She did great. Then she was stuck while drawing the first frame. She thought the details she remembered (like shading of hair) had to be correct in the drawing. Ummm your in grade 4. No teacher would expect that. The other stuck item was she thought that the words the characters in her comic says had to be direct quotes of words the characters in the book say. How hard would that be??
Finally, after she understood the big picture of what the teacher wanted, she was able to do a fantastic job. Letting go of those details and getting to the main idea is hard for her. She often notices cool details that I do not and then connects what she notices in unique ways. It is a challenge to not lose the unique way she thinks but also help her understand the big picture. She is a good example of thinking differently, not wrongly. It makes for wonderful quotes like, "look Mom, God told the angels to paint the sky!" Or, "I know why they are called hoSPITals. Because they have spit in the middle and spit has germs."
Here's to unique! May she be able to comprehend language and communication well enough to operate with the world but not lose her unique view of life!
This week things will get put to the test. She now has a full schedule with swimming on Monday and Wednesday and soccer on Tuesday and Thursday. She will miss her first soccer game on Saturday to go to Mckenna's tournament.
I thought I'd include this story as part of the "how does Ayden Jane think" lessons. This weekend, Ayden Jane needed to complete a book project for school. She read the book City of Ember in a small group in her class. They also read or used to compare, the graphic novel of City of Ember. The assignment Ayden Jane needed to complete was a comic strip of 6 boxes telling of an event from the book.
Ayden Jane was seriously struggling. She had plenty of time to get started and possibly even finished while in class. She continued to stress over a blank piece of paper. The first thing she was stuck on what picking the event. I was not sure how much of the book she remembered/understood so i asked her to retell the story to me because I had not read it. I was very impressed.
I realized the problem was in picking an event. Ayden Jane wanted to do a comic on an event that was mentioned but not really explained in the book. We talked and she realized that would not work and chose another event. She did great. Then she was stuck while drawing the first frame. She thought the details she remembered (like shading of hair) had to be correct in the drawing. Ummm your in grade 4. No teacher would expect that. The other stuck item was she thought that the words the characters in her comic says had to be direct quotes of words the characters in the book say. How hard would that be??
Finally, after she understood the big picture of what the teacher wanted, she was able to do a fantastic job. Letting go of those details and getting to the main idea is hard for her. She often notices cool details that I do not and then connects what she notices in unique ways. It is a challenge to not lose the unique way she thinks but also help her understand the big picture. She is a good example of thinking differently, not wrongly. It makes for wonderful quotes like, "look Mom, God told the angels to paint the sky!" Or, "I know why they are called hoSPITals. Because they have spit in the middle and spit has germs."
Here's to unique! May she be able to comprehend language and communication well enough to operate with the world but not lose her unique view of life!
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