A friend of mine describes her life lately as it looks like a demolition crew went through her house. She’s been so busy canning. I’m jealous as I simply have no clue how to do that. That same demolition crew stopped at my house....but I promise I didn't send them her way! Mine is just from moving. I swear there are boxes, mismatched socks, and stuff waiting for a permanent home EVERYWHERE. Also, it seems like when the place you are looking at is empty, you can envision your furniture and such there. But as you fill it, it always runs out of room. AAAAGGGGG MAKE IT STOP!!!!
Rueben’s IEP meeting was yesterday. It went pretty well considering I thought it was going to be one of those disastrous meetings where school officials think they know your child better than you do after 2-3 days of the school session beginning for the year. Rueben qualifies for services in reading (which includes all aspects of reading: phonics, grammar, language, handwriting etc.), behavior, speech, and math. This year, his speech will also include a communications class in which Rueben will be taught conversational skills from a teacher, but with the help of peer educators. Rueben seems rather comfortable around adults and would rather not deal with children. And even though he’s more comfortable with adults, he doesn’t have the skills necessary that almost come to us automatically. Start, stop, or continue a conversation. Asking if he can play with others, sharing a toy, taking turns reciprocally. He will also be working on the proper way to say both regular and irregular verbs in the past tense. His favorite terms is “I goed” since he just doesn’t accept that the word is “went.” This is the first year that Math will be included in the IEP. Last year, in the Oklahoma district, he qualified for a temp aide in the afternoon just to keep him focused and on task. He happened to have Math in the afternoon, but it was just someone helping him sit at his desk. They’ve written into the IEP a service in which Rueben can get one on one and small group instruction, homework help, and his tests can be read to him aloud. Though it is written into the IEP, the SPED staff and I agree that at this point, Rueben is at grade level in Math skills. He will not be receiving Math services at this time. If there comes a time that he begins to slip behind, since it’s already in the IEP, I’ll have to sign one paper to get his services started instead of waiting for him to be 2 letter grade levels behind and then testing his abilities to see if he qualifies for assistance, he will be able to jump right into his services. So far, Rueben is right on task, but he’s bringing home timed tests in which there are 75 problems and he’s only finishing 3 or 4. Our biggest obstacle as far as his academic skills and not any particular subject is keeping him on task and getting him to finish things.
Overall, the SPED teacher, who I originally thought would be a problem, is on Rueben’s team and ready to help him in any way he needs it. All of the ladies at the meeting took what I had to say into consideration. Some of my suggestions they had not even thought of and they are now going to implement them immediately. At this time, however, we do not have any suggestions on how to stop just taking his things away. Rueben’s classmates have all their things at their desks and function quite fine. Rueben’s pencil box, contents thereof, books, papers, folders etc are all removed from his desk and only given to him when he needs them. He’s also loosing his shoes pretty frequently. He starts playing with them and trying to unlace them, so the teacher takes them away. I’m a bit concerned that this will be a cause of ridicule for Rueben from his classmates. I’m not sure what to do.
Today is clean house day. I’ve been cleaning all morning. At some point, I have to attack my floor. Not so much scouring as just basic picking up, organizing and such. Laundry…the usual stuff. I’m making a list of all the things I want to have put in the house from the storage shed and vise versa. I’ll be calling a local thrift store to come and pick up about 12 boxes and 3 or 4 pieces of furniture. No sense junking it if they can still be used. Hope you all have a great day!!
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