So this morning M tells me he woke up at 4am, went back to sleep and woke up for the day at 5am. This isn't unusual for him, but it is unfortunate. He NEEDS sleep, but he rarely gets good sleep. At least when he sleeps til 7am he's getting a couple of hours more sleep, even if it isn't great sleep.
I decided that today we'd start off with writing. Writing is hard for M...all the rules and planning that go into writing are difficult for him. He also has really weak working memory, so things that he thinks of may not be remembered long enough to get put into the writing. That's something we are going to work on. I need to find some strategies that will work to help him increase his working memory. One thing I will start having him do is jot down ideas on a scrap piece of paper.
Back to the writing for today...we're starting off with the Grade 3 Daily 6 Trait book. He flew through the first 4 assignments, but is now to the assignment where he has to write a short thing about a topic he came up with in one of the assignments and he has stalled. His resource teacher told me he could bang out 3 or 4 paragraphs, but he's having trouble now getting started on writing just one. I'm not sure what to do.
Ok...it looks like he's chosen something else to write about and now he's writing. :D
He's also annoyed that he can't color his Day of the Dead skull yet. I told him he'd have to wait until my Weight Watchers meeting to do it. That way he'll have something to do while we are there. I really need to get a handle on my weight. My original plan had been that he and I would go to the gym right after dropping J off at school so that I could exercise for a few minutes and he could hang out with other kids. That hasn't happened yet. Granted, we're only on Day 5, but still...I had ideas...
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