Blog 10
4/6/15
I
worked with Finny again today. Before
class I picked out a variety of equipment to use. I think that having a variety of equipment gives
me as a teacher more variety in the type of activities that I do. I picked out two types of scooters, hula
hoops, jump ropes and pool noodles. I
started off the lesson by getting down to Finny's level and telling him some
things we were going to be working with today.
He explained that he was very excited to go swimming. I changed things up today and gave Finny the
choice of what equipment he wanted to start with. He chose the scooter that he could lay down
on. He actually wanted me to start off
sitting on the scooter while he pulled. I agreed and assisted him by moving my
feet. After about a minute I told Finny
it was his turn. He started laying on
his belly and held onto the jump rope handles as I pulled him. This time I decided to really make him
work. I instructed him to use him arms
and pull on the rope to go faster. He
did a great job and pulled himself along.
I verbally encouraged Finny which helped motivate him even more. I feel he got a whole lot more out of this activity
than he had in the past. Instead of me
doing all the work and him just holding onto the rope he had to use his arms to
maneuver himself around. When we were on
the other side of the gym Finny stopped pulling himself and darted towards our equipment. Dr. Davis was passing through the gym and
told me not to let Finny get away with this.
He instructed me to go get Finny and make him clean up his own equipment
if he wanted to be all done. I was happy
that I got this criticism from Dr. Davis.
Obviously Finny has done this darting behavior before and it is
something I want to work on with him. After we were done with the scooter we worked
with the new scooter like we did last time.
After Finny wanted to be all done he started to get up and out of the
scooter. I asked Finny if he wanted to
make another choice. He said yes, I
reminded him what we had to do with our equipment when we were done and he
moved the scooter over to our space. Dr.
David told me that it was good to work with Finny on movements across the
midline. I wanted to give this a try so
I came up with a game with the hula hoop.
I know Finny enjoys rolling the hoop so I let him have a roll then he
stood in the hoop and did three different tasks that I was modeling. I would have him touch his opposite toe, sit
and reach across the midline and other tasks.
If he did not get the task I would use tactile modeling to direct him to
the correct motion. After three tasks he
could roll the hoop again and we would do three more and so forth. Overall, today went great. I discovered more things I want to work on
with Finny. I am excited to work on
these things next time!
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