Day 8 3/30/15

Blog 8

3/30/15

 

            Today I worked with Finny and a few of my peers.  We started the lesson by running around and racing. During this instant activity Finny did not want to follow directions and darted whatever direction he wanted.  It was almost as if he wanted me to chase him.  I did not want to encourage this darting behavior so I told Finny he had to make another choice.  He decided he wanted to use the scooter. I would pull him and he would hold onto the handles of the jump rope. He really enjoyed this. I was happy to see how Finny was using his upper body muscles to move about. He kept saying he wanted to go fast. In the gymnasium we were in there was two college students throwing a football back and forth. This is actually a type of inclusion when two groups are sharing a space. Finny wanted to play with the guys who were playing football. I had to explain to him that that was their space and this was ours. He darted over to them anyways. The students were very good with Finny. They gave them their football but I told them that we had to play in our own space. I directed Finny back to our side of the gym and explained to him about space. I told him again about the difference between our space and others space. I told him if he wanted to play with a football he just had to use his words and ask.  We eventually found a football and we practiced throwing.  I was happy to see that Finny was now staying on his side of the gym. After we were done playing football I had Finny try a new type of scooter. On this scooter he sat on his bottom and grabbed handles that he moved back and forth to move about.  I was happily surprised at how fast Finny picked this up.  He was going pretty fast and seemed to have control at all times.  He would still be sneaky and try to go on the other side of the gym.  I would just redirect him and showed him where he was allowed to go.  Overall, I think we made great progress today.  I keep discovering what Finny enjoys to do.  Next class I would like to continue to work with the new scooter.