Last Friday, Nevaeh had a great time with Joy her OT, exploring new textures and smells, and drawing again with cool pens- on the windows no less! Nevaeh also practiced her fine motor skills, coordination, and concentration by doing some threading. She is really enjoying the OT sessions and showing a lot of patience. She’s enjoying to get to know Joy and it shows 🙂
Last week Nevaeh had a really great session with Andy. She had lots of fun stacking/building, and got to show off her fine motor and problem solving skills, as well as work on her physical strength by stretching and reaching her arms as her tower got bigger. Once built, Nevaeh really enjoyed choosing different coloured balls to send down the tower and was really engaged with the activity as well as her communication. Nevaeh has been really open to trying and enjoying new things, and we’re all very proud!
This week, Nevaeh had a fun music session with Julie Wylie and a whole team of her people to support and join in. Nevaeh especially enjoyed the bells that Julie brought in, and quickly showed off her chops by sounding out Mary had a Little Lamb (her current favourite). Julie will be back to visit in the first week of June. Beautiful playing Nevaeh 🙂
Nevaeh has really been enjoying her time at RDA this term. She loves a good trot, and has been getting quite cheeky with her new flag fixation. We’ve even bought her some flags for school 🙂 Nevaeh shows excellent core strength and posture, and is quite a pro in her saddle. Thanks to the lovely folks at RDA, especially MaryAnne and Sue for their time each week!
Nevaeh has been enjoying her time in the pool with Sam this year. Bouncing, singing, and resistance training through the water keep her highly entertained. She especially loves when Sam sways her back and forth while moving down the pool- she finds it very calming and soothing, and gets really peaceful and regulated during these moments. Thanks to Olivia for taking me each week! A highlight for sure.
Nevaeh had a great week last week, and enjoyed some drawing time, RDA, and lots of music (just the way she likes it). At her music lesson, she is getting more confident playing both Mary had a Little Lamb and Pepeha independently. A highlight was using animal cards to do some matching- Olivia would set out a set of cards, and Nevaeh would look, find the matching card, and lay it on top of the other one. Very clever. Next we’ll look at early numbers with a similar matching game. Thanks for a fun week team!
This year I have a new ORS teacher named Miss Cunningham. She loves music as much as I do, so we’ve decided to have weekly jam sessions on Tuesday mornings. Miss plays guitar and sings, and I listen closely to play along on either the drum, mini piano, or xylophone. I move to the music, and sometimes try a bit of singing. Miss Cunningham is really impressed with my musicality and sense of rhythm.
If you have any musical requests, we’d love to know! We’re learning new songs each week.
Nevaeh has been in Tūī for three years. Here is a short presentation of some of the things that she has done during this time. We have really enjoyed having you in Tūī Nevaeh, and it has been a privilege to witness all the learning that you have done during your time in class. I am sure that you will come back for a visit and pop in to see what Tūī is doing next year.
Add a heading by Olivia & Mrs Fearn
Today was the last riding and music days. Thankfully it was fine. It seems like there have been so many rainy Thursdays this term. During music Nevaeh played Ode to Joy and Pepeha. RDA had a Christmas flavour. Students decorated themselves and the horses. Nevaeh was taken with the little green elf. She carefully examined it before the elf was placed on Lucy’s neck. You can see from the first picture how excited Nevaeh was to be on a horse again.
Nevaeh was excited to get to music this week. She jumped across the room with joy. Her fingering of the keys is getting much better and when reminded Nevaeh will use her left hand. Today she did especially well playing Colours Shine and Playground Fun. In her formal lesson, she played her favourites Pepeha and Ode to Joy.
Before lunch, Nevaeh went back to the music room to lay with Jackie. She practised ‘Chopsticks’, her new favourite song.
Swimming didn’t happen this week, but here are a few photos from last week’s swim. Nevaeh is so confident and happy in the water.
