Month: June 2024

The Joy of Music and excitement of RDA

What a joy to hear Nevaeh singing. She has the first line of Pepeha off by heart, and enjoys Ode to Joy, and Don’t. Our music session with Marilyn was great with lots of playing single chords. Nevaeh was great at waiting for Marilyn to open the door after the previous student left before getting up form the chair. We waited quietly for five minutes. While we waited Nevaeh looked at the chords in her music book. The black and white key pattern entertained her.

RDA was a blast. Aunty came to help as a sidewalker. Nevaeh grinned from ear to ear as Lexi trotted along the grass. She bounced in time in the saddle. It took a couple of goes for Nevaeh to remember to lean back as we went down the hill. She immediately remembered leaning forward to go up.

There was a fantastic dismount in the arena at the end of our ride. Nevaeh remembered to lean over Lexi and took her foot out of the stirrup. She gave pulling her left foot out a really good try, but her shoes gripped the stirrup. We will work on prompting her by tapping behind the knee to encourage her to lift as well as pull backwards.

Sue was excited to hear Nevaeh’s beautiful singing. Sue was also taken by Nevaeh’s new shoes. Nevaeh has been stomping to ensure that her shoes light up. So cute!                                                                                                                                                           

Wow, go Nevaeh

What an exciting week! Nevaeh is finding her voice. During music on Thursday Nevaeh started singing along when Marilyn played ‘Pepeha’ by Six60. She is gaining confidence in leading some songs as Marilyn supports her.  Current favourites include Row, Row and Ode to Joy. It is lovely to hear the words so clearly.

She also spoke when the speaker disconnected unexpectedly. She uttered the phrase to express her surprise at the situation. Wow, it is so awesome to hear your voice again Nevaeh. Well done team, keep up all the hard work.

Lots of singing again today. Ed Sheeran is the flavour of today. What a wee gem you are. It is lovely to see you so happy.

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Fun Day Friday

What a happy little girl today. Nevaeh has enjoyed spending the day with Mrs Hickford. At mat time she is looking for her button to tell Mrs Fearn she is feeling good today. It would help if Mrs Hickford remembered to turn it on, but you showed lots of patience waiting.

There have been lots of music sessions. We have been over to play Pepeha on the school keyboard, we are getting good at this one, and some nursery rhymes.

In the class, we chose colours to draw to match our poem about a strutting peacock. Nevaeh is showing a preference for using red and yellow.  These have also appeared in her painting today. Painting is helping to develop Nevaeh’s fine motor skills. She can grip the brush but needs support to put adequate pressure on the paper. She enjoys reaching to the top right of the paper, but can work in the middle and bottom areas without guidance. It would be interesting to see what would happen if we did this activity

to music.

 

 

After counting the bears we matched big and little, and colour matched. The session ended with Nevaeh tipping the container. She was happy to get down on the floor and pick up spilt items. This surprised her classmate who commented that she followed the instruction and was a good girl.