Progress

This photo was taken at Kit's keyboard concert. We videoed his performance - and Hannah was so cute. You can hear her as she excitedly says 'Kit! Kit!" over and over again - she was thrilled to see her twin up on stage performing.
I have to say just how happy I am with the twins school - AGAIN. I called in at the kindy room this morning after helping some of the older kids with a literacy programme. There is such a great atmosphere there. I spoke briefly with Han's teacher. Our area consultant had been around - she saw Han do some work - and could see just how well she is doing there. The teacher gave me a copy of the ntoes from the meeting - general discussion mostly mentioned the positives of strategies taht are already in place. She gave advice on structuring expressive language goals and a couple of ideas that I could use to reinforce Hannah's familiarity with the alphabet at home. Then some points on transitioning her to Year 1. I am meeting with the teachers and principal about htis next term. We are considering the possibility of Hannah joining kindy for reading/maths groups (for Term 1 at least) and everything else with Year 1. The importance of her friendships and of educating the Year 1 teacher were discussed. Me - I'd LOVE to see Hannah's current teacher take her through to Year 1. I think that would work very well for little brat - then a different teacher could have her in Year 2 or later on. I will let the principal know that that is my preferred option but of course she has the whole school and staff interests to consider - and the teachers have already given her their preferences - not sure what Hannah's teacher's preferences were - I'm hoping it was Year 1! Regardless I know that the principal will do her very best to ensure that an appropriate teacher for Hannah gets her next year - and I don't think we can demand more than that.

Travelling

It is Hannah's turn to have the class 'literacy bear' at home for a week. He is meant to travel to a different country each week. Kit told me that Hannah told him she wanted to ttake the bear to New Zealand, Hannah told me she wanted to take him to Georgia (there is a 'Flags of the World' poster in their bedroom - and she consistently chose Georgia - unfortunately the only advice I got from the twins Dad was that mean Stalin - hmmm, and a lot of research for me! So somehow I managed to convicne her that France would be a good place to visit - after all I am hoping we might get there for 'real' in the not too distant future... and we have a poodle, she was wearing a stripey french sorta top, she LOVES Ratatouille - Yep - France it is. So here a re a couple of our staged pics. Then Hannah helped me select different google images to print and paste in the Bear's book and then put together a simple story using sight words and pictures (a combination of photoes and PECS images) for her to 'tell' the story of her and the bear's adventures O?S. She loves it - I think her teacher will too - We are returning Bear and Book when a number of hte kids will be away at a gala day - I thinkt hat might give the teacher smaller numbers and more time to actually go over Hannah's story. It also gives me a bit longer to practise presenting with hannah.