Today the kids went to the park and played for a period they been earning many more tickets than before for a range of prosocial behaviors. For example when we went for snack, those kids who chose fruits or other healthy snacks earned' Blue Tickets. For kids who typically never try fruit or other healthy items, they earned red Hero Tickets. After snack they came back and some of them were able to play the Wii after we reviewed their lunch point certificates. One child's parent forgot her LUNCH Points certificate and wanted to know if it would be all right to go back home and retrieve them. As we've discussed, this is a child responsibility. This really is much less about your child earning time on videogame or prize and more about helping them remember to do things that they feel are important. This can easily translate to homework and other types of important tasks were remembering something is crucial. If you help them very little or will take place. Instead they will continue to be dependent upon you to "save the date."
Some of the kids came in to work on animation. We continued working on our original cartoon and he began adding sound effects to it, with different kids taking turns. The reason we work on animation is less about the technology itself and more about paying attention, being able to follow requests the first time, alternating between doing things individually, in pairs, and as a large group on cue without additional prompting reminders. It also involves language tasks such as story generation, following a topic, controlling silliness and other relevant areas.
It is now time for lunch and today we plan to go to a Japanese restaurant, Octopus. We help those who needed assistance order their food and find something more to eat than "just rice." Many of the kids either ordered plain chicken, but a few brave ones either had sushi, California rolls, some tried tempura and other combinations. Perhaps our most challenging situation was the child who only wanted ketchup.
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