We're in full swing now! Today was more of an "office" day. That meant your kids came in, worked as a single group evaluating their third scene of their animation from Monday, then revised and enhanced it. During such activities, I take special care to ensure that each of them adds dialogue, sound effects, participates in reciprocal conversation, or is involved in other elements. Also, it's a wonderful opportunity to help kids who tend to "shout out" responses when others are called upon have multiple opportunities to practice inhibiting and waiting.
We also targeted specific group members, generally following our modeling in externalizers and internalizers (more about that at the upcoming parent meeting). That meant we look for fuller sentences, more emotional expressiveness and higher levels of interaction for some while helping others minimize perceived "slights" from others, accidents, and inhibit impulsive responses.
Lunch was a special event at Tony Romas and we let the kids get dessert, provided they stayed calm and didn't make a big deal out of it. One child was offered fruit as an alternative. Just as the kids were leaving, some adults at the next table stopped me to comment. Here is the video of their statements (edited for brevity only).
Not much else to report. The kids seem pretty comfortable with each other and we're in the process of figuring out what specific behaviors to target for each child.
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