Hollylooyah: A Homeschooling Adventure

• Apr. 26, 2007 - School and the baby.

Here are the records for unprompted speech... we're trying to meet our goal!

4/6 6

4/7 6

4/8 6

4/9 6

4/10 4

4/10/07-- This has been our first day back at school after the baby. I think Noah is happy to be doing school again. Noah had a low blood sugar and he was able to drink juice to bring it up again. Noah's blood sugars have been even worse than Lucy's. It has been stressful for that reason. Dr. Seuss ABC. Sound blocks. He did a really good job talking and tracing. Still interested in drawing. Today he picked up a pile of papers he had knocked off accidentally. 59 verbalizations.

4/11/07--64 unprompted verbalizations!!!!!!!! Amazing!!! Noah found the bubbles! He also liked Froggy's Baby Sister. We worked on lots of tracing today lines, E,F, circles, and horseshoes.

4/17/07--6 unprompted

Weekend-- Noah was interested in some Indian food and even brought his mouth to it. He also sat through church and fellowship time.

4/23/07 OT in morning. Worked with Travis in the afternoon.

4/24/07 Beth Wiskirchen came over today. We are trying to get a new IEP written. I think we have a great plan. Noah met his goals from last year.

4/25/07 Noah's AMAZING DAY!!!!!

167 verbalizations.

68 licks/tastes of lime yogurt on a spoon.

28 sips of water.

Licked a cracker 20 times.

19 sips of Pediasure.

We used bubble for a reinforcer, then "switched" to lotion, then to watch and then got to the bathroom. So far minimal fussing from the bubbles being taken away which is a rarity these days. Tracing lines and wrote name. Andy is into doing all kinds of preschool activities grouping, circling, and letters. WE read many books today and listened to the Dr. Seuss CD. Noah had OT today where he worked on the computer. Noah colored a picture with a marker.

4/26/07 23 verbalizations. Lots and lots of work on goals, planning, etc. Kim came today for ST in the morning. Homestead meeting. We are back in the swing of things and Noah and Andy will go really far in school this next year. It's exciting.

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• Mar. 31, 2007 - The month of the baby.

3/1/07--55 verbalizations-- including unprompted speech. Today is a BAD weather day! Kim came to have ST with Noah in the morning. We met our 32 verbalization goals. Noah and Andy watched Leap Frog Letter Factory together-very cute. Noah has not wanted to talk much today, at least at first. He has wanted use his jiggle pen and toothbrush quite a bit though. Used lotion and toothbrush to get lots of requests. He wanted to paint and then made a big mess. Tracing lines. Moved on to next speech goal. pegboard/golf tees activity. tracing f. he got really happy in the late afternoon. Did not want to stop doing school. Sound blocks and Over in the Meadow.

I found a journal entry from 2/27/07. Andy has been wanting to "read" his Bob books. He actually did a great job on books 1,2, and 3! He seems to be catching on quickly. he also has been enjoying horse race a dice game. Lots of addition can be done with dice. He has been enjoying chess, checkers, chinese checkers, mancala and jenga.

3/4/07 Unprompted sang Over in the meadow and brought me the book.

3/5/07-- 45 verbalizations. Noah is reall fussy. We made a dr.s appt for him. They ruled out sinus and ear infections. Noah refused to get an abdominal x-ray. They think it's the constipation. Really into This old man and sound blocks. We did tracing. Watched Dora with Andy for a little bit. Grandma and Grandpa babysat the boys at our house tonight.

3/6/07-- 90 verbalizations. including 28 unprompted words. Color treasures. Chicka chicka boom boom. Using bubbles as a reinforcer (made him mad when we had to stop). A-F activities. Worked on tracing F. Andy worked on tracing F and O. Noah is still really crabby. But we're getting all kinds of speech in even with his screaming! We played Balloon Lagoon with both the boys. Noah liked it and became angry when we were done playing it. He can say "Balloon Lagoon." We modify each station so that he can play it. Very angry because he wants to do bubbles. I am having trouble getting him to transition from activities he likes.

3/7/07-- 71 verbalizations. Noah had a happy meal at lunch time. He was interested in the hamburger and apple pie. He licked the pie. He drank a couple of ounces of water which made him very happy. We're using pullups this month. Currently listening to Disney music. He is really into coloring. He will just grab your pen and try to use it.

3/8/07--39 verbalizations. Kim came to work with Noah today. He did a nice job and then became fussy. Unprompted speech (2). We tried working with the car track to get interaction in, but he just stimmed on the car. Noah has been in a better mood today. He has not been going potty too much though. He did some drawing with crayons.

3/13/07-- The baby was born and we have been trying to overcome the chaos! We were in the hospital for almost a month and then the baby came home on an insulin pump. It was a really difficult experience.

Here is a list of things I would like the Homestead to work on with Noah:

1. Play with toys appropriately.

2. Do chores.

3. Basketball.

4. T-ball.

5. Soccer.

6. Feed himself with a spoon.

7. Play with neighborhood kids.

8. Use the computer to play a game.

9. Kid concoctions/recipes/cooking.

10. Games

This month was mostly about survival!!!!!

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• Feb. 28, 2007 - Valentines Day and waiting for the baby.

2/1/07--Today Noah was alternately crabby and helplessly giggly. Kim ST in the morning. Dr. Seuss books. Valentines-- this project is so big and so encompassing, it's great. We get to work on so many of our goal areas with this one project. We worked on writing his name and trying to cut down on stimming.

2/5/07--Today I cut both boys hair. We went to Walgreen's and did our tracing exercises. We did artic exercises too. Noah went potty 6 times! He took a nice long bath after his haircut. 32 verbalizations. Great Day for Up. I Love Animals.

2/6/07--67 verbalizations. Happy and you Know it. I love animals. A-E exercises. We are now working on our 32 verbalizations speech goal!

2/7/07--70 verbalizations. He is going consistently on the potty including BMs. Unprompted "I want bubbles" 3 times. Also "Up, up,up" in asking for A Great Day for Up. Also "Bye" appropriately. We spent some time in the early morning going to Target and the coffee shop and then came home for school. We read many books, did a lot of oral motor stuff with the toothbrush. We did our tracing and practiced circling things. He keeps pulling the garbage can out of the bathroom cupboard, getting in and when I try to get him out says, "Bye Bye" or "Bye."

2/8/07--116 verbalizations. Unprompted "I want bubbles" 6 times. AGDFU and TFOO. Tracing mildly squiggly lines now as well as vert. lines. Worked on speech artic. Went to Dahl's to return bottles. We went to Fredrich's with Noah and Andy. We sat at a high table with our snacks and read a little book together. Really cool activity. Today was the day of the Bubbles. Noah played Marbleworks with me for 9 minutes. This week Noah went 47 times on the potty including 5 BMS. THIS IS AN ALL TIME RECORD.

2/12/07-- Needs less help on tracing now added horseshoes to our tracing regimin. Worked on holding pencil correctly. Worked on singing ABCs. Noah asked for a drink. A-E activities. Artic exercises with B (beginning, midpoint, and ending). Made rice krispie treats. He was interested in what I was doing and stood by me for quite a bit of time. He put his sweater on almost completely by himself. 69 verbalizations. Listening to They Might Be Giants "Here come the ABCs." Noah loves it! Making Valentines: hole punching, lacing, cutting, gluing, putting stickers on and writing his name. I love animals: got a lot of animal sounds right in the book.

2/13/07-- Scott was here today. We did our tracing. Andy did a color hunt around the house. Then the boys made more valentines. We did our speech words. Noah worked with Kim for ST. We sang our ABCs and did some bubbles. Noah got addicted to bubbles and then got fussy. 65 verbalizations.

2/14/07 Valentine's Day!!! Noah had OT lots of therapy today. We watched Nemo and practiced requesting for it. Noah really enjoyed this and it was a successful trial. 32 verbalizations.

2/15/07 9+ verbalizations. Speech words. Tracing horseshoes. Goodnight moon.

Weekend: grocery shopping with Dad, coffee shop with mommy and daddy, went to church, we all ate out at Applebee's. It is so cute how much the boys love to eat out.

2/19/07-- 51 verbalizations. speech words. practiced making lines. "Hi" unprompted. Went to target with Mommy. Fussy because addicted to bubbles again.

2/20/07--41 verbalizations. Speech therapy with Kim today. A few speech words. Andy and Grandma Sandy worked with us. He was very fussy and crabby at first. I had trouble getting him to work. He didn't really want to. Old MacDonald. Very Hungry Caterpillar. We danced around to music to get motivated. Played with puppets. Refused to do tracing. Unprompted "I want bubbles." 4xs. Nana made a comment about how much better Noah is doing and how he is talking more.

2/21/07--33 verbalizations. ABCs. Little Pig Biddle Pig. Owen. A-E activities. Tracing lines, singing Jingle Bells because he was enjoying jingling his bell. Andy did invisible ink with me. He was really enjoying that a lot. unprompted said "I want this old man," and handed me the book. Enjoyed it. Sally goes to the beach. Worked on opening Cariboo with the key. Noah sat with Andy and we read The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Saying "Sharkbait Hoo Ha ha!" from Finding Nemo.

I have been coming up with my summer plan. I have been investigating Camp Sunnyside for Noah as well as some day camps for Andy. It should be fun... just have to get it all organized now!

2/22/07--36 verbalizations. Unprompted in answer to a question: " I want read." "I want bubbles" 2 xs "This old man" and grabbed my hand to clap. "Blow it up." "Turn it on." Noah woke up at 2:30 this morning and basically didn't sleep much after that. Andy and I go off to a rough start. Scott has been gone all week in Raleigh and while it has been fun, it has been pretty tough. We went to Grandma's to play. Noah has been loving to draw lately.

2/23/07-- Unprompted: put it on. 4 xs. Noah said almost the complete alphabet with us filling in about 5-6 letters. "I love the ducks waddling to the water." "Hi Noah" on the phone to Grandma Sandy. "Time for you to go to bed" 2 xs. We wnet on a little walk at Gray's lake to look at the ice. We went to the Art Center. We went shopping at Walmart. Andy spent a lot of time playing out side "making ice" which is melting ice in a bucket into slush and stirring it a lot. Andy played a new computer maze game. Noah wanted to play with his moon shoes today. We played checkers and chinese checkers with Andy. Andy worked on adding numbers 1-10.

2/26/07 36 verbalizations. Watched entire Letter Factory cartoon. Noah and Andy are really picking up on their letters. Stuck on bubbles today. "I want bubbles." "I'm sleeping in today." both unprompted. Did lots with Dr. Seuss ABC to get lots of speech words in. Andy and I played games and worked on our addition with dice. We also made banana nut muffins together.

2/27/07--42 verbalizations. We worked on sound blocks. Noah did really nice talking today. Some unprompted speech. We sang lots of songs. Noah was really happy and then became upset when we wouldn't let him have the bubbles. ABC Song, Pop goes the weasel, London Bridges, I've been working on the railroad. We met with Beth Wiskirchen today. She's going to look for some loaner materials we may be able to use. I have come up with a ton of materials (written in my notebook) that I may try to find somewhere or to purchase for next year.

2/28/07-- 32 verbalizations. Unprompted "I want bubbles 10 times. We had a busy day. Noah did a little work with me. We did some tracing and read Dr. Seuss ABC. The boys both watched the Leap Frog Letter Factory. Then Noah had OT with Angela. Then the boys went with me to my dr.'s appt tp see the ultrasound. After that we were in a tizzy because the baby is going to need to come 10 days earlier. Anyway that made today very interesting. Noah has been enjoying the Lion King CD.

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• Jan. 31, 2007 - Homeschooling While Trying to Stay Pregnant!

1/3/07--30 verbalizations

1/7/07--It has been a long and trying time to homeschool since I had the membrane rupture scare. But Noah is doing great in spite of it all. He sat great during church on Sunday and even met one of his yearly goals which was to sit in class and work on a project for 10 minutes. He worked for 20 minutes on a coloring, cutting, pasting activity. I was so proud of him.

1/8/07--38 verbalizations. Noah colored. We took a car trip. We read Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? in our Dr. Seuss unit. We worked on AaBbCcDd with sounds, songs, rhymes, and tracing. We worked with Andy as well. We did Old MacDonald, Color Treasures, Hap Palmers Colors and Following Directions songs.

1/9/07-- Andy and I had a date at Palmer's Deli. Andy asked what I might want to talk about. He said we could talk about how good the food is. He also told me not to walk through some smoke because it wasn't good for me. Jennifer worked with Noah in the morning, and then we had OT. It was good to have help because I was exhausted.

1/10/07-- Noah sat on potty and had a BM! We read Night Rabbits and had lots of speech. ABC Songs. AaBbCcDd. Noah said "I'm all done" prompted for a break. This whole week was a mess because of the new formula and trying not to use a laxative for Noah. We felt literally consumed by constipation. So much for trying to do it naturally. 28 verbalizations.

1/11/07--Speech Therapy. Jennifer here in morning.

1/13/07-- We had fondue together as a family. We all went shopping.

1/14/07-- We spent the day at Grandma's house.

1/15/07-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We spent the day playing in the snow. We had a fun day with Daddy home.

1/16/07--Noah had a Dr's appointment. We had lots of play time. Noah went potty several times. Noah drank 4 oz. of water. Lots of playing, roughhousing, listening to music, me and Andy spent time together, we had floortime. Noah played the piano and loves I Love Animals right now. 102 verbalizations. We did the ABC song. He threw up a little. He has been doing that a lot lately. When we were doing ABC song Noah crawled under the table to get I Love Animals. Used Are You My Mother? for a reinforcer for tracing today.

1/18/07--Are You My Mother? is working great as a reinforcer. AaBbCcDd sounds, ABC song, Dr. Seuss rhyme, tracing lines hor. and vert. and tracing Dd. We worked on drawing lines and circles, we made a picture with stamping, coloring, stickers and glue. His tracing si really showing nice improvement. 38 verbalizations.

1/20/07--33 verbalizations

1/21/07--37 verbalizations

Over the weekend he responded to "Good night" and "I love you." He is getting consistent with "I love you."

1/22/07--Noah is tired today because he didn't get enough sleep. ABC song. Loved tracing today. Vertical, horizontal, as well as zigzag. We finished the letter D. 62 verbalizations. AaBbCcDd songs, sounds, letters, rhymes. Great Job telling me the next letters in his name. Noah did a fantastic job of talking today. I can't wait to set our brand new goals, but I need to order the clickers! He pointed to ear, nose, and hair today! He seems to be more in tune with what is going on around him today.

1/23/07--ABC song. Kim ST with Noah. Andy and I read Salt in Your Shoes and Bootsie Barker Bites. AaBbCcDdand Ee. NEW LETTER! rhymes, sounds and songs. Noah traced hor. and vert. lines as well as Ee. Andy worked on writing Dd. 56 verbalizations. We worked on making Valentines. The boys were cutting, gluing, punching, putting stickers on, and signing their names. It was a lot of work for them, but the results were cute. Started reading The Lorax. Sat at lunch a short while, but didn't want to stay. Andy and I read books in the afternoon. Andy went out to eat with Scott and I and he had a shake poured on his head. Christen came to play with Noah, but we didn't have a babysitter for Andy.

1/24/07--Worked on Valentines. Became very upset because he wanted to paint and I didn't want to. Unprompted said: "I Love Animals." Still fussing a lot so he just listened to Hap Palmer- Learning Basic Skills Through Music for awhile. I would like to get him back to the table.

I did! AaBbCcDdEe-rhymes, sounds and songs. Hop on Pop-reading log and reinforcer. 87 verbalizations. We had a busy day with OT and then another Dr.'s appt. We have got to figure out Noah's insulin! Noah took 20 sips of water @ OT. He licked and kissed some french fries and lollipops. Read Hop on Pop in afternoon whild Andy did a "D" coloring puzzle.

Weekend: We ate out at Fuddrucker's and Applebee's. We went to church and went shopping, to the zoo, to the coffee shop, the bank and lots of misc. outings. Noah drank lots of water.

1/29/07--Went for a drive, ABC songs. A-E alphabet activities, including "Give mes". Tracing. I am having to guide him so much less than before.

1/30/07--30 verbalizations. ABC Song. Baby Beluga. Gerald McBoing Boing. A-E activities. Tracing lines and Ees. Color treasures-- now up to red, blue, yellow. Working on red with color and identifying. Lots of speech. Circles, lines, dots with drawing. He asked to paint again. Beth Wiskirchen came to day and brought some catalogs to help me find some new things to work on.

1/31/07-- 42 verbalizations. 2 unprompted. First of Octember. Are You My Mother? ABC Song. Put me in the Alphabet workbook. Worked on tracing letters. Animal sounds-- cow. We worked on stencils. For more than 20 minutes Noah licked and gnawed a rice krispie treat! Speech exercises-- articulation. Our verbalization goal was met!!!!!

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• Jan. 2, 2007 - Holidays march on!

12/5/06-1/2/07

12/5

Review AaBb. Alphabet song. Sound song. Andy worked with us. Noah only took 1 sip. 15 verbalizations. Read The Mitten. Didn't want to color. Old MacDonald. Mother Goose book. Tracing Lines. Asked for glue and did some gluing. Andy finished up his B pages.

12/6

About 3-4 oz of Pediasure. Alphabet and sound songs. AaBb songs. Tracing. New letter Cc. Writing c. 64 verbalizations. Almost finished speech sound assessment. Puppet play for a short time. Very cheerful today. Colored a picture. Seasonal rhymes, Christmas songs.

Afternoon: Feeding with lotion as an incentive. Old Mac Donald. Sing a Song of People. We worked on cleaning Noah's teeth. They look much better!

12/7

AaBbCc- sound songs, tactile letters and writing. Drank 2 oz w/ Gerald McBoingBoing. Went potty. 30 verbalizations. ABC song and Christmas play song. Tracing. Colored a Christmas picture. Red, Blue, and NEW COLOR yellow treasures! Cleaned his teeth again and gave him a hand massage. He loved it. Andy worked with us and did a maze and a classification worksheet.

Over the weekend Noah went to Jolly Holiday lights, shopping, out for breakfast and to church. Then we got sick and now we're tired!

12/11

A little less than 2 ounces. Lots of talking today. AaBbCc--tracing songs. 51 verbalizations. Curvy lines. Wanted to make a gluing picture and put some puff balls on it. Started a circling animals picture. Became upset and started wadding up the paper. Requested Sing a Song of People and Old MacDonald. Drank over 3 ounces... TOTAL TODAY 5 ounces!!!!! We did the shape pegboard and Red, Yellow, and Blue treasures.

12/12 We were all sick with a stomach virus.

12/13 Craft day with homeschoolers and out for lunch at On the Border. Not feeling well later.

12/14 Read lots of books. Fish out of Water, First of Octember, Cat in the Hat. Made two paper chains. 42 verbalizations. AaBbCc-- sound song and tactile letters.

12/17 The Christmas Play at Church. Very interesting. The boys were cute and a little naughty. Andy was a sheep and Noah was a shepherd. I am so happy that they were in it this year. It really meant a lot to me.

12/18

Pegboard. Alphabet song. Give me ABC. AaBbCc sound songs. 69 verbalizations. Tracing Cs and lines. Old MacDonald. Sing a Song of Popcorn. Christmas Carols--- speaking them and filling in the blanks. Very interactive today! Practiced saying, "Noah." and What's Your Name? ______ Noah. probably 30-40 trials. Animals sounds and I love _____ YOU. Very nice talking.

12/19

Today Andy wanted to dance around a lot and do imaginative play with dinosaurs. It was really fun! Noah did not want to eat. 32 verbalizations. Lots of singing in unison today! Several times with Jingle Bells and ABC. Made a terra cotta bell and played it for awhile while singing. Red, Blue, Yellow treasures. ABC sounds and Give me. Really into it.

Went potty! Andy worked with us on the alphabet. Lots of fun today so far. Asked for lotion a lot today.

12/20

3 sips. 31 verbalizations. Alphabet. Speech assessment. ABC sounds song. Give me (ABC). Cutting snowflakes-- very nice cutting and following directions.

New Diet: We have taken away Noah's laxative and have chosen to try to use some whole foods to help him have Bowel movements. We have been experimenting with several different things. He doesn't seem to be able to tolerate peanut butter and throws it up. But we have a workable beginning.

Here's what we've been doing:

1/2 c. chicken broth

1/4 c. tofu or whey protein powder

2 tsp. flax seed oil

1/2 c. plain yogurt

1/2 c. spinach

1 t. primadophilus

1/2 c. rolled oats made into oatmeal

1 t. cod liver oil

1/3 c. frozen vegetables (usually a berry of some kind)

1 c. water

We blend it all up in the blender. It makes about 2.5 cups but we only give him 2 cups slowly through his g-tube.

12/21

No eating by mouth today. 48 verbalizations. Alphabet song. AaBbCc sound song and Dr. Seuss rhyme. The Mitten. Read book and did the mitten project. Both of the boys did a nice job of coloring, cutting, and gluing. Tracing diagonal lines and the letter C. Very nice job today (both boys). Fun morning.

12/23

Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Peterson. Very fun. The boys were so laid back and had a great time.

12/24

Christmas at the Young's. Very fun and busy. The boys had a wonderful time playing with everyone.

12/25

Christmas at home. What a lovely morning. So peaceful, happy and cozy. The boys were so precious.

12/26

Christmas at Grandma Sandy's and Grandpa Richard's. After we went shopping and out for lunch in Williamsburg. What a fun day. We can take the boys almost anywhere these days.

12/29

Shopping at the mall where my water broke! Somehow after 3 days in the hospital, it sealed back over and I have come home. But it has been scary.

1/2/07

Noah's blood sugars are really high. We may have to put him on insulin. He did 30 verbalizations today even in the middle of all the turmoil. What a trooper. Both of the boys are.

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• Dec. 4, 2006 - The whirlwind holidays... so fun!

11/17-12/4

11/17

Today Leslie Dahm had a visit and Noah had speech.

11/20

Today I had a Dr's appt so Noah only had speech and played with Grandma.

11/21

Noah had speech first thing and then we did school with Andy. Noah did 29 verbalizations. We worked on tracing, the alphabet song, AaBb, coloring and B pictures. We sang Jingle Bells and Angels We Have Heard on High. Then we read Sing a Song of People, and Fall poems. We mixed up sugar cookies with Grandma and Andy.

11/22

We just spent the day getting ready for Thanksgiving so we didn't have school.

Thanksgiving was pretty fun, but Noah had a meltdown about halfway through dinner.

11/24 Noah spent a lot of time playing with Grandma and Grandpa.

11/25 We went to the mall to shop. We went to the library. Later we played Cranium Balloon Lagoon as a family and then Ky from church came over to play.

11/26 church and Sunday School. Played at park for a couple of hours.

11/27

I love Animals. O Come All ye Faithful (library book), nursery rhymes puzzle, decorated a paper Christmas tree, ABC song, Very Hungry Caterpillar Game, nice tracing of lines and letters, hand over hand maze, Give Me-- A and B, Did nice pointing in I Love Animals-- pigs, tractor, and single pictures of animals, watched Frosty the Snowman, sat on potty-- wouldn't go, really enjoyed school today, 28 verbalizations.

11/28

Drank 1 oz, made a star picture, tracing lines, cutting and gluing, sang songs, AaBb-- songs and sounds--tracing and writing letters, Andy worked with us.

11/29

We started out by dropping Andy off and going to the mall to shop for some sweaters. We rode the escalators and went to the coffee shop. Later Andy worked with us. Noah traced lines very well. He needs much less help. Both boys traced Bb. Noah said "A" unprompted when i pulled out the tactile letters! Did alphabet song and sounds song. Noah said, "Buh" for what B says! Noah colored a Christmas ornament picture. Andy did a "What belongs where?" picture. Noah finished his cutting, gluing and matching picture from yesterday. We did red and blue treasures sorting. He's need less corrections on this. We did season rhymes, Noah recited much of the poem on his own. We did Sing a Song of People and Little Boy Blue. When we did Old MacDonald Noah said Pig at the right time, meow meow and a few other fill ins. 35 verbalizations.

11/30

35 verbalizations. Noah had speech therapy this morning and then we rushed to Childserve to get a speech and OT eval. We felt very rushed and hurried, but we got it all in. Some of impressions/ inspirations from the eval were to do Jester horseback riding again, dog therapy, drum lessons, make Noah follow through with activities instead of roaming, pool therapy, keep going different places, floortime play with someone to keep him engaged, make sure everyone is on the same page-- come up with home plans and assign them to people, computer games, work on catching.

Today he really wanted There's a Wocket in my Pocket. He drank less than 1 ounce. We did the nursery rhyme song puzzle, fall poem, Old MacDonald which Noah asked for specifically. Andy worked with us today. He did a "B" sound paper and worked on writing "Bb." Noah traced lines and Bb. We did the alphabet song and the alphabet poem. Noah colored a picture. We did Little Boy Blue again and Jingle Bells with a book and bells. Noah did a maze (with lots of help!).

12/4

1 sip. Horizontal tracing. Drawing lines and circles. Tracing diagonal lines. AaBb sounds and tactile cards. Alphabet song. B writing. Coloring holiday picture. Made a stained glass Christmas tree. Worked on Christmas song for the Christmas play. Requested Old MacDonald and sang parts with me. 30 verbalizations.

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• Nov. 16, 2006 - Halloween and November begins!

October 30-November 16

10/30

Noah opened a ziplock 2x's with no help. Ann Bender came today-- she gave me her e-mail annbend@childserve.org. We did our red and blue treasures... he did really good at this! He drank 3 oz. We worked on tracing lines and A. We did our alphabet song. Is Ziplock mastered? Unprompted he asked "play" three times. We did our fall poem/blowing, Old MacDonald, and Sing a Song of People. He colored. 27 verbalizations.

Trick or Treat was really fun. Noah was Superman and Andy was a dragon. They were so adorable and did a great job trick or treating. Noah would say bye when they would leave a house after taking candy. And Andy told a funny joke. What does the skeleton say before dinner? Bone appetit! It was very cute.

10/31

3 oz of Pediasure. He was very giggly. 34 verbalizations. We did our season rhymes, Old Mac Donald, Jingle Bells, and Christmas Carols. We did tracing A,a and lines. We worked on coloring inside a circle. We did a maze. We read Giddyup Let's Ride. We did bubbles, and Crocodile Dentist, and worked on imitation for "chomping" and hands up. Noah met his potty goal!!!!!! He had four weeks in a row of going 10 times! 26 verbalizations.

11/1

3 oz. of Pediasure. He went potty and was dry! He traced lines, letters, and his name. He is really doing a lot better with tracing horizontal lines. He asked several times "Pie." He was asking for A Was Once an Apple Pie by Edward Lear. He loved it. We played Zingo and Crocodile Dentist. He enjoyed playing and he put away Zingo nicely.

11/2

He drank less than an ounce. Not as interested in schoolwork, but did do his horizontal tracing. Are You My Mother? We did a cutting and gluing activity. We did Red and Blue Treasures, Night Rabbits... I am now going to attempt to get him outside to play! 43 verbalizations!

11/5

We went to Jordan Creek. We went potty their on the potty and drank some water. He had great transitions even on the escalator. He did nice talking, played in the playland and sang. 26 verbalizations.

11/6

Tracing, talking. A was Once an Apple Pie.

11/7

I am going to put Andy in preschool, so I spent a lot of time calling preschools.

11/8

We toured the preschool

11/13

Andy's first day of preschool. We also had a family work day. I got my bedroom cleaned and organized! Noah read lots of books.

11/14

Andy did school with us. We did lots of tracing and stories. We did Little Miss Muffet and the boys worked together to make a little book.

11/15

Out of town for a funeral. Noah did a nice job of playing around other kids and rode in the car nicely. Noah had a BM on the potty!

11/16

27 verbalizations! Less than one ounce for me and 3 ounces for Terrin. Andy did school with us again. We reviewed A and started B. We did our ____ says_____ song. Did lots of tracing lines and letters. Andy did a dot to dot while Noah colored. We did Jingle Bells, Angels We Have Heard on High, and Frosty the Snowman. We did Little Boy Blue and Little Miss Muffet. The boys watched Olive the Other Reindeer and Caillou. Noah only took 11 sips for me, but he was dry and went potty. We took a break and then did Red and Blue Treasure sorting and I introduced the pattern blocks to sort also. Then we did two patterns to imitate. R,B,R,B and R,R,B. We did Sing a Song of People and read some poetry. It was a full morning.

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• Oct. 26, 2006 - A busy, interactive week

October 23-26

10/23

Noah said "Good Morning" to me in response to me saying it first. He was very verbal and talkative. He made 50 verbalizations. We did our tracing lines and A. We sang Old Mac Donald and Noah did a good job of pointing to the pictures. He repeated "moo" for the cow says "moo" with a model. He drank less than 2 ounces. We did a cutting and gluing exercise. He said "10" after I counted to 9. I would really like to master tracing lines. I don't want to bore or frustrate him, but I really want to master out of at least horizontal lines.

We read "Sing a Song of People" to the tune of Sing a Song of Sixpence. We read some fall poems which he loved. He liked blow like the leaves in the wind. He went potty and we sang John Jacob and Twinkle, Twinkle. I sang it softly and slowly and he sang the entire song with me. He drank 7 oz. with Tara too!

10/24

7 oz. Pediasure, went potty.

We worked on Red and Blue treasures. He didn't seem to get it. We worked on our tracing letters (A,a) and lines. We sang Old MacDonald and Sing a Song of People. We did our fall trees and blowing. He blew his nose and wiped. He worked on the shaped pegboard and needed quite a bit of help. He was really into My Blue Boat. 41 verbalizations.

10/25

We started with My Blue Boat. He drank 7 ounces. We did our fall poems, Sing a Song of People, Old MacDonald. We worked on lacing, ziplock bag with book, tracing lines, painting, cutting, gluing. We did our skill songs and he was really happy. We did Red and Blue Treasure. He wiped his mouth and nose.

He played with the neighborhood kids and let them read to him, play parachute and swing while he joined in. 36 verblizations.

10/26

50 verbalizations today. Noah got addicted to stimming on bells today. We did coloring, cutting, and pasting. He refused to go potty or to drink any Pediasure. It was very frustrating although I did get a lot of words out of him. He dumped about 7 oz. of Pediasure out. Have I been too pushy? We sang Jingle Bells and Pop Goes the Weasel. He became angry when I wanted to sing Bingo and bit himself. Very frustrating! He was happy after he had a chance to listen to some music and dance around.

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• Oct. 19, 2006 - New songs, new goals met, new skills

October 16-19

10/16

Today Noah drank 8 oz of Pediasure, went potty and made 25 verbalizations. We sang Old MacDonald with tape. We read Night Rabbits and Sally Goes to the Farm. We did our tracing with lines, A, a, O, o, S, s, and M, m-- some on tracing cards and some on paper. We did a cutting and pasting activity. We colored to music. We worked on Treasures that are Red-- A game I made up where we find sparkly red things. I am going to use it for all the colors and eventually turn it into a sorting project.

I have been using our skill songs again and was trying to think of some new things to do. With Popcorn we could actually pop popcorn. Listen and move would be fun with Andy to improve imitation.

10/17

Mommy was on bedrest.

10/18

We did lots of music. Down on the Farm, with animals. Traced lines and letters A,M,S,and O. We did red treasures again. We did Old MacDonald and he said hen, duck, and pig on his own. He drank 1 oz. He did 24 verbalizations.

We met our February speech goal--- way ahead of schedule!

10/19

Noah was very interactive today. We played with puppets. We read Chicka Chicka 123. We did our tracing of lines and letters. We worked on a following direction worksheet. We also did a cutting and gluing activity. Noah wanted to read busy year, so I did. We did Old MacDonald and Jingle Bells with Bells.

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• Oct. 12, 2006 - The new library plan.

This fall, I have been getting stacks of books from the library, not only for Andy but for Noah too. Usually Noah gets in a story rut, so I have been getting him out of his rut. Which has been really fun. And he enjoys it too.

October 9-12

10/9

Note to self... think about doing a Dr. Seuss unit next after Mother Goose. I think Noah would really like that.

We started out the week a little under the weather. We were all feeling a little sick and a little tired. Noah started the morning with crying, but was able to cheer up. We did our tracing of lines and small and big, M,S, and O. We used the tracing cards. He is not needing quite as much guidance for tracing although we are still hand over hand. I do think we will be ready to move on from Mother Goose in a few weeks, although the material uses a lot of Mother Goose... so I am not sure how we would move on to something else.

We read Roller Coaster, She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain, Shiver Me Letters, and Charlie Needs a Cloak. We sang Pop Goes the Weasel, London Bridge, Bingo, Go in and Out the Window. We used our tactile letters while singing ______ says ________ song. He has been holding the pencil without the pencil grip. He needed to use the backpack today and his talking ws down a lot today.

10/10

Today we did school with Andy. Andy asked, and I thought it was a good idea. We did our reading lesson and ______ says _______ song. O,M,S,A. Noah said "s" several times as well as "M." We read Angelina's Halloween. We worked on spelling Noah with alphabet stamps. I taught Noah a modern version of "Kumbayah." He loved it. And we had to sing it over and over while he played the rhythm sticks. Also My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, and Old MacDonald with the school book, Pop, Goes the Weasel, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, The Bear Went Over the Mountain, and Kookaburra. We worked on counting 1-10 with disks and the bank as well as singing and chanting the numbers with clapping. He went potty and vebalized 58 times! We read Sally goes to the Beach to calm down once. We are halfway to meeting our speech goal for NEXT February!

Noah did his interaction goal for 10 minutes. We are aiming for 4/7 for two consecutive weeks.

10/11

We did school with both boys again today. He drank 1 oz. We sang Pop Goes the Weasel, Kumbayah, Lean on Me, and Old McDonald with an activity. Noah was making up a conversational song. And we read 2 Halloween books. We did a Things that are red hunt. We did our horizontal and vertical tracing. Today I was able to push Noah a little to clear up his language and he would do it for me. He went potty. I worked on the ABLLS assessment. It is going to take a while for me to finish it up. We worked on folding a paper and Andy and Noah did their interaction time. 2/2 days.

10/12

We had speech therapy and then we played the piano a little. We sang Old MacDonald. Noah drank 7 oz. of Pediasure!!! We read Night Rabbits and sang Kumbayah with rhythm sticks. We did our horizontal and vertical tracing. I continued adminstering the ABLLS. We touched the spoon to his lips with Pediasure one time. He went potty. He bumped his head and came to me saying, "Ohhhhhhh." He did 84 verbalizations. It was a good day.

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• Oct. 9, 2006 - Mother Goose Unit

October 2-7

October 2- Today we went to the Learning Post and got several new things. We bought a new copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and a board game to go with it. Andy got a bow and arrow ; we bought a few other things as well. When we got home, we played the caterpillar game (Andy, Noah, Grandma, and me).

October 3- Really into books today.

Sally Goes to the Beach

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Big Sneeze

Then Noah and I played a game Loterie des Clowns (no language involved). We also did some nursery rhymes and Old MacDonald using the animal figures. He verbalized 35 times during our session. We worked on our letters: S,M,A. He said the sounds for M (1) and A(4) which was fantastic. Noah drank 4 oz. today.

October 4- Noah drank 3 oz of Pediasure while reading Sally. We worked on our tactile letters and sang the __________ says ______ song. M,S,A: Noah said M and A. S seems to be really hard for him. We worked on tracing horizontal lines and small verticals. He also wrote M,S, and A and traced Noah. He had 59 verbalizations and went potty 2 times during the morning.

October 5- This started out a really rough day. I haven't been feeling well, and their have been some behavior problems that have been wearing on me. But we were able to pull it together and get some school in. Today we did Hey Diddle, Diddle with a little drawing activity. I am trying to encourage Noah to draw more intentionally... even if it is by rote! He has been wanting to draw on his own outside of school time and his scribbles are taking some little writing marks. I remember when Andy's drawings did that at about 2. I know that drawing is something that will come in their own time, but I would really like to get more out of Noah. Speech, drawing, music, singing... some signs that he is interacting with his world. We did some tracing. He had a few tantrums and vomited so I had to bathe, change him, and clean up the workroom. We went on and did more school because he seemed to be really open to it.

We had a busy weekend. We went to Burlington, and went to a birthday party as well as going to the mall and playing lots at the park. The kids rode in the car really well. There really wasn't even one meltdown in the car from either of the kids... so that is a BIG improvement!!!

I have been looking over my plan I updated at the beginning of the summer. I want to journal about how we have done so far:

Noah’s Homeschool Program

Updated: June 20, 2006

1. Eating:

Goal 1: Noah will be able to eat the equivalent of one feeding a day for 14 consecutive days. REACHED!!

Goal 2: Noah will be able to eat the equivalent of two feedings a day for 14 consecutive days.

Goal 3: Noah will be able to eat the equivalent of three feedings a day for 14 consecutive days.

Goal 4: Noah will be able to take 10 bites of Pediasure with a spoon for 14 consecutive days.

Goal 5: Noah will accept another item of food for 10 bites from a spoon for 14 consecutive days.

Notes: Work towards the 16 ounces of Pediasure a day for 14 consecutive days. After this, begin the next goal. The next goal will be for Noah to take one taste a day… two tastes, three tastes, four tastes, five tastes, etc. of Pediasure by spoon once a day for three days in a row. After three days at each step, we will move to the next step. After we reach ten voluntary bites of Pediasure by spoon for three days in a row, we will move to the thickening step by taking two ounces of pediasure to a teaspoon of yogurt. This step may need to be modified once, the consistency is decided upon—we need to experiment before making a final goal.

Who is involved: Holly, Scott, Marie, Homestead, Caroline, Kim, Angela

2. Potty: Noah will urinate in toilet consistently 10 times per week for 4 weeks. Continue to aim for putting Noah on the potty once an hour, (focusing on using BMs and feeding to help us gauge exactly when we need to put him on). By July 31, we will have experimented with two days of wearing only underwear and pants (no diaper)

WE ARE CLOSE, BUT NOT THERE.

Who is involved: Holly, Scott, Marie, Homestead, Caroline

Talking: Continue working on existing speech goal. RECORD, RECORD, RECORD

Future Notes: Currently 8 times a day for four out of seven days for two consecutive weeks. Working towards 30 verbalizations at which time, a clicker will be used for verbalizations and only Unprompted Speech will be counted.

AGAIN, VERY CLOSE

Who is involved: Holly, Scott, Marie, Homestead, Caroline

3. Floortime: Run one probe a week of one half hour, testing how many circles of communication that we are closing.

Who is involved: Holly will run this once per calendar week, aiming for Thursday

Visual Performance: Because of frustration on Noah’s part, we will take a break from this area until the end of July.

4. Receptive Language: Noah will readily come or look when his name is called, 8 out of ten times for three consecutive days.

Who is involved: Holly

Imitation: Think about what the next goal will be in this area.

5. Vocal Imitation: Noah will readily be able to imitate almost any sound, word, sentence or song when asked. This goal will be considered met when Noah is given 30 opportunities within a four hour period three days in a row. Accurate and specific records must be kept.

Who is involved: Holly

6. Requests: Noah will be able to request with a prompt 10 or more items with item present for three consecutive days.

Who is involved: Holly

7. Labeling: Due to Noah’s skill level, this area will not be worked on until F2 is met.

8. Intraverbals:

Goal 1: Noah will be able to fill in the blanks for 10 different phrases, for three consecutive days.

Possible phrases:

Up and “Down”

Time to brush your “teeth

Read the “book”

I want a horsey “ride”

Dr. “Seuss”

A B “C”

1, 2 “3”

1,2,3,4 “5”

Let’s go on a “Walk”

Take a “Bath”

Clap your “Hands”

Happy Birthday to “You”

I Love Animals, Gerald Mc Boing Boing, etc.

Goal 2: Noah will be able fill in the phrase for two animals… (example) The cow says “moo” etc.

Note: Possibly use “The Cow Says Moo” song.

Goal 3: Noah will be able to fill in What’s your name? “Noah” four times, for three consecutive days.

Who is involved: Holly, Scott, Marie

9. Spontaneous Vocalizations:

Observation 1: Run an hour probe of how many minutes per hour Noah is making spontaneous vocalizations.

Observation 2: Continue to write down all intelligible spontaneous vocalizations a day.

Intervention 1: Provide opportunities to watch Veggie Tales, Dr. Seuss, and listen to simple songs on CD that Noah may motivated to imitate.

Who is involved: Holly, Scott, Marie, Homestead, Caroline, Kim

10. Syntax and Grammar:

Observation 1: When recording Noah’s verbalizations, keep track of how many words at one time he says.

Observation 2: Keep track of the syntax (word order) of spontaneous verbalizations.

Who is involved: Holly will analyze the recorded information already gathered daily.

11. Play and Leisure:

Goal 1: Noah will be played with purposefully using toys for fifteen minutes a day four days a week. (Adult only)

Goal 2: Noah will mutually interact with Andy for 10 minutes a day, four days a week, for two consecutive weeks.

Who is involved: Scott, Holly, Marie, Andy

12. Social Interaction:

Goal 1: Using Andy’s play session and times with other children at church, park, company, neighbors, etc, we will begin to push the boundaries to work up to 30 minutes of close proximity with another child while behaving appropriately. Keep Records.

NO RECORDS, BUT NOAH IS ABLE TO PLAY WITH/NEAR KIDS FOR UP TO TWO HOURS!! I NEED TO UPDATE THIS GOAL.

Who is involved: Scott, Holly, and Andy

13. Group Instruction: Noah will sit for ten minutes in Sunday School or story time at the library without disrupting the group, or leaving.

NOAH CAN DO THIS DURING CHURCH BUT NOT SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Who is involved: Scott, Holly, Sunday School class

14. Classroom Routines: Noah will be able to stand in one place for one minute once a day for three consecutive days. LINES, WAITING, ETC... NOT TOO MUCH CHANCE TO WORK ON THIS.

Who is involved: Holly and Scott

15. Reading: Noah will be able to identify A B C D E F using pointing or “give me”. I will be using the tactile letters, flashcards, wipe off cards, magnet letters, and playdough.

Who is involved: Holly

16. Math: Noah will be able to count along up to ten with a person.

Who is involved: Holly

17. Writing:

Goal 1: Noah will be able to maintain his ability to make lines on paper when asked.

MAINTAINED

Goal 2: Noah will be able to make a circle on paper when asked.

FREQUENTLY

Goal 3: Noah will be able to color neatly within the large boundary of a circle.

Goal 4: Noah will be able to trace lines.

WORKING HARD ON THIS

Who is involved: Holly

18. Dressing: He will continue to work on dressing skills when getting dressed in the morning, while toileting, while getting ready for bed, and when at OT. The next goal area is to maintain the ability to pull up and down pants, take of and put on shirt when started, take off socks, and take off jacket. He should be working towards putting on a pullover shirt independently.

Who is involved: Scott, Holly, Marie, Homestead, Caroline, Angela

19. Grooming: Noah will work towards washing and drying hands independently.

GETTING REALLY GOOD AT THIS, I WOULDN'T SAY IT'S MASTERED THOUGH

Who is involved: Holly, Scott, Marie, Homestead, Angela, Caroline, Kim

20. Gross Motor: Noah will be able to walk sideways, and jump forward.

Who is involved: Holly

21. Fine Motor:

Goal 1: Noah will be able to place five different objects in a form box with 100% accuracy when asked.

Goal 2: Noah will be able to open Ziploc bags.

Goal 3: Noah will be able to fold a piece of paper.

Who is involved: Holly

22. ABBLS Assessment: By July 31, Holly will run an entire ABLLS assessment on Noah and will use this to update new goals.

OOPS, I PLAN TO DO THIS -- HOPEFULLY THIS WEEK

23. Preliteracy and Pre-writing: Holly will do some research on Ball, Stick Bird and Handwriting Without Tears, in addition to looking at some other literacy/writing programs.

SO FAR HAVE BEEN USING TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ IN 100 EASY LESSONS (MORE LIKE 1000-FOR US, BUT OH WELL!) I HAVE BEEN SUPPLEMENTING WITH TEXTBOOK BASED PROGRAMS AND WORKBOOKS AS WELL AS MY OWN MATERIALS... SO I COMPLETED THIS TASK AND CAN GO ON TO THE NEXT STEP.

Holly will continue to stay current with her homeschool journaling, and will have regular and thorough communication with all therapists and SCL workers. It is important that everyone attend meetings regularly and that everyone stays positive and consistent.

GOAL MET.

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• Oct. 3, 2006 - Literacy takes time and hard, hard work.

Sept. 25-30

What a fantastic week! Both boys have been working on pre-reading, pre-writing skills, singing songs, listening to stories, playing computer games, playing with the neighborhood kids, making art (together even). We had a really nice week.

Noah went potty 13 times !!!!! Andy is learning to use words to say how he feels, how to ask for help, and to explain things to us instead of angry outbursts.

I have been reading some homeschooling books. I would like to keep a bibliography for myself for future reference.

This year I have been using:

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

The Big Book of Home Learning

Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know.

The Well Trained Mind: A Guide to a Classical Education at Home

The Educated Child

More Charlotte Mason Education

The Ultimate Book of Homeschooing Ideas

Various Preschool Workbooks

I have been consulting Phonics Pathways

A set of Kindergarton prereading/reading textbooks and workbooks

A math set of textbooks and activities with manipulative cubes

Various children's books that I will posts as we use them:

So far we have used:

Today is Monday

The Big Sneeze

The Greedy Triangle

How Are You Peeling: Foods With Moods

I Spy: An Alphabet in Art

Pigs Will Be Pigs (this is a math book about money-- cute)

Books and CDs

Andy has listened to Part 1 of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

He is currently listening to Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Noah is listening to Mary Engelbreits Mother Goose, 100 Best Loved Verses

The kids camped out in the back yard with Scott on Friday night and we went to the farmer's market on Saturday. We had a great time at church on Sunday... Noah sat through the whole thing including coffee hour! And then we went on a wonderful hayrack ride Sunday afternoon. All in all a full week.

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• Sep. 25, 2006 - Week 1, and 2-- Back to School!

Sept. 11-15 was a fun week. Noah and Andy were excited to start school. Andy has started Teach Your child to Read in 100 easy lessons. I have done a few lessons with Noah too. Noah has been working on making s's and m's and he has been singing lots of songs... really saying the words too. He has consistently been going potty at least one time a day which is fantastic. We hardly even have to work at getting that one time a day any more. I think it is time to make the transition to Pullups and then we will go from there. I think that with his braces, I will just put one pullup on him a day and then see how long we can keep him dry and then put a diaper on him after that so we don't have to take off his braces and redress him. No sense in making this an aversive experience.

Sept. 18-22 This was Noah's birthday week so we celebrated all week. We went to a comic book coffee shop, the science center, a fun drive where we went to see an underground railroad house, and lots and lots of playing outside. We also had a wonderful family birthday party that was very warm and joyous. Noah received an accordian, boomwhackers, a lollipop drum, a book, a fleece sweatshirt, bells and a kabasa and a nose flute (interesting :0) and a really cool BIKE! He has been tearing up the parking lot at Plymouth Congregational. It has made our fall a delight.

Andy has been working on his reading, but it is coming very hard for him because he literally cannot sit still. I don't know if it is age, gender or and attention issue. He enjoys playing UNO right now and counting as well as lots of dramatic play and video games on the Cartoon Network site.

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• Sep. 25, 2006 - Great Summer!

Well, this summer was really fun. We went to Colorado again. This time for a wedding. I had just found out that I was pregnant, and was feeling really sick. For the rest of the summer, I basically found myself just trying not to get sick and to keep up with the boys. Noah really missed working with me, and I hope not to take such a big summer vacation in the future. One idea I found for organizing the school year is to do it in trimesters. You work for three months on and take a month off. I might begin to do this. I really like the idea. Although instead of taking the month completely off, I think it would be fun to just modify school so that we do more trips and more fun things. Both of the kids really benefit from the one on one attention that "school" offers, so I am sure that they would not want to give it up completely for an entire month.

Anyway, Andy had a fun birthday. He had a pirate party and invited the neighborhood kids. We had treasure and everything!

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• Jun. 28, 2006 - Teamwork makes it happen.

June 12- June 28th-- Throughout the month of June, Noah has been working on his speech goal of 8 verbalizations a day and one feeding a day by mouth. We haved been to an Iowa Cubs baseball game, the Greek food fair, church, the library, working in the community garden, the park, the science center, coffee shops for breakfast, the store numerous times, the mall, on walks in the neighborhood and in other neighborhoods, swimming three times, and boy has it been fun. Andy has enjoyed all the fun activity too. Ahhhh summer. Although we all have sore throats and runny noses now!!!! grr.... The kids have been playing with other children in the neighborhood lately. Noah has almost reached his BIG GOAL of one feeding a day by mouth for 14 days. He missed day 13 because of his cold, so we will have two make up days for it... I am very strict. What can I say?

Today, he enjoyed licking a popsicle and I was able to get him to allow a spoon with Pediasure on it up to his lips. I also chilled the spoon sometimes to see how he would respond.

Andy has been a bundle of energy. He has been having fun with the neighborhood kids and playing board games with me. He may be signing up for soccer again this fall. We need to see if it works out. Also, Noah may be signed up for a dance group for people with disabilities. I think they would both like those activities.

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• Jun. 20, 2006 - Our personal IEP for Noah.

Noah’s Homeschool Program

Updated: June 20, 2006

1. Eating:

Goal 1: Noah will be able to eat the equivalent of one feeding a day for 14 consecutive days.