Ds has got a sheet with 4 pictures at the top of a Fire engine, firemans boots, firemans uniform and firemans helmet. Each item has a colur next to it to indicate what colour they should be.
The underneath there is a pic of 3 firemen fighting a fire.
Ds has to colour the pic in correctly, using the colours suggested above.
That is fine, he can do that.
Then underneath that there is 6 lines where Ds has to write 2 sentences using the words listed at the bottom of the page.
The words are - engine, hose, ladder, water, put out, fire, danger, wearing, jacket, trousers, suit, helmet, boots.
Now I am assuming that he has to add words such as I, and, The to these words, else a sentence cannot be made.
Last time he had a sheet like this he ended up in tears. His pencil control is still very poor and so his formation of his letters is still very wobbly, and he gets them back to front upside down etc. His writing is also very big in his attempt to control it, and so he can take up a whole line with two words.
If he has a word up in front of him, say on a board, then he can copy it given time, but if he has to keep looking for a word to copy then he loses all sense of what he is doing.
I did write the sentence out for him to copy, and held it up in front of him, but he was too upset by that point.
Last time I let him stop after one sentence as he was so upset. I told his teacher why he'd only done one sentence and although she said it was ok, she looked a bit confused that i'd let him only do the one sentance because of it.
I am surprised that they have given him another similar sheet so soon after that one.
I know he has to learn and practice, but if it upsets him again I am not going to make him do it.