Moondog calendar has worked in a week!

[blueShark]

though I'd share as others may be encouraged to start using. It's on sale on the website, only if I wasn't rubbish finding the links or the email order will look again later.

Ordered on Monday last week, got it on Tuesday and this morning I asked DS what day it was and him with his amazing sight reading skills said 'tuesday'. When I asked what are we doing today pointing to the school sticker, he replied 'going to school' then after few second 'no school'

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He is not a school refused but found it hard to digest why some days we go and some don't, the audio explanation that we don't on sat and sun didn't work but this one has. Hurray!

Thanks moondog for sharing your amazing experienced brain with us here and to all those that have shared the success with it.

Worth having a go!

Ok here it is.

DS counted how many more days for school left this week, how many days till swimming on Sunday and how many days till ht.

Amazing!

a thread that should be bumped every day as this can help so many children.

Have you tried moondog's timetimer too?

www.timetimer.com

bump - we did this and her clock last year to great effect. Reduces anxiety levels brilliantly.

The calender is currently only a fiver on amazon for the 2012 version ; )

It's in the post for me lingle. I actually came accross your post that pasted the moondog content, actually I have all your posts pasted in a word document as your work with your ds2 is inspiring! How is he doing now? DS has more or less sorted receptive but struggles with expressive

that's a really nice thing to hear blueshark, thank you.
DS2 is doing great at 6.5. thank you for asking. no problems that we can't absorb into normal family life. His social skills are of course relatively poor but he is true mutual best friends with another boy in his class - an attempt to replicate the relationship with big brother I suspect. All the strengths I told the professionals about when he was 2 - the love of his brother, the joy in play, have proved to be the foundations of his development.

This year's excitement has been seeing more of his "Theory of Mind" come in. He brought home a superhero drawing from school today and then staged a scene between the superhero and his favourite puffle where the superhero had to rescue the puffle. His teddies suddenly have extended imagined inner lives and emotions. As with everything I suppose, it's only when these leaps in development occur that you realise what a big gap there was before. So another door has opened....

I don't have to supervise the development so much any more, he does it himself with school's help, I just parent fairly normally. So there is a big gap in my brain that used to be full of my DS2-strategising - I suspect you understand what I mean by this. Legal work (am solicitor) isn't quite intense enough to fill such a life-defining space. So I fill it instead by assembling an "any child, any instrument or none" orchestra/band at our school, in which DS2 hopes to participate once he gets to year 3.

Going back to you and your visual lad, consider the Linda Hodgson book "Visual Strategies for Improving Communication" too - another Moondog recommendation. For me this was a real springboard into designing my own visual strategies.

Thanks lingle for the suggestion. I'm ever so pleased for your son progress and I do hope he gets in the band in 2 years, if I remember he is in reception now? I think you delayed him a year...

DS has come back home with little fever and to my amazement said I'm sick, I have temperature. I asked school how he was and whether someone modelled the sentence for him but they weren't aware of it so another thick in my book of targets to come, emotions and state of mind are the hardest to get through.

Yes, language seemed hard but you can structure the progress quite easily.

Whereas emotions and state of mind - so much harder. Sometimes I wonder if I ought to try to follow something more organised - there is that philosophy where you distinguish manners/politeness from true "from the heart" emotional milestones isn't there? I thought of looking into that a while back....