[House] Sunday quiet learning time, 3/26

[Robin Lee Powell]

Sounds cool!  Thanks.  :)

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:25:45PM -0700, RJ Johnson wrote:
> Kelly started early (9-9:30) with the spelling blocks, working on the
> four-letter words and doing well recognizing the letters (with the
> exception of W, which she called Q at first). She had good focus throughout
> it all.
> 
> From 10-11, we started looking up what mucus was (I wanted to try to get
> her to understand what was in the boogers she still loves to eat), and from
> there we talked about the nose, nasal passages, and the lungs. From that we
> reviewed how the lungs, throat, larynx and vocal folds are involved in
> speaking and singing (during which time she understood and replicated the
> difference between whiny and non-whiny tones). At the end of that I showed
> her how to get different sounds between diaphragm breathing and just using
> her larynx and head. She chose to sang the opening of "Make it bigger" from
> memory and did pretty good with it.
> 
> After that we spent time reading the Machines book, with her sounding out
> the initial word on the page and my asking her questions about how many of
> them she'd seen. And we finished up with reading "Hop on Pop." By this
> point she was claiming she didn't remember when I asked her to pronounce
> letters she had been able to recognize and read earlier. I asked her if she
> would say "I don't remember" rather than saying she didn't want to. She
> admitted that.
> 
> It was a good time. She earned three stars.
> 
> RJ

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