All by herself

Sophie's class is working on individual presentations for social studies, they are talking about community helpers, which in turn means that they talk about the jobs that family members do.  So Sophie and I decided that she would talk about her Papa, my dad, who is an artist and retired teacher.

Sophie and her Papa with one of his paintings

Today while I was retrieving Sophie's Step by Step with levels talker switch to use for the project , I came across her adapted crayon holder.  It has been quite a while since we used it but I knew it would be perfect for this too.

She thought it was super fun to be colouring all by herself.  She was very focused for a long time.  Sophie chose all her crayon colours, just like she does with paint colours.

 

I want Sophie to be able to do as much independantly as possible.  She gets a lot of confidence when she is able to do something without help, again the active learning motto that we live by. 

The step by step talker allows Sophie to tell her classmates stories, or ask them questions.  Every day at school Sophie tells the class something about what she did at home the night before.  For this project I put some messages on her talker so that she could tell her class by hitting her switch all about her Papa who is an artist and teacher.

Looking away before she hits her switch.  Sophie almost always looks away first before reaching for something.  This is a classic thing to do for someone who has a cortical vision impairment (CVI).

 Reaching for her switch.

 Got it.

Loving the message and proud of herself.  :)

Tomorrow Sophie will be able to take to school a piece of her artwork along with a photo of her Papa and herself with his artwork.  I know that she will love telling her friends all about it.