Special Olympics

In June, just before summer vacation, Sophie was able to be part of the Special Olympics day for the school board.  She had a blast!!!

The volunteers were just amazing and really made it a fun day for all the children that were participating.  What a fabulous group of people!  Sophie's EA was also by her side helping her do her best.

Sophie concentrated and worked really hard at each event.  She was covered in ribbons by the end of the day.

These are just a few of the events she participated in....

Success!!!  Look at all those ribbons and of course the huge grin!

Grade Three

Since I haven't blogged all summer I figured I should at least show a back to school photo.  Sophie is loving grade three and we are getting settled in to the new school year nicely.  Lucas is having a great start as well and he has continued in the gifted itinerant program this year.  He has his first cluster session for grade six this week.

Waiting to have her name called to meet her new teacher!

Musical Lightbox

Last winter we were gifted a switch adapted musical lightbox.  Sophie has become very proficient at using her switches so this was a nice addition to her adapted toys. I haven't used this with her as much as I should because she really enjoys the response she gets when she activates the switch properly.
 

 The lightbox is from American Printing House for the Blind.  It lights up and plays music when the switch is activated.  I am hoping to get a latch timer for Sophie because she finds it hard to hold the switch down for any extended period of time.

Since Halloween is on its way I added some little spider and pumpkin stickers for her to look at when the lightbox lights up.  She was very interested in them and I will have to think up more ideas of what to place on the lightbox to keep her visually interested when playing with it.