Friday, October 07, 2005
Weather Vanes
There are dramatic shifts in the weather where I live, fronts will roll in and the temperature will drop 20 degrees in a day. Many teachers and aides accept it as wisdom that you can predict a change in the weather by the behavior of kids - squirrelly behavior, tantrums, etc. all presage a change in the weather. My own observations would support the theory.
G., the stubborn fellow with Down Syndrome, has accepted me as the person who takes him to and from keyboarding class - so much so that he refused to leave the class today when I left early to do an origami lesson with another class. The other aide in the classroom was unable to move him out of the room when class was over. They called my name over the school PA and I came in, told him "Let's go" and the problem was solved. At other times of the day he has locked onto other people and refuses to budge without that particular person. Routine is everything.
G., the stubborn fellow with Down Syndrome, has accepted me as the person who takes him to and from keyboarding class - so much so that he refused to leave the class today when I left early to do an origami lesson with another class. The other aide in the classroom was unable to move him out of the room when class was over. They called my name over the school PA and I came in, told him "Let's go" and the problem was solved. At other times of the day he has locked onto other people and refuses to budge without that particular person. Routine is everything.
// posted by Old Math @ 6:51 PM 
