Saturday, May 23, 2009

98 Ways To Say Very Good

98 Ways To Say Very Good

If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence.If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.

1.You've got it made.
2.You're on the right track now!
3.You are very good at that.
4.That's very much better!
5.I'm happy to see you working like that.
6.You're doing a good job.
7.That's the best you've ever done.
8.I knew you could do it.
9.Now you've figured it out.
10.Now you have it!
11.GREAT!
12.Keep working – you're getting better.
13.You make it look easy.
14.That's the right way to do it.
15.You're getting better every day.
16.You're really growing up!
17.Nice going.
18.SENSATIONAL!
19.That's the way to do it.
20.That's better.
21.Best yet.
22.PERFECT!
23.You're really going to town!
24.TERRIFIC!
25.Much better!
26.You've just about mastered that!
27.OUTSTANDING!
28.You did that very well.
29.FANTASTIC!
30.You're really improving.
31.SUPERB!
32.Keep it up!
33.You've got that down pat!
34.TREMENDOUS!
35.Good thinking!
36.Keep on trying!
37.I've never seen anyone do it better.
38.I like that.
39.I'm very proud of you.
40.I think you've got it now.
41.You figured that out fast.
42.That's really nice.
43.You're right.
44.CLEVER!
45.That's great!
46.Way to go.
47.Now you have the hang of it!
48.You've done a great job.
49.Congratulations, you got it right
50.You're beautiful.
51.That's RIGHT!
52.That's GOOD!
53.When I'm with you I feel like singing!
54.GOOD WORK!
55.I'm proud of the way you worked today.
56.You're really working hard today.
57.You've just about got it.
58.THAT'S IT!
59.Congratulations!
60.That's quite an improvement.
61.You are doing that much better today.
62.I sure am happy you're my daughter/son/student, etc.
63.You're learning fast.
64.Good for you!
65.Couldn't have done it better myself.
66.You really make being a parent/teacher/caregiver fun.
67.One more time and you'll have it.
68.You did it that time!
69.That's the way!
70.SUPER DUPER!
71.You haven't missed a thing.
72.Keep up the good work.
73.Nothing can stop you now!
74.EXCELLENT!
75.That's the best ever.
76.FINE!
77.Wonderful!
78.That's better than ever.
79.I appreciate your hard work.
80.Now that's what I call a fine job!
81.You must have been practising!
82.You're doing beautifully.
83.Right on!
84.Good remembering!
85.You did a lot of work today!
86.You certainly did well today.
87.You're doing fine.
88.You are really learning a lot.
89.You outdid yourself today!
90.SPLENDID!
91.Good going!
92.MARVELLOUS!
93.You're doing the best you can!
94.Good job.
95.You remembered.
96.That gives me a happy feeling.
97.Well, look at you go!
98.DYNAMITE!

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Alphabet 8s and Lazy 8





Alphabet 8s adapt the Lazy 8 form to the printing of lower-case letters from a through t (these letters evolved from the Arabic system; letters u through z come from the Roman alphabet). This activity integrates the movements involved in the formation of these letters, enabling the writer to cross the visual midline without confusion. each letter is clearly superimposed on either one side or the other (see illustration). A downstroke either ends the letter or begins another letter. For most students, when the printing of the lower-case letters improves, handwriting also becomes easier.

Activate The Brain For
  • crossing the kinaesthetic /tactile midline for bihermishereic writing on the midfield

  • increased peripheral awareness

  • eye-hand coordination

  • symbol recognition and discrimination
I found that this is useful to help young children understand the shape and strokes of the lower case letters. Plus it is fun and improves eye-hand coordination.
You can get the child to write the word eg. cat, dog by tracing on the Alphabet 8s. See sample picture below.

Before doing the alphabet 8s, you might want to get the child to do the lazy 8s. Drawing the Lazy 8 or infinity symbol enables the reader to cross the visual midline without interruption, thus activating both right and left eyes and integrating the right and left visual fields. The 8 is drawn on its side and includes a definite midpoint and separate left and right areas, joined by a continuous line.
He starts on the midline and moves counterclockwise first: up, over and around. Then from his waist he moves clockwise: up, over, around and back to the beginning midpoint. As eyes follow the Lazy 8, the head moves slightly and the neck remains relaxed. Three repetitations with each hand separately, then with both together, are recommended. Two colours of chalk or ink may be used.
You may watch a you tube series on this at:

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Multiple Personalities

I was listening to the radio this morning and the psychologist was talking in line on the topic dealing on personality and the masks we put on. It's interesting to note that we often mistook the definations of these terms. Masks are supposedly just facades we put on, pretending to be someone else. But how about when it comes to personality disorder? Ah.....A good book to read is Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Apparently this lady `Sybil' has 16 personalities! I already found it difficult to understand myself and knowing that a person could have 16 different personalities is really mind boggling.

To know more about it; check this link out :http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSybil_(book)&h=33b96e75b7bccecfbad616c0f79b4707

Monday, March 16, 2009

Copy and Draw

I am not an artist. But what I found intriguing is having your child copy what he sees. First start with a simple picture with a step by step procedure eg. how to draw a sun, book. jug.

You would be amazed to see the result. It may not be perfect, but give a big pat on the back to the child by saying `A job well done, that's a nice picture'. I found that the child feels deeply encouraged with our positive words which makes him want to try to draw better.

It improves through time as well, lots of patience and most of all both parties participate and have fun!

Copy and Draw

I am not an artist. But what I found intriguing is having your child copy what he sees. First start with a simple picture with a step by step procedure eg. how to draw a sun, book. jug.



You would be amazed to see the result. It may not be perfect, but give a big pat on the back to the child by saying `A job well done, that's a nice picture'. I found that the child feels deeply encouraged with our positive words which makes him want to try to draw better.



It improves through time as well, lots of patience and most of all both parties participate and have fun!

Auditory Processing

What I found most critical about speech impaired children is the auditory processing retention. They are unable to reproduce what they they heard and have difficulty in processing. As a result, they appear `deaf', inattentive and sometimes labeled as stupid.

How can you help to stimulate this?
I found through my journey the following helped my son:

1. Sequence story telling
2. Reciting a story from picture story books
3. Reading

A child may be able to read but still faced difficulty in comprehension. He is unable to understand a sequence of story and this is commonly reflected also in speech reproduction. It inter-links.

It's vital to stimulate this processing of the brain in order for the child to progress academically. What good it is if he can read but unable to understand the content of the text. It would be almost like having the same difficulty in understanding what is being said/instructed to him. Maybe that's why some of these children develop bad tantrums as they fail to deliver their wants/needs to us appropriately. And very often our instructions to them are in vain.

Life In The Real World

It isn't easy for a LD child to cope in the real world environment. At least I can observe being a third party, I noticed the following with my White Horse.

This year he entered formal schooling in the public school. I am glad I have the opportunity to enlist him with the regular children and mind me, he is solo alone by himself most of the time without a shadow aide.

Initially he stuck out like a sore thumb among his peers. Not so much as being a nuisance but rather he behaved inconsistently with his peers. He was among them, they tried to play with him but he ignored them.

It took a while for him to assimilate (still trying) with his peers. I constantly got reports from his classmates of his bad behaviour in classroom e.g running out of the classroom, rolling behind the room and also moving like a fan which they imitated in a cute manner. Fortunatley theya re still young age around 7, so this is still acceptable among his peers.

By in by they accepted his perculiarity and some even got attracted to him, by hanging around him during recess time and also reporting to me about him. Yes I was involved in a way going to the school during recess and also hanging around before and after school. I believe it helps in giving comfort for the children too to have an adult and what more a friendly one too.

Now he has a group of at least 4-5 children with him during recess. I have proceeded further to bring in some short activities e.g making origamis and later some educational play cards, hopeful to attract some children to him. Assimilation.

Teach your child a trade - e.g playing cards, ball. Make him an expert in it so that when others play with him, he will fair well and not be disheartened because of his disability. This helps in making him part of the community/his peers.