Coming up on the end

[azurelunatic]

Next week is the Little Fayoumis' last week of Kindergarten.

Wow.

How's he getting to be so big, so fast?

We'll have to work with him on his name and address over the summer. He keeps forgetting the area code, and he can't spit the whole address out in one chunk. The information's there, the retrieval's just hard. I shudder to think how a police officer upon finding him, were he lost, would have to ask him so many bazillion different ways in order to find out where he lived to bring him safely home.

He knows his first name, and his last name. He knows his phone number, and the area code, but won't say them together. He knows the address... but won't say it all in one chunk. Aaaaaaagh, quoth the parents. He's supposed to know this. We've been over it with him. Again. And Again. Just, evidently, not enough. Auuugh.

But he's still a good Little Fayoumis.

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[azurelunatic]

Cool.

Isn't it great?

[mnfiddledragon.livejournal.com]

*nod*

I wouldn't worry too much, by the end of summer he should have it down pat.

Beena's kind of doing the same thing. Little Miss Scatterbrained Chatter-Mouth. She'll go on and on and on and on about nothing and everything, but when it comes time to ask her a pointed question, she goes all coy and giggly, then said "I don't know". :P - She knows it, it's obvious, but trying to get stuff out of her is like pulling teeth (hey - maybe *that's* why all four front teeth essentially came out at the same time!)

For us, it's working on her speech. It's hard to believe she's as tall as she is when you hear her talk, and it'll definitely affect her scores in school because she can't make out all of the phonetic sounds. We're working on that though, with the school speech therapist...uh-oh...we should figure out what to do for the summer. gack. I don't want her to lose everything she's gained.

[azurelunatic]

Little Fayoumis has most of his sounds, I think. He has them all, but he doens't always use them in talking. I've been embarking on a small campaign of "You don't say it like that, you say it like *this*," and demonstrating, and having him repeat it a few times if it's one he's especially having trouble with.

I'm attacking poor grammar at the same time, needless to say.

His mom did not have my advantages of good schooling and well-spoken parents; proper English has been a nightmare for her. It's almost instinctive with me. Little Fayoumis is going to be somewhere in-between, I think.

[mnfiddledragon.livejournal.com]

*nod* we're doing the same, really with all three girls. Beena and Bri's "much" and "many", Kritter's "brang" vs. "brought", etc..

I'm not sure what it is with Beena. She's got *very* good hearing, and no jaw/facial abnormalities that would prevent her from proper pronunciation, but she definitely has issues - she had a low enough score, that there were absoultely no problems getting her into speech (apparently sometimes it is a problem to get approval for speech therapy), and it will follow her through 1st, and probably into 2nd. She's made some fair progress - in fact just last week, I heard her say her sister's name properly for the first time ever. But she doesn't quite have all of her sounds, and a number of the ones she does have she loses in general conversation.

[azurelunatic]

And we're easing the proper speech in gradually. We don't want to overwhelm him with everything at one time. And it's improving. Yay!

*giggle*

At least the videogames are doing something: he now refers to the individual parts of his homework as the objectives. He has to complete these objectives before he's done. This results in him saying, just like the game, "Objective completed!" I'm delighted that he's made the mental jump, by himself, that means that he knows that "objective" means something you've got to do, anything, and not just something in the game.