Trying new things

This week Jeronimo had a go at learning how to drum, here's a video:

https://goo.gl/photos/SyaGkmTYLatzu63s6

It sounds a lot better in his headphones than it does in the video! With drumming, he learns hand-eye coordination, left-right brain development (sometimes called "cross brain coordination"), following instructions, and some music knowledge as well. He also has a lot of fun!

He worked on a 4-beat pattern, using his right hand on the hi-hat cymbal all 4 beats: 1, 2, 3, 4! 1, 2, 3, 4!
Then he brought his left hand in on the snare drum, just for beat 3: wait, wait, 3! wait. Wait, wait, 3! wait.
It's tricky to hit that 3 every time, but he did his best and kept improving.

We've also started some games to learn how to be patient while it's someone else's turn. The first game is "Memory", using pairs of Diego cards that we made.

We've also made a Snakes and Ladders game (but we've changed it to Waterslides and Pyramids) and played just once, but we need to wait for it to be laminated to play again.

Jeronimo is also working hard at doing his tasks without any help. He practices with his "stations", which are activities in trays on his desk. He takes the activity in a coloured folder out of the tray on the left and completes it. He puts in back in the folder and then into the tray on the right. Then he takes the coloured square from the front of the left tray and puts it on the right tray.

Jeronimo is doing very well with this, and enjoys the activities.

Jeronimo has fun and learns at the same time with all of these fun new experiences. It helps him settle and be focused on more straight-forward activities like maths, reading and writing.