A Lion of a Day
Our living room floor has been taken over today - by Lions!!!
Well, pictures of lions anyway…
At his last therapy session, Jack’s Speech Pathologist printed out a whole lot of lion pictures for Jack to colour in (she is so lovely!!), so he busied himself this morning with colouring.
I made the mistake of asking if I could see one of his pictures that looked like a ‘real’ lion as opposed to a ‘cartoon’. At first Jack looked at me blankly, and then of course he wanted a full explanation of what I meant. Since then we have been trying to talk about the differences between pictures that look like ‘real’ lions, and pictures that are more like ‘cartoons’ (yes, very confusing, but he is starting to get the idea of how there are differences).
At Jack’s latest speech therapy session I asked his Speech Pathologist how I might go about trying to get him to understand different voice tones, and whilst it looks like it will be a very long process, we’re about to start working on it here at home.
Hmmm… now how could we relate voice tones to lions…
Anyway, on the topic of lions, Jack has taken to grouping lately (as opposed to lining up) - here is one of his latest groupings… lions of course, with a tiger and a polar bear thrown in for good measure (and no apparently it’s not a vicious attack on the polar bear even though it looks this way - I was a little worried for the bear!!!).
Oh, it really has been a lion of a day!
January 16th, 2008 at 3:43 am
That polar bear does look like he is in a scary spot.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:52 am
This is too cute. It is wonderful when there is an interest that you can totally indulge in and use for all kinds of learning things. I bet you could come up with some sort of “lion” way of teaching voice inflections. We are still struggling with voice issues and understanding meaning behind them here. Do you have to watch how you speak and hold yourself all the time? Maizie is so sensitive to my behavior and how I speak. If I am retelling stories to Joe she will get very upset when I seem excited. It can be tiring, I think always having to explain why I am speaking or looking a certain way. Now whenever I see lion things I am going to think of Jack.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:56 am
It looks like Jack had a pretty good time with the lions. The polar bear does stand out, but perhaps the bear makes friends with the lions despite being different. : )
January 16th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Its great that he has such an interest in something that you can use.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Lions, and tigers, and bears!! Oh, My. Do you think he would sit through a viewing of “The Wizard of Oz”?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I love his little set up with the bear, poor bear! I don’t have advice for the teaching tones with lions but I’ll have to think about it, there must be a way to incorporate it. It looks like you have some pretty angry looking lions and then if you have happy looking lions and just start with those two tones and make them talk to each other? Anyway, looks like he had a great time with all those pictures!
January 16th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Oooh! What lovely grouping! It looks like a pow-wow- maybe the polar bear is telling them all a story? Perhaps a game of duck-duck-goose? Very cute!
January 16th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I love the grouping - very creative! (I must admit I do feel a little worried for the bear though too - LOL!) I’m so glad that you have a good therapist working with you - that makes a huge difference in our worries as parents.