objective: 1. recognize and describe sounds 2. use the computer mouse to click on yellow dots Points to remember: 1. your child may not know the name of the object but use descriptions of the sounds 2. make sure to use lots of conversation Lesson: 1. Go to http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SoundStimuli.html 2. Allow your child to click on one yellow dot at a time 3. Each dot is a different sound 4. Some are real sounds and others are funny sound effects. So me start of quietly and gradually get louder, some are long and some are short so there's lots to talk about. For example there are bells, helicopters, chimes, tiger growls, and more. Modifications: 1. Fisher Price has a game called "Who's at the Door?" which is similar.
About Me
- The Miller family
- I am just a mom: a mom of three kids and one of them is hearing impaired. We are a busy family and I am a very busy mom. I want my hearing impaired daughter, Brooke, to have every advantage so I try to incorporate as many lessons and strategies into our every day life. Most of the teaching I do with Brooke is incorporated into our daily routines and parent-directed play. This blog will include some of our formal lessons but mostly it will be learning to listen in the everyday.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Listening to sounds
objective: 1. recognize and describe sounds 2. use the computer mouse to click on yellow dots Points to remember: 1. your child may not know the name of the object but use descriptions of the sounds 2. make sure to use lots of conversation Lesson: 1. Go to http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SoundStimuli.html 2. Allow your child to click on one yellow dot at a time 3. Each dot is a different sound 4. Some are real sounds and others are funny sound effects. So me start of quietly and gradually get louder, some are long and some are short so there's lots to talk about. For example there are bells, helicopters, chimes, tiger growls, and more. Modifications: 1. Fisher Price has a game called "Who's at the Door?" which is similar.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Red Sock, Yellow Sock
objective: 1. listen to a story with competing background noise 2. answer questions about a story 3. repeat a sentence or phase word for word 
Points to Remember: 1. Using the background noise/music in a story is a step after listening to stories without the extra noise. 2. I am teaching Brooke to repeat entire sentences to work on developing her auditory memory as well as allow me to see if she is typically leaving out certain parts of speech. Lesson: 1. We found the story Red Socks and Yellow Socks here: 
2. Listen to the story in English (your other option is Korean if you want to listen in Korean too) 3. Stop the story occasionally to ask comprehension questions. Try to ask questions that your child can not answer visually like, "What is his name?" or "Cousin Kate said what?"
3. After listening to the story, press the Story Repeat button. Here the voice will read a line and then kids' voices will repeat it - have your child join in with the kid voices to repeat it.
Points to Remember: 1. Using the background noise/music in a story is a step after listening to stories without the extra noise. 2. I am teaching Brooke to repeat entire sentences to work on developing her auditory memory as well as allow me to see if she is typically leaving out certain parts of speech. Lesson: 1. We found the story Red Socks and Yellow Socks here: 
2. Listen to the story in English (your other option is Korean if you want to listen in Korean too) 3. Stop the story occasionally to ask comprehension questions. Try to ask questions that your child can not answer visually like, "What is his name?" or "Cousin Kate said what?" 
3. After listening to the story, press the Story Repeat button. Here the voice will read a line and then kids' voices will repeat it - have your child join in with the kid voices to repeat it.4. The Story Alone button will have the voice read a line from the story and then leave quiet time for your child to repeat it.
5. Brooke's favorite button was the chant. They took the story, reduced the word a made a little song. The second time through the song, the voice leaves time for you child to repeat.
Modifications
5. Brooke's favorite button was the chant. They took the story, reduced the word a made a little song. The second time through the song, the voice leaves time for you child to repeat. 
Modifications2. Time for Sleep are two more options!
Monday, March 21, 2011
Happy Spring
Happy Spring lunch was a bunny sandwich, spring Oreos, jelly beans, watermellon, hard boiled egg, and carrot and celery sticks. Happy Spring!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Happy St Patrick's Day
We LOVE celebrating St. Patrick's Day at our house! I love creating the special memories with our children! My ultimate goal is for them to always wish they were at home on holidays -so I really do them special! Wouldn't it be great for my children to be grown and away from home and call me saying, "Mom, it is St Patrick's Day and I wish I was home to eat Lucky Charms and Rainbow Cupcakes." So, with that in mind, I LOVE celebrating and creating memories now!Breakfast
We start at breakfast with Lucky Charms! This cereal only appears in our house on St. Patrick's Day - they don't get it at any other time during the year! Wow, they look forward to it!Lunch
I love our Rainbow cupcakes - white cake mix separated into 6 bowls and turned red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Spoon one color at a time and use a toothpick to spread the color. Bake as directed on the cake box.
Dinner was cabbage and sausage - that is Irish right? With green corn muffins and green salad.
Lunch on St. Patrick's Day includes shamrocks, Leprechaun magic, and rainbows! They have a Lucky Charm rice crispy treat (I found these at Target this year), rainbow Twizzlers, a rainbow cupcake, and shamrock sandwich made from an English Muffin, cheese and a sliced green pepper to look like a shamrock, a pot of gold, and Leprechaun pudding. The Leprechaun pudding is vanilla pudding with some green food coloring hiding inside - the kids will stir it up so see the Leprechaun Magic turn it green!
This is our Pot of Gold Jello - yellow jello-jigglers cut into gold pieces!
I love our Rainbow cupcakes - white cake mix separated into 6 bowls and turned red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Spoon one color at a time and use a toothpick to spread the color. Bake as directed on the cake box.Dinner
Dinner was cabbage and sausage - that is Irish right? With green corn muffins and green salad.Dessert was Shamrock Shakes:
Shamrock Shakes are mint ice-cream blended with mint extract, green food coloring, and milk! Yummy! Happy St. Patty's Day!
Shamrock Shakes are mint ice-cream blended with mint extract, green food coloring, and milk! Yummy! Happy St. Patty's Day!Leprechaun Magic Part 5
In our Steve Spangler Science Kit we were given some rare Leprechaun eggs. These eggs are so cool because they disappear in water. 
Here are the Leprechaun eggs
Brooke says, "Magic Hands" and puts the eggs into the water. They disappear!
Then we can pull them back out and there they are!
The Magic is in the water-absorbing polymer that forms an amazing clear sphere. Due to the refraction in the cup of water, it looks as if the spheres completely disappear.
Here are the Leprechaun eggs
Brooke says, "Magic Hands" and puts the eggs into the water. They disappear!
Then we can pull them back out and there they are! The Magic is in the water-absorbing polymer that forms an amazing clear sphere. Due to the refraction in the cup of water, it looks as if the spheres completely disappear.So what can first, the Leprechaun or the egg?
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Leprechaun Magic Part 3
Just as we sometimes get snow in North Carolina, the Leprechauns sometimes get snow in the land of the Leprechauns....and I have some. Now the snow looks like ordinary white snow, but with some Leprechaun Magic, the snow is actually green!
Our container of Leprechaun Snow:
Idea and supplies from Steve Spangler Science.
Our container of Leprechaun Snow:
Idea and supplies from Steve Spangler Science.Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Leprechaun Magic Part 4
Everyone knows that Leprechauns hide their pots of gold at the end of a rainbow. But we are never fast enough to find the gold! Leprechauns are tricky creatures and, I think, they hide their pots of gold at the end of rainbows we can't see! So, we got some special glasses to help us find the rainbows.
We put on the glasses and rainbows appears all over the house! They were everywhere!
We put on the glasses and rainbows appears all over the house! They were everywhere!
Here is why? The Rainbow Detecting Glasses have special lenses that diffract the light. When light is separated we see red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet - the rainbow!
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