This morning it was cold but the sun was shining. Junior wanted to go for a bike ride but with him recovering from his illness I knew he wasn't ready for that. Instead we went for a nice long walk.
Ready to roll
And we are off
Once we got home we did a little fun school work on his ipad. We are slowly getting back to his regular schedule. It can take awhile after he has been ill and I have learned by experience to not push it. We looked at some new apps I had gotten over Christmas. Several face book pages posted when apps were temporarily free so we have a lot of new ones to check out.This one ended up being too easy for him but he still enjoyed it because it was set up like a game. Shoot the fish that have a word with a specific short vowel sound. To make this work for Junior I would let a few fish "swim" onto the screen and then pause the game so he could pick(look at) the fish with the correct word.
This is another one we found to be too easy for him but he still enjoyed it. The cloud has a picture and he needed to match the raindrop with the correct beginning letter. When the correct letter is chosen a storm begins with lighting, thunder, and rain, then flowers start to grow. If only there were apps out there which looked age appropriate but focused on lower reading/math skills(1st-3rd grade range). Both these caught his interest and because of the "game like" play they were closer to being age appropriate for him. An app like this but with the ability to match a picture to a word or a picture to a sentence(with difficulty adjustments) would bring it to a perfect level for Junior. They still look a bit young but the fun factor allowed him to over look that. 
After checking out a few more apps it was time for a craft project and Junior wanted to listen to a story. We are starting a winter unit(ice, snow, cold, and all things winter) so we made a snowman. Love doing crafts on the lightbox.
Listening to the Arthur Christmas story on his ipadLook at that face, think he is just a bit into the story
Too involved in the story to stop for a picture with his snowman
We are doing an app giveaway over on our Adaptions blog so feel free to click on over and check it out.
Hi Heidi and Junior,
ReplyDeleteI just learned of a product called iPortal Accessibility that enables someone to use a head switch with the apple products. The website only includes the iPhone and iPod Touch, but according to an AT professional I spoke with, it DOES work with the iPad!
Here is the website: http://www.dynamiccontrols.com/iportal/iportal-accessibility
Hope this helps :)
Jaimie