It's time to work

Since it is a yucky, rainy day, Bobby got to work.  First we worked on lower case letter identification.  He know all of the upper case, but only about half of the lower case.  He matched with his new puzzle cards and got to line them up when he verbalized the letter.

He prefers to work independently and is learning to use visual intructions.

Singing away while he works...

I tried to take pics when we were doing tasks where he had to wait and follow directions, but didn't have much luck.  So most of the pics are his fun puzzles.

The fire truck siren goes off when the last puzzle piece is put in.

This is his favorite part of each activity...putting it AWAY!!!

Yes, Kevin Clash (a.k.a .  Elmo) even makes it into Bobby's work routine!!

Doing everything he can NOT to sit with his hands nicely sitting folded on the table to wait for his next instruction.

Working on shape identification and he insists on keeping all of the puzzle boards on the table at once.

I just realized that you can't see his work/break card strip in any of these pictures.  So...at the top of the table, there is a velcro strip glued down the entire length of the table.  He has work and break cards alternated across the strip.  When he sits down, I point to the work card and he says "time to work", when he is finished with his task, he pulls off the work card and says "time for break" and he gets a 1 minute break.  When the timer buzzes, he comes back to his seat and takes off the break card and says "time to work" until all of the cards are removed.  This system was set up for him so that he could see how much longer/many more tasks he has to work.  He then gets a 10 minute break and the cards are lined up again.  We generally do 2 sets of these cards at work work event.  Right now he is having his free time and we will do 2 more sets today.