The Story of My April Butterfly: Share Day

Monday, October 20, 2008

Share Day

I went to visit Maggie at school today. We were able to spend time watching her Speech Center Time and her Share Day. It was so much fun to watch Maggie doing her thing in school. Her classroom is so rich in activities, language and learning. I am so thankful for the experiences she is having... she is doing GREAT!

Whenever it's Share Day, the student that is sharing gets to choose a song for the whole class to sing. Then they get to be a part of it by using whatever puppet goes along with the song. Maggie picked a song about Ducks... and she got to be the mother duck! It was so cute:) She was supposed to wait until the song said, "Mama Duck called Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" before she made the puppet quack, but she was having too much fun!

Here's a little montage of our visit today...

4 comments:

Cheryl Corine / Mom / Grandma said...: Great Job Maggie, so pround of you!
How fun Mommy to see her in her class room.
Love You Maggie :-)
Grandma; October 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Soooo neat! It is sooo fun to see her thriving in her preschool. Her teacher looks like a lot of fun!; October 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Kari said...: So cute - that just makes me smile. =); October 29, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Tara B said...: I love the montage! How adorable!; June 6, 2011 at 3:13 AM

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Maggie spent the first three weeks of her life in the NICU... first to investigate an irregular heartbeat- cleared with a diagnosis of a wandering pace-maker and sent home at 5 days old. She stopped breathing 2 hours after we had been home... we gave her rescue breaths, called 9-1-1 and Maggie was transfered by ambulance to the NICU, again. At 20 days old Maggie was sent home with a diagnosis of mild Laryngomalasia (floppy windpipe) and an apnea monitor to wear for 6 months. At one year of age Maggie was diagnosed as Hypotonic and spent the next 6 months of her life being seen by a Neurologist, a Genetic Counselor and Occupational Therapists. She began early intervention for her developmental delays. At age 3 she began attending a Special Education Preschool. She attended a typical Kindergarten class with RSP help for fine motor delays. Beginning in 1st grade she began her journey through Special Education for intensive help with many developmental and cognitive delays. Beginning in 3rd Grade I decided to Homeschool Maggie through a local charter school. She still received Special Ed. services, but I was in charge of her daily curriculum. We began her 5th grade year by enrolling her back in public school. This year will either prove to be a great stepping stone to the rest of her education, or it will be a year to revisit other options. This is our journey living with a child who is Hypotonic.