5-й день курса Сегодня были чтение, музыка и,...

5th day of the course

Today there were reading, music and, as a mathematical direction, orientation in space.

I don’t give new words yet. It seems to me that Lesya has not yet remembered those 11 that we went through in previous classes. Again she noticed that she absolutely did not like this task. I’ll think about what can be done.

After the first sheet of reading, we switched to music. Our flute goes so slowly that while these classes were not similar to music. In this regard, I recalled the situation from my childhood: I went to music school at the age of 5, but the whole first year I "painted walls" (gently drove my hands on the door. I still remember small rough specks painted over with white paint ...) .

But this is a retreat. In general, I decided to add singing to the flute. I sang something, then asked Lesia to sing. Sometimes she sang a sound in response, sometimes not. But Mirka, who played nearby, sang his part actively and expressively :) He liked this game. While singing, I put Lesin's hand to my throat. Maybe it will be easier for her?

Then we switched to our flute. Do you know what I discovered? Lesya holds a flute in her mouth, while her mouth is not closed. I blow from a short distance into the corner of her mouth, the air bounces off her palate and exits through the flute. So we played some notes! I think now it’s a little clearer to where the sound comes from.

I was even a little upset that Les is so passive today. But then the “math” began, and everything fell into place.

I reached with my Lesbian hands up and down, left and right, forward and backward. We showed the left foot with our right hand, turned our heads in the right direction. I thought she understood.

It was an interesting moment. I ask Lesia: "show the top." She raises her hand. I say: "and now the bottom." I look, not a single hand moves. "Well, I don’t understand. We need to show it again." And she sits pleased, as if she answered correctly. I look, her leg is raised! And for sure, she used to give an answer only with her foot. Taught me :)

By this time, Velimir was tired of playing alone and he came to us. We took advantage of this fact and once again, now on it, we showed all sides. The only thing not to be confused with Lesya was that they showed on Mirka not the “right hand” (because it is on the left with respect to Lesya), but the “hand on the left”.

The success in this part of the lesson was so rejoicing to Lesya that the second reading sheet went off with a bang, and soon we finished.

It turns out that most of the information she needs to be given through the body. And if in most subjects this is easy enough, what about reading? .. Now I remembered that Ratik first learned to write, and only then read. Maybe with Lesia try so?

* the photos used in the lesson manuals :)

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