Today we had our annual IEP (Individual Education Plan) meeting with Madison's teacher and her Speech and OT therapists. We discussed Madison's progress and wrote new goals for her for the next school year.
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Behavioral
Measurable Annual Goal/Expected Outcome
Madison will act in an age appropriate manner when she is disappointed, doesn't get her way, and play in groups of 3 or more girls 10/10 consecutive days observed.
Benchmarks/Short Term Objectives
Madison will play for 20-30 minutes with 3 or more girls with no disagreements and hurt feelings by December 2009.
If Madison does not get her first pick of a job, task, or turn she will not pout or cry, by May 2010.
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Academic
Measurable Annual Goal/Expected Outcome
Madison will increase her academic skills to an age appropriate level for math, reading, and writing skills with recognizing numbers to 20, identifying letter sounds, and writing name and letters 100% by the end of the IEP period.
Benchmarks/Short Term Objectives:
Madison will count to 15 and recognize numbers in print by December 2009.
Madison will count to 20 and recognize numbers in print by May 2010.
Madison will be able to give the sound letter of the alphabet by December 2009.
Madison will be able to write her numbers to 10 and her first name by December 2009.
Madison will be able to write her first and last name and all letters upper and lowercase of the alphabet by May 2010.
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Occupational Therapy
Measurable Annual Goal/Expected Outcome
Madison will complete fine/visual motor skills with visual model 4/5 trials to increase independence with classroom tasks.
Benchmarks/Short Term Objectives
Madison will trace shapes and connect dot to dot pictures with good directionality.
Madison will cut straight and curved lines of a picture to produce recognizable shapes.
Madison will complete figure ground and mazes with good scanning skills.
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Speech Therapy
Measurable Annual Goal/Expected Outcome
Madison will correctly produce the phonemes /sh/ and /ch/ in all positions of words in connected sentences with 80% reliability.
Benchmarks/Short Term Objectives
Madison will correctly produce the target phonemes in all positions of words in 8/10 trails across three therapy sessions.
Madison will correctly produce the target phonemes in all positions of words in elicited phrases in 8/10 trials across three therapy sessions.
Madison will correctly produce the target phonemes in all positions of words in elicited sentences in 8/10 trials across three therapy sessions.
Madison will correctly produce the target phonemes in all positions of words in 2-3 elicited connected sentences in 8/10 trials across three therapy sessions.
For some reason Jocelyn has trouble saying Mr. Danny, so she calls him "Mr. Manny!"
Madison LOVES to bounce in the Moon Walk.
Poor Jocelyn got soaked.
Water Race
Madison and Jocelyn's Team WON the Water Race!
Tristen and Madison love to have pretend weddings everytime they are together. Madison looks for any excuse to get dressed up like a princess and Tristen likes wearing one of Madison's black hair bows on his shirt for a bow tie. 
We can't wait to see him again tomorrow!
Madison got called to the Principal's office to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Mrs. Weikel was VERY impressed at how well Madison read the story. Madison did a great job making her book. Here it is:
Here are the videos of Madison reading her book:
Daddy made sure that she stretched first.
More stretching.
Out for their run. 