Dialogic Reflection

CLINIC REFLECTION 9
The topic of this week’s training is soccer and public forms of transportation. Although it is the last week of the clinic, I want my child to still be able to participate throughout the activities we have and accomplish her individual goals. My assigned child’s individual goals are too kick a soccer ball in any direction three times and to identify two forms of public transportation.
One aspect of the session that I feel went well was that my assigned child practiced her kicking skills today. She enjoyed kicking the bowling pins and also knocking them down in various ways. She also was able to play with the clinic’s train. As mentioned before in a previous reflection, my assigned child was able to identify this as a train and say the words

If I were teaching this lesson again, I would find a song or video about trains that would require to students to move and sing. I would use this as my scheduled music and/or movement activity for the day. I would also do a read-aloud with a Thomas the Train book. The music and/or movement activity would get the students to participate physically and help them to become active throughout the day. The read-aloud would be a quieter activity but still be focused on the apparent theme of trains and how it is a form of public transportation.
One thing that I learned from working a speech therapist this week was that it’s important to engage children in a variety of sensory activities. Sensory activities open children’s minds to the world around them through their senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. My assigned child’s speech teacher had her and her classmates participate in a sensory activity using shaving cream today. They each seemed to enjoy it in the beginning. My assigned child felt a new touch and consistency of a product and was also able to smell the product’s fragrance as