With Huy’s decision of stop sending BT to daycare, hearing about my concern about William’s social skill, he told me about the Social Group they have at the Orange office every Friday so we decided to join. It’s from 9-11:45 PM every Saturday and with Anthony as our BT.
It is a group of about 7 children, each has their own BT, gathering around in a room. The activities include circle time : the group organizer, Ms. T, sat in front of the children and called each child’s name, when a child is called by his/her name, he/she has to answer the question like “How old are you? Everyone say Hi to William!” then she chose a story from a mobile device and read from it.
Then they went out to the front of the office just to feel the weather, it took about 5 minutes and went back to the room for Craft time. Everyone sat around the Half-Circle table and made the little black sheep using black papers, cotton balls and eyes. William seemed to be fine sitting and making his sheep.
Then it was snack time: every one has to wash their hands first (in the kitchen near by the eating area). They bought out their lunch boxes from the refrigerator and sat to eat for about 20 minutes. When everyone almost done with their snack, Ms. T turned on the big TV in the eating room; William didn’t like the movie so he ran out of the room; Anthony had to chase after him.
After snack, they got to go outside to play bubbles. Too bad there’s no playground or lawn, so the children play in the parking lot. It’s kinda dirty there, especially when they sat on the ground. William’s pants got so dirty!
Then everyone went back to the room, it’s free time to play. Children chose whatever toys they want to play. William was paired up a with an older kid to play Uno. They practiced “Your turn”, “My turn”.
The BTs always with the children all the time to help them.
Overall William seemed to be doing fine in this social group gathering. I wish we know about this group sooner. The main idea is to have the children learn how to interact with each other.
We planned to stay for whole session but Huy said it’s ok to watch today but next week, we can just drop him off and pick him up around 11:45 PM.
