Thursday, April 30, 2009

Triple Meltdown Thursday

It was one meltdown after another today with my little autistic one.

It all began with seeing a high school band concert on the schedule and vowing that he would not sit on the floor in the gym because it makes his knees and feet hurt and it's dirty and it has germs.

The meltdown fun continued with indoor recess. I returned a couple minutes before the end of recess after lunch to find it absolutely silent, and they were all reading.
"Did you guys get in trouble at recess?" I asked.
And before the first two words were out of anyone's mouth, he was screaming, "It wasn't my fault," throwing books, lifting his desk off the floor and dropping it.

So naturally, when he made it back from the office mid-concert, and I said, "Please sit down." He sat. On the floor. With no drama. After I'd heard all day how floors are dirty, bad places where children should never be required to sit. Ever.

By the days end, he walked into the Special Ed teacher's room, plopped himself on the floor, rubbed his palms on the floor and then licked them. Licked them.

Because, as he explained to her, floors have all kinds of germs on them, which would make him sick so he wouldn't have to come to school and sit on the floor.

So maybe the next time we have an assembly, I can remind him that by sitting on the floor, he actually increases the chances of getting to stay home.

It might work. It just might work.

Monday, April 27, 2009

~"Not Me!" Monday~

I most definitely did not send a student into the hall today.
And this sentence very definitely did not come out of my mouth,

"I'd love to have you back in my classroom as soon as you can use words to ask questions instead of throwing glue sticks."

Nope, not me....