Friday, February 27, 2009

Emergent Literacy, Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition!

Earlier on this semester I was looking through my planner and realized I was going to have one of those "I want to die" kind of weeks at school. It consisted of taking 5 test and doing a 45 minute presentation. Well that dreaded week showed up last Friday! So I've been pretty busy doing one thing after another. I wasn't home as much and when I would call Nate he would answer by saying "my long lost wife, how are you?!" But I made it, I survived... now I only have one test left do on Mon or Tues and it feels so good to be, for the most part, finished with Midterms!

It was in my pediatric audiology class that I had to do a 45 minute presentation. Me and my partner were given the topic of "Literacy in the Hearing-Impaired". It turned out to be pretty interesting learning about how the hearing impaired and/or deaf child learns to read and write. In our presentation we had to include the normal development of reading for a hearing child to help understand why it might be difficult for the hearing impaired child. So for the presentation I decided one night when we went to Nate's sister house that I would record their little boy Hans reading. Here is one of the clips we ended up using, I thought it was cute and funny!


8 comments:

Mike said...

I love it when you finish a semester. One of the best feelings ever. The thought of it makes me really glad I'm not taking any classes right now.

Jenna said...

Lunch was good. Grandma even did a toast for ya! I actually liked Sushi so next time you guys are in town we will all have to go again. Soo when are you coming? Weston wants to go see his dad when it gets warmer there. We will have to meet up you can take us out in the town!

Laura said...

I'm glad you survived it all! I'm sure you did great on your presentation :).

Shannon said...

That's really cute. Sounds like you have been super busy. What are you going into?

Folks Photography said...

emily you DID do great on your presentation!! but nonetheless, i must say it stresses me out to see such a post saturated with school mumbo jumbo. can you believe the weekend is already over and we have to do it all over again!? but HEEEEEEY Happy March 1st! only 53 more days until we're finished forever--and that includes weekends! :)

Cristina said...

Your presentation was awesome! and...I just died laughing at Melissa's comment! Senioritis much??

Mrs. Kingsford said...

Emily! I need to add you as a friend on facebook, and I can't find you! Hope things are going well for you and Nate. Miss seeing you at the football games!

Jayni

The Rubens said...

Emily I bet you'll be so glad once the semester is over. That sounds like a crazy week! Hansie was really cute in that video. I loved his voice when he says "once upon a time . . "