Counting.

Ellie's early reading skills (letter identification, the idea that books have words, etc) are on track.  Her early math skills are a bigger challenge for her, which is fairly typical for kids with Down syndrome.  I also tend to work with her on reading skills more, because I happen to be a Kindergarten English teacher.

School has been working on counting, so when Ellie's daily Christmas book was 10 Trim the Tree'ers, I wondered how it would go.  Good news - she counted to ten.  The less good news - 1:1 correspondence needs some work.

A video posted by Megan Landmeier (@meganlando) on Dec 12, 2014 at 2:34am PST

And just now, she was holding a candy cane ornament and insisting "It's a big 2!"  Not quite, but I'll take it.

Have a great day.