Recognizing which picture matches the other

I randomly decided to work on matching pictures with her, (Aliyah's teacher- Ms.Donna Russo made this activity) last time we did this together -I am going to guess- was around September 2013… Back then she was not ready to do this type of activity but to my surprise she did the following! watchhhhh below! ( btw she is whining a bit because I asked her to do the same activity 7 times in a row, and be warned I shout a loud "YEYYYYY!!!" ) Have to praise her!!! They have this folder in her classroom so maybe she has been practicing all this time and I am just learning about her new acquired skill!! 

Inside the vanilla folder, with velcro matching pictures

I wanted to work more on picture matching skills… so I took "see and learn-language and reading" material from down syndrome education usa. My friend Maria gave it to me to use with Aliyah in early 2013. I was sad my daughter could not understand the matching picture concept back then, but understood it was just not time for this type of activity. I will have to wait until Aliyah is ready! and behold… now she is!!! :)

I started to laminate the "already" cut-out matching pictures. On the back of each picture was the word spelled out of the picture displayed. 

I inserted the "matching worksheet" into a shop Ticket holder that can also be known as a Reusable Dry Erase Pocket. After I velcro each individual picture, I only had to velcro ONE "dry erase pocket" to use for the worksheets. When I want to use another worksheet with different set of pictures I simply remove and slip in to replace, not needing to velcro each worksheet. 

Now Aliyah has a good chunk of matching sets to work on!!!!! Will post a video on her update. They are new real life pictures, she is accustom to seeing computer generated pictures, they may be some struggle but she will get the hang of tho. Eventually I will increase it from a field of four to six and so on….