Garage

Dad sit build entertainment center. Work tools make plan. Lowes building materials we need.

Grandma Phyllis comes to visit!

This week, Philip has a special guest staying at his house. This is what he wrote yesterday:

Grandma Phyllis go airplane ride. Philip Dad freeze go ride tell use van airport noon yesterday. She has luggage. I see I get happy.

It was cold, more less 60.

"If I Were A Digger" Chapter 3

Excavator excitement!

Today, we found a video on You-Tube about an excavator. This is what Philip wrote about it:

I see backhoe. Backup beeper I hear. Get unload dirt. Driver sit ride excavator 3 miles per hour slow. Work fast crazy weird pointy junk deaf loud. stop to see. expensive rent use come. Red purple black silver multicolored big color. Hate front pointy stinky rude. Hard easy. Big, some thin, some little, fat.

A Work in Progress...

Today, Philip and I have been working on polishing up some of what he wrote yesterday about his van and his wheelchair ramp. (We focused on his van and let the writing about the other van go for now.) I thought it would be interesting to see how he has edited and improved his writing.

This is what he wrote yesterday:

Van forward in in out out beside wheelchair ramp up down. Battery

This is today's version:

Philip Van: remote forward in in out out front open close door. wheelchair ramp loud hard easy expensive. Same remote wheelchair ramp up down on side. Remote work Battery.

An exercise in comparing and contrasting

Philip sometimes likes to watch You-Tube videos of different kinds of wheelchair ramps. Today while we were taking a break from reading 'Treasure Island' we were watching some videos and got the idea to take a video of his own wheelchair ramp in his van. We decided to compare and contrast his van with another van. This is his video. The post below is the second video we found online. The first paragraph he wrote below is about his van; the second paragraph is about the one we found online. (You will hear me in his video talking to "rampy" ( my pet name for the ramp) because it got stuck partway up.)


Van forward in in out out beside wheelchair ramp up down. Battery

Out near backward. Weird, pointy, back, junk, deaf, gross, loud, hard, expensive, expensive, different.

Passenger Loading in a Rear Entry Wheelchair Van