One of Benjamin's teachers recommended getting some pictures for him to trace to help get him interested in coloring. Part of the problem is he isn't making the connection with the pictures we want him to color. They aren't familiar and he doesn't care to engage.
He really loves a video Karen found on YouTube that has a picture for each letter of the alphabet. The song is popular at Benjamin's various schools, "Alphabet Sounds" sung by Barbra Miline. The video version is excellent, only for one minor thing: they use lower case letters. This does not detract from Benjamin's extreme interest in the video. But Benjamin does observe the letters and confused the upper case "I" with the lower case "l" when he sees the "Lion" slide. To me, the fact that he confused them is great. It means he is connecting the letters to the image. Wonderful progress.
Source: YouTube
His teacher recommended that I extract the pictures from the video with CMD-Shift-F4 (the Mac OS X way) and dump them into a photo so I could print them. I thought that was such a good idea, I did that when I got home after the meeting with her. For speed, I used CMD-Shift-F4, followed by <space>, followed by clicking on the Quicktime window. Then, to get rid of the Quicktime app border and isolate just the image, I used GIMP to use the magic lasso to select just the actual image, then I used "Crop to Selection." This resulted in a perfect crop of the images.
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