Nicholas practiced his (8) spelling words to prepare for Friday's test. He has been making more of an effort to sound out the words phonetically; however he as yet requires prompts to remember to add vowels before consonant endings. Nicholas was given a practice test on which he got 4 out of 8 words correct; he had difficulty with 'much,' 'new,' 'name' and 'save,' so we practiced those some more at the end of the session. We then reviewed his math homework, which he had done in Aftercare (page 207 and 208 in his Go Math workbook). In Math, Nicholas is working on interpreting and comparing information from tally graphs and has begun using information from the tally charts with which to make bar graphs. He was a bit challenged when working on problems that are worded: "How many more children have one item over another?” Nicholas tends to add instead of subtract; he becomes misled by the wording and interprets 'more' to mean he should add. We reviewed some strategies to help him better understand this concept.