Christopher was found on the floor in his room wrapped in a blanket lying prone in the corner of the room. Mr. Cal was with me and observed this also. Christopher then got up when I offered to heat up some meatball or make some popcorn. He came to the Wilson room and put his head down on the table. He said he was very tired and that his stomach hurt. After eating some popcorn, and also serving himself a cup full of pretzels, we began the dictation analysis. Christopher took his time responding to each request such as, "Scoop the syllables in the word (mulitsyllabic word.) Christopher had long pauses. He gazed and began to munch salt off of the pretzels. He selected several different pretzels, and munched all the salt off without responding to the request. I asked him if he needed to hear the instruction again. He acted very lethargic and took a long time to complete the task after hearing the direction for it for a third time, with much time for him to consider the answer. Christopher took a bathroom break. He then came back with water. He continued to make such corrections as making a capital letter for the word "The" in the first sentence, "Fred" in the second sentence, and "I" in the third sentence. I reminded Christopher that all names are capitalized and the word I is always capitalized. These facts have been repeated at every lesson when dictation is analyzed. Chrisotpher did a good job of spelling the three words that I asked aloud. He read the sentences aloud very well. I complimented Chrisotpher on how he is almost finished with Book 4 and that soon he will be on Book 5. I reminded Christopher that when he started with me just one year ago he was on Book 1, Lesson5 and that finishing four books in one year is excellent progress. Christopher knocked over a full cup of water on the table during the analysis time. It was an accident, but one that might have been avoided. Chrisotpher said he was very sorry and said he felt ashamed of himself. I was very surprised to hear this. I told him that any accident is a good chance to learn about what you can do next time to prevent it. We talked about a water (thermos type) container for him. We also talked about filling the cup only half full to minimize the spill if it does happen. We have already talked about not using a straw. The straw caused water to spill other times because Christopher pulls the straw toward himself. Christopher said he felt better about it after our talk. I prepared a new paper and copied his work for the last sentence only onto a new page so that he could complete the analysis. We dried out the wet paper. Christopher ended the class with a good reading and good answers to my comprehension questions. When the lesson was over, I walked to Christopher's room about five minutes after he left me to drop off his science books. He was playing very animatedly with stuffed animals with Sebastian in his room.