Today we kicked off our session with Piero’s homework! He immediately recalled that he was supposed to tell me three things about his weekend. He did a nice job telling me that he played at the park yesterday and had dinner at a restaurant. He told me about some of the foods that he ate. We then moved in to our literacy activities. Piero scored 14/15 on his summary of our reading of The Lemonade War from Friday. This fill-in-the blank activity reinforces vocabulary and figurative language as well as assesses comprehension and recall. He is provided with a word bank for support. We then read the first ½ of chapter 8 in which Jessie is evaluating different strategies for her lemonade stand, not knowing that Evan has already reached their sales goal. We discussed quite a bit of vocabulary in our reading including stare, tease, and ignore, which are some of Jessie’s fears next school year. We then added the prefixes pre- and dis- to our studies. We read through word lists using both and Piero identified the words by their meanings. Next, we worked together on a crossword puzzle to review missed items from our word ladders (27 and 28). This was a fun way to use the words with provided support from the structure of the crossword puzzle. Piero is still having difficulties recalling these (seam, mass, sweat, mist, seem, and mast) and we will continue to work with them in various ways. We had fun working with some analogies as well. This provides us the opportunity to think about how words are connected as well as reinforce thinking skills and conceptual understanding of English words. For example, some of our analogies were: duck is to waddle as frog is to ____, as well as skin is to humans as scales are to ____. Oral language directed activities: Today we focused on 8 words from our reading of the text. These are words that needed correction in pronunciation such as disguised, sliding, and basement. We reviewed the meanings of these words and then modeling was provided to help Piero use the words correctly in a sentence. Additionally, we had fun conversing through our caption the funny pictures, Would you Rather, and Marvel projects. We both decided we would rather have to walk sideways like a crab instead of having to walk on all fours! Finally, Piero shared some information with me about a planet he has invented called Ovnis (which means aliens in Spanish). We will be utilizing his creation to jump start further conversational activities. His homework tonight is to create a name for the monsters that live on his planet.