Patrick's daily calendar activities consist of skip counting by 5's and 10's. This week we added skip counting by 2's. He learned the jingle "2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate? 0! 0! Goo zero!" This helped him see the pattern of the ones place having a 2, 4, 6, 8, and then it's time to move onto the next set of ten with the same numbers in the ones place. We continued charting counting by 2's all the way up to 50. Over the next couple weeks, I would like to see him able to verbalize them without having a chart to assist. But, he picked up on this new concept well. Patrick took contraction cars containing he, she, there, that, it, and crashed them with -is to create a contraction. It was difficult for him to pronounce the words that contained -ts. He often resorted back to -st which wouldn't make sense in that context. The reversal of the letters and sounds were the only barrier in grasping this skill. H As an assessment, I announced two words, and he wrote them on the board in the form of a contraction, being responsible for spelling the sight word (first part of the contraction) correctly, eliminating the vowel, and replacing it with an apostrophe in the correct position. He earned 6/6. Patrick is learning about the stages of the writing process and we are charting his progress of his current writing piece as he goes. He took his prewriting stage where he sketched his ideas about his protective dog and began drafting them today. He read and re-read Level B: What has this Tail? and took the comprehension quiz which was based on the main idea, comparing animals, and adjectives. He earned 5/5.