Small motor coordination: Tries to cut on lines but needs more practice. Poor printing - difficulty holding pencil properly. He can orally spell is name but continuously left out the 'u' when writing it. He prints name with capital 'Q' and 'N' and lowercase 'i'. He cannot form the 'N' properly. He has picked up some bad habits when forming letters but is willing to try to do it a new way. Gets frustrated when he can't do it right and says "This is boring". However, willing to keep trying when I told him that he will learn to do it if he keeps practicing. Some problem focusing on the printing task at hand - had to tell him several times to look at what he was doing because he started to look around the room even though his hand kept moving. He needs to be allowed to master these skills at his own pace so he doesn't get turned off and refuse to try. We practiced printing arcs and then forming the letter 'C'. Sent home a worksheet to practice letter 'C'. Math: Today I pressed him to go further than ten when counting. He gets confused when counting the teens-mixes up the order. He knew that twenty came next and was able to count from 20-29 but then went to twenty-ten instead of thirty. Same pattern when counting objects. He cannot identify any written numbers beyond ten. Since he is able to count and identify through ten, I am assuming he can master numbers beyond that with practice. Shared his cookies, ate snack and played in the dojo. He asked me how the tent looks when it is all together. So we spent some time putting the pieces in their proper places. He understood that the holes had to match up before putting the screws in and he was able to question and reason as to where the pieces would go. Trying to help him set boundaries- not going into other rooms without a teacher, don't touch or take things that belong to someone else without asking, don't run in hallway.
Encouraging him to look at people when they speak to him. He tends to ignore their presence as if he didn't hear them. Yet, when he is asked if he heard them, he immediately responds to them. So he does hear them and he does register what they are saying - he just doesn't always acknowledge or respond.