Today's lesson aimed to build upon an understanding of the relationship between adding and counting using a variety of hands-on models to achieve this. Included in this array were discrete objects and length-based models (e.g., Legos and cubes connected to form lengths) to model adding to, taking away from, putting together, taking-apart, and comparing situations to promote meaning for the basic operations of addition and subtraction. Building upon these concepts, Nicholas can begin to formulate and develop strategies to solve arithmetic problems with these operations. We worked on 2 pages of homework and completed the assignment; however Nicholas needed frequent prompting methods to re-engage his attention to the task at hand. In order to help him sustain attention, he was permitted to build objects with the Lego pieces but was tasked with counting and adding using one-to one-number correspondence methods while building his structure. Nicolas was tasked with solving a word problem that called for addition of two whole numbers whose sum was less than 10 using a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. This tutor read the word problem to him and Nicholas correctly added the corresponding number of symbols to arrive at the 'sum', a term we reviewed during Monday's session. It was noted that Nicholas reversed the numbers 5 and 7, as he did with the letter 'h' when writing his name; however, he was able to recognize and correct the numbers and letter when it was pointed out to him. We used a whiteboard to practice writing the numbers with and without the use of a model. His performance improved with practice. After completing the assignment, we discussed stranger danger. Nicholas was able to identify and distinguish between strangers and friends and participated in a variety of role playing scenarios to afford him strategies to employ if faced in any compromised situations. The role-playing activity sufficiently engaged his attention and Nicholas demonstrated a good ability to apply and transfer the practical information that he acquired to novel scenarios subsequently created for him.