Nicholas felt well and was in good spirits today following a brief illness; he did not come to school on Friday. We began today's session working on Nicholas's math homework - pages 155 and 156 from his Go Now math workbook. Nicholas has made gains in both his confidence and competence levels working on math problems. He insisted on doing the problems all by hiimself and only having me check it after he was done. He only needed a bit of help with 2 problems. One asked him to determine which number(s) were less than and greater than numbers specified. He also requested some help with the word problem as he was unsure how to read it and whether it required him to add or subtract. Once told, he obtained the right answer independently. We moved onto spelling next. We worked on 8 words and Nicholas was given strategies to remember how to spell them; words beginning with consonant blends (when then who) gave him a bit of trouble. Nicholas was also asked to write the words on a piece of paper as well on a whiteboard in order to reinforce and consolidate his learning.