Luke was seen in his room for a 45 minute treatment session today. Focus of treatment was on improving fine motor skills (hand strength, grip strength, dexterity and manipulation), visual motor integration, ocular motor skills, and graphomotor skills/keyboarding as an alternate means to written communication. Began session with I Spy book activity to work on visual perceptual skills particularly visual figure ground and visual discrimination. He needed assistance to find 4/12 of the hidden pictures and was able to find 8/12 independently. Next, Luke was asked to write four words in print. He reluctantly wrote very well with proper letter size and formations. He wrote best when provided with a box and a dot (for start point cues) and visual boundaries (for size cues). Lastly, practiced previously learning upper case and lower case letters on the Magic Pad. He continued with good participation today.

Luke was seen in his room for a 45-minute treatment session today. Focus of treatment was on improving fine motor skills (hand strength, grip strength, dexterity and manipulation), visual motor integration, ocular motor skills, and graphomotor skills/keyboarding as an alternate means to written communication. Began session with visual motor activity in which Luke had to draw by following step-by-.step directions to create animals of his choice which were a fox and a wolf. To create these creatures he had to make rectangles, triangles, curved and diagonal lines. He did very well. Next, we worked on expected versus unexpected behaviors. Luke is very aware and gets all the answers correct when asked about certain behaviors being expected or unexpected. Lastly, play Zingo to make CVC words. Worked on letter indentification and sound. He required assistance to make and sound out words like put, rag, cat, and
rat. Good session and better participation and on-task behavior today.

Luke was seen in his room for a 45 minute treatment session today. Focus of treatment was on improving fine motor skills (hand strength, grip strength, dexterity and manipulation), visual motor integration, ocular motor skills, and graphomotor skills/keyboarding as an alternate means to written communication. Began treatment with putty activity to work on strengthening the intrinsics of the hands. Continued with Whole Body listening lesson. Explained how each body part has its job when listening. For example: eyes on the the speaker, heart - cares about what is being said, etc. Worked on Print Island today and wrote letters uppercase U and W. He wrote them well. Need to continue to work on listening skills.

Richard was seen in his room for a 45 minute treatment session today. Focus of treatment was on improving fine motor skills (hand strength, grip strength, dexterity and manipulation), visual motor integration, ocular motor skills, and graphomotor skills/keyboarding as an alternate means to written communication. Richard was seen in his office and had strep throat earlier in the week. He did not seem to feel 100% today and was somewhat fatigued. Began treatment with ocular motor exercises with tracking, depth perception, localization and timing activity involving a ball on a string in which Richard was required to poke the ball alternating between his right and left index fingers. To add another component to this activity OT had him say the alphabet while poking the ball. This was difficult for Richard with poor timing, losing track and not knowing order or forgetting order. We will continue to do this type of work to improve many visual and executive functioning skills. OT then read Richard a short story and had him come up with two sentences to write about the story. He wrote in print adequately. Continued with Ann Arbor tracking program in which Richard was timed scanning left to right, top to bottom to find words hidden in scrambled paragraph. Richard performed two trials and was able to find 12/12 words within 1 min. 2 seconds and 6/9 words in 55 seconds. Good session.

Today Ben had MAP testing for Math. Ben was slow to get started. He complained about his head, Jason yelling too much, and disliking the font. Each time I acknowledged his concern and then encouraged him to focus on the test. During the test, I had to ask him to "Please stop doing that," multiple times. He was scratching at the computer camera, flicking the mouse button back and forth, and trying to lift up the keys. He did not use the paper or pencil I provided him. I believe he clicked through the problems every few minutes. He did not complete the test during the class period, so he will resume tomorrow.

Aiden had his NWEA MAP Testing for Math today. He worked during the entire period. I believe he got 10 questions completed. At the end he said there might have been some things he has learned that he forgot. I wrote down what his questions were about. Our next free class we can discuss his questions. He did not finish the test, so we will resume tomorrow.

Carson was absent for class today. The class time was used to work on professional development inservice points.

Joshua got an 87% on his exam. He was disappointed, but I was happy for him. The test was quite rigorous. We went through the problems he got incorrect. Joshua understood where he made mistakes.
Today we moved on to the 2nd half of Unit 2. We discussed Logarithms. Joshua has a dislike for Logs, but I believe it is because he never truly understood them. Today he did well. We discussed how to go from exponential form to logarithmic form and vice versa. Then we used those techniques to solve logarithms. I showed Joshua how we can use the calculator to evaluate logs. We had some time at the end of class where we discussed the graphs of exponentials and logs.

Matthew was absent today. The class time was spent working on professional development in-service points..

Addison made folders to show contractions and practiced reading them. We discussed the words that are put together in each contraction. She read a Black Lagoon book. As she read, she identified contractions.