Jack and I read and discussed Who Would Win? stories.

Richard was absent today.

Christopher wrote his spelling words in his journal and highlighted letters to remember. We read about Temple Grandin and discussed the book.

Kellan dictated a story for me to type for him.

Kellan wrote his spelling words in his journal and highlighted the letters to remember. We read about Temple Grandin and discussed the book.

Kaitlin was absent 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. Upon arrival to session Luke was all excited about playing pickleball during recess which had just ended. He was able to settle in and work at table. Began with putty activity to strengthen intrinsics of the hands. Continue therapy with working on manipulation and dexterity skills through a rolling dice game. Luke enjoyed that game and stayed engaged throughout this activity. Luke needed a break during session and hugged his avocado plush toy. OT pointed out it is okay to take a break like this and when he needs a break during his school day he should ask for it to help him stay in the green zone. Continue to work in his Print Island workbook. Luke was focused and engaged in writing today and practiced the uppercase letters F, E, L, K, and H. Great session.

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 Zones or Regulation and Social Emotional development training. We had a discussion about what Luke has gotten and what he is still learning to do. Explained how when you try things or try new things that are difficult for you and when you have to work hard at something it can make you feel tired/annoyed/frustrated (yellow zone feeling). Explained that you have to remember these are things you are still learning to do so it is okay and you need to work through these feelings. Continue to discuss and talk about whole body listening. Lastly, played Monopoly Junior. Luke had a hard time following rules of the game. Explained how that made me feel and how it could make his peers feel.

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 had a belly-ache at the beginning of today's session and asked to go the bathroom a couple times. We began treatment today with another cursive/Print Island cursive letter review. He was improving with his recall for all previoiusly learned cursive letters and will be able to learn a new letter next week. Continued treatment with visual scanning worksheet via Ann Arbor Visual Tracking program. For this first attempt he was able to track 8 words from a sentence scrambled inside a paragraph within 1 minute 45 seconds. For his second attempt he was able to scan and find 8/8 words from a sentence from a scrambled paragraph within 44 seconds. Good session. Hope he feels okay.

Joshua and I are review for his Unit2A Test. Today we reviewed his Big 10 assignment he had over the weekend. He got about half correct. This assignment made me realize that Joshua has a block for learning exponential and logarithmic functions. Every time we discuss it, he refers to it as "hard", "impossible", "I hate those", etc. Which is surprising to me because, its not THAT hard. I know Joshua can handle it, so it seems he must not truly understand it. It makes me think he's never truly learned about logs/exponentials and it makes him feel intimidated. We got through the problems together and Joshua seemed to understand the mistakes he made. For homework, I gave him another review to help reiterate the skills we discussed today.