Social story: Following Directions, making a pretend pizza out of paper to practice skills: following directions, sequencing, listening, problem solving, answering & asking.
Assignment
follow directions to make a pizza
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Brad was a bit distracted today by a 'coat of arms' drawing on the wall. At one point in the session, I removed the drawing so he wouldn't keep looking at it. Otherwise, he had a great day. We made paper pizzas. He had difficulty following directions exactly. With multiple cues, he was able to stop doing it his own way and follow specific directions. He was able to make choices of toppings and verbalize his choices. He was able to compare my pizza with his and tell me about each one verbally. He was able to ask for the supplies he needed (glue, paper, crayons). He was able to answer questions about our pizzas (who likes Pepperoni, who likes broccoli). Brad excelled with a hands on activity like this to target expressive and receptive language skills. Great job today!
Social story - Feelings, listening to scenarios and identifying feelings involved, listen and answer tasks, brainstorm situational examples of given feelings, draw pictures of personal examples of feelings
Assignment
offer personal examples of feelings
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Brad had a good day today. His mom attended the last half of the session. Brad's attention remained strong throughout. He required minimal cues to stay on task. He did a great job taking turns during the social story reading. He labeled situations with the appropriate emotion with 75% accuracy with moderate cues. Given several models, he was able to produce an original example of situations that made him feel a specified emotion. I was so proud of him that he was able to produce these examples and then expand upon them!
What does make a sound? Air vibration. How does a sound come to our ear? Activity with sound fork, making guitar, making tube that makes sound, and a balloon that makes a sound.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Brad enjoyed his projects so much that at the end of his class, he asked me why we have to go to another class?
Used sight word cards that focus on beginning blending sounds and the beginning of words such as "dr" and "sl" and "sh" and "ch". Played word family card game, ending sound puzzles and wrote a story together about dinosaurs and whales. Used new Leapfrog materials.
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
90
Lesson Comments
Brad loved using the Leapfrog pen with books! He really felt the books come alive this way.
Worked with Brad (linear numbers)
Also, called out page numbers and had him locate the right page
Liz suggested this might be a problem based on her earlier class with him and asked me to check it out - it turns out that he does have somewhat of a problem but is getting better/faster at finding a certain page
Assignment
None
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Brad's time with me was right after karate, and he was very quiet. It was hard to get him to respond to my questions. This was unusual to me as he is usually talkative. I pretty much explained the lesson/reasoning in the outline above.
