- Nicholas practice -at words
- Nicholas read a book with -at words
- Together we read Yo! Yes? and discussed exclamation and question marks
- Nicholas practiced consonant blends
- We played a matching game of sight words and pictures
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Nicholas worked well today. When I arrived, he was quietly playing with Legos and came in calmly to work with me. He played with the Legos while we worked.
- Xavier worked on long division and terms divisor, dividend, quotient, and remainder.
- Xavier dictated portions of his book report for school.
- I read the next section of Freak, the Mighty, and we discussed for comprehension.
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
120
Lesson Comments
Xavier came in mad at Morgan again. It took a little time to calm him. He did well with the math activity, remembering what we did yesterday. He struggled with the book report, not wanting to look back at the book and remember what he had read.
- Xavier read two small books quickly and smoothly.
- Xavier looked through a picture book to find the compound words.
- I demonstrated a division problem and discussed the parts (divisor, dividend, quotient, and remainder).
- Xavier played a math game on the computer.
- I read the next part of Freak, the Mighty, and we discussed for comprehension.
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
120
Lesson Comments
Xavier was angry when he arrived because of something that happened before he came. I tried different things to help him forget the situation so we could get some work done. I asked him what would help so that he can learn how to help himself. He asked for some videos, and this worked.
- Nicolas did his math homework of addition. He counted numbers on dice to get the answers.
- He did more math practice rolling large dice and adding.
- I read Tops and Bottoms to Nicholas while he played with animal puppets from the story. Afterward, we filled in the information on the school reading log.
- I used flashcards of consonant blends to have Nicholas practice his sounds.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Nicholas is constantly on the move. The puppets helped him listen to the story. He rolled on the floor while reading the flashcards. When he tried to hit me on the head with a pencil, I told him he is not allowed to hit me.
It was wonderful to see Dillon again and to begin our work together. After a short discussion about his summer and his new third grade class, we went right to work. We began with the Qualitative Reading Inventory word list. Dillon scored at a third grade Instructional level on the word list. Next, he began the third grade passage titled. "Places People Live". We were unable to complete the passage assessment as we ran out of time and will continue this work on Wednesday.
- Concepts of print - Nicholas understands how books work
- Letters and sounds - Nicholas knows all letters and sounds individually
- Sight words - Nicholas knows 3 or 4 sight words
- Math - Nicholas tossed dice and added the numbers by counting
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Nicholas has to play with toys and move while he works.
- Xavier did math facts with large dice
- Xavier read Biggest, Strongest, Fastest
- When he read about the oldest turtle, he said we could take some of that DNA and give it to humans so they could live longer. I told him he might be the one to invent something like that.
- I read the next part of Freak, the Mighty and discussed connections to Wonder.
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
120
Lesson Comments
Xavier was much happier today and participated well.
- Xavier read a little of an article about baseball players doing Fortnite on breaks.
- Xavier used some letter tiles to spell out short words and read words that I spelled.
- Xavier watched some videos about space and ancient animals frozen in ice.
- I read the next part of Freak, the Mighty and asked Xavier questions about how it relates to Wonder.
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
120
Lesson Comments
It was a struggle to get Xavier involved in anything today. I switched activities frequently. He moaned and didn't want to do anything. I think he was disappointed that he didn't have his iPad.
- We typed the story about Fortnite that Xavier wrote a few days ago.
- Xavier read a Dr. Seuss story.
- Xavier discussed what characters in Wonder did to face a bully. He thought of other approaches that could be taken.
- We talked about Mr. Brown's precepts and how children lived out the lessons they learned.
- Xavier did addition, subtraction, and multiplication with big foam dice.
- I read the first part of Freak, the Mighty, another story about differences.
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
120
Lesson Comments
Xavier was not in a great mood when he arrived. He forgot to bring his iPad, but he participated better without it. He rolled on the floor while he read and threw dice before he settled into work at the desk. In the middle of a story he read, he looked ahead at the number of pages and complained that he couldn't do it. I kept encouraging him, and he eventually finished the story.
