In LB, Patrick continued to verbalize a small moment. Today he worked on the middle of the story, being sure to provide details for his audience. He is showing improvement in expressing events in the proper sequence. Patrick is learning about crafts like similes, onomatopoeia, and alliteration. In FF, he continued his program and beat one of his high scores. Great work! In keyboarding Patrick, has almost finished typing his how-to writing piece.
Continue working on the A, E, and D chords; work on chord switching exercises to improve speed and fluidity when changing between chords.
Assignment
Practice chord switching exercises.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Patrick's chords are sounding very good. He was even able to make a couple of them correctly without looking at the guitar neck. We are working on getting him to switch between his chords quickly and smoothly.
Today Patrick and I continued working on main idea. He studied several abstract (more challenging) picture clues to determine a specific main idea. Patrick determined baseball positions were supporting details to the main idea of a baseball team. The I gave Patrick a wordless book and he wrote the detail that matched the picture in the illustration. Tomorrow we will read the actual book and compare his details to the story. Then Patrick and I took turns reading from the dolphin book. We spent a lot of time and word work and decoding today. Patrick may need to review sight words again. Then he continued with his journal passage from yesterday. We again spent a lot of time of word work and spelling.
Session Minutes
90
Minutes Student Attended
90
Lesson Comments
Patrick complained a lot about having sore heels. He definitely did not seem himself today. He has regressed in language arts. Hopefully, we can gain some progress over the next few months!
Patrick planned and began researching a new topic today: Monster Sea Creatures. We completed a KWL chart on what he knows, what he wants to know, and what he learned. We read about several sea creatures in books from the library, and used a tape measure to create tangible representations of various creatures. Through this session Patrick practiced concepts of print, reading sight words, decoding new words, some math concepts, creating a graphic organizer, using a table of contents and index in books, and how to find information.
Patrick completed several games in Fast ForWord which included the following skills: Sight word recognition, left to right visual tracking, decoding skills, vocabulary, categorizing, answering wh-questions, and reading comprehension. These activities included: finding the written word that matches a spoken word, sorting pictures and words into increasingly challenging categories, and listening, reading along, and answering questions about increasingly challenging passages.
Warm-up will consist of repetitions 4-3-2-1 of exercises followed by Block Routine 1, Fighting Drills with addition, subtraction and spelling, Kicks and Squats. leg raises, Stretch, Practise block routine 2 to completion.
Patrick and I continued today with counting mixed change. The repetitiveness of the lesson is instrumental in aiding counting fluency and mental math. Everyday I see improvement. Patrick is doing really well!
