Patrick was introduced to new vocabulary: addend, order, horizontal, vertical and sum. He practiced finding the sum of two addends, learned to change the order, and recognized that the sum will remain the same. He practiced this skill on both horizontal and vertical addition sentences. For homework, please have him practice this skill independently.

We played the welded sound matching game. Patrick is starting to memorize the sounds.

Patrick demonstrated routine procedures in V/V today. He had a little difficulty providing me with the gestalt of the picture but after that he was quite successful in providing a full description of a picture of a young girl sitting in a park with an umbrella. He referred, confidently, to the structure words in order to complete his description. He is using more adjectives and including the finest details. Great day!!!

Patrick did an awesome job in keyboarding today. He completed the next level (Level 2, Stage 6). Today he learned and practiced drills using the new letters Q and P. When asked if he would like a keyboard available on the screen to refer to, Patrick still says,"no, I do not need it". I am so proud of his efforts and determination to improve. In Fast ForWord he completed games Sky Gym and Space Commander. In Sky Gym, Patrick listens to varied sounds and must distinguish the differences. In Space Commander he follows the directions, as he must pay close attention. Patrick requested switching roles in V/V today and I agreed. He did a wonderful job playing my role and asked great questions to obtain more information regarding a picture of a little girl eating a lollypop. Once he viewed the picture, he followed through by elaborating on the image I had given him. He added what I could have mentioned in order to create a better image and stated what helped him to have a similar image. Great work!

Review the names of all eight planets.
Practicing to read the story about the planet. Practicing to memorize some parts of the text. Cutting the Sun's rays, and discuss about Sun/star. Coloring Jupiter and Saturn. Talking about the Great Red Spot.

design fundamentals. using lines and shapes

Discovered rhyming words for the welded sounds "ang and ank" We worked a lot on fluency. He needs to continue to work on this.

Patrick grasped the concept of number sentences quickly but still need work on number formation.

Finish coloring the paper-planet Neptune ,the gas/white clouds.
Review; read about each assigned planet(for each student)for the presentation and discuss about facts that describe the planet. Watch video related to the eight planets and talk about their discovery.

Patrick completed three different brain games: Whalien Match, Robo Dog and Moon Ranch in his Fast ForWord program. He seems to be listening more closely and is more focused. In his V/V program he gave a nice description using his words and gestures, to describe a picture of a seal balancing a ball on his nose. He was able to supply the gestalt easily. We are working on him using complete sentences to describe details. At times he his likely to use short fragmented sentences. He is demonstrating improvement on his terminology used to describe the perspective of the picture. Great job Patrick.