Patrick is working hard to learn his welded sounds. He need to work on keeping his eyes on the words.

Spelling words with welded sounds. Matching sounds with written sounds. Patrick had trouble hearing each sound.

We watched Oh Noah and practiced numbers and new vocabulary (playgrounds), then reviewed colors and shapes

Snack. Patrick played Make a 9 to the concept of Go Fish. He is able to recall all of the math fact combinations that make 9 by the end of the lesson through remote memorization. If possible, please continue asking him occasionally throughout the week. This can be done while driving to or form school and should only take a couple minutes, but is greatly beneficial for when we approach more difficult concepts :)

As a review to last week, Patrick completed the short a section of "Explode the Code," practicing phonemic awareness, rhyming words, short a word families, identifying and omitting duplicate words. We reviewed his sight words by playing Hangman Spelling. (Patrick requests playing this game every week! :) Where, when, and other are difficult for him to grasp. He read level B. He identified the main idea and came up with four supporting details. He recorded this information into a graphic organizer. He took on a comprehension quiz and earned 5/5.

Had car trouble and ran 45 minutes behind. Patrick and I sang our "Vowel Jingle" as a reminder of of what sound the short vowel i makes. He read Jim Had a Big Hit and practiced phonetically sounding out many words with the short i sound as well as other sight words and sounds, but emphasis was on the short i skill. Patrick often omits beginning sounds of words, throwing his word accuracy off. He also reverses the letter b & d during reading and writing. Prior to reading, we also sang our exclamation jingle reminding us that exclamations show emotions. During reading, he practiced identifying exclamation and question sentences, and ranging his voice accordingly. He did a beautiful job with reading with expression and seems to enjoy it. Following reading, in his book he searched for and recorded short i words, an exclamation, and a question in his notebook.

Read and practice to present the story about Neptune. Discuss about each planet-model, their characteristics, color, size, number of moons and rings, rotation, and other. Using cards(with written properties) and models answer to the question related to the certain planet

Patrick participated in a picture to picture activity in his LB program. He described a picture of a skier. He did a great job and remembered to use his structure cards. We are working on getting him to use more adjectives in order to provide even more details. Patrick continued his Fast ForWord program. He ended a little early to spend some time with Ms. Johanna in order to read mail he received. Have a great weekend Patrick and family.

Today Patrick continued his program in FF. He worked on three different programs-Whalien Match, Ele-bot, and Hoop Nut. This softward helps to improve listening accuracy and word recognition skills. Ele-bot specifically works on building language comprehension skills, as Patrick tries to determine which illustration correctly match the spoken sentence. In keyboarding Patrick, made it to the next level where he learned the location of keys w and o. He is now at Level 2, Stage 5, and doing beautifully! In V/V (Lindamood-Bell), Patrick and I reversed roles in a picture to picture activity. He asked essential questions in order for him to be able to create a similar image in his mind to the picture I had in front of me. This provided an excellent opportunity for him to see the importance of verbalizing all details (structure cards). He posed good choice/contrast questions to elicit additional details. Way to go!

Patrick learned how to make 9 by answering math facts, word problems, and critical thinking questions. He recalled all the combinations of numbers that make 9, at an effort to memorize all of the facts.