Patrick continued on his Fast ForWord program. He appears to enjoy it. He completed 3 different learning activities. During his Verbalization/Visualization session (Lindamood0-Bell), he did a nice job. Today he did a picture to picture verbalization of a picture of a parrot. He did well, although today he began giving some description of things that did not exist in the picture. He reviewed that his description is to include verbalizing what he actually sees. We will continue this pic to pic stage, as he gets used to creating a description that accurately and sufficiently creates an image in my mind using all structure card words. He is doing fantastic!

Lesson 1.4 bonus letters and sight words. away, come, down, find

Patrick joined Yanuell and Ayden for story time and snack. He practiced his facts with "3" up to sums of 15. He identified the larger number and counted on 3 from there. He mastered this skill most of the time. He identified the doubles fact with "3." We sang his "Doubles Facts" song from 0-3, which he has all 4 memorized.

Patrick learned another sound to short a; a as in an/am. He read numerous words containing the short a sound and changed the pronunciation of the a sound when he observed the a followed by n or m. He did a fantastic job of blending together sounds. He used the short a words that he read and we created an ad-lib story. He read Level B: Games We Play. He took a picture walk and predicted that the story would be all about different games the children play which was accurate. As he read, he used his "meaning clues" and "picture clues" many times to make sense of difficult words such as "dress up, video games, baseball, hide and seek, etc." He was not able to identify fire or house. He highlighted the sight words in the story; play, like, to, not, but, do, we, and with, in addition to the, is, in, and on from Friday. He practiced writing them onto index cards. We used those word cards to play sight word POP! He would draw a card, identify it, and use it in a sentence. We practiced "do and with" additionally and by the end of the activity, he mastered identifying all 12.

Using notebook: draw the experiment and make the conclusion. Discuss: what is gas? Gases in the air. Gas that we exhale. Gas that alka seltzer gives of when mixed with water. Vocabulary : carbon dioxide. Activity: mix water and alka seltzer and discuss why the cap on the container pops up in the air

Patrick continued with his program. He is using the Picture to Picture technique to verbalize. Today I asked a lot of choice and contrast questions to extract more details from him. He is showing improvement already and is beginning to get the idea, as he used his structure words.

Patrick continued with his program.

lesson 1.3 reading and spelling closed syllable words. Reading sentences.

Chat with Patrick, get to know each other. Put him thru a series of exercises and drills to know where to start his training. Teach a basic punch and Front kick

Patrick wrote two on topic sentences on his self portrait so his friends can learn something new about him.