Discussions, questions and answers between Katia and Max... Various topics: London, New York, Boston, politics, etc.
Sentences with the new words...
Word game...

Discussions of different topics: lizards, dogs, water sports, travel, etc.
Questions and answers between Max and Katia...
Practice with the past tense in feminine gender (Katia).
Word game...
Learning of new words...

It was the first lesson with Katia and Max together. Concentrating on conversations... Having Max and Katia alternate in picking a topic of questions and answers (Travel, Studies, etc.)...
Playing the Word Game...
Great use of vocabulary!

My lesson today was to finish mapping out Max’s educational plan while at the Batt School and brainstorm creative ways to still accomplish every task that his teacher may require of him.

Max left early today.

Since we haven't had a lesson with Max for a year and a half, we were having conversations about London, his new school, friends, his use of the Russian language with his friends as a secret language, etc.
We played the Word game that Max loves and asked to play! I was very pleasantly surprised at Max's vocabulary! Very productive and fun lesson...!

Max and I developed a plan for the scholastic achievements we hope he will accomplish while at the Batt School.

We opened up the assignments sections of each of his classes from his home school.

We sent messages to the teachers where appropriate. While the teachers may currently be on break, we believe our messages will a) help to document the issues that we were having, b) communicate our desire to do the work to the teachers c) allow them the possibility of replying if they happen to check their messages during the break.

We will use this information to help Max complete all the assignments from his homeschool and to transition smoothly to completing classes here when his homeschool commences again.

Max and I discussed essential business terms that will help him to be successful.

These included vocabulary such as: profit, revenue, accounting, asset, liability, etc.

We discussed some of the most basic precepts of accounting including balance sheets.

Max was full of questions and eager to learn.

In the time that we had together, Max and I reviewed the parts of the body from the class prior. I then taught him some more parts. He drew a diagram of the body and labeled the parts.

I taught him the phrase “Simon says...”. We quickly reviewed the verb tocar.

Max and I reviewed the business topics from our previous session.

Max and I conversed about his studies of Spanish up to this point. I taught him some of the parts of the body in Spanish as well as the verb tocar.

Max and I watched a video about the company IDEO. IDEO is one of the top product development firms in the country. The computer mouse is one of the many disruptive products for which they are responsible.

Max learned about the process of product development and some of the innovative ways that IDEO attacks the products that they undertake. Together we identified the tools that IDEO utilizes. We did a brief introduction to rapid prototyping and used specific examples from the video.

Max chose a quote that he found particularly powerful and we typed it up to put on his wall.

We also discussed and started to prototype some of the ideas that Max generated.