Today Cabo was assigned homework in chemistry and Spanish. During our session we worked on critical thinking exercises including several brain teasers that require thinking "outside of the box".
Assignment
Finish Homework not completed
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was cooperative in working on the critical thinking questions. We did discuss his homework assignments in chemistry and Spanish, but it did not appear that he intends to work on them.
Today we continued doing research on the distribution of existing smoothie businesses to see how new our idea was. We found other companies using trucks to distribute, but we think we are still an early adopter and will compete in South Florida!
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Bobby was very focused and added commentary and decision making to the presentation we are developing. We make good progress each session and hope to have the first draft completed in a few weeks!
Cabo and I used critical thinking to answer several brain teaser questions from an online website. He was engaged thoroughly the whole time and answered several questions correctly!
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was extremely cooperative today. It was like night and day compared to yesterday! We worked really well together reasoning out difficult questions where calculations and logic were required.
Today Bobby and I spent time on the web researching trends along with the growth of the smoothie business. We plan to build slides in PowerPoint to explain the market to potential investors.
Session Minutes
30
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
Bobby was actively participating today and we made good progress on the presentation for the business plan. We hope to have the PowerPoint ready in a few weeks.
Today Cabo had no additional homework assigned beyond the items given last week in chemistry and Spanish. We discussed four critical thinking questions designed to provoke thought and analysis to maximize the benefit in a given situation.
Assignment
Finish Homework not completed
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was mostly distracted by video games during our session today. He was not interested in thinking through the critical thinking questions that I presented and he would not turn his attention away from the games. It is even more difficult than usual to work with him when he is remote. I expect things will not improve until next week.
During this session, we searched the internet for data to explain the growth of the smoothie business including the forecast for the next 5 years. We also calculated returns on investment for potential investors. We plan to use this for the marketing pitch and PowerPoint document.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Bobby is very engaged in the development of the smoothie business plan. We are working well together and he is doing a lot of the research himself.
Today we discussed marketing strategy and customer targeting for the smoothie business. We continue to build on the PowerPoint presentation for a pitch to investors.
Session Minutes
30
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
Bobby was cooperative and followed along with our discussion very well as usual. We continue to build out his business plan and pitch to prospective investors.
Today we found that only Spanish homework was given. We spent most of the session discussing critical thinking questions including whether social media should control free speech and how it should be managed and monitored.
Assignment
Finish Homework not completed
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was cooperative today and offered opinions on several critical thinking issues. The discussion on social media controls was most interesting given the recent events where the president had his account frozen by Twitter.
Today Cabo was assigned homework in chemistry. We worked on critical thinking questions including discussing "something you are afraid to do" and answering questions about it.
Assignment
Finish Homework not completed
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was cooperative given his remote status. We discussed critical thinking questions surrounding the concept of "something you are afraid to do". He was assigned homework in chemistry only today, and I advised him to keep up with it. John Boufford advised that homework would resume next week since Cabo is testing this week.
