Richard used Play Doh to practice his spelling words (guess, guest, guy, guide) We reviewed sounds he has worked on all year. He read books with words he can read.

Session began with stretching to bilateral calves and continues to focus on heel to toe walking around school hallways and playground. Student performed gait well with shoes on, but required verbal cues to reinforce proper heel-toe gait when barefoot. Session included timed races with other students with a focus on running form.

We read a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt which discussed her role as First Lady and the support she provided to support to her husband, Theodore Roosevelt, who had polio. Richard remembered that Teddy Roosevelt is honored on Mount Rushmore. We learned that Eleanor Roosevelt worked for the rights of women, African Americans, and other groups. We also read an excerpt from a primary source, which was a speech on the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document which she helped write, and noted that it lists basic rights that all people should have and that many are also found in the United States Bill of Rights, about which we learned in a previous class.

This morning, we focused on understanding decimals, decimal place values, and how to say decimal amounts. Then, we worked on comparing decimals with decimal war using 0 - 9 number cards and a printed decimal. Using a zero in the ones place and the printed decimal, we each flipped over a card in the tenths place. Richard correctly said the amount as a decimal and as a fraction before determining who won the round. Then, cards were placed in the tenths and hundredths place and compared using the same process of saying the amount as a decimal and fraction. If the amounts were the same we had a war and the player with the most cards at the end of class won the game.

Richard completed his interactive calendar. He read, discussed, and answered questions pertaining to a story about oxygen in outer space. He took a quiz over the concepts covered this week.

I read The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, and we compared it to the movie.

Richard took his spelling test and wrote sentences I dictated to him. We reviewed sounds he had been doing this year. He read books with words he can read.

Richard was absent from class and has to leave early on Fridays as he has to travel a good distance to get to his eye therapy appointment.

Today's session began with stretching to calf muscles, followed by heel to toe walking outside and in the hallways. Session incorporated game of pickle ball to work on student's coordination. Student demonstrated improved UE coordination throughout our session. He only required a few verbal cues to reinforce heel contact this visit.

Today, Richard and I continued to work on the concept of decimals. We reviewed how the amounts of whole numbers get bigger as numbers expand to the left and discussed how fractional amounts get smaller as numbers expand to the right. We also discussed the role of the decimal point as a separator of these whole and fractional amounts as well as a point of reference. Finally, decimal place values to the tenths and hundredths were discussed, and how they relate to fractions with denominators of ten and one hundred.