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Good morning! I got a half- hearted greeting, had to prompt a nicer one with eye contact. When I arrived this morning Kat was engrossed in coloring a Valentine picture given to her by Mrs. D. She is really concentrating and doing a beautiful job- She is really enjoying herself and taking her time choosing a variety of colors and being careful to (stay) color in the lines. She sung The National Anthem very nicely and smiled!
We are watching a video tape of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and talking about all "The Firsts" that are happening in the Olympics this year (woman's ice hockey, snowboarding, NHL hockey players aloud to play in the Olympics.) After they played the snowball ski patrol-game. Kat was awesome! Needed a little prompting to run harder during the game to keep her hands out of her pockets. She did play hard and hit alot of the opposing team's players- Excellent! She really had fun and even got a chance to ride on the scooter- stretcher and get rescued by the ski patrol when someone "got her out"! She was smiling and laughing appropriately- I gave her a quarter for doing her best and really staying in the game and for all her great running!
We read pages to 262-267 ( Attention is up and no silliness) Kat is really paying attention to Mrs. D as she talks to the class. Very few prompts- just a couple to follow along in the book. We then listened to a recorded story of "Paul Revere's Ride" Kat is listening intently and very quietly to the recording, She is really tuned-in today in Social Studies. She really enjoyed the recording of Patrick Henry's- "give me Liberty or give me Death" Speech- she is listening so quietly and so interested! Awesome Kat! Told her she will get dimes (for listening so great and paying attention!)
-Did a little science, Chapter 12 review.
Mrs.R.: Kat appeared in the video for her sick classmate Alex (singing "Hero" by Mariah Carrey) She smiled alot and started to dance a little in the video. The class looked and sounded so sweet. Then Mrs. B. showed the class pictures of the castles she saw during her trip to England (In college), Kat liked the pictures.
Then Kat did very well on a listening exercise in language- She had to listen to sentences on a tape, Then decide if the verb tense is correct or wrong. She needed an initial prompt and restated the directions to make sure she understood but after I left her on her own and she did pretty good with it!
After- Kat initiated her seat work on her own and turned to look at the board on unprompted, then announced that she would do language page 329, Great Kat! The class got a late start on things due to singing for the video so I don't think we will have time to go to the gym for some excercise today ( But I did get her to run alot in gym class today) Kat is now studying her spelling words ( I will quiz her before her test.)
Hey, Kat got a 100 on her spelling test (quiz) that I gave her so she does not have to take it again- way to go Kat! She is great with spelling.
Kat ate one of her Valentine candies to celebrate.
With initial prompt Kat started her math seatwork and "wizzed" right through it! She is not waiting for her feathers.
12:30 time for lunch! Pepperoni pizza!
Kat chose to go to the booknest with D. and she came to me and said very confidently and nicely "I want this book" I asked her if she wanted to buy it with the money in her red purse she said "Yes" She had five cents in her purse and the remaining five cents I gave Kat.
Happy Valentine's Day! ( I would have liked to have treated but I didn't have my purse- Only had change in my pocket.) I think it was reinforcing for Kat to buy it with the money she earned today. She was so excited when she came up to me with the book and was so sure it was how she wanted to spend her money. It's great too- now she really takes the time to truly browse. "The Booknest" and looks at every book before for she chooses one.
When we returned to the classroom The room was clear- all the desks were pushed against the walls (they are showing the movie "Johnny Tremaine") for the whole fifth grade in Mrs.K's room- Kat appeared confused when she entered the room, Mrs. K. asked Kat if the room looks silly?
Kat said "yes, that's silly!" We got back about two minutes early from "The Booknest." R. was the only student in the class. He was sitting on the floor reading a book. He asked Kat if she wanted to look at the book with him? Kat sat on the floor with R. and R. then had Kat read the book out loud to him. (prompting her to read louder. It was a very sweet exchange between them ( And it got R. out of reading- pretty slick R.!)
When it was time for the movie to begin and kids from the other fifth grade classes started to arrive, Kat went with R., stayed with him and choose to sit with him during the movie. Mrs. K. said she thinks Kat likes R. because he is bossy. She is making friends! They looked sweet sitting together. R. "shhhed" Kat during the movie. The entire fifth grade during intermission mingled and Kat sat in the hallway and drank juice and ate soft pretzels with her classmates. I sat with them and asked Kat about the movie. I asked her if she remembered reading about the "Boston Tea Party" in Social Studies. She said "yes," she said "liked the movie." (bk to the movie)
Kat is beginning to get restless ( making silly faces) "Sugar catching up with her ?" ( took a dime) overall- a very easy festive day for Kat and me. Kat got a lot of Valentine's and chocolate sweets! She was surprisingly not very "stimmy" from all the sugar today. Nice attention during the film, very quiet (no verbal stim) A little wiggly and some pouting faces ( later in the movie. ) A lot of the kids attention down too, a lot of talking and restlessness- silliness in other classes. Not too bad Kat. Have a good night! See you tomorrow. I can't wait to meet Meesha!
L.
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