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Good Morning!
A nice unprompted "Good Morning" from Kat today- but still lacks that EC(eye contact) I love ! We'll work on it. In art, they are finishing up projects which Kat has completed. She has chosen to trace different varieties of fish from a sea creatures book. She has developed such an interest with tropical fish which I'm sure is a result of your fish tank. She even talks about fish occasionally. Yesterday, she was looking at her library fish books and said "turkey fish" That is silly! Enclosed in front of this book are her tracings.
They had about 20 minutes in the gym as reward at the end of art. Kat is playing the snowball game very well now and truly enjoys it. She even moves fast to get the ball now.
Stayed in Mrs. D. class after art Because she wanted to complete some Social Studies work. We corrected the work packet and did the timeline in the workbook. Also completed the last page of the work packet .
Now in reading Ms. L. ( Student teacher) completing a workbook page on reading comprehension, Specifically word reference. This is tough concept for her but with only a little instruction from me, she started to get them on her own. She is so smart! It is wonderful to see her rejoice when she gets a difficult concept and starts to answer independently. She feel so happy about it.
They are now having a language lesson. They must listen to lessons on tape (one sentence at a time) and indicate by thumbs up or down whether it is right or wrong. She is very attentive and quite, often the first one to indicate correctly. She is so happy and the teacher is giving her lots of reniforcement. Now their heads or down so no one can see what the other is indicating. She is still getting them correct. Her listening skills have improved tremendously.
Just spent a lot of time helping Kat with math. Lot of tears because she got several wrong when doing three digit subtraction with borrowing. She doesn't remember to borrow correctly. We went over it, copied the problems on a separate sheet and then did them slowly and carefully. Fractions were also challenging today but we worked through it. She is now very happy, writing in her journal before lunch and munching on a few pretzels that I gave her. She is writing beautifully with lots of detail-has she begun cursive capitals yet with Mrs. F. ?
After a good lunch time ( some conversation with D., K. and T.-students) went to the gym for P.E. and some activity. Kat chose the monkey bars and jumping rope. I have noticed that she is trying to do this faster now. When I do it with her, It's amazing. She follows my rhythm and can do so many more. However, she is tired after only ten or twelve repetitions. It will be good to start working on building up her endurance a bit more by having her exercise more vigorously five to ten minutes a day. Jumping rope or jogging would be easy.
The last subject of the day was math. They are learning fractions practicing with manipulatives and then transferring that knowledge to paper I can't remember if you told me that Kat has started fractions at home. She is very uncertain of herself when it is presented in class (Looked a bit weepy) But I don't think she is familar with them and once to get them right- You know Kat!
I'll be in on Friday morning to work along side L. as I did on Tuesday with A.. Will be anxious to hearhow things are progressing at home till next week...
MN
Hi! It was a pretty long night at home. We did a lot of work. Kat is not to used to working more than three and a half hours on drills, So the last half hour was tough. There were alot of tears. Kat did great overall, though! Have a great day!
A.
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