• Leo has a LOT of pictures of Star Wars in his writing journal. He has not labeled many of his drawings, especially at the beginning of the year
• He shows me "Goodnight Moon." The first time, he flips through the pages and names all the objects, narrating: "You stole my cats! You stole my bowl of sugar!" etc.
I wonder where he got this idea?
• He flips through it again and tells me to look for the mouse on every page. When I asked him how he knew to do that, he said that he's found them before.
He likes picture search books - I think he'd love the "I Spy" books.
• Small group: Leo is working on the letter N. He volunteers "nice" for a word that begins with N, and the children copy the words on their own pages.
• He writes his "a" backwards and pauses between each letter to look up at the teacher's word list. He writes bottom up, instead of top-down.
• They then draw nests in a box on the page. Leo's is attached to a tree and shows detail.
October 11
• During introduction to handwriting lesson: "I knew it was going to be "Mom" because we wrote that in summer school!"
• Leo and his friend Nick are reading together and singing the fireman song from their class poem book.
During "Word Work"
• "O is my favorite page!" he tells me - he likes the octopus. Instead of tracing the letters, he colors the octopus's eyes red and tells me he has red sunglasses on.
• "Hey, this arrow is showing me the way to go!" (He has noticed the arrow pointing on the letters he should be tracing. Once noted, he traces all the letters on the page)
During group work
• He missed school yesterday, so the others fill him in on "The Log Hotel."
• He does not point to the words they are reading and is picking his nails and staring into space
Does he have one-to-one matching?
• He still volunteers "No excuse words" during the actual lesson, but did not exhibit interest in the story.
For the record, it was a terribly boring book.
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