at home reading tutoring part 8

Last Monday, SJ had his weekly after school reading tutoring.  This was the first of two sessions that he had last week.  He was mentally already on Christmas vacation, so he was extremely resistant to begin the session.  After a few threats of losing his electronics, he finally came down to work with Mrs. Banks.  She said they had a rough start, but he did settle down after a few minutes. 

They began the session with a reader's theater.  They read a play called "Redheaded Robbie's Christmas Story" by Bill Luttrell.  SJ chose his four characters, which were Narrator 1, Narrator 4, Big Eddie and Munching Max.  The story is about a kid who gets tongue tied when he gets nervous.  He gets assigned to write a Christmas story, but he thinks he can't do it.  He visits a few a children for help and then has trouble telling his story to an assembly.  The children he visited then help him get through the story.  It was a very nice little play.  Mrs. Banks said he read very well. 

Next, they worked on a Look and Find activity sheet.  SJ did very well with that activity. 

Then, they moved on to a worksheet where SJ had to fill in past tense verbs, adjectives and plural nouns in the blanks.  He didn't want to write in the answers, so Mrs. Banks scribed for him.  She said he some difficulty with this activity and I wasn't too surprised to hear that.  See the activity sheet below. 

She moved on to a preferred activity next.  They did a Christmas themed crossword puzzle.  He did very well with this activity and enjoyed it very much.  She finished the session with a Christmas Tree Glyph.  Mrs. Banks said he did much better with this glyph than he has done with the previous glyphs.  His choices decided how the page was colored.  The tree's ribbon is red, because we put up our tree after Thanksgiving.  The tree's trunk is dark brown, since we decorate a real tree.  His star is purple, because he likes colored lights that do not blink.  The tree is dark green due to the fact that he is a boy.  The tree was to only to have ornaments if he had pets.  We have no pets, so there are not any ornaments.  There are four presents, because there are four people in our family.  (I am having trouble scanning in color, so you will have to trust me on the colors.)  Considering the very rough start, SJ did a good job.