at home reading tutoring part 10

Two Mondays ago, we were back to our routine.  The boys were back in school, so that meant on Monday afternoon SJ had speech therapy.  Mrs. Banks told me she would be a few minutes late, since she had to pick up her son from the gym.  I told her SJ would be fine with that.

They started their session with a Reader's Theater.  This one was called "The Old Woman and Her Bear" by Sheri Skelton.  There were 8 characters, two of which were female.  Of course, SJ chose not to read either female character.  He chose Narrator, Kunik (a bear) Kasiagsak (a hunter) and Tutigak (a little boy). 

Mrs. Banks said that when SJ got to the first Kunik line he read it in a bear voice. She told him that he would have to read it in a human voice too.  He complied, but he read it in a very deep voice.  She said he did that every time he got to a Kunik line.  She said it was hysterical.

Next, they moved onto a non-fiction paragraph on polar bears.  SJ had to read the passage and then answer some questions.  She said he did fairly well with this activity.  After he answered the questions, he was to write a story about polar bears.  He was complaining about all the writing he had to do in Mrs. Valentine's class today, so she compromised and only made him list five facts about polar bears.  This is what he wrote.

Different fur from normal bears, paws help them swim, eat seals, from the Arctic and biggest kind of bear.

Then, they worked on an activity deciding the best word match for each definition.  She said he had some trouble with this activity.  For example:  The large bird lives in north regions during summer months and flies south in autumn.  It returns to its summer home in the spring.  This bird travels in a large group, forming a shape that looks like the letter V.  He needed to answer with goose.  He told Mrs. Banks that he never saw a goose fly in a shape of V.  That is not true, but maybe he didn't remember.

The last thing they worked on was a Polar Bear Glyph.  SJ had to decide how many clouds there would be (3-he has seen a polar bear at the zoo), color of the polar bear's hair (brown-he has brown hair), what kind of clothing it would wear (a scarf-he is a boy), color of the ice (light blue-he has straight hair), how many birds are in the sky (2-his favorite dessert is popsicles), color of the fish (red-he likes pork) and what color the drawn ball would be (orange-he likes to play basketball).  This is his finished glyph.