SJ was having a VERY BAD day on Monday. He got upset over an assignment in reading. He started to cry and had to be taken out to the pod. His assistant told him to calm down, but he was unable to control himself. She told him if he didn't settle down there would be a consequence. That consequence was that he would lose his recess the next day (they had already had recess for that day).
When I got near the office to collect him and Bob, his assistant was waiting for me. She told me everything that happened. I asked her if she wanted me to punish him additionally at home, but she said that losing his recess would suffice. As we drove home, he kept insisting that it wasn't his fault. I was trying to ignore the crying while Bob was trying to console him. All I was thinking was how he was probably going to be horrible for Mrs. Banks. Oh great!
Mrs. Banks arrived at her normal time. I went down to tell her what happened, but she already knew. She said she could hear him crying in the pod (it is right outside her room). I apologized in advance at what I thought was going to be problematic behavior. SJ crabbily made his way to the basement room.
When the session was over, Mrs. Banks told me he had one of his best sessions ever. Whew! What a relief! Then, she told me what they did in their session. They started out with a Reader's Theater. It was called "I'm Bored with School!" by Phyllis Naegeli. Child 1 said everything "dreadfully" and Child 2 said everything "dreamily". He asked Mrs. Banks what those words meant. She explained that dreadfully was similar to how he was acting today and dreamily is similar to happy. Of course, he chose Child 1, which was perfect for today. The children go back and forth changing their moods depending on the classes they are talking about.
Since it was close to the 100th day of school, she had a few worksheets based on that topic. First, they read a poem called "A Hundred Hogs". Next, she had an I Spy where he needed to find the letters that spell "Hide A" and the number 100. When he found them, he had to color them in with a highlighter. He did very well with this work sheet.
Then, they read the story called "One Hundred Everything" by Jody Williams. It was a story about the 100th day at school. The girl was excited about the activities that they were going to do at school. She was seeing 100 in most of things that they did. The story was open ended. SJ then had to answer some questions and decide how the story ended. These were his answers to the questions.
1. Have you ever done something 100 times? What would you like to do? Yes, I would eat 100 skittles.
2. What is a common thing that is grouped by one hundreds? Lego pieces, movies, skiers
3. How do you think Sally felt that her 100th day of school was not only at school? Yes, at school she was lucky.
4. What prize did Sally receive at the store for being the 100th customer? She gets a toy for free.
5. Describe the end of Sally's day. She was really happy and lucky.
6. What will day 101 bring for Sally? She was going to tell them that she was the 100th customer.
This is how SJ decided the story would end. He wrote: She got the prize for free. 2 hours later, she was on the local news. She said "This is my lucky day." Then, she happily went to bed. Then, she couldn't wait to tell the kids and her teacher the next day.
The last thing they did was a 100th Day of School Glyph. SJ decided to turn the zeros into sport balls since he is a boy. He drew 5 pieces of cereal in the center box, because he likes Fruit Loops. He drew a triangle in the first box to indicate how he felt about the first 100 days of school (they were okay). He circled his name with a blue crayon since he would play Capture the Flag. He colored the first box yellow, since he would like to have 100 Legos. He outlined the middle box with red to tell us he was older than 3 but less than 6 when he could count to 100. Lastly, he was to draw what he would look like at 100 years old in the last box. He drew a grave stone. See the finished glyph below.
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