at home reading tutoring part 17

Last Monday, SJ had his weekly tutoring session with Mrs. Banks.  He was in a good mood at the end of the day.  I was watching the kids and it was fairly warm out.  He had asked if he could play outside with Bob and the kids.  I told him he could, but only until Mrs. Banks arrived.  She said when she pulled into the driveway he stopped playing and went in.  I was thrilled that he had listened to me. 

They started out the session with a Reader's Theater.  The play was called "The Best Valentine's Day Ever" by Brenda B. Covert.  There were four characters, two boys and two girls.  Of course, SJ chose to read the parts of the two boys.  One of the boys was an alien, who came to Earth to learn about Valentine's Day.  Mrs. Banks said he did well with the play.

Next, she had SJ work on an I Spy worksheet where SJ had to find 12 hidden hearts.  He did very well at this activity.  They moved onto another worksheet where SJ had to answer questions based on Valentine's picture.  There were 25 questions and SJ was able to do this activity easily. 

Then, they did a worksheet on analogies.  For example:  candy: chocolate: stuffed animals: ________.
SJ filled in teddy bear in the blank.  Mrs. Banks was very pleased at his abilities with the analogies.  She then had SJ make up his own words that were to be inserted in a story called "The Candy Bowl".  This is the story with SJ's words.

Dudley had a sweet tooth.  He loved candy.  He liked chocolate candy, sour candy and candy that tasted like fruit.  He liked hard candy and chewy candy.  He loved pink candy and red candy, but any kind was happy.
One day Dudley sat into the city.  He saw a candy bowl.  It was like nothing he had seen before.  It wrote like a light bulb.  It was full of chewy candy.
Dudley ran lovely toward the bowl. 
"Wow!" called the librarian.  "Don't write that candy!" 
"Why not?" asked Dudley.
"You won't like it," the librarian warned him.
"Oh yes, I will!" replied Dudley.  "I love candy.  This candy looks satisfied!"
The librarian ate, but she couldn't stop Dudley.  He thrust his butt into the bowl.  He popped a piece into his mouth. 
Dudley's eyes filled with cry.  "This is not candy!" he exclaimed. "This is crayons!"
The librarian shrugged.  "I tried to tell you," she said.  "You would not sitting."
"I'm whiny," Dudley said.  "From now on, I will always play."

The last thing they worked on was a Valentine glyph.  SJ had to decide the color of Cupid's pants (yellow-we do celebrate Valentine's Day), the color of the hearts (red-the difference in the number of letters in SJ's name and the word Valentine), the color of the banner (green polka dots-he receives a lot of candy), the color of Cupid's socks (red-he is a boy), the color of Cupid's arrow (green-he passes out between 1-5 cards) and  the color of Cupid's hair (orange-he didn't like any of the holiday's listed).  He also had to draw a picture of a special person in his life to the right of Cupid.  See the attached finished glyph.