At home reading tutoring part 20

Last Monday, SJ had his weekly reading tutoring session. He was already in a bad mood from school. They have a Science Olympiad for 5th and 6th grade students. They are randomly paired up with other students. He was paired with a few older girls that he didn't know. (If you are a reader of this blog, you know how SJ feels about girls.)

When Mrs. Banks arrived at our house, he was still fairly crabby about that.  Mrs. Banks spent a few minutes talking to him about it. She was able to calm him down. Thank you Mrs. Banks!

They started the session with a Reader's Theater called "WorryWarts" by Pamela Duncan Edwards.  It was an alliteration play with a lot of "w" words. It had 15 characters. SJ chose Narrators 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Wombat, Woodpecker, Wolf and Owl. The characters are talking about all the worrisome things that can happen in the world.

Next, she had SJ do a Look and Find worksheet. He had to find 10 coins in a leprechaun scene.

Then, she had SJ work on an analogy worksheet. He had a word bank to fill in the first 7.  For example: race: finish line: rainbow: _______________. He needed to fill in "pot of gold". She said he did very well with this activity.

Next, she had SJ choose the words to fill in the blanks. These words would be inserted into a Mad Lib style story. These were his words and the story with his words inserted. 

 

noun-a plant  sunflower

adjective shiny

color green

noun clover

noun-a country United States

noun-plural caps

adjective bored

adverb happily

verb walk

adjective despicable

verb run

adjective light

noun-body part head

verb-past tense played

adjective burned

verb-past tense tricked

adjective dirty

noun leprechauns

Lewis the Leprechaun

Look under a four-leaf sunflower, and you might find Lewis. Lewis is a shiny man.  He wears green and carries magic in his clover.  He is a leprechaun!

Lewis comes from a green isle known as United States.  He collects cups in bored pots.  Then he works happily to walk his pots.  After a rainstorm, despicable rainbows run out to show the way to the pots!

Once a light boy caught Lewis by the head.  Lewis played to grant the boy a wish.  The boy let go of Lewis.  Then that burnt leprechaun tricked!  The dirty boy should have made his wishfirst.  Never ever let go of a leprechaun until he gives you your leprechaun!

The last thing they did together was a St. Patrick's Day Glyph.  SJ had to choose the following options to finish the glyph.  He decided the color of the leprechaun's outfit (light green-he owns a green shirt), color of the leprechaun's eyes (brown-he has brown eyes),color of his hair (red-he is a boy), color of the pot (gray-he can find Ireland on a map, but it may take him some time) and the color of the coins (yellow-he knows someone who is Irish).  He also had to draw and color his favorite green veggie (peas) to the right of the leprechaun and his favorite green fruit (green apple) to the left of the leprechaun.  This is the finished glyph.