SJ got sick last week. He was running a fever and very crabby. He didn't do too much that Sunday and stayed home from school on Monday. He didn't miss too much at school and only had a tiny bit of homework. The PSSA testing was going to resume the next day.
When Bob and I returned home, I gave him his homework and told him that I had cancelled his at home reading tutoring with Mrs. Banks. That perked him up some. I took his temperature and it was mostly gone. He got his homework done and rested for the remainder of the evening.
The next day, he was temperature free and was back to school. They only had one testing session that day and it was math. SJ was in a good mood at the end of the day. That was until I told him we had speech therapy. Immediately, the complaints started and he was trying to negotiate his way out of going.
His complaints were heard, but I explained to him that he was still going. We hadn't had time to finish his speech homework for the week. I could have forced him to do it, but I knew that would make a difficult situation excruciating.
When we got to the therapy center, I apologized to his therapist for the incomplete homework. She didn't seemed too upset, so I was relieved. When his session was finished, she told me to have him complete the previous week's homework for the next session.
She said they worked on forming compound nouns from two separate words. He then had to write a definition for each compound noun. She also had him practice identifying words from definitions. He had more trouble with that skill.
She also told me she is focusing on his tone of voice. He frequently uses an inappropriate inflection in his voice when he is talking. (Bob likes to call it his robot voice.) She said she had to remind him several times about his tone of voice. She said she would continue to work on that skill with him.
Considering he was just getting over a virus, I would say he did a great job today!
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