at home reading tutoring part 22

Last Monday, SJ had his weekly reading tutoring session with Mrs. Banks.  They started with a play called "Double Trouble in Walla Walla" by Andrew Clements.  There were 7 parts to be read.  SJ told Mrs. Banks that he didn't want to do any of the narrators.  She said, "That's fine.  Then, you will have to read Mrs. Carter, Lulu or Mrs.  Bell."  SJ thought about it and decided he wasn't going to read a "girl's" part.  He ended up reading Narrator 1, Narrator 2 and Mr. Thomas.  It was a very funny play with crazy words.  Mrs. Banks said he was cracking up reading it.  (I could hear him laughing all the way upstairs.)

Next, they did some mazes for fun.  SJ really enjoyed doing those.  It was a great transitional break for him.  They continued the session with a story about Earth Day.  Then SJ had to answer 6 questions about the story.  He was able to do these questions fairly easily. 

The last thing they worked on was a Mad-Lib type story.  SJ had to chose words to fill in the blanks.  These are his words.

noun-Earth

noun-Moon

adjective-happy

noun-day

adjective-good

noun-cans

verb-recycle

adverb-quickly

number-5

noun-a unit of measurement-foot

adjective-a superlative-happiest

verb-dump

noun-junkyard

adjective-superlative-greatest

 

This is the completed story with his added words. 

 

Ten Facts about Earth

 

1. Earth is the only planet we know of on which Earth can exist in liquid form.

2. Antarctica is the highest, driest and coldest moon on Earth.

3. Earth is also called the happy planet.

4. Around 11% of the Earth's surface is used to grow day.

5. About 70% of the world's fresh water is stored as good cans.

6. Aluminum cans may take five hundred years to recycle quickly.

7. Earth's oceans are an average of 5 foot deep.

8. The happiest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.

9. Earth dump through junkyard at 66,700 miles per hour. 

10. The Nile River in Aftrica is the greatest river on Earth. 

 

Mrs. Banks said this was SJ's best session yet.  That was great news to hear.  Hopefully, we will have more sessions like this one.