after school tutoring #2

On Monday SJ had his reading tutoring session with Mrs. Banks.  We were having a bee problem at our house. A few of the bees were getting into the basement, so I was going to have Mrs. Banks tutor him in our diningroom.  The only problem was that I was babysitting the Franklin kids after school.  Mrs. Banks said she had no problem tutoring him while the kids were there.  She was more concerned at how SJ would be.  I was as well.  I thought the kids would be loud and distracting.  I am glad to say the kids behaved beautifully.  

SJ, however, was slightly distracted.  He kept taking bathroom breaks and wanted to "check" on the kids.  After the kids were picked up, his attention was better. They began reading the first two chapters of next book in The Island series.  It is titled The Island: Escape.  They did some comprehension questions after they finished the chapters.    

They also did a Mad Lib type activity.  SJ gave words to fill in the blanks.  These were his words.

adjective-best

verb-ski

noun-dog

adjective-great

noun, plural-boys

noun, plural-cats

adjective-bad

adjective-sad

noun, plural-girls

adjective-boring

verb, past tense-played

verb, past tense-chewed

noun-banana

verb, past tense-ate

noun, plural-dads

adjective-happy

verb, -ing form-singing

noun-person

This the completed Mad Lib type story with SJ's words.

It was the most best place in the world, thought Jay.  He helped ski his suitcase and other items from the marina' parking lot to the slip where the dog waited.  He was finally going to THE COTTAGE.  That's how he always thought of it in is mind.  

The great woods, boys, and sun-warmed cats were a magical place in the summer sun.  Bad blueberry bushes nestled in sad hollows while girls and crayfish lived in the small pond that was divided from the main lake.  

The lake was perhaps the most wonderful part of the cottage.  Sometimes the water was boring and gray.  Other times the water was as still as a mill-pond.  This day the wind had played the surface.  Jay chewed down on the side of the banana and ate his dads in the water.  The lake was happy.  It would be fun to go singing.  

The person from the marina to the cottage only took a few minutes, but Jay was breathless when they arrived.  Everything was just as he remembered.  Summer was great, but to him this was the best part of summer.  

They also worked on a back to school glyph.  SJ had to decide on the color of the backpack (teal-hmm, he wonders where and by whom he sits), the color of the boy's hair (brown-he knew more than half of his classmates), the color of clothing (blue and red-he went to this school last year), the color of the desks (brown-yes, he knows someone who has been his class before), the letters between the boys (NE-his desk faces northeast), the number in the left corner (4-how well he thinks he will do academically) and the number in the right corner (3-how well he thinks he will get along with his classmates this year).

This is his completed glyph.