Session 6

Horn practice - 10 mins - Small boy can now play C D E F and sometimes G. He didn't want to try playing G F E D C.

Writing
1. 2 mins handwriting - d - this was really good

2. Return to alien story - problem and resolution - talked about Aliens Love Underpants and then ideas for what else the aliens could steal.

Attention poor this morning, too busy messing around and picking up anything that was possible to play with, all of which I removed and then he tried to make himself cry. Then he said he had too many ideas to choose from, which seems to relate to part of the problem at school - he says he can't decide on an idea and by the time he has decided, he's run out of writing time. So I set the timer for one minute and that was successful. I then gave him 5 minutes writing time to write down his problem. Handwriting was appalling today, large and scribbly with a lot of crossings out. Rewarded sounding out.

We really need to work on spelling high frequency words.

We talked about how to resolve the problem of aliens taking socks. He had some good ideas for this but they came out long and rambling and didn't actually solve the problem.

Reminded him of think it -say it - like it - write it - read it back.
He said his sentence and then wrote it down, he was much more focussed now and his handwriting was better. Good at reading work back and making corrections. He then said "I'm going to add a bit on!" and extended his sentence, using a comma! After I'd marked his work, and he was very proud of what he'd done, the timer went off and we realised he'd done it really quickly.

Very successful session!

Reading - Small Boy chose to read The Dragon Painter to himself.