session 5

This week book buddy session took place at my book buddies house. We read the book Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss. Jack loved this story he has a huge collection of Dr. Seuss books. He is very familiar with this book so he followed along with me. I was worried that the book was a little lengthy for Jack, but because he was familiar with it he read along and helped me. I brought along with me this week my comprehension activity, PASS assessment, and my phonological awareness activity. The materials I brought with me were all successful. I did the

You read to me activity again because he seems to enjoy this. He usually picks stories that he has memorized to read to me. I also think the PASS assessment went well, I was a little nervous at first because he usually gets nervous when he sees me writing things down. I did an example for him, but he still was a little confused. I helped him with the first one, but he did the rest on his own. He did awesome, one thing I noticed was he could not remember the three words I was saying to him. So I repeated 3-4 times for him.

For my comprehension activity, Jack and I acted out the story. Since this book was pretty long we did not act out the whole book. I let Jack take the lead, he did not want to be the sally because he did not “want to be a girl”. It was actually funny how he never touched the sally character cutout. I played sally and he played the others. I think this activity went well, they only thing I would do differently next time was video tape it so I could catch everything Jack said, rather than writing really fast and trying to catch everything.    

For the writing activity Jack drew a picture of what him and the Cat would do. Jack loves to get in trouble so I am sure the Cat and him would be great friends!! He drew a picture of them playing soccer.

Lastly, the phonological awareness activity was based of rhyming words. Jack had a set of pictures in front of him, and he was to match the rhyming words. (e.g cat - bat) I did one for an example, and then he did the rest. I was shocked at how well he did with this activty. I liked how he would say the words out loud to figure out which rhymed. (e.g “bed cat .. no. car cat … no” Next time I think I would throw in some tough words with a few easy ones.