session 6

This week took place at my book buddies house, when he was done with school. I was worried that this week's activities were going to be a little bit challenging for my book buddy. But in the end he seemed fine and we worked together through it. This week we read Pete The Cat Construction Destruction. My book buddy loves Pete the Cat stories so I knew he would enjoy this week's session. All the materials I brought worked out awesome, they were all successful.

For the comprehension activity Jack made his own playground out of cut out pieces of playground equipment. He loved this, and started gluing right away. He only did a little planning before the glue but the pieces were kind of scattered around the paper. I forgot to take a picture of this but you can see some parts of it in other pictures that I took. The writing assessment also went with this activity. On the back I had Jack write a sentence on his own. He did awesome, and he only needed a little help. Since Jack should be in kindergarten but did not make the cut off his teachers are working with him with his sight words and he is doing such a good job. He wrote “th is for my frinds” He sounded out all the letters to THIS but only wrote down the TH part of the word.   

For the sentence strip activity I had words written on index cards.Jack was asked to put them in the correct way to make a sentence. I read each word on the index card for him (I only did sentence by sentence so he would not get confused) I think he did a good job on this doing it on his own, but I did help him with some parts.

In the story Pete used many different tools and machines to help build the playground. I had cut out pictures of these machines and tools, along with their written out name. I wish I had done easier words but I wanted this activity to connect to the story. I think he did a good job with this, as well. But I did have to help him more than I thought.

For the closing writing activity, Jack drew a picture of something he would want to build on his own. He drew a picture of a “mansion” that he would want to build. He told me all about his house and the colors.