Daily Report Sheet       Name: Jack Dullaghan        Date: 10/08/02 Tuesday
 
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
 
Language Arts --  [smiley] D.O.L.; Re-read The Foot Book; vocabulary sheet
Math -- [smiley]  Subtraction stories
Work Jobs -- short "a" sound worksheet; ending sounds --- consonants g, r, t
Social Skills --  Anger -- how to deal with anger (help chair, deep breathing, etc.)
Unit -- Christopher Columbus -- Looked at globe and talked about route he took.  Finished mobile from yesterday
Special  Health  -- [smiley]  All kinds of helmets/bike safety.  "Bike it to Safety" game/maze.  Video "Bike Safety." 
Lunch -- Broccoli, Jell-O, milk.  Didn't eat pizza. 
Outside -- track & climbers
Reading -- Re-read book to Ms. Robertson.  Discussed vocabulary.  Started Mrs. Spider's Beautiful Web.  Discussed.
Other --  Adaptive P.E. -- walked & jogged around gym; practiced basketball for Special Olympics
 
Teacher Comments:  Jack got a little upset because he couldn't sit by Ryan (Davin sat there first).  He went to the help chair and we talked about it.
 
 
niknotes:  I'm glad Jack wanted to sit by Ryan but sorry he was so disappointed.  
Jack hasn't exactly continued his happy-bus-boarding streak from last week, but I think most likely he isn't feeling completely well -- probably fighting off the germs that have made Mick sick.  But Sean has told him a joke for him to share with Ryan which Jack finds brilliantly humorous and hopefully will help the bus-boarding tomorrow morning.  [The joke:  Why does a dog bark?  Because he can't say "Moo."]  Also, Jack is into birthdays, apparently, and I just happened to have photographed the birthday poster in his classroom so I know that Mrs. Smith's birthday is Thursday, and I think Jack will be happy to go to school then to wish her a happy birthday.  
Tonight Jack played with the little girl next door.  She's eleven years old but no taller than Jack.  Her name is Brittany, and she's adorable -- so grown up, my favorite example of which was her dispute settlement between Jack and Dar a few days ago when they were arguing over who's turn it was to throw a Frisbee and Brittany ran over and said, "Okay, pick a number between one and ten!"  One boy or the other lost his grip at that moment and settled the dispute without intervention, but I just loved her approach and her take-charge attitude.  Anyway, she and Jack played basketball in her driveway and then blew bubbles and then played some kind of put-the-FrisbeeRing-around-your-head-so-you-look-like-the-planet-Saturn-and-spin-around-and-then-run game.  They were so hysterically adorable it was hard to watch.  Luckily, I had to go inside to check on garage-napping Mick.  Sean stayed out talking to Brittany's mom Kelly until time to come in, when he and Jack sat down to watch some Twister on DVD!
Okay, let me mail and then post these.  www.dullaghan.net (Have I typed it enough?)