Daily Report Sheet       Name: Jack Dullaghan        Date: 10/09/02 Wednesday
 
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
 
Language Arts --  OLSAT Review (Jack will take this test next week.  It is a test for all of the 1st graders.)
Math -- Surprise fire drill -- Jack did a wonderful job! [smiley]
Handwriting --  n/a
Social Skills --  Story about anger and NOT hitting others.  Role played what to do and where to go to calm down.  Reviewed phone answering.
Unit -- Discussed Christopher Columbus & directions (north, south, east, west)
Special  Art  -- w/sub (Ms. Avitabile had to leave.) 
Lunch -- pizza, milk, green beans, fruit.  Jack had a popsicle, too!  Ms. Robertson treated the class. [smiley]
Outside -- track & climbers
Speech -- [smiley]  Jack worked on "main idea," and drawing conclusions.  He did great!
Other --  READING -- Read "The Babysitter."  Picture walked. Read orally.  Comprehension questions (orally).  (Nice reading with expression!)
Seatwork - 1) sentence structure; 2) rhyming sheet  (Nice job... Hard!)
 
niknotes:  Tonight Jack and I started making our own board game which I'll laminate when complete.  He's been drawing his own game-boards lately, and I just decided we should make a nice big, durable one.  So I cut out construction paper squares to arrange into the path from start to finish on the board, and Jack drew on them.  For example, one square has a tornado and says "Move Back 2" and another has a tornado that blows the player forward 2 spaces.
 
In Jack's classroom, there is a birthday poster, and Mrs. Smith's birthday is in October, tomorrow as a matter of fact.  Jack has been asking for several days about her birthday and even drew a "Happy Birthday Choo Choo" in class today.  I gave him an envelope to address to Mrs. Smith, on which he did write her name and draw another train, which he will take to school tomorrow for her. 
 
Last note, Jack wasn't feeling great this morning and said he wasn't going to school.  But an unpleasant bus-boarding was thwarted by his Reading book, "The Babysitter."  As we sat on the front steps waiting for buses, I asked Jack to tell me about the story and read some of it to me.  It's about a little boy whose babysitter "Poppa" falls off a ladder trying to get a ball down from the roof, and the little boy Tom has to call 9-1-1.  Emergencies maintain Jack's interest.  So he half-skipped up to and onto the bus with his little book in hand, completely forgetting that he wasn't going to school.
 
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