Daily Report Sheet       Name: Jack Dullaghan        Date: 10/21/02 Monday
 
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
 
Language Arts --  [smiley]  Read Jump or Jiggle; picked out rhyming words & talked about verbs
Math -- subtracting pennies
Work Jobs -- 2 worksheets:  what vowel is missing and what consonant is missing [smiley] 
Social Skills --  [smiley] Practiced Basketball Skills for Special Olympics tomorrow.
Unit -- Library and talked about Special Olympics tomorrow.
Special  Math  -- [smiley] Pumpkin time math problem.  One large pumpkin, one small pumpkin.  They were asked to show the different ways they could be carved with one happy, one mad.  Jack didn't seem to understand there could be more than one way to show this. 
Lunch -- chicken patty (no bun), broccoli, peaches, milk
Outside --Another child ran into Jack's back on the slide.  He cried.  We explained it was an accident.  Jack understood. [smiley]
Speech -- [smiley] Jack worked on describing objects, and similarities/differences!
Other --  Reading!!! [smiley]  Reading seatwork -- Opposites, long vowel, & missing consonants sheets.  Groups -- Guinea Pig story -- learned about index and table of contents.  Read orally.  Has written homework.
 
Teacher Comments: Yes, Jack has a student number.  It is a number that the school uses to identify him. I usually fill it in for you.
Special Olympics tomorrow -- Remember to send Jack's lunch.
 
 
niknotes:  I asked Jack what verbs are and he sang, "It's what's happening!" from the Schoolhouse Rock video and then said, "Action!  They're action!"
Last night, Jack volunteered the information that Jaret rides his bus!  Jaret is a third grader this year so no longer in Ms. Penoncello's class, but I'm glad that Jack still acknowledges him. 
 
Jack's written homework was to write three interesting facts from the Guinea Pig book which he first read aloud to me.  He wrote:
1.  Guinea pigs are born with teeth.
2.  They allso come in colors.
3.  All guinea pigs are called cavies.
I thought the last fact was quite interesting myself.  I didn't know that.  They're of the genus Cavia, as I just discovered in my dictionary.
 
Jack just impressed me with his independence.  Mick had left his apple juice cup on the kitchen floor, and Jack accidentally kicked it over when he was announcing, "Mama, I found a Fuji apple!"  He quickly apologized for knocking over the juice.  I handed him two paper towels, which he found insufficient.  I was typing the above so didn't know that until I turned around again and saw that Jack had run upstairs to grab a bath towel to soak up the rest of the juice.  What a good boy.  Now, I hear him in the living room, crunching through that Fuji apple.