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First Day of Second Grade!

Daily Report Sheet Name: Jack Dullaghan Date: 08/11/03 Monday

Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior

Language Arts -- Read: Three Up a Tree. Talked about new words: swell, snooze, listen, monster, hungry, clever

Handwriting -- morning sentences

Social Skills -- Toured school for new student. Discussed class rules.

Unit -- Talked about 1st day of school. Story: Timothy Goes to School

Special P.E. -- Rules, skills, resting game. Game "Energizer."

Lunch -- [smiley] Great job even while waiting a long time in cashier line [smiley]. Hopefully it will be a shorter wait next time.

PB&J (didn't want pizza), corn, milk, icee

Outside -- Super!!

Other -- Calendar: calendar skills, drew picture about what he did this summer

niknotes: Jack boarded the bus this morning without much complaint and no apparent anxiety, though he did sort of scowl from his seat. He came home in a great mood! So I guess the first day went rather smoothly for our little second-grader. Last Thursday was open house and registration at the schools, and despite his insistence that he was all through with school, once we got to Magill, he was really pleasant. Mrs. Thompson is going to use the same Daily Report Sheet as Mrs. Penoncello used, and Jack is even sitting in the very same desk as last year, but he's in between new kids: Ian and Ethan. We met Ian there, whom I already knew actually, as he was at Mick's school last year and visited Mick's classroom frequently. Mrs. Thompson probably will make changes, but she has chosen, correctly in my opinion, to keep the classroom arrangement exactly the same at least for now, to ease the students through the transition back to school, with a new teacher. Mrs. Smith ad Mrs. Avitabile were there and will definitely help the students feel more comfortable with the changes that can be so tremendously difficult for kids with autism. So far so good.