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Daily Report Sheet       Name: Mick Dullaghan   
Date: 08/09/04 (Mon.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --  Alphabet practice and family picture
Math -- # recognition 1 - 30; fewer and greater
Handwriting --  morning sentences
Social Skills --  school & bus rules; classroom rules
Unit -- School Days -- story, began booklet
Special  P.E.  --  Practiced ball bouncing activities.  A few tears on & off but otherwise did awesome.
Lunch -- pizza, milk, a little juice pak, granule of corn (?)
Outside -- climbers
Speech -- not yet
Other --  calendar skills
Teacher Comments: Off to great start! [smiley face]
Date:  08/10/04 (Tues.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --  beginning sounds; vowels
Math -- addition with pictures
Handwriting --  learn to write activity
Social Skills -- school rules
Unit -- "My Book About School"
Special  Music  --  [sad face]  Name game; "Hello" song; intermittently cried throughout
Lunch -- [smiley face]  Good eater!  Nuggets, roll, cookie, some veggie/noodle dish; opened his own milk & drank most! w/out straw
Outside -- climbers
Speech -- not yet
Date:  08/11/04 (Wed.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --   Initial letter (beginning sounds); letter workjobs (initial consonant)
Math -- sorted items by shape and then color
Handwriting --  Letter "A" practice; morning sentences
Social Skills -- "Feelings" discussion & game
Unit -- School days story booklet
Special  P.E.  --  Loved it -- not one tear! [smiley] Lots of ball bouncing and catching activities.
Lunch -- Nuggets, fries, some choco.milk.  Did not eat roll or plum.
Outside -- climbers
Speech -- vocabulary game
Other --  calendar skills
niknotes:  He's still telling me, "No school today.  Mick's not to go to school!" each morning, but he hasn't cried at all, and he willingly boards the bus. 
Date:  08/12/04 (Thurs.) -- Kept Mick home from school.  He vomited twice during the night, but he had seemed well (slight cold only, stuffy nose) before bedtime and seemed perfectly fine all day long.  I think he's having some anxiety over all the changes with the new school year and new school.
Date:  08/13/04 (Fri.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --   Skills pre-test, Edmark
Math -- [smiley] Wow!  Sorted bears by color.  Counted bears to 50!!!
Handwriting --  Morning sentence
Social Skills -- Show & Tell.  Cool Book!  Great job! [smiley]
Unit -- School Days -- Recess behavior discussion; story, booklet
Special Activity --  Made ice cream next door w/ Jack's class. [smiley]
Lunch -- Drank some choco. milk, all mashed potatoes & roll*
Outside -- [smiley]  Played w/ Ryan & held his hand all the way to the playground.
Speech -- Not today
Other --  calendar skills/songs & movement
Teacher Comments: *Minor tears for a minute or two after lunch but a very happy afternoon.
Date:  08/16/04 (Mon.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --   Beginning sounds; SRA Reading
Math -- Touch math worksheets
Handwriting --  Morning sentences
Social Skills -- Thinking before you do something.  Story/discussion
Unit -- Baby Animals
Special  Music  --  [smiley]  Super job!  No tears!!! [smiley]  Name song, drums - following beat.  Awesome!
Lunch -- a few bites of chicken sandwich, rice, milk
Outside -- [smiley]
Speech -- "What" question, "who" questions
Other --  Calendar skills, songs, movement
niknotes: breakfast - pop-tart, Ritz "circle" cracker, apple juice, vitamin;  new bus driver today; today Mick wore his surfing shark t-shirt that Grandma Dullaghan gave him at the Outer Banks (very cute).  
Date:  08/17/04 (Tues.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --   Initial consonants Bingo -- Super!
Math -- [smiley]  Touch Math -- Mick seems to do well with the touch math.
Handwriting --  morning sentence
Social Skills -- Following Directions; discussion/worksheet
Unit -- Animals -- Animal disguises video
Special  P.E.  --  Great job!
Lunch -- chick. sandwich, milk, didn't eat fruit
Outside -- [smiley]  climbers
Other --  We got to watch Thomas the Tank Engine Helps Out.  Calendar skills.
Teacher Comments: Mick had a busy day yesterday (speech 2 times) so not much free time.  We were hoping today he would have more chances to play with train. [smiley]  And I did see a train here today, but I'm not sure about the track?  Tonya & Mrs. Smith out today -- not sure where track is.  I might have a wooden track at home.  I am going to check.
niknotes:  breakfast - pop-tart, Ritz cracker, apple juice, 2 molecules of cheddar cheese
Date:  08/18/04 (Wed.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --   short "a" booklet
Math -- touch math, groupings
Media Center -- Choo Choo book
Social Skills -- Honesty & Responsibility
Unit -- Animals -- Farm Animals & how they grow; video & worksheet
Special  Art  --  1.  Explored & discussed the history of art (Greece)  2.  Designed an ancient vase (Greek style)
Lunch -- didn't eat much French Toast (brunch for lunch)
Outside -- [smiley]
Speech -- In classroom -- cooking activity: s'mores.  Yum!
Other --  Calendar skills
Teacher Comments: Mick does stop crying once in the classroom.  I don't think he had tears at all yesterday once here. [smiley]
niknotes:  Mick has been telling me each morning, "I can't ride the bus."  But the last two days he did not start crying once he sat down -- just a sad face, but still waved to me.
breakfast -- pop-tart, apple juice, 5 goldfish crackers
Date:  08/19/04 (Thurs.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --   Edmark
Math -- telling time video
Handwriting --  morning sentences
Social Skills -- Game Day -- Candyland, Chutes & Ladders
Unit -- Honesty
Special  P.E.  --  [smiley]  balance beam, bean bags, hula hoops
Lunch -- [smiley]  Mick ate all of his spaghetti & roll & milk
Outside -- climbers
Other --  Show & Tell tomorrow!
Teacher Comments: Great Day!
Date:  08/20/04 (Fri.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --   Edmark Reading, blends Br-, Language Master, beginning sounds
Math -- touch math
Handwriting --  morning sentence
Social Skills -- Show & Tell -- Good job showing book [smiley]
Unit -- Animals -- Jungle animals
Special  Music  --  Super job!  Drums & singing!
Lunch -- [smiley]  Ate pizza in record time!  Rice, choc. milk
Outside -- Lots of fun [smiley]
Other --  calendar skills/songs/movement
Teacher Comments: [excerpts from "Thompson Tidbits" class newsletter]
"Upcoming Events -- Curriculum nights"
"In the works:  Book Buddies; Computer lab times start next week"
"start the Edmark reading program ... continuing our work with SRA reading"
"begin spelling next week using the Sitton spelling"
"beginning our Touch Math program"
"Our cooking lessons the last two weeks have been a blast with the third through fifth grade class.  Last week we made Homemade Ice-cream week and this week will be Pizza!"
"We are also staring an Eagle of the week.  This person will have special duties for the week and can bring in pictures of themselves."
"Eagle of the Week -- Mick"
"Adaptive P.E. starts next week with Mr. Lambert!"
"We also have a new speech teacher this year Ms. Perry!"
niknotes:  Mick boarded the bus happily today, despite having awaken saying, "I'm not going to school today.  Just want to stay in bed."  Also, I have enthusiastically accepted the mantle of Room Parent for Mrs. Thompson's class.  In addition, I volunteered to be a yearbook photographer for the Special Needs classes as well as third grade.  I didn't realize it meant attending the PTA Executive Committee meetings monthly, but I think it's important that we get some good photos of the Special Needs classes and activities into the yearbook, and it's not as easy as it may seem, due to the concerns of parents and the need for specific permission (legal releases).  But with e-mail and a digital camera, and only five Special Needs classrooms at Magill (meaning probably less than fifty students), I hope to give the parents the option of selecting the specific photos to submit to the yearbook editor.  We want mostly to maintain the dignity of the students, but I don't think anonymity is something they will appreciate necessarily.  It's a fine line.  Ms. Hagey (Special Needs teacher who was one of Jack's parapros last year) said that I probably don't have as much concern over the unflattering photo concern (to put it benignly) because my boys are so photogenic.  But I definitely understand it, and I wouldn't want a photo of Major-meltdown-tantrum-boy in the yearbook, but I also think that should be a consideration with every single photo taken of anyone for any reason -- VETO POWER to the subject (or in the case of the students, to the subject and his/her parents), including the horribly unflattering photos (not even including mugshots) so often used by news media --- of people we KNOW have had flattering photos taken.  Ooh, I'm off on such a tangent, aren't I?
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