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Daily Report Sheet       Name: Mick Dullaghan  
Date: 09/20/04 (Mon.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --  Question Marks
Math -- Patterning
Handwriting --  morning sentences
Social Skills --  Stranger Danger
Unit -- Apples -- Johnny Appleseed story, began project
Special  P.E. *[see note under Teacher Comments] --  Sit ups, ran around gym 2 times, running & hopping, hula hoop obstacle course.
Lunch -- pizza slice (whole thing), some milk; did not want banana or broccoli
Outside -- climbers
Speech -- 12:30 - 1:00 small group
Other --  Calendar
Teacher Comments:  * Lynn & I have both noticed that Mick is very coordinated & seems to be pretty athletic (especially compared to a lot of kids in his mainstream class).  He also follows directions well at P.E. time. [smiley]
niknotes: I can't tell you how happy I am to hear that!  I have tears in my eyes -- not kidding.  That is completely wonderful to hear!  Thank You!  Maybe we should go ahead & try him at karate.  He always wants to go w/ Jack to "dance" while we watch the karate class.  Maybe he's destined for musical theater.  Not sure how enthusiastic Sean would be at the thought. I'm sure he'd be supportive.
After school today, Mick asked for the can opener so he could open a can of soup (which actually had a pull tab -- Jack's chicken noodle soup), but I let him open a can of tuna, and he needed very little help from me! 

Date: 09/21/04 (Tues.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --  sequencing -- beginning, middle, & end
Math -- patterning -- w/ cubes -- AB, ABB, ABC
Handwriting --  morning sentences
Computer Lab
Unit -- continued apple project
Special  Music  --  Name game, bear hunt; learned about music conductors
Lunch -- Ate lots of carbs!  All of his nuggets & roll, milk, most of mac & cheese.  Did not want cookie.
Outside -- Climbers
Speech -- not today
Other --  Calendar
Teacher Comments: Mick would probably love karate!
niknotes:  American Kenpo Karate has a Junior Tigers program for younger kids, too!  Once we figure out the tuition obstacle, we'll have to let him try it.  It's the class Robert (Mick's classmate who was Jack's classmate last year) is in.  Nice for Mick to have a friend there.
Re: Music -- Bear Hunt was Mick's favorite story in pre-K.  He still recites passages!
Re: Lunch -- That's a Mick lunch, for sure!  He's particular about cookies, though.  He does love Oreos.

Date: 09/22/04 (Wed.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --  Question mark practice, Earobics
Math -- "Colorful Bead" worksheet; patterning  [niknote:  Mick had trouble with the worksheet but continued the patterns perfectly when using actual beads, Mrs. Smith wrote on the worksheet.]
Handwriting --  morning sentences
Social Skills --  Stranger Danger
Unit -- Apple project
Special  P.E.  --  Hula hoop, hop scotch, koosh ball toss
Lunch -- Dined w/ Mom!  [niknote:  I was at the school to photograph third graders (candid) for the yearbook.  Mick ate everything but the plum -- fish nuggets, fries, ketchup, & chocolate milk.]
Outside -- Climbers w/ Ryan
Speech -- Group 12:30 - 1:00; small group 2 - 2:30
Other --  Calendar
niknotes: Mick had a practice answer sheet in his folder today, practice for bubbling in the multiple choice bubbles for the standardized tests.  I don't know if the sheet was meant to be given in a different month, because one of the questions was "this month's holiday" and Labor Day was not a choice.  I had to ask when Earth Day is, though.  I think it's in the spring, but that was the only one I didn't know.

Date: 09/23/04 (Thurs.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --  Edmark, vowels
Math -- testing at this time
Handwriting --  morning sentence
Social Skills --  Strangers
Unit -- peeled apples for cooking tomorrow / story
Special    --  not today
Lunch -- Tacos (ate shell); all choco milk, some rice (I think)
Outside --climbers
Speech -- not today
Other --  Calendar
Teacher Comments:  Earth Day is April 22.  We also had to look it up.
niknotes:  I was surprised to learn he ate so little lunch, because he didn't want much dinner either, but I had forgotten that although he didn't get his regular after school snack because I snatched the boys from the bus and shoved them straight into the car for errands, he did actually eat lots of Oreos in the car on the way home from Wal-Mart.  Very nutritious, I know.

Date: 09/24/04 (Fri.)
Classroom Activity -- Participation/Behavior
Language Arts --  rhyming words
Math -- # Bingo
Handwriting -- morning sentences 
Social Skills --  Cutie doggie for Show/Tell
Unit -- Cooking -- made applesauce, apple drinks
Special  P.E.  --  Free Friday - different fun stations -- Awesome [smiley]
Lunch -- shrimp poppers, roll, peaches, rice, milk.  (only ate rice & roll)
Outside -- Climbers
Speech -- not today
Other --  Calendar
niknotes:  Mick took his stuffed Gromit for Show & Tell.  I wonder how much detail he gave about him, or if he only told his name. 
Also, speaking of Calendar, not that we were exactly, I WISH Mick had even the faintest concept of months following each other because he has been driving us crazy asking to "go Christmas tree and ride the train."  We keep telling him it's closed until December, but he seems to think that we can just stop by some place called December first, and then go ride the train at the Christmas tree (farm).  He asks many times daily.
 
Speech News
for the week ending 09/20/04
 
This week, Mick worked on:
Identifying/expressing vocabulary:  a. pronouns, b. adjectives, c. home/school words, d. action words, e. prepositions
Answering wh- questions (who) and yes-no questions
Following 2-step directions
 
Group lesson:  There was no group lesson this week due to a meeting I had to attend.  We will resume cooking next week!
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