Nicole TP#10 (child)

Today Jefferey and I continued to work on his list of target words from school. Before meeting up I wrote out 20 words, two times each on notecards. We started with half of the words layed out in rows on the table, as I set the rows up I asked  Jefferey to talk about each word with me and use it in a sentence. I then modeled for him the point of the game. This game is a vocabulary and memory/concentration activity.

The game starts by flipping over a card, the word must said, and then another flipped over to find its match. The first couple of rounds mere chance, until you start picking up words over and over leading to the use of deductive reasoning. Once a match was found the word is to be used in a sentence. The game continued on until all the matches were found. Once Jefferey mastered this we played again, after making all the matches we used the cards to put words together and make sentences. I switched out the other half of words for the next round, and in the last combined them all together. After each round we made sentences with the words together, on the last round I asked Jefferey to make two on his own. He did a fantastic job and I felt this helped reinforce the words learned for the day.

 Jefferey's reward for a job well done was reading time. Jefferey loves to read, so I picked out a fun colorful book with some great pictures. The book had two parts, it was a conversation between a mother and son racoon describing what to do on a rainy day. I read for the mother and helped Jefferey read for the young racoon.He thouroughly enjoyed his reward time, and so did I.