12/03/2026
The thought of extra work straight after school is difficult for many students so I always make sure tasks are suited to individuals.
Student 1 today doesn't like to spend too much time sitting so our first reading task involved pre-reading of some of the decodable words in the next book of the series he is reading here at Aspire. Not only did he read them whilst standing but he had to act them out giving some great movement as well as ensuring he understood the vocabulary.
He was then ready to tackle the book. As I do with several students, he threw a dice to show how many sentences he would read before I would take my turn. However this lad decided that the number thrown '1' would be the number of books he would read. He then proceeded to read the entire book, applying the knowledge of the words he had already seen. Wow, he was so confident!
After this followed some sentence creation activity - using a voice memo app to support his memory.
We also worked on the floor labelling fractions and creating our own sets and finished with a card game: spotting numbers that add up to 10 to help making mental calculation much easier.
Time flew by!