Wanna Be in Special Ed??

Today I went to pick up one of my first graders. One of the other little boys asked, "When do you get to take me to your class?" I politely said, "Not today honey." I had to chuckle. I don't think he knows why the kids come to my class.

This afternoon my teacher wanted to work with one of the other first graders from my group, so I worked with her 3rd grader. I had never worked with this student before. She was working on a grammar test. She had to copy the sentences out of the book and write them each on their paper. Then she had to underline the subject once and underline the predicate twice. My student had a very hard time concentrating just to write down the sentences. Plus her handwriting was very big. Her fine motor was a little off because every time she would underline something it would interfere with the other lines. I asked the aid if I could write the sentences (at least) for her and then she could do the underlining. I thought this would be a good modification because she wasn't getting graded on her cursive handwriting or sentence structure. The aid didn't think I was supposed to. When the student got done with her paper I could hardly read it. I wish I could have helped her out more.

(Observation today during 1st grade reading remediation)