Puzzles

I came prepared today with more things to dictate to Geradro and have him write them down. However, he came with a new workbook which we used for the entire session. The first part we worked on was a list of scrabbled letters pertaining to a category, which was restaurant words in our case, and the words were scrabbled in one column and described in Spanish in the next. He would describe the Spanish word to me, as I do not speak Spanish, and them I could better help him understand how to unscramble the word, though I am excellent at scrambles, so I was able to get most of them before he said what the Spanish word meant. After a few of those puzzles with other categories, we moved on to traffic and building terms which were located within a crossword. Again, the words were described in Spanish and the English equivalent was located in the crossword, though some were pictures illustrating a word as well. When he was unsure of what word the Spanish word translated into, as they were very specific and there were many choices, I would suggest the right word and he would find it in the puzzle. I liked this activity because it made him think how to spell it and then find it and circle all of the letters in the words, which I sometimes had to tell him to include an extra s or e onto a word. Overall, I think this was a great session that passed quickly and I think it was refreshing because it made learning and practicing words like a game and more enjoyable. When we left the library, I reminded him that we would meet next Monday, not Wednesday like usual, and he assured me that he would not forget.