WN

Week of March 9-13:

WN is still having some difficulty returning homework. He was overly silly on Thursday and Friday. No backpack Friday. He had to be redirected multiple times and still made silly faces and noises. --- Betsy

15 March 09: Kathleen will have some comments on Walter and his run in with a 7th grade student recently. Looks like it is patch up and a win-win created. SJH

16 March 09: WN has so much trouble with having to use the bathroom all the time. Is this that way in all classes? I generally don't allow him to go until after class but often he demands it as an emergency and it there for long periods of time. He also calls out impulsively contnually. Isabel

18 March 09: Yes, Isabel, WN 's behavior re: the bathroom is identical in my room - it's always an emergeny and the time is exteneded beyond normal needs. Academically, WN did not demonstrate competency on his SS exam. HIs aunt was informed.. He will have to do some extra work to be able to dem. comp; Interestingly, he was scheduled to have a non-emergency dental procedure on the DAY OF his Latin and SS exams (tooth extraction). Of course, this did not help his performance.--Angie

24 March 09: WN had many outburts in class today. He constantly was interrupting students who were trying to present articles they brought in to share with the class (their assignment). He did not have his as he was out yesterday. To his credit, he did finally stop talking about an off-topic subject when he realized that his classmates were getting annoyed with him. Isabel

3/25: WN had a really rough last 2 weeks. He had to retake 3 exams. His SS one was, well, just a train wreck. I'll let Angie comment on that. He is having an extremely difficult time focusing in class and nothing is working. He is VERY stressed out and frustrated himself. I am going to request another conference next week. I have serious concerns about him functioning successfully next year. Does anyone else? I am going to invite Jan to the conference to help us further problem solve. --Betsy

Week ending April 3 - WN continues to blurt out and get up frequently during class, most often for the emergency "bathroom" visit he seems to experience during several of his classes. He has great difficulty staying on task unless I am monitoring him constantly...As Jan has seen in her classroom visits, this makes small group work difficult for WN and the others as he continually seeks attention/help/something (?) from me. He did break down when I worked with him after school on his writing, saying how his whole life stinks....Shana hit the nail on the head in our last conference when she described WN as not being able to compartmentalize things..making all of his everyday life issues bleed into every moment of the day. He does not appear resilient when it comes to functioning on his own right now...everything (even the simplest of tasks) is magnified into a struggle beyond reasonable proportions. - ANGIE