Andy _TP#4

I met with PJ on monday night and we read from the Florida Reading book that we had read from our last session. This time we read two stories the first was Mulan, the old Chinese tale about a girl who goes to war in her father's place, and the other story was called Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride, the female equivalent to Paul Revere. At the end of each story we had some comprehension question that I asked PJ and he answered them as best he could, I was having to discus some ideas/points from the stories with PJ so he could understand what the questions were really asking. One question asked for us to compare the two stories and immediately I thought of the fact that both stories main character's were women, but it took a couple hints for PJ to realize this.
The next exercise we worked on was with a picture dictionary and Ms. Kim had informed me that PJ really liked this book, but was more familiar with the words/images in Korean than English, so I was going to ask him to identify the items in English. This was my first time seeing and working with a picture dictionary so I was optimistic but, it proved to be very challenging. We were looking at pictures of an airport setting that had numbers next to specific things to identify. I covered up all the answers and away we went, trying to call these items by their correct names. PJ had seen all of these things before because he has flown before, but the book referred to these things by certain names so getting them right, was kind of hard. A good example was the man at the "Ticket Counter" holding the item we all use to put our clothes in while we are traveling. PJ called it a "bag" and normally that's an acceptable answer but the book called it a "suitcase" so I felt the need to try and get him to come up with that term so we discussed it until I eventually had to just tell him "suitcase". Another hard term that I could barely remember was the "Traffic Control Tower", not exactly something I would expect a child to know the exact terminology of. I could tell this wasn't going so well when PJ, who had said "I like this book" when I first pulled it out, was now saying "this is confusing me."
It was at the end of the session when I noticed PJ had a LEGO airplane and control tower sitting on his bookshelf, something that would have been very useful earlier in the lesson, nevertheless I pulled it down and we had a nice little chat about it while he showed it off to me, a good way to wrap up our time.