Thomas TS #2

I met with Astin Kim, his mom Boram Kang, and Astin’s grandparents (who I mistook as his parents) for the first time. Before meeting with them, I checked out some Dr. Seuss books from the Goldstein library. I wasn’t too sure of his English level but I felt that Dr. Seuss books would be appropriate since this is what I used to read when I was his age. We read The Cat in the Hat today. Although he hadn’t read it before he had seen a copy with French as well in the library at his school (which I also saw when I was at Goldstein). I was impressed by his reading skills and there were only a few problems such as him mispronouncing “saw” and arbitrarily replacing words in the story. He was fairly cooperative, although there were points where he didn’t want to read a page because he had just read the one before or he ended up skipping lines. I had to regularly compromise with him by reading the page after or splitting the page in order to get him to read, but I think I might need another solution. Thankfully he was really talkative so it was easy to make some small talk and crack some jokes with him and he even gave me a hug after the session (my 5-year old niece would never do that). Oh, and Demery, I didn’t see his ferret nor did he make any mention of it. I guess it might have been upstairs sleeping or something.