Johny - the first day

Wednesday. I was a bit afraid of what could have been coming that day. But I knew, I had to simplify instruction somehow. It feels like it is me who is learning. Not Johny.
So I wrote on a little slate 5 things:

1. Say "Hello"
2. Cards
3. Worksheet
4. Game
5. Rewards/Saying "Bye"

I got to room 4, they were just coming from recess, Mackenzie was walking him down, "He's all yours," she stated. So I told him "Johny, you are coming in with me now." He slipped his little Chinese hand in mine and walked with me anxiously. So rewarding already.
We entered the room and it all broke lose, just like a tsunami, Johny was violently raging through all my filing cabinets, shelves, cases, and boxes looking for any CDs with such an obsession that I had to raise my voice. Now needless to say, I heard Ms. Jenn yelling the other day at one of the students when he misbehaved, so I took the courage and said rigorously "NO", and pulled Johny away from my cabinet. I sat him down, pointed to the tablet and said, "Look, Johny, first we say hello!" And we did. I crossed it off. He took off again, trying to open one of my locked cabinets where he saw my Program CDs. I said no again. And I also said, "First, we do the cards, then I let you look in my cabinets." So he sat down, did the cards - the colors. I tried to make him pronounce them well. He did try hard enough. Now I had to keep the promise. I opened the cabinet, took the CDs out hoping so much he would not destroy them...I took the box out and Johny started to opening them one by one, looking at them carefully as if he was trying to figure out what they were. It looked like he was trying to find a movie DVD rather than a CD. These were all I had. No movies, just CDs.
He was looking at them with fascination, he was admiring them, he was gently putting them back. I was not afraid any more he would destroy them. 
I said, "Now Johny, we need to put them back, we need to do something else." And so he did, he helped me putting them away. But a second later he took off again. It looked so funny in my little room, me chasing him around my table, trying to stop him. Man, I was sweating!
I said again, "First we do worksheet, then I let you look here." And we did, and it worked out fine. We said finally bye, and I crossed out the last item on the slate.
Time for a reward. I thought smelly stickers would do, so I told him to hold his hand out, so I can put one on it, but boy was he upset! He did not like it on his had, and started getting into a meltdown. So I snatched it off his hand, and it all went back to normal. Phew....I must have burned about 2000kal in those 20 min.! I walked him back, he held my hand as if he was no different than all the other students we had passed in the hallway that day...Another piece of puzzles was found. It is matching.