Today we began by Ben sharing with me his work from English. He is required to write a Poem and he wanted some help using a Simpson's episode as a theme. I was impressed with what he already had completed. I tried to help him, but I think he decided he'd rather work on it himself, as I was not much help (LOL sorry Ben, I'm a math girl!). We continued with our lesson on intercepts. We reviewed that on the x-axis the y values are always zero. And on the y-axis the x values are always zero. We discussed that when finding an intercept, we can cross out the opposite variable (or Ben likes to think of it as exploding into smitherines and eventually disappearing). Once we found the intercepts, Ben used them to plot the coordinates and then connect the dots to form a line. Ben is really picking up on this content!