Ayden was 15 minutes late today. He started by taking his 2x table test. He got a 100%. We went over 5x tables and he now has these flashcards to study. Ayden did not complete his homework assignment last night, so we went over more problems involving mental math today. We will continue to go over this material throughout the week. He appeared to become more confident doing mental math subtraction using the counting on strategy. We also went over using the compensation, and breaking apart numbers strategies to do mental math. The difficult part for him is that he does not know his basic addition and subtraction facts. I will be sending home more fact practice until these become second nature. Ayden continued his Fast ForWord program where he read passages and answered questions for comprehension. He also played a learning game where he matches rhyming words that have both different and/or the same endings, i.e strain/main, bait/fate. This activity helps him improve phonemic awareness. It was a pleasant day, as usual! I always look forward to working with Ayden.