Today Maya began a new set of flashcards to help her learn the 9X tables. She has learned a different strategies to help her solve these facts until they become rote. She had additional practice with the 9X tables through playing a hand held computer game. Maya should continue to study these facts at school and at home. Additionally, Maya should continue to study her other 0,1,2,3 and 5, and 10X facts, as not to forget them. Maya had a double dose of mathematics, since the internet was down during her Fast ForWord time. We practiced making change using the bar diagram strategy. In Lesson 2-2, Maya learned how to use a 100 chart to add two-digit numbers and develop mental math strategies. This method will build Maya's previous place-value knowledge. Helping Maya think about numbers in different ways is important for later mental math lessons in which she will beak apart numbers to add and subtract. In Maya's V/V program she did a picture to picture activity and a word imaging picture. She is doing a great job and using more descriptive words to verbalize what she sees. The goal is to master these steps and then overlap into the sentence by sentence step of V/V. She described a picture of two puppies playing with a ball and a picture of a whale, which she did not have right in front of her.