In Math today, we practiced writing the date on Gracyn’s paper and discussed what each number represented. We will continue to do this daily. We completed the last half of a Fact Families worksheet in which the three numbers were presented in a triangle format. Gracyn did a terrific job and worked independently through solving all four problems.
Gracyn completed the Topic 17 test and reteach page for her unit assessment. She did very well on her assessment, scoring a 95%. This assessment covered related addition and subtraction facts, using parts and a whole to write the fact family, using addition to help with subtraction, and learning subtraction facts by using addition facts that match. Gracyn completed a +1 times drill (workbook page 12) in which she scored 50/50 in 3 minutes, 40 seconds. She did a great job! We watched a Brain Pop Jr. video regarding "Time to the Hour". This showed us how to read the clock, how to write time, how to read digital time, and that we have the same time occurring twice a day (a.m. and p.m.). Gracyn had an easy time with the follow up "easy quiz"! We completed Puzzle One in Gracyn's new "Sudoku for Kids" book. I explained how to complete this 4 x 4 puzzle in which each square, row, and column can have each number only one time. Gracyn seemed to be grasping the concept when several numbers were in place. This is a great activity for developing higher level thinking skills including concentration, logic, and deduction. We continued working on the “Graph a Word” activity using the written number words. For the spelling sentence, Gracyn wrote “I have seven dolls”. In closing, we read the first half of a fun storybook entitled, "If You Were a Minus Sign" by Trisha Speed Shaskan. The book utilized characters in a story format to explain a bit more about subtraction. For example, it showed how the minus sign would be used in place of the words "take away". We also saw how problems can be written vertically or horizontally. We read about how a minus sign helps show the “difference” in a subtraction problem. We also learned that a minus sign helps subtract small numbers or big numbers, and finally, that it if we were a minus sign, we could help solve story problems.