In math today, we began with a Brain Pop Jr. learning video about “Elapsed Time”. Annie and Moby walked us through items such as looking at how long it takes to get somewhere, how long activities last, how long until something will start, and what time an activity will finish, as well as using a chart and a number line to calculate some of these times. We worked on Topic 15 in her Envision math curriculum by completing pages 55 – 56 which tasked her with practicing telling time, elapsed time, and determining the activity which takes the least amount of time. From her original textbook (page 473), we generated an afternoon schedule to practice elapsed time and planning in a realistic scenario. We determined that 1:30 would be end school time (Missouri time). Then at 2:30 she would go to basketball with her brothers. She would stay there for 30 minutes. She would then play Barbies for 15 minutes. At 3:15, she'd jump on the trampoline for 30 minutes. Then she'd play with Reed at 3:45. Gracyn completed a +2 addition drill in her workbook (pg. 14). She scored a 22/23 (96%) in 3 minutes and 52 seconds. We then wrote out and examined +2 equations with even numbers and then odd numbers to see the pattern of “counting by 2s” to solve +2 addition problems. Additionally, we practiced reading and writing number words (three, seven, four, one, nine, and six) on her “Graph a Word” activity sheet. In closing, as a work completion reward, we continued reading “Thumbelina” by Hans Christian Andersen. We read of how cold Thumbelina was in the harsh winter until she came upon a nice field mouse who gave her shelter. She nursed a sparrow back to health. She was sad to see the sparrow depart in the spring. We discussed higher level vocabulary words such as “tatters” and “notion”. We will read on next time to find out if poor Thumbelina must marry their neighbor, the well-off, but poor sighted, mole!