We continued work on Topic 15 by completing pages 473-478 in her large Envision workbook. She did a great job reading the schedule to see what times events and activities took place. She had a little difficulty with determining how long events took in terms of time; however, she estimates how long activities should take (such as putting on a jacket), well. We reviewed time to the hour and half hour in various analog and digital presentations. We looked into Topic 16, “Addition Facts to 18”
by completing pages 481-484 in her large Envision text. This lesson was on "Doubles". We talked about when adding the same two numbers together, it is a “doubles fact”. We practiced this throughout various equations. We then solved additional equations and circled if they were “doubles facts”. We also discussed even numbers and how they can be split into two halves without any leftover. We discussed practical scenarios with family members, etc. We read a fun book entitled “If You Were an Even Number” by Marcie Aboff. This book showed various ways even numbers occur. We saw that even numbers end with 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8. We found even numbers throughout the book and even applied this concept to finding even numbers in problems we solved in the math work for today. Gracyn showed me her dolls and we found even numbers that applied to them (two arms, two sleeves, two shoulders, ten toes, etc.). She completed a practice page in her drill workbook (page 15), to work on + 2 facts. Additionally, we wrote some more number words on her “Graph a Word” dice roll number word writing paper. In closing, we finished reading “Thumbelina” by Hans Christian Andersen.
We were happy to see Thumbelina did not have to marry the mole as she was rescued by her friend the swallow. We made predictions throughout our reading and discussed higher level vocabulary words such as "sorrow”.