Jason completed the unit assessment on fluently adding within 100 and answered all questions correctly. The questions pertained to understanding the strategies for adding two-digit numbers involving breaking numbers apart using place value and joining tens and ones in either order and extending these strategies to adding more than two 2-digit numbers. Then, these strategies were applied to solve one- and two-step problems. Jason was encouraged to use his learned strategies and show his work throughout the assessment.
Jason read the passage "The First Thanksgiving". He wrote answers to the following questions: What is this passage mostly about? What food was eaten on the first Thanksgiving? Why were the pilgrims and Wampanoag thankful?
Jason completed his interactive calendar. He read and discussed his vocabulary words. He solved his daily sentence puzzle. He worked on several activities pertaining to spiders.
Experiment to Prove How Underwater Spiders Trap Air
Lesson Outline
Jason reviewed what he learned about underwater spiders, and performed an experiment to prove how spiders trap air in order to survive and thrive in an underwater home.