Emilia gained some extra math practice using a card game to reinforce and differentiate between odd and even numbers and build and consolidate both addition and subtraction skills. She was introduced to pictograms and prompted to answer questions using math vocabulary like most, least in the questions. She was asked to circle groups of ten and then count and write the answer to help build her grouping abilities. She worked on problems involving sets and answering questions such as "how many more rabbits are there in set B than in set A?" These serve to further reinforce her grouping skills. Emilia also worked on penmanship and strengthening her fine-motor skills by tracing numbers and writing on lines. She worked on word problems to consolidate her understanding of mathematic concepts of fewer than , greater then, and introduced to symbols used to represent these concepts. We are beginning place value and measurement concepts as well. Emilia followed all directives well and responded well to suggestions and strategies offered.
Emilia completed her calendar talk and calendar writing, read her sight words, worked on her phonics activities, put together her daily sentences puzzle, wrote a story, and read, discussed, and answered questions pertaining to a reading comprehension story.
Emilia completed her calendar talk and calendar writing, worked on her phonics activities, read her sight words, put together her daily sentence puzzle, wrote a story, and read, discussed and answered questions pertaining to a story.
Computational skills/Increase understanding and use of academic vocabulary
Lesson Outline
Emelia and i continued to address foundational number sense and basic operations. I presented Emelia with various problems to facilitate her familiarity and performing addition and subtraction, including word problems. I introduced fun activities and manipulatives (e.g., 10 blocks) to introduce a real-world experience to her number sense and engagement. She also was tasked with comparing numbers to help refine her ability to determine which of two numbers is greater, less than, or equal to. She was also introduced to a bar graph and answered questions requiring her to use both addition and subtraction processes to figure out the answers. Emelia remains an active and engaged participant in activities and work assigned to her, and she and is responsive to interventions and to strategies suggested to broaden her scope and understanding of number analysis. She enjoyed working with Magna Tiles to create 3 dimensional shapes and structures. She finished our session skip counting by twos, fives and tens to 100.
Computation/addition and subtraction/word problems
Lesson Outline
Emilia was in good spirits despite having been roused from a nap in the car. She was refreshed and immediately produced an assignment we did not get to finish yesterday in class, demonstrating responsible behaviors and excellent recall. Emlia got right to work on the exercise which required her to add and shade in colors that were ascribed to the addition problems. She completed the 16 on the assignment and worked independent of prompts. I introduced her to a number line as an alternative strategy to addition. We then moved onto word problems which introduced the concepts of more and less, and Emilia competed an activity requiring her to draw one more or one less than objects shown on paper. She worked on additional math exercises involving addition and subtraction problems, and Emilia was permitted to choose a sparkly sticker for sustaining attention and completing assigned work. During break, she was permitted to assemble a marble run with her sister, which she clearly thoroughly enjoyed. On more than one occasion, Emilia stated that she loves coming to the Batt School. She gave me a warm hug upon arrival and dismissal.
Calendar Talk Calendar Writing Phonics Sentence Puzzle Reading Comprehension Sight Words Short Vowels
Lesson Outline
Emilia completed her calendar talk and calendar writing, wrote her months, worked on her phonics activities, put together her sentence puzzle, read her sight words, and read, discussed, and answered questions pertaining to her reading comprehension story.
I got to know Emilia this morning, our first session together. She enthusiastically shared her summer plans, interests, family, travel, and her favorite colors, foods, and pets. We then got to work on a math skills assessment to gauge a good starting point to begin lessons with Emilia. Emilia then worked on a calendar skill activity , following directions well and demonstrating very good recall. when subsequently queried on the month, date and year. She was then tasked with answering questions about numbers and counting by two's. Emilia is right-handed and holds a pencil well. She filled in simple addition problems and asked to work on more problems, tackling adding two-digit to one-digit numbers. We used manipulatives to facilitate performance but Emilia subsequently was able to compute the problems in her head. When filling our answers on an activity sheet of problems, Emilia got the answers all correct. She reversed the ones and tens on two of the double digit numbers; however when asked to look over her answer, she self-corrected both without requiring additional prompts or assistance. Emilia used scissors as a component of another activity, holding them correctly and exercising good manual dexterity skills. Emilia enjoyed going outside for her break between classes and playing on the equipment with her sister. She enjoyed playing an interactive academic computer game for a few minutes at the end of the day which reinforced several of the the skills practiced today.
Sight Words Reading Assessment Short a Words Phonics Reading Comprehension Story Writing
Lesson Outline
Emilia read her sight words, took a reading assessment test, practiced her short a words, completed her phonics activities, read and discussed a story, "Nat and Sam," and wrote a story using her short a words.
