We played a round of Phonics Dice to practice reading consonant-vowel-consonant words. All three children benefited from practicing turn-taking and sportsmanship. I read a chapter from Dog Man: Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey. We discussed the concepts of title, author, and main characters.

Today's lesson focused on citizens. We discussed the characteristics that make an upstanding citizen within our school, community, and country. Then, we reviewed the vocabulary words associated with the lesson and completed a vocabulary flip page, which was glued into the social studies journal.

The three young artists so enjoyed drawing food for their culinary journals that they asked to paint a real still life with fruit. I set up a pineapple, two apples, two pears, and three oranges to paint. I gave them three primary colors in paint: red, yellow, and blue to create their compositions. They did not want to use paints; they wanted to use oil pastels instead. With the paint bottles as visual aids, we quickly did a little color theory by reviewing how to make orange, green, and purple.

Each artist took a turn arranging the fruit. Libby went to the kitchen with Miss Judie to select a bowl. Once the fruit was arranged, each artist created her/his own still life in oil pastels on paper. We hung each one on the Brag Wall. They worked well and were very successful!

The children performed physical exercises outside on the playground.

The teacher introduced the days of the week in Spanish. The teacher said them aloud, and the students repeated after her. She then wrote the days on the whiteboard in the correct order so the students could recognize and practice sequencing them. Afterwards, the students completed a hands-on worksheet where they cut, glued, and arranged the days of the week in the correct order using scissors, glue, and a pencil.

Each student designed a cover for her/his recipe notebook for culinary arts. The students used oil pastels on paper. They worked hard and were focused on drawing food. In fact, they enjoyed drawing food so much, they want to draw a still life of fruit.

Today, we started with stretching to avoid injuries. Remington climbed over the four tires. He didn't want to stay outside because of the humidity, so we went inside. We spent the remainder of the lesson playing Electronic Monopoly. Remington was able to navigate through using a debit card, purchase properties, make decisions about purchasing houses and hotels, and follow the rules. Monopoly is definitely a lifetime sport that he can play for years to come.

We found the rain gauge with 450 mL of water after last night's rain. We discussed why it had different amounts of water each day. We made predictions about how much water will be in the rain gauge after the three-day weekend.

Remington and I started with stretching to avoid injuries. Then, we went on a spider web scavenger hunt. This was a Science connection for him. He needs to understand that spiders' webs are good things and nothing to be afraid of. We went around the playground searching for webs and cleaning them out. Lastly, Remington punched the bag above his head, at his waist, and below his waist.

First, we checked the rain gauge to see if we got any rain over the last 24 hours. It was empty. After that, Remington and I discussed different kinds of weather. Then, we explored a "Dress for the Weather" Nearpod lesson. He took a virtual field trip to a park where children were flying kites. Next, he had to help a cartoon dog and cat dress for the season. He had a lot of fun with this section. Lastly, he completed a quiz and "Time to Climb" to determine his comprehension.