Ben was absent for class. The class time was used to prepare for upcoming events.

JPaul was absent for class. THe class time was used to prepare for upcoming events.

Christopher wrote sentences for his spelling words. He typed more of his script.

Kellan dictated a story for me to type for him.

Kellan wrote sentences for his spelling words. He continued to work on his cootie catcher with literary elements.

I read Hoot to Richard, and we discussed it.

Richard used Silly Putty and paint pens to practice his spelling words and words with dis, ex, and in prefixes. He read books with words he can read.

Kaitlin was absent today.

Today Joshua continued the lesson we began yesterday on graphing polar functions. We use the radius and angle measure to then plot points and we see the graph it creates looks like a rose with petals. It's very neat! Today we discussed how the cosine function produces roses that start on the x-axis, and the sine function produces roses that start above the x-axis. We studied how the graphs can produce lines, circles, or roses with even/odd numbered petals. Joshua practiced graphing the functions given the equations. Then he practiced writing the equations given the graphs.

Today we finished the last section in Chapter 5 - solving multi-step inequalities. Aiden did an excellent job with this content today. Aiden was asked to set up and solve inequalities like "Three times the difference of Federico’s age and 4, increased by 7, is greater than 37. What are possible values of Federico’s age?" I reminded Aiden that difference implies subtraction. After that he easily set up the inequality 3(f-4)+7>37. Aiden used the distributive property, combined like terms and solved for f. Later, we reviewed a problem that involved dividing by a negative number and Aiden remembered on his own to flip the inequality symbol. This chapter is one of Aiden's strongest so far.