Richard took his spelling test and wrote sentences I dictated to him. He practiced words ending with s, sh, ch and adding es suffix. We reviewed other sounds he has done. He read books with words he can read.
Today Matthew and I discussed properties of logarithms. Matthew took notes on the board as I showed him the power rule, the product rule, and the quotient rule for logarithms. I showed Matthew a few examples and then he practiced on his own. He got practice expanding logarithms and condensing them. These problems are like a puzzle piece. It requires a little creativity to get to where you want to go. With more practcie Matthew will become more fluent with the process.
Today Aiden and I completed our review of old material. We just went through and organized his notes, he made sure everything was in order, and he felt ready to continue moving on. We will now just focus on the new material. I will give Aiden warm ups of old material from time to time, so he can have confidence in that he has understood and retained the material he has previously learned.
Today we worked on word problems with distributive property. Aiden read the word problems and then practiced setting up the equations to model the scenario. We recalled how to use the distributive property to solve. Aiden worked on a problem like 10(x+3.5)=75. He practiced solving it two ways. His first approach started by dividing both sides by 10. His second approach distributed the 10 first. After completing both approaches, Aiden decided that he liked to divide by 10 on both sides first because it was one less step. I agreed. Aiden is getting better at correcting his notations. He used to write "x3" for three times x and now he is catching himself and writing 3x. Also, instead of using the "old" division sign, he is remembering to divide by writing it as a fraction.
Today Carson and I worked on a mock Topic 6 Exam. We pulled it from our online Savvas account. The exam covered transformations, parallel lines/angles, and Triangle Sums and Simliarity. This proved to be a good review for Carson. One problem Carson had he needed to recall how to graph horizontal and vertical lines. Another Carson had to remember how to relate the angles created when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. Carson made a few insignificant errors, but we were able to resolve them together and he understood his mistakes. He will complete the Review next class.
