Aiden worked on completing his test today. He worked diligently the entire period. When he completed it, he looked through all of his answers. Then we reviewed it together. He got a 100%! Way to go Aiden! After the test he asked if we could go through some of the problems that I didn't assign. We went through those and he got them correct as well. Super proud of him!

Christopher took his spelling test. We read The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 and discussed the book.

Kellan dictated a story for me to type for him.

Kellan did his spelling test. We finished reading about Jackie Robinson and discussed the book.

We continued researching Chef Robert W. Lee and looked for other black chefs. We discussed what they did that made them famous.

Richard took his spelling test and wrote sentences I dictated to him. With letter tiles, he practiced words with ci, ce, gi, ge. He read books with words he can read.

Kaitlin took her spelling test. She continued reading information and writing her paper on Lewis Hamilton.

Reid wrote the spelling words three times as required for school. The words are challenging this week; I asked Reid to syllabicate each word on his flashcards so that he can more easily recognize the syllables. Next, we completed a science homework packet about earthquakes, which required reading comprehension strategies such as referring to the text. When answering comprehension questions, I encouraged Reid to use the writing strategies that I taught last week, using different sentence types to make his writing more attractive to the reader. To conclude, we practiced his spelling words outside.

I looked through Reid's folder and assessed his work for the week. We went over his spelling words, defined them, and made flashcards. Turning to reading comprehension, Reid read a passage from Daily Reading Ready, "A Short Two Weeks." He read with reasonable fluency and answered the multiple-choice questions. I taught Reid the suffix -ly and how it "turns an adjective into an adverb." He brainstormed examples. Next, I taught Reid the term antonym and again brainstormed examples. To conclude, we went outside to practice his spelling words while playing basketball.

Andrew and I began a new chapter today. We started by drawing an quadrilateral and splitting it into 2 triangles. I asked Andrew what the sum of the angles in 1 triangle are, he answered 180 degrees. So then I asked him since the quadrilateral is comprised of 2 triangles, how many degrees do you think it has? We discussed that since 180+180=360 , the interior angle sum must also be 360. We tried it again with a pentagon. We saw that it could be cut into 3 triangles, each at 180 degrees so the interior sum must be 180(3)=540 degrees. Then I showed Andrew that there is a formula we can use to determine the interior sums, without having to cut them into triangles each time. We can use 180(n-2). We used it to answer the sum of the interior angles of a decagon (10 sides). We got 180(10-2)=180(8)=1440. Andrew seemed to pick up on this concept easily.