conversation about the past weekend and general matters.
Wrote sentences about our personalities
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
35
Lesson Comments
After some conversation practice, we worked with the vocabulary we studied and practiced last week, and Joshua formulated sentences in which he described his personality and gave examples.
We started out talking about the upcoming weekend and other general matters and we briefly described how we were feeling that day, using the emotion vocabulary from last week.
I gave Joshua a list of common character traits which we translated and added familiar words from the same word family for easier recall. I asked him to write a paragraph about his dominant character traits.
We started out talking about his current university options and preferences and about in the Northern US that have a larger German population.
We finished the lesson on emotions. Joshua wrote sentences about when he feels certain emotions, which allowed him to practice formulating dependent clauses that change the word order.
He showed confidence in his spoken and written expression.
Review the opening paragraph written yesterday. Decide if the paragraph sounds like it explains what will be told and if the topic sentence pulls it all together. Edit it for any run-on sentences and punctuation.
Based on the graphic organizer created about video games, sort the different ideas into three categories that will become the three body paragraphs (or two if only two). Talk about how a grabber makes the reader want to read it from the first sentence. Show examples of different types of grabber sentences and decide which style would be best for what the topic is. Craft a sentence that will be used next week.
Read the book "I Have a Dream" about Dr. King's famous speech. Take the part from the hymn and talk about what the words mean. Play a short video of the speech that includes the section about his children and the hymn. Have Libby recall anything she has learned from our talks about MLK.
Sight words, letter recognition, reading, writing practice
Lesson Outline
Review the sight words for the week and play a matching game for the sight words learned so far. Practice the short vowel sounds, first in order, and then out of order. Play the same rhythm game from Wednesday to help repetition of the sounds. Continue to practice the letters m, n, u, and h with both recognition and sounds. Use worksheet with short a to correctly sort the words. Read Tomorrow from Days with Frog and Toad two times together. The first time, listen and say any of the sight words recognized. The second time, we focus on the first two pages and find the short a words by listening to the words again. Write the short a CVC words we learned last week and this week from the sight wall.
Finish lesson about what types of grabber sentences would be good for beginning an informational piece about baseball. Using the plan for the writing from before, begin to create an introductory paragraph that starts broad and ends with the topic sentence.
PJ and I continue to work on our physical fitness goals.
Today, we were able to go outside and do our workout there.
We started with a jog on the perimeter of the field.
We came back and did a full body workout with dumbbells.
We finished with a cool down and a complete body stretch.
