Oliver absent. Calendar, Today was Anna and Quinn's last day so we celebrated St. Patrick's day.
A leprechaun left a trail of real shamrocks for us to follow to find clues that would help us find his black pot, Inside the pot we found shamrock pencils, a bag of gold coins, gold nugget candy, shamrock cookies, and magical dust with a recipe for magical leprechaun pudding, We used the pencils to practice printing. Then everyone followed the recipe to make their individual bowls of leprechaun pudding. Discussed what chemical reaction made it turn green and why stirring it helped it thicken. Made leprechaun necklaces. Dressed up like leprechauns and delivered goodies to the other students. Counted groups of 10-50 gold coins. Added groups of coins to make fifty. Divided 50 coins into two piles to find half of fifty and see if 50 is odd or even. Glued the real shamrocks on poster board to create bookmarks and decorated and laminated them. Played St.Patrick's Day matching games, word search, and counting games on kids heart.com Read them a book about different types of leprechauns,

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Oliver out - Zoe visiting. Calendar, Counting and forming groups of 40-45 objects -also using addition to enlarge the groups. Stephen: introduced sound of letter 'Gg'- Goats in the Garden worksheet. Anna/Quinn- medial 'a', 'o','i' words worksheet, listening bingo(listen for medial sound in word). Finally, everyone is beginning to utilize the materials in our art center. Quinn started it today during his free time when he decided to help Stephen make a heart for his mom. Before long they were making paper bridges for their cars and then the girls started making a woods for the stuffed animals to live in -there were art supplies and projects all over the floors and tables in both rooms. They spent an entire hour creating...at last! TIME FOR KIDS cool inventions newsletter and worksheet. Shihan and I had a little medal reward ceremony for them after lunch.

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Each Student will lead the warmup and encouage the others to do well. They each will be scored on their exercises and basics out of 10 points.

Everyone is competing to see who is going to be the champion of the term at the Batt School. Points will be awarded for Basics and then a quizz and exercises and discipline.

Oliver and Stephen absent. Calendar, spelling on iPads, reviewed beginning, middle and end of stories. Illustrated and wrote stories, Listening center - 'Did You Ever See a Lassie' story and comprehension worksheet. Prepared our cat chia pet to soak overnight. Read article on Google about a Mexican artisan that makes Chia Pet pottery. Review of all reading words with flashcards and two worksheets. Played Bingo with numbers 40-50. Practiced printing names.

Oliver absent. Calendar, how many more days until St. Patrick's Day, How many more days from St. Patrick's Day until school vacation, add days together to see how many days until vacation, if Oliver leaves ten days early, how many days left? If Anna and Quinn leave two days early, how many days left? Bingo - 30-45 - worksheet 30-45. Anna/Quinn - medial i sentence strips - storybook - Pit Pat the Dog. Stephen - b, o, g worksheets. Discussed the beginning, middle and end of stories -used March dress-up box to create short stories with beginning, middle, end. Introduced two new puzzles (without lines) Anna did very well - both boys struggled, however Stephen stuck to it and was able to complete one on his own.

Calendar, Leprechaun poem and song, Bingo 30-40, counting worksheet -35-40. Quinn- adding groups of toy cars. Showed them how to use NOTES on their iPads to type spelling words. Anna/Quinn letter 'i' reading lists and worksheet. Stephen/Oliver -b worksheet. Using world map, located where each of them are going on their imaginary trip for Spanish Class. Determined which were closest and farthest to where we live - which is farthest north,, south, east, west. Discussed what transportation you could use to get to each place. Looked each place up on Google Maps. Looking at aerial view, which have nearby water, mountains, etc. Dancing - March of the leprechauns.

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