Morning work including calendar, weather and letters. Go over and read Level A books student already knows. Read a story and describe the story using pictures and words to label story. Work on a letter matching game - upper case and lower case. Review letter knowledge assessment - upper and lower case. Student is now able to recognize 15/26 letters and sounds.
Today Arianna and I reviewed the numbers 11-20. Then we practiced different ways to make 100. We used counters to count by 10 to 100. I was so very proud of her! This was a challenging lesson and she did wonderfully!
Today Arianna and I had fun with magnets! We explored the Batt School to see what was magnetic and what was not! It was a lot of fun and Arianna giggled when we were not successful in finding magnetic items and she cheered when we were!
Gracyn and I reviewed her new spelling words. I am now prepping her for the 1st grade. Today she had to write her spelling words 3 times each. Next we wrote about what she would do if she were president. First we brainstormed and used a word web. Then she selected her favorite thing. She chose "If I were president I would stay in my bed and watch TV!" In reading we read a level D reader "I can make 100 things". I was so over the moon! She read this book accurately and fluently! She did a book summary and selected the marshmallow page as her favorite part. We went to the computer and created a fancy dinner. We printed pictures of steak, pasta, mac and cheese, and of course a wedding cake. She labeled the pictures and we put them on a big plate.
Arianna and I worked on counting together. We made it fun by emptying her Valentine's box of candy. We then sorted the candy into groups, counted the amount of candy in each group and counted the total amount of candy as we put it away. We read Blues Clues The Shape Book together twice. She said she just "loves that book". We learned about squares, rectangles, triangles and circles. Then we went around her room and tried to find as many of those shapes as we could. Arianna wanted to keep reading so she picked three Disney Princess stories that we read together, A Dazzling Day, Hoppily Ever After and Make Believe Bride.
Today is our valentine's celebration at school! After enjoying a special donut I brought her we jumped into a fun candy heart science lesson. First Gracyn had to sort the hearts by their color. Then she had to add up the hearts to see which color had the most and least. Next we did a sink or float experiment with the candy hearts. Gracyn thought the hearts would surely sink…and she was right! We left the hearts in the water to see what would happen to the water by the end of the day. So far it looks like a rainbow! In reading we went to Raz Kids where Gracyn read a few old books and one new level D story. She was able to answer the comprehension questions with no error. In writing we went back to our candy hearts. We had a lot of fun reading the messages written on them and then writing them down.
Math lesson 12-2
Learning ways to think about numbers by adding ten more or one more. Use 100 chart to count up and down.
Complete enrichment worksheet with addition and work on adding two digit numbers using place value and by drawing groups of tens and ones.
Math Centers and games
Do a reteach lesson as a review for the chapter test. Take the Chapter 11 test on place value.
Read questions to the student and allow student to think of strategies to complete the answer.
Math centers -
Review Chapter 11 place value and using ten rods, one cubes and pictures to show the value of a two- digit number.
Use place value blocks to make numbers. Explain other ways to make numbers such as another way to make 45 is 3 tens and 15 ones.
