Today Gwendolyn was not here today because she was in Orlando.

Today Gwendolyn continued working in her creative writing journal on a piece called "All About Me". She reviewed root words for spelling including- flec, pel, and ject. She also continued working on her Sadlier Vocabulary unit 11.

Today Gwendolyn began our session with a brief spelling review of her current prefix list. She then went on to complete a word association activity in her vocabulary book. When she was finished, she wrote a creative writing piece in her journal.

Gwendolyn and I continued to learn about the Cold War. Gwendolyn understands the concept of containment and the Truman Doctrine. We discussed what a communist government is and how the two World superpowers competed during the Cold War, the arms race and the space race. We read about the Cuban Missile Crisis. We looked to several illustrations I have saved on Pinterest - the Cold War timeline, United Nations, and American Wars. We also discussed "oppression" and reasons behind our entry into the Korean War. We read together a Newsela article about Korea today and the nuclear weapons. We also looked to key terms on BrainPop "FYI The Cold War". We looked to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel. Finally, we looked to violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, while reding about Korea, to understand United Nations sanctions.

Planned for Mathematics

Today we continued talking about professions and jobs. We connected which tools each worker needs to perform his/her job to the corresponding profession. Also, we read a comic on " what I would like to be when I grow up", and Gwendolyn drew a picture of herself telling what she would like to be when she grows up. In addition, we wrote a short paragraph introducing people we know and telling about their job and profession.

Lesson 3 – What body parts enable movement, support, respiration, and circulation? - We learned that the bones support and protect the body and store minerals. We learned that the ribs and skull bones protect internal organs. Next we learned that bones attached to muscles help move the body. Then we learned that bones have a hard outer layer that contains calcium and inside is a spongy layer where blood cells are made.

We practiced 3 by 3 digit multiplication.

15-3 Inequalities and the Number Line
We learned that reading and interpreting graphs is very important. Then we focused on reading and interpreting graphs of inequalities on number lines. Then we learned that inequalities come from problems that ask for something that is “at least as large as” (greater than or equal to), “larger than” (>), “no larger than“ (less than or equal to), or “less than” (<) another quantity.

Today Gwendolyn set-up the Field Hockey set,sticks and goal using tools. She then practiced dribbling the ball and shooting. She practiced in the goal stopping the ball. She showed off all her skills and talked about her weekend and softball game.