Jackson watched a short video to help him navigate the stock market site. We read aloud part of an article about the stock market crash of 1929. Then Jackson checked his account balance and his portfolio. He conducted research on some companies and then purchased stocks based on his research findings.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Jackson is gaining more awareness and confidence related to the stock market game. He is becoming more familiar with terminology and visual representations that help him understand how his stocks are performing.
In this lesson, Jackson watched an Answers in Genesis video titled After Its Kind. This topic discussed natural selection and evolution using observational science.
Jackson and I looked up amateur baseball players and compared their swings to his. We looked at their leg kicks and where their balance was when the front foot landed on the ground. We also discussed the different types of bats that they used.
design fundamentals. Jackson is currently working on a new style of art called, "Op" art. He worked on two new designs today, to show the use of this style. He will also put this necessary information into his interactive notebook.
In anticipation of the short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Jackson looked up definitions and wrote sentences for vocabulary words from the story. The final ten minutes of class, we began reading the story and talked about what might happen.
Today we reviewed the concept of verbs in English and then in Spanish. We talked about conjugations and how do they work in maintaining subject/agreement at all times. We went over all conjugations of the verb to be form SER and played a game which helped us using and remembering each conjugation.
Jackson completed a detailed analysis of the poem, "Mending Wall." When asked to compare the poem to something in real life, he mentioned President Trump's border wall, so we talked about the similarities between the theme of the poem and the idea of building a wall along the US border. We went on to read other poems by Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes as well as a small part of Allen Ginsberg's poem, "Howl."
Jackson proofread and edited eight short paragraphs. He corrected capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word use errors. We focused on capitalizing proper nouns and proper adjectives, as these were the mistakes he missed most frequently.
Flashcards of perfect squares (up to 15), perfect cubes (up to 5), square roots and cube roots.
Then introduction to rationalizing denominators with a single term on the bottom.
