Lindamood Bell - Maya's comprehension is very good.

Identify fractions using greater than or less than symbols - complete exercises. Then complete word problems (addition/subtraction) and write a number sentence showing greater than, less than, or equal to. Maya did very well.

Maya worked on Topic 9, lesson 7. She used single and double digit addition and subtraction to solve multi-step problems which included determining greater than/less than/equal to.

Maya and I planned for her next set of assignments based on her interests. She requested that we study women and children in history who served their communities. We previewed many individuals and she selected three women and three children.

The majority of our session was spent reviewing community helpers concepts and vocabulary, and researching Hurricane Katrina. Maya created a K-W-L chart, writing about what she knows and what she wanted to know. As we researched what she wanted to learn, she completed the chart, taking notes and giving details about the self-selected topics: how hurricanes form, the intensity of the storm, how New Orleans was rebuilt after the storm, the animals that were rescued, and how children and adults helped the displaced people and animals.
The vocabulary she reviewed included: volunteers, storm surge, rebuild.

Review,finger exercise, new lesson

We did two pages of workbook work

Maya completed 45 minutes. She played Magic Bird and Leapin Lizards. On Magic Bird she got her highest score yet.

We worked on writing a get well card for Ms. Dee. She has been sick all week.

Maya and I had a great session today. She was anxious to show me what a hard worker she is:) She read an entire chapter of Magic Treehouse aloud independently. We discussed the story and made connections through out the story. Then we discussed verbs. Maya told me that she did not know what verbs are. To get her interested and active I introduced the concept of verbs as actions, movements or things nouns do in a game of charades. She really enjoyed this. Next, Maya had the idea of choosing an animal (common noun) and then listing as many verbs as we could think of for that animal while acting them out. Maya chose to be a cat, so I listed verbs like meowing, hissing, scratching, stretching and she acted out the corresponding action. I was a dog, so I panted, ate, barked, ect. We had a fun time:) Maya worked in the letter e in her cursive book, but wasn't able to finish the whole page before snack.

Discuss: what can you find in an ecosystem/a pond ecosystem, what animals live at the pond. Draw and cut out different animals and plants that live in a pond. Glue them on the the paper.