Maya took a timed drill for practice on her 11X tables. She completed 25 problems in under one minute and 30 seconds. She is prepared for tomorrow's 11X quiz. In lesson 9-4 Maya worked on writing rules for situations. Maya is able to find a rule and extend the table, given a table of number pairs. In Fast ForWord, Maya completed her daily protocol, and broke two of her high scores; Fish Frenzy and Bear Bags. Great work, Maya!
Maya and I read a short biography of Cesar Chavez and completed a workbook "monument" comprehension assignment. We then read about Lois Marie Gibbs and the Love Canal in New York. We discussed community activism, pollution, and helping others. We watched a few brief videos, discussed new vocabulary, and completed the comprehension page on Lois Gibbs in her workbook. At the end of the session, Maya used her keyboarding and computer skills to research famous women and children who helped their communities. We created a preliminary list of people she is interested in learning about in upcoming sessions.
Today Maya and I read all of the comments from her writing celebration and made a collage with then to put of her door. Then we began our noun project. We started to make life-size paper versions of ourselves. Next, we will label the common and proper nouns we have on our body (shoes-Nikes, watch-Skagen, etc.) We are both looking forward to this project. I noticed that Maya really enjoys working on projects rather than paper assignments.
Maya completed reading about Ruby Bridges. She wrote and illustrated a brief letter/essay about Ruby's bravery. She presented her work to Ms. Judie. We conducted internet research, watched brief biographical videos, and discussed the life and accomplishments of Caesar Chavez. We completed a Venn diagram comparing the activism of Rosa Parks and Caesar Chavez.
Maya reviewed repeating patterns and number sequences. She learned in math lesson 9-3, how to extend tables of ordered pairs for situations involving multiplication, subtraction, or division. Maya practiced finding the relationship that links the numbers in each row of a table. Maya continued in her FF program, breaking her high score, again, in Magic Bird. Today Maya presented a writing piece to the school, during class, which was wonderful. Everyone enjoyed listening and appreciated her hard work. I was impressed by her ability to express her feelings in an organized manner. Magnificent job, Miss Maya! In LB, Maya brainstormed a list of special memories which she could recall and visualize. This is the beginning of an activity that she will continue to work on.
Maya had a wonderful day. She was so excited to celebrate her writing. She did have a lot to celebrate! She completed all 7 steps of the writing process (pre-writing, planning, drafting, revising, editing, final drafting and publishing). She spent almost 2 weeks completing the process. Her favorite part seemed to be the prewriting, planning and drafting because we work in the yellow legal pad. The yellow paper clearly helps students differentiate between the pre-work and final work, thus helping students to understand concretely that writing is a process rather than just a final product. Maya worked hard to prepare for the celebration. We decorated cups, made lemonade and set the table. Maya poured everyone's lemonade. Despite the excitement for the celebration Maya worked hard in reading and language arts. She read level I Mike's Good Bad Day. She did an excellent job retelling the story and discussing each story element. Lastly, I introduced the concept of common, proper and pronouns to Maya. She seemed to understand. We will work to apply this concept in our conversations and writing and identify various nouns while reading and writing.
Session Minutes
90
Minutes Student Attended
90
Lesson Comments
Maya was so excited today. I am proud of her accomplishments! We do not have the cursive book. I talked to her mom about it. She said she will look at home:)
