I was a substitute for Miss Debbie today. Maya continued reading from a chapter book entitled, The Switcheroo. She touch-typed a caption and picture to go along with her summary of what she read. She used Mindcraft to build her picture of a classroom, desks, students and a video camera. She is amazing!

Maya successfully completed an assessment of Chapter 5: What Makes Our Community Diverse? We began Chapter 6: How Do People Improve Their Communities? We reviewed Rosa Parks as an introduction, and brainstormed how we can help others in our community. She learned several vocabulary words: segregation, boycott, equality, protesters, and she learned about the United States Supreme Court. Together, we read an age appropriate leveled reader book about Ruby Bridges and discussed her life, and looked at her website.

Today Maya and I had a very productive session. She completed drafting her story. She has done a great job following the steps of the writing process thus far! She used her prewriting lists to guide her drafting very well. Maya generated her sentences and I typed for her in the computer lab. We also began focusing on word work with a rhyming game today. Maya really seemed to enjoy the game, but struggled a little bit with finding all of the rhyming pairs in the beginning. She tended to want to categorize the words in other ways. Once she got the hang of it, she was very successful. Tomorrow we will sort her matches into long and short vowels and then begin focusing on the letter patterns that make long vowel sounds. I read aloud to Maya from our chapter book "Show and Tell". We discussed the characters in the story and the events of the chapter. Next, Maya read a chapter from her book "Mercy Watson". Lastly she completed the t pages in her cursive book.

Discuss:
what are some examples of the responses that many animals have to the change of season from winter to spring.
vocabulary, migrate, hibernate
what needs can you think of that your body tells you to meat?
Activity: measuring lungs capacity

Maya practiced her 8X tables and took a practice drill. In Math Lesson 8-4, Maya learned to use the fact families of 8 and 9 to solve division problems. She took turns with me, being teacher, creating her own problems, and using the proper mathematical terminology- divisor, dividend, and quotient when explaining the correct solutions. Maya did well in FF today, breaking a high score from her last session. Great day Maya!

Maya practiced reading words with the v-e syllable pattern. She also read a story that incorporated these words. She spelled these words as well.

Explain why animals need food, water, air, and shelter. Give examples of how animals meet their inner needs.
Discuss why do we call food a fuel. How do animals get air and water?

Today Maya completed her math test. Maya was so proud of herself, as she scored a 100. Great job, Maya! She also took her 8X table quiz. In her LB class, Maya worked on pages 34 and 35 on a story where she had to identify the differences between the correct details of the story and the main idea She practiced writing and spelling words from the story and correctly matched vocabulary words to their definitions. In Fast ForWord Maya began working in a different program. She completed her last program and is prepared to move ahead. She did not complete her entire protocol today since she was sharing time with her peers at a student's birthday celebration.

Focus on arm and shoulder movements and strength; review of poses; Piggy Loves Yoga book; ABC Yoga book, new handout for folder (challenge pose); You Tube video of little girl gymnast; partner yoga with leg straps

Maya read a story about Golden Retrievers. She is doing OK with transferring what she has learned in Wilson to outside reading.