Maya alternated reading The Story of the Statue of Liberty. We stopped and analyzed many events. Analytical questions are what seem to be the most challenging. "Why do you think they created a small model of the statue first?" etc. Following reading, she took what she learned yesterday and combined it with what she learned today, to choose what facts she wanted to include in a paragraph about The Statue of Liberty. She used a paragraph frame to keep her writing focused and held tightly to the topic of what she "learned."
Maya took a practice drill with her 4 times tables. She is doing great. There are a few facts that are still tricky for her like 8x4 and 7x4. In lesson 5-1, Maya started learning more about subtraction such as clue words like "how many more". She solved problems for practice by drawing pictures and writing number sentences and fact families. Maya continued her FF program. Please see next Saturday's report. The computer was having issues, so I don't think one of the games registered for the day. She played Polar Planet, Cosmic Reader, and Jumper Gym. In Fast ForWord Maya began completed a sentence by sentence activity. She listened to me read a short passage about a wasp-eating lizard. Her job now is to visualize and verbalize a sentence from parts to a whole, the word-parts creating a sentence-whole. This passage contained 3 sentences. Maya was asked to visualize and verbalize each sentence one at a time, using structure words for the first sentence only (in order to create more details). The lessons begin receptively to remove decoding as a possible interference and also to stimulate listening comprehension. Maya is skillful at using some of her new vocabulary words to help her create her picture and word summaries. Great work, Miss Maya!
Maya and I alternated reading about The Statue of Liberty in her Social Studies book. She labeled the state and area of the state that she is found in. Maya drew a line on her map to show the distance and direction of this landmark to her own community. She watched a clip on line showing the progression of the monument being built, where she was temporarily stationed in Paris, before being taken apart and shipped piece by piece. She also went through a virtual tour of what it would be like to get to climb her steps today. She was able to understand the true size to her by seeing how long it took to get to the crown. Maya watched a video on BrainPop Jr. and took a comprehension quiz.
Today Maya took the math Topic 2 Test. It took her a long time, but I know she did well. I read each problem to her slowly. She appeared very nervous and expressed her desire to get a 100. She was very thorough, remembering to line up her numbers carefully and double checked each answer. She did not have time do FF during her actual time slot since she had snack and used the time to complete her math test. Maya completed one FF game during her L-B time. In L-B, she began a new step in the V/V program. In the sentence by sentence step, Maya has her own workbook for this part of the program. She began with me reading a short, 3 sentence story aloud. We discussed vocabulary in the passage and Maya was able to use each word in her own sentence. Her job was to picture each sentence in her mind and verbalize her imagery. She needed some coaching, but eventually produced a vivid description using helpful gestures and her words. Nice work, Maya. Maya scored a 100% on her math test. Excellent job!
Maya listened to Level K: Kites. Prior to reading, we completed the K and W portion of a KWL (know, want to know, learned from reading) chart. She listened to the reading and completed the L portion. As an extension, she created a kite, and wrote a paragraph on the back containing facts about the kite, beginning with the main idea.
