We did Maya's "Body Balance" sheet (for vision and balance). We then added new poses from the "ABC yoga for kids" book: peacock, gate, flamingo, and wild thing. We also practiced monkey pose on the apparatus, in addition to exercise ball work (on belly), and gymnastics practice at the end of class.

Maya read a story to me practicing her fluency. We worked on pausing for punctuation.

Maya and I explored urban, rural, and suburban communities and life in those communities. We watched the BrainPop junior episode on communities, and we talked about features of those areas, and urban, rural, and suburban places Maya has been. Maya completed the 'easy' and 'hard' quizzes related to the episode. We discussed the meaning of 'population' and how there are urban, rural, and suburban areas around the world. We researched these types of areas, finding examples familiar and new to Maya, and printed pictures. Maya began a tri-fold brochure illustrating these areas, and giving bulleted information for each. We explored fact and opinion, cause and effect, compare/contrast, and making inferences throughout the lesson.

Today Maya completed a math multiplication drill on her 2-6X tables. Maya learned in the next math lesson, 11-1, about congruent figures and motion. She learned to determine the differences between new mathematical terms such as turn or rotation, slide or translation, and flip or reflection. Maya independently determined whether two figures are congruent by recognizing and performing slides, flips, and turns. Maya used manipulatives to reinforce her understanding of these concepts. Maya completed her activity in LB, and continued in her FF program. She worked very hard in FF class today. I was very proud of her.

Singing, finger exercise,review of old pieces, new lesson

Maya and I had a great session. She read her folktale aloud to Miss Lynne amazingly well! After that Maya and I found a basket of fable books in the book closet. She was thrilled to bring them back to class. She chose to read The Lion and the Boy. She is doing an excellent job with accepting help for decoding. She no longer looks for answers, but looks for strategies to solve the tricky words on her own! We focus on reading syllables, finding smaller known parts of a larger word and thinking about other words it looks like. Maya has shown major progress in accepting help! After reading Maya and I worked together to determine the moral or lesson. She also determined that cruel means mean using context clues from the sentences.

Today Maya had a late start in class because she had an opportunity to celebrate the completion of her writing piece. All members of JBP enjoyed her presentation. She did a fantastic job!I In math, Maya completed a practice multiplication drill. Then she took her topic 10 test. She scored a 100. There were a few questions that were tricky for her, but through process of elimination, she was able to obtain the correct answers. Maya continued her FF program. In LB, Maya used some time to finish her math test. Afterwards, she worked in her V/V book. She revisited a story and completed higher order thinking questions.

Maya and I previewed the next chapter: How are Children Around the World Alike and Different? We began by watching a BrainPop Junior on the continents and oceans around the world. We took the easy and hard quizzes, and we discussed and marked on a map the equator, hemispheres, and continents. She used context clues in her reading about the continents to answer the questions. Next, Maya chose to read about Emma, a girl in Hungary. We researched Hungary and learned basic facts about it and created a poster. Maya wrote and illustrated facts about Hungary and she completed a Venn diagram comparing her life to that of Emma's. We looked at the beautiful architecture in Budapest, and we looked at the globe to find the continent, country, and city. Maya practiced many common core language arts standards during this lesson including listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Maya did an excellent job presenting today. She read loudly, clearly and self-corrected when she needed to! I was so proud of her. Before presenting Maya chose to further edit her story, so we changed a few words and corrected a few additional mistakes:) We also read two more fables from Level M Aesop's Fables. Maya read one fable independently and we alternated reading the second story. After reading we collaboratively formed a definition for the meaning of a fable. Then we discussed one of the morals about gifts and talents. Maya listed her personal gifts and talents

reading 2 syllable words with closed and v-e syllables. Maya is still working on distinguishing when to use short and long vowels.