Read nonsense words with blends. Worked on dictation sentences and spacing between words.

Played a shape game to help identify plane shapes and solid figures.

design fundamentals, using "texture" in art forms

Warmup and Stretch, get into revising the Blocks, Punches and stances, Memorising the sequence of Block Routine 1. Bag work.

Review songs from previous class.
Play Skip to My Lou and London Bridge.

Today Patrick completed one of his 2 modules in FF. He participated in a group activity during part of this class to create a Thanksgiving Day placemat. In FF he beat his highest score in Robo-Dog. Great job, Patrick! In V/V, Patrick continued to work on a story about an emu. We also reviewed the climate in V/V, through discussing the importance of creating images to retain details and the to identify gestalt. Patrick was successful in responding to questions that checked his comprehension and asked good questions such as, "Why does an emu have wings if they cannot fly?" Great day!

Patrick did an awesome job reading words with blends and welded sounds.

We are still working on seasons. We went over them in English and Spanish, drew a picture of the 4 seasons, and talked about why seasons exist. Patrick was late because of practice for the planet show.

Patrick participated in discussion as I read Ch. 1 What is a Community? I alternated reading, allowing him to contribute big ideas of the section. For ex: A community is a place where you _______. _______, _______, and _______. (live, work, play, and solve problems) He completed workbook pages to identify places, as well as purposes on a map.

Patrick used letter magnets to build words with r blends. (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr) He would hear a word, identify it, create it, and then manipulate phonemes to create a new word containing one or more common spelling patterns. (Ex: trip---trick) He decided if each word was a noun or verb. He was expected to choose his favorite r blend noun and show who had possession of it by adding 's. We brainstormed many examples together and Patrick showed he understood this concept. Verbally, he was very capable of coming up with a sentence, but when it was time to transfer that thought onto paper, it was very difficult for him. He was introduced to his sight words of the week by looking at a photograph and reading the term in a sentence. We discussed the meaning of each and he gave an example of each. He read Move It! a nonfiction piece about the various ways our bodies move, which also gave him a chance to read his sight words in context. He verbally answered the respond to reading questions beautifully. For hw: re-read Move It! to gain fluency and practice r blend page and sight words in closed sentences.