We are continuing our lessons on the Constitution. The lesson plan in the Studies Weekly magazine outlines the three parts of the Constitution with all of the Articles and Amendments. I think a lot of these details are challenging for Anna and Quinn and it's not necessary that they learn all of that information right now. They learned the purpose of the three main parts of the Constitution: the Preamble, the Articles, and the Amendments. In order to make these ideas more concrete, I had them write laws or rights that they would include in their own constitution. They did a great job with this assignment. At the end of class, we learned what children their age dressed like in the 1700s and what kinds of games they played.
Sumdog: Student played competitive math games. Sumdog allows students to get on on games simultaneously and compete in fun math games. They had a great time and scored well on the competition. Great going Anna and Quinn.
finish up meditation jars; yoga poses on belly; new poses: monkey, reverse crucifix
Lesson Outline
After we added more sparkles to the meditation jars, our class today was focused on yoga poses on the belly. We did dolphin, sphinx, cobra, king cobra, grasshopper (locust), and reverse crucifix (new pose). They also learned monkey (new pose) which is also the splits. Handout: monkey. They both did very well with their yoga poses and challenging themselves.
Assignment
none.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Both Anna and Quinn had to be redirected several times today for not settling down, respecting other's space and good listening. However, I am seeing great improvement, especially in Quinn, with his ability and focus.
Quinn-Introduced long i sound (v-e). Capitalization of days of the week, months of the year and holidays.
Anna- Identified proper nouns vs common nouns. Writing- found text evidence about the plot.
Quinn and Anna both took their spelling test and took a reading test. They did fantastic on both! I was so proud of them!
Anna- worked on IXL plural nouns
Quinn- raz-kids reading comp.
We read about a festival, and learned words to describe what is going on, like dance, sing, play guitar, music, etc. We also reviewed sentence punctuation.
Today Anna and Quinn began working on lesson 1-8. This lesson focused on making change. They each completed the lesson 1-8 problem of the day. Then we did examples on the board of subtracting money. For example, a piece of candy costs $0.89, you give a casher a $1 bill, how much change will you get back. Quinn had some difficulty with his subtraction skills when he had to barrow. We will continue practicing making change on Tuesday.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
We are hoping to test on this concept on the Thursday after Anna and Quinn get back. This test will cover chapter 5 from the second grade text and lessons 1-7 and 1-8 in the 3rd grade text. Then we will begin chapter 2 in the 3rd grade text.
