Today Anna and Quinn continued lesson 1-7. Anna and Quinn practiced counting money and comparing money. They determined how to show a given amount in the least amount of bills and coins possible. Anna and Quinn completed the lesson 1-7 guided practice.

Anna and Quinn took their chapter 1 test! Chapter 1 focused on plants. Anna and Quinn did very well on their test. Anna got 35 out of 40 and Quinn got 33 out 40. They both took their test home to correct their mistakes. If they return their test corrected on Monday, they will get 2 extra points.

Quinn- Introduced the long a sound. Read stories with this new sound. Quinn struggled with this at first but then picked it up quickly.
Anna- Continued to work with run on and complete sentences. She did much better with this today. Introduced fragment sentences. Added key details to writing.

Quinn- difference between a common noun and a proper noun. Read aloud a fantasy and a non-fiction story And compared and contrasted the two.
Anna- Worked on identifying the difference between a run on sentence and a complete sentence. She had a very hard time with this skill. e will continue to work on this. Anna took a reading test and did fabulous!

Today Anna painted all of her egg carton flowers red and yellow. Anna is combing the red and yellow flowers together in pairs to create fuller flowers with more visual interest. After Anna assembled all of her flowers, she painted a large cut out circle black. The flowers will be arranged and attached to this circle. The next step is to paint ornate details inspired by Russian patterns around where the flowers will be placed.

Today Quinn selected cars from a book to learn how to draw. The first car was a dune buggy and Quinn learned how to draw it in two point perspective. Using a ruler, Quinn established a horizon line and two vanishing points to create a three dimensional buggy. Quinn's second car was not in perspective but rather a straight side view. Quinn payed close attention to the placement of all the components that made up the car and successfully added them to his drawing.

We continued with greetings, learning the vocabulary "hello" "goodye" "my name is" "friend" "what is your name" etc.

Today Anna and Quinn continue their money unit using the 3rd grade text. Today's lesson 1-7 focused on adding coins as well as 1 and 5 dollar bills. Anna and Quinn did very well with today's lesson. We practiced writing amounts larger than a dollar in dollar form. For example, 134 cents is the same as $1.34. Anna and Quinn were both able to add amounts without physically adding them with coins. For example, they were able to count 15 cents for 3 nickels without have 3 nickels in their hands. Today they worked on the lesson 1-7 guided practice worksheet. We will continue this lesson again tomorrow.
* Quinn got his highest score yet on Mad Minute Math - 14 problems correct in 1 minute!!

I had Anna and Quinn each pick out areas of their bodies they wanted to work on today. Anna picked neck and back, as she was sore from gymnastics. Quinn picked arms and inverted poses. After we did these stretches, we played "yoga dice." We took turns throwing the dice and had to do a yoga movement or pose that number of times. We then played "yoga hangman" and had to guess the names of yoga poses. We had a good balance of warm-ups, active yoga, and yoga mind games.

Anna- Identifying sentence fragments and what is missing- subject or predicate. Using quotation marks in writing. Anna struggled a bit on this but we will continue to practice.
Quinn- Reviewed plural nouns s, ss, ch, sh and x get an es. Introduced irregular plural nouns- mouse-mice. Reading aloud for fluency. Identifying types of sentences and typing skills.

Introduced new spelling words and spelling patterns.
Anna- Introduced new vocabulary words. Anna read a story with these words and defined unknown words using context clues. She also read sentences and identified the subject and predicate in each sentence.
Quinn- Identified nouns in a sentence. Read two stories working on fluency and then compared and contrasted the two stories. Identified character, setting and events from each story.