Quinn and Anna each decorated their own spray bottle and filled it with lavender oil and water. They can use the bottles in their room at school, or take them home. We discussed relaxation and meditation. We then read part of the Piggy does yoga book and did the poses in the book. New poses: gate, humble warrior, palm tree, and hand to toe. We had 10-15 minutes of free choice. Anna and Quinn did hooping and gymnastics.

Today Anna and Quinn continued learning about counting money. Today's lesson focused on adding change up to $1.00. Anna and Quinn both found out how many pennies, nickels, quarters, dimes and half dollars there are in $1.00. Anna and Quinn both did very well with today's lesson. They completed the lesson 5-4 practice and enrichment worksheet. Quinn tied his highest mad minute score of 11 today!

Today Anna and Quinn continued working on lesson 5-3. We spent a second day on this lesson to ensure that Anna and Quinn could identify all of the coins and remember each coins' value. We began our class today by looking over Anna and Quinn's science review sheet. They have a test on Friday and I promised them that I would get them a review sheet on Wednesday to that they could study for their test with.Today in math Anna and Quinn practiced counting a given number of coins. They each completed the problem of the day. In today's problem, they had to determine all the different ways they could use nickels, dimes and quarters to make 30 cents. Anna and Quinn practiced counting by 5's, 10's, 25's and 50's. They both seemed to have a much better grasps on counting coins today. Anna and Quinn both completed 2 Mad Minutes and Sumdog today.

Quinn- Identified nouns and made them plural. Introduced making nouns that end in s, ss, ch, sh and x plural by adding es. Reading test- character, setting and events, main topic and key details. Quinn did great on this test, he made an 94%!
Anna- Writing a friendly letter using commas in the closing and greeting. Combining two sentences with the same subject or predicate.

Anna- Subject/predicate, complete and incomplete sentences and reading comprehension.
Quinn-Grammar- identifying nouns in a sentence. Wilson- read stories with short vowel sounds and highlighted all the short vowel sounds.
They are both working hard!

Anna and Quinn had a fun class today. We started by completing a crossword puzzle from their e-studies weekly magazine. This allowed us to review the three branches of government and some other important terms. Quinn remembered that we discussed how Congress passes laws. We played an interactive game on the computer in which Anna and Quinn were allowed to become members of Congress and pass bills. They were able to get a sense of how bills are created and the importance of votes from Congress and the President. They printed out their laws at the end of class and seemed to get such a kick out of it!

Today Anna finished painting the abstracted background of her painting by mixing up and using different shades of green. With the completion of her painting, we started looking into Anna's next project. For Anna's next project we will be incorporating flowers made from paper egg cartons into a decorative painted motif that is inspired by traditional Russian patterns.

Today Quinn completed his off road course. Quinn glued down sand to reference a dirt track. He mixed up a mucky green paint to incorporate. To finish, Quinn reenforced his obstacles with more glue and used care to cover up white spots that hadn't been addressed.

Today Anna and Quinn continued learning about counting coins. We began our session by reviewing each coins name and value. We then practiced counting by each coin (1,5,10,25,50). Today's lesson 5-3 focused on counting collections of coins. Anna and Quinn practiced identifying each coin, putting the coins in order from greatest to least and then adding up the coins values. This is still a tricky skill for both Anna and Quinn. We will continue working on lesson 5-3 tomorrow.

Our lesson focused on the moon, as the moon was full last night. We did 1/2 moon, a yoga moon song, and used the exercise balls as our "full moon." We did arm circles, pushups, stretches and bounces on the balls. Anna and Quinn also worked on challenging poses today. Anna: scorpion. Quinn: shoulder stand, headstand. Both children are rapidly progressing in their poses and work hard to master difficult poses. They both got stickers today. We ended class with some hooping (challenging themselves with 3 hoops at a time!)

Quinn- Phonics- Digraphs- tch and ph. Quinn read a storying that contained words with these digraphs. He also worked on fluency while he read.
Anna- Vocabulary-reading and inferring the meaning of unknown words using context clues.