Today we began our session by practicing our addition facts on the app Mad Math Minute. We then reviewed lesson 1-2, place value up to the thousands place. Both Anna and Quinn did a great job at remembering all the forms to write a number (standard, expanded and word). They both did fantastic on the lesson 1-2 quick check, so we moved on to lesson 1-3. The topic of lesson 1-3 was place value up to the hundred thousands place. This lesson also introduce the vocabulary word “period”. We talked about how we separate the different periods using a comma. Anna and Quinn practiced writing 6 digit numbers in standard and expanded form. At the end of class we reviewed tonight's homework. Anna and Quinn both improved their scored today on the Mad Minute App. Quinn was able to answer 9 questions in a minute and Anna was able to answer 12!

We reviewed numbers, colors, and greetings. We talked about what we did over the summer. We finished up playing Uno in Spanish.

Quinn- Worked on sight words, reading phrases and comprehension of short stories.
Wilson- Fluency and review of Wilson rules
Anna- Wrote vocabulary words on note cards with definition and sentence, comprehension of short stories, grammar- questions and statements, capitalization.

Anna- Grammar- statements and questions, Rhyming words using phonic, Read vocabulary story and introduced vocabulary words.
Quinn- Read a folktale and wrote a sequence chart for events in the story. (Needed lots of guidance with this activity)
Wilson- high frequency words and fluency

Anna and Quinn are a delight to work with! We started the class by reviewing ways in which people get information today and ways in which people got information in the past. This brought us to cartography, and the study of mapmaking. We looked at present day maps and then we looked at ancient maps. Anna and Quinn are very curious and I love that they ask a ton of questions. We then discussed explorers and the discovery of America. We read about Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, who helped to map the "New World". At the end of class, Anna and Quinn each drew a map of a town of their creation. Their creativity was wonderful to see and they both acknowledged that the art of cartography is quite challenging! I'm looking forward to teaching both of them.

Introduce Anna and Quinn to the work of artist Louise Nevelson.
Sketch out basic shapes and discuss how they can be transformed to create something else.
Draw out selected shapes onto cardboard varying there scale.
Use both the smooth and rippled texture of cardboard, the final product will be monochromatic so texture will be an important element to this piece.

Today we began our session by practicing our addition facts on the app Mad Math Minute. Anna and Quinn both spent 1 minute answering as many addition problems as they could. We created a tracking sheet so that they can see their scores and work on beating their scores. Anna and Quinn then completed the lesson 1-1 Quick Check to ensure they understand lesson 1-1 before moving on to lesson 1-2. Lesson 1-2 still focused on place value but added the thousands place. Anna and Quinn practiced converting 4 digit numbers into standard form, word form and expanded form. We finished our class by reviewing the homework and completing the word problems together. Anna and Quinn both completed another Mad Minute and were excited to beat their prior score!

Met with Julie and Quinn to choose a subject and project for this hands on research class. The interest kept going towards building an engine, and possibly, a gas powered RC vehicle of some sort.

Quinn: Review C, G7, A, D, and E chords as well as basic fretting and picking technique.
Anna: Review key locations, scales, notes and sight reading. Play through several songs in her book.

Today we began our lesson by playing 5 minutes of addition games in the computer lab. Then, Anna and Quinn took an addition facts pre-test on the computer. They answered 40 addition facts and both answered 38 of the questions correctly. After the quiz, Anna and Quinn reviewed lesson 1-1 from yesterday. They practiced writing given numbers in standard, written and expanded form. Both Anna and Quinn were more comfortable with these concepts today. We finished our session by reviewing tonight’s homework.