Hunter chose to participate in academic trivia this afternoon. The questions were at and above grade level and involved English, American and World History, Science, Geography, and Math. He also completed several 7th grade vocabulary games online.

Stephen was absent today.

Hunter and I played an academic trivia game which required that he answer an assortment of questions from history, geography, science, math, English, and technology.

I planned future academic games for Gwendolyn during her absence.

Today Stephen and I began our session with keyboarding. Stephen worked on lessons 1.7-1.1.9. Between each lesson, Stephen took a five minute break and played a math game on the computer (Jet Ski Addition). We spent the last 30 minutes playing academic games. Stephen enjoyed playing Long "I" Bingo and Short and Long Vowel Matching.

Today Stephen and I began our session with keyboarding. Stephen worked on lessons 1.4-1.6. Between each lesson, Stephen took a five minute break and played a math game on the computer (Jet Ski Addition). Stephen was very excited to come in 1st place for the first time today in the jet ski game. We spent the last 30 minutes playing academic games. Stephen enjoyed playing Long Vowel Bingo and Word Family Go Fish

Hunter participated in a grade level appropriate academic trivia game which required him to answer numerous questions across many disciplines: English, Mathematics (including algebra and geometry), Science, Geography, and History.

I planned academic activities and games in Gwendolyn's absence.

Gwendolyn began her session learning how to play Crazy 8's. She quickly picked up the game, employed some strategy of her own and had an amazing time playing. Gwendolyn had such a great time that she laughed non-stop and wanted to play the game four consecutive times. After playing Crazy 8's, we played a reading comprehension game called Predicting Outcomes: Western Frontier. Players of the game take to the trails and must be ready to predict what might happen by reading passages and making predictions. Gwendolyn did a fantastic time reading the comprehension passages, applying her background knowledge to different situations, searching for context clues and predicting the correct outcomes.

Today Gwendolyn played a new academic game called, Bananagrams. The game uses elements of both Boggle and Scrabble - it is similar to Boggle in the sense that game play is simultaneous, yet players build interlocking puzzles similar to those in Scrabble. Because Bananagrams can be played by players at any reading level, the game is useful for students who are learning to spell and phonics rules. While playing, Gwendolyn learned many different phonics rules that helped her to successfully build words. Bananagrams is a game that stimulates creativity because the goal is to play all of one's tiles, which generates a need to configure and reconfigure one's word grid to accept all of the letters. Gwendolyn did this many times during the game and was quite excited at her ability to break apart words and use the letters to build better words elsewhere. At the end of the session, Gwendolyn shared that she liked the game so much that she wants to play again next week.