Friday, October 28, 2016
09:00 - 10:00; 60 min. -
Science Enrichment:
The Octopus -
Gracyn and I watched the brain-pop segment on dolphins, and discussed the vocabulary words to which she was introduced. We then started a project of completing a coloring booklet on the animals of a coral reef. She chose the octopus to start, and so we watched a video on the octopus. We discussed how they could be any color, and change both color and texture at will. She decided to color the octopus a rainbow of colors to represent this process. We worked at not rushing the process and to keep inside the lines.

Today's lesson continued on the concept of making a 10 to add. We discussed how drawing to show 10 helps solve addition problems. Gracyn completed problems using a ten frame and cubes. She took the greater addend and placed that amount into a 10 frame. Then, she borrowed from the other addend to fill the frame to make a ten. For example, the problem 7 + 8. The 10 frame would be filled with 8 and 2 more from the 7 with 5 left over. Therefore, 10 + 5 is the same as 7 + 8. Gracyn also completed a part-part whole worksheet and we finished by tossing the doubles fact ball to each other.

Gracyn played a junior version of Scrabble. With some prompting, she did a good job of finding words with the letters she had.

Gracyn read "I am a Gymnast" in Raz-Kids with fluency and 100% comprehension. We practiced word wall words and added three more words to her mastery list. We completed our Junie B. story, with Gracyn reading the Junie parts on the last two pages. She composed and wrote four sentences using her word wall words.

We began with our review of previously learned pieces. Gracyn then played her most recent piece, "Clouds" which introduced the keys A-B-C. We then went over a new piece, "Halloween" which reinforces those keys. Today we also practiced and reinforced proper technique, counting half notes and the keys C-D-E.

Gracyn continued her lesson on properties of matter today. She described the properties of a pumpkin by size, weight, color, and texture and recorded her results. We cut the pumpkin open and she observed the inside of the pumpkin. She estimated how many seeds were in the pumpkin then she took the seeds out and counted and weighed them. She smelled the pumpkin but didn't want to taste it. She drew a face on the pumpkin and we craved it into a Jack-O-Lantern.

Gracyn and I began by reading Hester the witch by Byron Barton. We moved on to her lesson, make a ten to add. This strategy teaches one to borrow from one addend to make ten and then add ten to the number that was borrowed from. Gracyn completed problems using the ten frame to write a new fact using the new addends. Finally, Gracyn colored a large Frankenstein picture and using her ruler, measured different body parts.

The strategy focus for our reading of Junie B. Jones was analyzing the character and making predictions based on her previous actions and statements.She read "The Big Game" to practice the cvce pattern words and we read "Who Wants Arthur?" as our shared reading book. Gracyn identified and wrote the lesson from the shared story. I introduced common and proper nouns and she completed a sorting activity with sample words.

We followed along with a You Tube "Halloween Yoga" video that included several yoga poses, including bat, cat, cow, candlestick, mummy roll, zombie walk and spider.

Grayson and I read words from the -onk and -unk family. She read all her word wall words, including 2 new words, "again" and "over". Gracyn read a child's version of "The Lion and the Mouse". She wrote answers to comprehension questions, including an explanation of the moral(lesson) of the story.Read-aloud: We completed "Junie B. Jones".