Gracyn continued working on problems in which she used the number line to count up to find the difference. Then, she began the next lesson which involved drawing a bar model to help her solve subtraction problems. She read through word problems determining which information needed to be found and which information needed to be used before filling in the bar model and solving.

Gracyn and I read and discussed the next several sections of her Just Grace book. She read a folktale and compared/contrasted it with a previously read tale. She was able to determine ways that relationships were alike and different. We also worked on sentence punctuation and spelling.

We did some subtraction problems with 2 and 3 digit numbers to practice "borrowing." Then, we watched some videos of her dad hitting his 300th home run!

Today, Gracyn created her own vinyasana flow of yoga and gymnastic movements. She created 16 movements that included head and hand stands, back bends, forward and backward rolls, pull-ups and push-ups. She did an excellent job and worked very hard throughout the class. Next week, we may try to put these movements to music.

Gracyn continued the unit on ocean life today. We began a lesson on sea turtles and went over the new vocabulary words reptile, migrate, flipper, and oviparous. She read a nonfiction article on sea turtles and how they are cold blooded and have to migrate to warm waters, how they lay eggs, and only one of 100 eggs survives to adulthood. She highlighted each vocabulary word as she found it in the reading and we discussed the meaning of each word. She also watched a video of baby turtles being rescued on the beach and a video on the life of the sea turtle and how many obstacles it has to overcome to become an adult.

Today's lesson consisted of Gracyn listening to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." We did this as a music appreciation time. As she listened to these selections, she used her artistic ability to draw pictures for each season. We had time for the "spring" and "summer" sections.

Gracyn and I read and discussed several sections of our 'Just Grace' book. She worked on identifying, writing and segmenting cvc and cvce words. In Raz-Kids she read at level J with fluency and comprehension. Great job!

Today Gracyn and I continued her economics unit. We began by reviewing wants versus needs. We discussed and made a list comparing wants versus needs and how sometimes these change. For example, a computer may have started out as a want, but changed to a need when she began Skype school. We moved on to discuss spenders versus savers. We read about other children, and how they save and spend their money. We finished by completing a crossword puzzle, to check Gracyn’s understand of these concepts.

Gracyn was very excited today to begin coloring the Paris picture that she recently received. As she colored, we played informative Paris for kids videos.
The Eiffel tower and Louvre were two places focused on. It is a very large picture that will take some time to finish. She has already found the perfect spot on her wall for it to hang.

Gracyn began by rewriting subtraction problems in vertical format focusing on lining up the digits of the numbers in columns. Once the problem was properly written, she solved the problems regrouping if necessary. Gracyn then read through and solved addition and subtraction word problems. Finally, she used addition and the number line to count up to find the difference.