Kelly asked questions about the parts of speech in a sentence. We reviewed her grammar exercises that she had completed the night before. We then completed a vocabulary exercise, and brainstormed ways to remember her new vocab. Kelly has a grammar test coming up at the end of the week. so I found more exercises for her to practice the parts of speech and identifying the different types of verbs in a sentence (action, linking and helping). To finish our session, Kelly started a short writing assignment that relates to the reading exercise we completed yesterday, where she will use her new vocabulary words in the writing.

I had Kelly do research for her Civil War Project and Paper. We found facts from two books and from the internet about the tools and methods used during the Civil War on the battlefield. I then asked her to create a quick outline of topics she would discuss in her paper and present on her project board. We discussed primary and secondary sources. We spent some time in the Batt School library and were able to find a few books about science and technology that illuminated what was happening in the field of medicine during the time of the Civil War, as well as before and after. This gave Kelly an even better idea of the tools and medicines that were available in the hospitals on the battlegrounds. We also discussed the differences between the confederate and union armies and how their medical treatment might be unequal.

Kelly completed a grammatical exercise on the different types of verbs (linking,helping, and action), then completed a reading comprehension/vocabulary activity. She read a story about how the modern-day marathons started with a Greek messenger who ran many miles to warn his town of the victory over the Persians. The reading used new vocabulary words and Kelly answered questions that challenged her to use context clues and synonyms to test her understanding of the new vocabulary. During the reading, I asked her questions that required higher order thinking about the role of soldiers and their motivations for fighting wars. My goal was to try to get her to understand the connection between the battle in the reading and other wars, like WWII and the Civil War.

Kelly did not have work to do from her math teacher, so we went through the section that she remembered them being on (similar figures).

Kelly worked on a worksheet and found the answers in her book. We had a great discussion about the applications of Newton's Laws to everyday objects.