Warm-up with 3 laps around the playground...
Stretches focusing on quads and hamstrings...
Core and Back Strengthening exercises...
Focus on Front, Side and Round House Kicking drills...
Boxing Combination on the focus pad...
Finish with quiet meditation...

We had a short session today, but we focused on mindfulness exercises that involved more imagination and visualization. One example was imagining we're a tree, what it feels like to have roots in the ground, a tall trunk, and big branches.

Danny looked in his social studies notebook and he reviewed the holiday "Veterans Day," which he studied in November. He refreshed his memory regarding the army, navy, air force, coast guard, and marines. He recollected that Veterans Day is to honor all those who served in the United States military. Memorial Day honors those who died while in military service. We read the book, "Memorial Day" by Sally Speer Leber. Danny then assembled his own take-home book about Memorial Day. He colored each page and read the story. He compared and contrasted Veterans Day and Memorial Day.

Danny's assessment consisted of the following: *Write 4 needs. *Write 4 things that taxes pay for. *Match vocabulary to the correct definition. *Complete the section on sorting pictures as a "need" or a "want." *Sort pictures of "goods" or "services."

Danny reviewed environments and habitats today. He read questions and completed a crossword puzzle on different environments and vocabulary words from the unit.

Danny began with a phoneme blending exercise with short and long o sounds. He practiced adding ed and ing to words using the correct spelling dropping the e or doubling the consonant when necessary. He practiced the high frequency words; because, cold, family, friends, have, know, off, picture, school and took. We reviewed the story "Cold Dog, Hot Fox" and wrote three sentences in his notebook on facts he learned from the story,

Danny read and blended short u words and did a sorting activity where he sorted words with short u and long u into columns. He did a phoneme deletion exercise where I said a word and asked what the word would be without the first sound and he gave me the new word. He worked on the high frequency words change, cheer, fall, five, look, open, should, their, won, and yes and did a read, write, spell exercise with these words.

Danny began with vocabulary words today. We went over words and definitions of new unit vocabulary words; believes, delicious, feast, fond, lessons, remarkable, snatch, and stories. He chose two words and wrote two complete sentences with the words. He read the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" in his reading book. After the story, he named the characters, setting, and what happened first, next, and last in the story.

Danny and I continued to work with 2-dimensional shapes and how to divide them equally into equal parts. We discussed the difference between halves, thirds, and fourths before Danny wrote the number of equal parts in shown whole shapes. Then, he circled shapes that showed equal parts and drew lines to show equal parts of a whole. Next, Danny took the mid-chapter checkpoint quiz in which he circled objects that matched 3-D shape names, wrote the number of sides and vertices of 2-D shapes, and used clues to find shapes with the correct number of angles. We finished with a 2-step daily word problem and review problems on fact families, 2-digit addition and subtraction, place value, and finding the missing operation to make equations true.

design fundamentals. Danny finished his painting of the solar system today. He did a very nice job.