Macy worked on a new project we’re starting, recreating Master Painters' work. We worked to prep her watercolor paper and lay down a blue wash. We then sketched out her design and and started to color match to create the same colors in the image. She worked on painting the image for the rest of class.
ELA: Today we began with grammar. The lesson focused on choosing different adverbs. Macy was provided with a word bank of 8 words and had to fill in the blanks of sentences, utilizing the best adverbs for the context. Next, we read chapter 7 in the novel, The Pioneers Go West. After reading, Macy and I each wrote comprehension questions and traded with each other for responses. We enjoyed some fun with an online Oregon Trail activity where we had to plan our trip with purchasing supplies and simulated travel. Latin: Macy made notecards of the first declension endings in the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative order. We read through key information about how Latin words have gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter) as well as a lack of articles. We made notecards on some of these rules as well.
Classification of triangles.
Practice set and problems 1-30.
I helped her through some, especially the ones on order of operations, geometry, and ratio.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Macy worked independently on most of the questions.
Math facts sheet I
Start Chapter on triangles.
We took notes on the classification of triangles. Macy also completed her facts sheet I on mixed numbers.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Since I have Macy for 2 consecutive sessions today, we started the Math lesson on Triangles.
ELA: This morning we introduced the list 26 spelling words. These words use the prefix ad- and include words such as adventure, adjective, and adjust. Her new vocabulary words are a mix of math and science terms from her current lessons, including such words as transversal, isobar, and monsoon. We then tackled her grammar lesson 8 from her textbook. We read about how some words can be used as adverbs or prepositions. The lesson covered identifying the prepositional phrase as the key to making this determination. Macy then practiced this skill with 12 sentences in which she identified if the target word was an adverb or preposition and then wrote the prepositional phrase, if applicable. Literature was our final step for language arts. We reviewed her summary of chapter 5 and made some corrections for spelling and grammar. We then read chapter 6. We added information to her character organizer. Latin: We were introduced to chapter 14 with a video. This lesson covers 1st declension with nouns (these words have an invariable stem and are generally of feminine gender). Macy practiced some recitation with the video and worked through the video along with her textbook for more detailed instruction. The first declension will always follow this case order: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative. He provided this acronym “NGDAA – Never Gulp Down an Ant “to help students memorize the order.
Order of Operations. Read the chapter and complete the questions. We read the chapter together and went over the order of operations. We completed the practice set together step-by-step.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Macy was a little distracted today because of the upcoming talent show, so she was rushing through her work.