Bella worked online and was asked to log onto IXL to complete exercises in Vocabulary on Greek and Latin roots. Bella did well on the exercises in which she had to categorize root words based on similarities, and she achieved 86% correct. Bella will complete the remainder of the exercises assigned in tomorrow's session.

Today, Andrew completed one exercise from Warm-Up #7 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." He worked on the IXL writing strategies exercise: "Put the sentences in order." I then introduced coordinating conjunctions, and he completed an IXL exercise: "Use coordinating conjunctions."

Today, Andrew completed an exercise from Warm-Up #6 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We reviewed simple versus compound sentences. I then introduced complex sentences. Andrew completed an IXL grammar exercise on identifying simple, compound and complex sentences. He then began an IXL reading strategies exercise: "Combine main ideas from two texts."

Today, Andrew completed one exercise from Warm-Up #6 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." I introduced simple and compound sentences. He completed an IXL grammar exercise: "Is the sentence simple or compound?" He then continued working on the IXL reading strategies exercise: "Determine the main idea of a passage." We discussed errors as they arose.

Today, Andrew completed a few exercises from Warm-Up #6 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." I then introduced dependent and independent clauses, and we viewed/practiced the example in IXL. He completed an IXL grammar exercise: "Identify dependent and independent clauses." We troubleshot errors as they arose. We also reviewed how to determine the main idea of a passage, and he completed part of an IXL exercise on identifying the main idea.

Today, Andrew completed one exercise in Warm-Up #6 from "Calisthenics for the Brain." We reviewed what makes a complete sentence, fragment, and run-on. He completed an IXL exercise: "Is it a complete sentence, fragment, or run-on?" We troubleshot issues as they arose.

Today, Andrew completed an exercise from Warm-Up #4 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." He then completed the second half of an IXL grammar exercise called "Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?" We discussed that you can connect two complete sentences with a comma and a conjunction, but you cannot connect two complete sentences together without a comma and conjunction.

Today, Andrew completed one exercise of Warm-Up #5 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We then reviewed the components of a complete sentence, and how to distinguish a sentence fragment. I explained that a run-on sentence has too many subjects/predicates. He completed part of an IXL exercise on identifying complete sentences and run-on sentences.

Today, Andrew completed an exercise from Warm-Up #5 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We reviewed that complete sentences must have a subject and predicate, and fragments are missing one or both components. He then completed a grammar IXL exercise identifying complete sentences and fragments. We then reviewed what the main idea of a passage is, and how to determine it. He completed an IXL reading comprehension exercise on identifying the main idea of a passage.

Today, Andrew completed some exercises from Warm-Up #5 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." He then completed an IXL grammar exercise on identifying the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence.