This morning Morgan practiced her list 25 spelling and vocabulary words on the wipe board. Later in our session, she took her spelling test. She correctly wrote all of her words with the exception of putting a capital letter at the beginning of library. In literature, we continued our study of fairy tales. We read, Dear Peter Rabbit, by Alma Flor Ada. This fun story involved letter writing between the first pig of the three little pigs, Peter Rabbit, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf, and Baby Bear (of Goldilocks and the Three Bears). These characters are all intertwined and end up celebrating Goldilocks’ birthday together (except for the wolf!). We made predictions, discussed the events and made connections to the original stories along the way. Additionally, we read a classic version of Snow White. We discussed the differences between this story and the Disney version. Morgan did a lot of the reading in both stories. We worked at decoding and fluency in her reading. In Latin, we listened to the proper pronunciations of the lessons 16 and 17 vocabulary words (Constellations) for review. We then listened to the lesson 18 vocabulary words, which focus on the verb to be. Morgan used her Latin workbook to write the meanings of each of the vocabulary words and determine if it is singular or plural. She worked on cursive writing in her workbook, practicing writing qua, que, qui, and quo. For grammar practice, she completed a variety of quick tasks including identifying syllables, parts of speech, matching vowel sounds, and sentence writing. We are still working on remembering a capital letter at the start of the sentence and punctuation at the end. This afternoon, Morgan participated in an online Lindamood Bell session. They began with math. Morgan envisioned an imaginary number line and found targeted numbers along that line including by 2s and performing subtraction. She practiced addition, subtraction, and multiplication flashcards. She also played Multiplication War with the cards. Next, they moved on to reading. Morgan practiced her targeted sight words. Finally, she continued reading her Anne of Green Gables chapter book.
Baylie reviewed the chapter on matter for Science today. After the review and discussion she took her test. She did a great job on the test - her grade was 100%!
This morning we began with practice of spelling list 25. Morgan wrote the words on the wipe board. She had difficulties with through, picture, and valuable, so we did a little extra practice with those. Morgan also finished her journal entry from yesterday. We read over for spelling and grammar. We discussed the use of different transitions instead of writing three sentences in a row starting with the word “then”. In Latin today, we reviewed lesson 17 vocabulary. Later in our session, Morgan tested on the six words. She scored 6/6 on the vocabulary and read four of the six Latin words correctly. We began discussing lesson 18 and writing the flashcards for the vocabulary words. This lesson focuses on the verb to be. We saw it is the most common verb in most languages and shows an existence, not an action. We looked at the singular and plural versions. Our grammar study today focused on singular possessive nouns. Morgan rewrote phrases to use a possessive noun. For example, puddles of the street became the street’s puddles. Additionally, we completed some grammar activities focusing on interrogative vs. exclamatory, past tense, syllables, vocabulary, plural nouns, pronouns, and phonics. For Literature, we continued our study of fairy tales. First, we read, The Three Little Pigs (classic version). After this story, Morgan made a pop quiz to test a friend. She asked questions that require answers involving responses of a who, what, where, why, and how. We also discussed the moral of the story. Next, we read, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. In this version, the big bad wolf gives his version of the events from the original story. After reading this story, Morgan wrote about the point of view of the wolf and of the pigs. She did a nice job analyzing their views. Finally, we read another version entitled, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas and Helen Oxenbury. In this version, the three wolves build their own house of various materials and the big bad pig keeps destroying them (for example, he uses a sledgehammer to tear down the brick house and he uses dynamite to tear down their metal house). Morgan also practiced her Bible verse (Joshua 1:7) as well as performed some cursive lowercase q practice in her handwriting workbook.
Morgan's Lindamood-Bell lesson began with her visualizing the number line and counting forwards or backwards by a given number along with jumping forwards or backwards to the nearest 10. Morgan was shown five addition and subtraction flashcards for her to solve using the number line strategies. Then, they played a game of war together using multiplication flashcards with Morgan solving her flashcard along with her teachers. Next, they moved on to Morgan's sight word box along with reading her Anne of Green Gables book. After each paragraph, Morgan paraphrased and discussed the context of her readings.
Baylie continued with her grammar lesson, completing page 147 and then moving on to complete workbook pages, as directed by her teacher. Afterwards, she completed workbook pages 98-99. She finished her acrostic poem on Matthew and created some artwork to illustrate it.
Morgan practiced writing her list 25 spelling and vocabulary words in alphabetical order. In her spelling textbook, she completed vocabulary practice activities. The first was the use of context clues. She read the paragraph and entered the appropriate missing word based on the context. We also looked at the five meanings of the word picture. We read several sentences using the word and identified which definition was applicable. Finally, in her text, she completed a proofreading activity in which she identified spelling errors and misuses of its and it’s. For grammar practice we continued on with our past tense verbs work from yesterday. At the end of the booklet, we completed an activity in which she changed the verb tense in 8 sentences and found the two which were irregular verbs. We then finished writing the final draft of her Rapunzel write about reading project. Morgan reread the writing and made corrections. We also completed a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting a classic version of Cinderella and The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin. It was interesting to see how these two seemingly different stories had many parallels. For Latin today, Morgan used her flashcards to help her write the Latin words and their definitions twice in her workbook. At the end of our session, Morgan began writing in her journal about her weekend. We discussed her use of conjunctions as she will often begin a sentence with “and” or “but”. We will complete this activity and discuss spelling and grammar in our next session.
Baylie continued to work on Latin Lesson XVIII today. She was practicing declensions.
For science Baylie and the instructor tried two experiments. The one using chocolate was successful and the other experiment just did not work out. She will have a review of the lessons on matter at the next session to prepare her for a test.
Today Baylie and the instructor did an experiment on solutions. After the experiment, Baylie and the instructor reviewed the previous lessons in this unit on Matter. She read about Nuclear Energy and Combustible Matter. Baylie continues to ask interesting questions about what she reads. The Latin lesson was on adjective declensions. Baylie completed the workbook page that was assigned.
This morning Morgan practiced writing her list 25 spelling and vocabulary words in her notebook. In her spelling text, she completed a tricky activity in which she had to decode the spelling words to complete the sentence by writing the letter of the alphabet the comes before each letter in the code. This activity practiced commonly mistaken words such as threw for through. She also used list words to fill in the blanks of 7 phrases. Additionally, she practiced pronouncing and spelling different and surprise. We finished up The Rough-Face Girl scrapbook activity in which she finished writing the plot. We reviewed for spelling and grammar. For grammar practice, we read a booklet entitled, Now and Then, to practice past-tense verbs. We read about regular verbs like danced and baked, as well as irregular verbs like slept and knew. We read through the booklet and changed targeted verbs to past tense.
