Oliver mades notes in his Science notebook today about features of waves and worked on models of transverse and compressional waves. We watched a short video on BrainPop about waves. After finishing, he read in "Prodigy."

Oliver read to himself from "Prodigy." He loves it and initiated the reading on his own when we took a break, so I allowed time in class for him to read. He just began the new book in the series - #2 - and is really enjoying it! (He says he usually never reads, so this is really interesting him.)

Today Oliver took the Social Science and Listening areas of the Stanford Achievement Test. FLVS was not working (server down) - so I gave him a list of assignments to finish before we meet next week in order for him to stay on track.

Oliver revised the first draft of his fiction story, "Mr. Wuffles." He is adding more descriptive words. He began typing the story on Word. Oliver is printing the words for the story and is beginning to put the book together. Oliver read two chapters in "Prodigy."

Oliver completed the comprehension, spelling, and grammar sections of the Stanford Achievement Test.

Oliver worked on the language arts portion of the Stanford Achievement Test.

Today Oliver and I spent time resolving issues of being withdrawn from his FLVS U.S. History course. We are hoping to hear back from his instructor soon.

This was a continuation of quadratics. Determining the vertex by vertex form and determining the zeros by factoring, quadratic formula, completing the square and by graphing calculator.

In this activity Oliver put quadratics from standard form to vertex form by completing the square. He also learned the fourth method for finding zeros. He found the zeros of a quadratic by factoring, and worked on quadratic formula by completing the square and finally by using a graphing calculator.

Oliver's lesson started with the importance of standard form for quadratics. To write quadratics in standard form Oliver used the method of completing the square. He also learned how this
method can be used to determine zeros of the function.