Charlie presented a video overview of the world wars and the Cold War. We discussed major points of interest. Our next lessons will go into more detail of these events and the impact on our world today.
We closed with a brief discussion of current news stories of interest to Charlie.
Charlie began the session with a review of letter sounds. Words were built using the magnetic tiles. The words for today's lesson combined closed and vowel consonant e syllables. Charlie read the word cards and read all of the real words with east. For charting Charlie read all of the real words and 14/15 of the nonsense words correctly. For sentence reading, Charlie had to select the correct word to complete each sentence. He practiced spelling words using the syllable cards. For the final part of the lesson Charlie practiced reading and spelling sight words. Excellent day for Charlie.
Begin and continue with an upper body strength training routine.
We worked on hamstring and quad stretches and more.
Practice block routine 1 and kick routine 1.
Finish with cardio drill.
Charlie took out a sword that he made... I told him it looked like the sword in “Man from La Mancha” and asked him if he knew of Don Quixote. He took out his laptop to look it up. We also discussed his kindness letter he needed to start.
Assignment
Followed lesson plan left by teacher.
Session Minutes
30
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
Steve, the language arts teacher was absent. I substituted from 12:30 to 1:00. I followed lesson plan left by teacher which was to have Charlie answer questions on the story of Keesch. I offered to read through the questions and assist him with comprehension. However, Charlie would not allow me to assist so he did this alone. Charlie repeatedly stated: “how do I know if this is really what my teacher left me. I have no proof.” I answered that I was given the paper and that he recently read the story of Keesch and that he must now answer these questions. I told him I would not entertain any further conversation on the matter. He then did the work. The second portion of the assignment was for Charlie to begin a “letter of caring”. Once again he refused and then took out a “sword” - which was actually a long stick. I told him it looked like the sword in “Man from La Mancha” and asked him if he knew of Don Quiote. He took out his laptop to look it up and at that point, his math teacher entered the room.
Charlie's wonderfully creative mind designs a wall sword and sheath made out of wood. He uses a 1/4" dowel rod as a sword and attaches a wheel as a hand guard. The Sheath is developed by cutting a 3/4" x 3" x 3" piece of plywood and drilling a hole that the rod can slide into as a sheath. Extremely creative. Great session.
powers of ten, powers of 2, division word problems
Lesson Outline
I introduced Charlie to powers of 2 by asking him which he would rather have: a million dollars or one cent the first day of the month, doubling the amount each day of the day before. I demonstrated to him that he would have over ten million dollars on the 31st day of the month by starting with the penny. I then showed him two videos about the power of ten. The first showed him the relative sizes of stars and other large objects in the universe. The second video used increasing powers of 10 to increase the size of visual field shown. Charlie also used his problem solving ability to work division word problems. There was no assignment.
Assignment
See lesson outline.
Session Minutes
90
Minutes Student Attended
90
Lesson Comments
Charlie has a natural ability in math logic. He needs to get some of his math facts straight, though.
Charlie did the planning phase of building his cell today. He made a final decision he wanted to make a cell cake and chose the color of the icing and the flavor and shape of the cake. We went through each organelle and he decided what items he wanted to use to represent each one. He also decided what to use for the cell membrane and the cell wall. He will make his cell on Wednesday.
Charlie watched two OVERSIMPLIFIED videos each on the Wars....
WWI and WWII, afterwards we discussed the results and reviewed the involved countries and who won.... We also started a short session with Audio/ Spelling in Spanish. He did quite well and is showing a wonderful base in Spanish.
Spanish Basics and Geography Video Review of two Countries.
Lesson Outline
Charlie and I continued our discussion on where Spanish is spoken as we continued to pinpoint the different countries. We started researching the Falkland Islands and watched a you tube video on the general basics of this British owned yet fully Spanish speaking country. We talked about the small unassuming country of Equatorial Guinea in Africa, and why it is the only country in Africa to speak Spanish and watched a short video on the country as well. We talked about the1982 War between Argentina and the UK fighting for the rights to own the country. Also, we discussed the Nevada Volcano in Colombia that ruptured in 1985, and its affects on the people of Armenia.
I instructed Charlie to practice his multiplication math facts using online math games. Due to the timed nature of the games, Charlie was forced to answer quickly and accurately to score on the game. I also introduced him to some new math logic games. There was no assignment.
Assignment
See lesson outline.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Charlie followed my instructions and was able to solve most of the math questions and the open-ended math logic games.
