Kip and I began our session with reviewing and printing the calendar of assignments for the week. Kip then completed twenty minutes of iReady. Kip then completed his religion test on lesson 6, focusing on how God shares his life with us. For the last ten minutes of class, we skimmed and observed pictures for our reading that we will complete tomorrow.

I began with a phonological awareness exercise, asking Kip to delete one sound from an initial blend. This oral drill helps with spelling. Next, I reviewed the und deck with visual and auditory exercises. Graphemes included ar, er, ur, or, oo, ea, ee, ai, ay. Next, we practiced "regular" spelling words; I dictated the following: barn, fern, burn, born, food, need, read, wait, stay. To review irregular words, I dictated 15 words from a UFLI list of commonly used irregular words. Kip correctly spelled the following: the, is, his, as, has, you, to, do, for, of, said, was, want, what, are. I taught the grapheme oa as a new concept; Kip read example words. To conclude, we co-read the novel Ranger.

Kelcy read and learned about ways people change the environment. Focus was on transportation, farms, mines, water and electricity. He did well discussing the Review Questions at the end of the chapter. Kelcy was particularly interested in canals and the locks. We watched a brief video that illustrated how the locks work.

Kip completed Quizzes for Lessons 11 and 12. Kip completed 15 minutes of IReady on the computer. Kip reviewed 6-9 multiplication facts. We played a partial game of chess.

Opened with a light dynamic stretch to loosen muscles followed by a light dynamic warmup to get the blood flowing. Kelcy and I continued to work on baseball, we’re focused on increasing his batting average on faster and more difficult pitches.

Kip learned about the fundamental tools in Photoshop for each filter and painted patterns. He created a special pattern brush to paint on his art print.

We opened up with a light dynamic stretch, followed by a light dynamic warmup. Kelcy and I worked on fine tuning his fundamental baseball skills. Our main focus was hitting and pitching.

Opened with a light dynamic stretch to loosen muscles followed by a light dynamic warmup to get the blood flowing. Kip competed in a friendly game of 500. The objective of the game is to throw the ball into a small basket from various different locations, each location varies in difficulty. Kip also participated in a series of reaction and coordination drills in our early morning session.

Kelcy enjoyed participating in a school wide Valentine's Day celebration.

Kelcy looked at pictures of different environments, wrote how the environments affect people and wrote how people can adapt to the environment. He began the assignment yesterday. In addition, he read two passages, one on George Washington and the other on Abraham Lincoln. He did well answering questions based on the texts. Kelcy completed a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting Washington and Lincoln.