We learned about reading quarter note rhythms, and played through the exercises in Lesson 1 of Alfred's Snare Drum Method, book 1.

Jonathan reviewed different types of communities by watching a short YouTube video. Jonathan made a poster for rural communities. He created pros and cons for living in the rural community and correctly drew a representation of the community. Jonathan was introduced to the vocabulary terms reduce, reuse, and recycle. He watched a brainpop video on these terms. Jonathan created ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle in the rural communities.

Jonathan reviewed adding money with regrouping and decimals. Jonathan used his restaurant menu he created and solved four problems using his menu. Jonathan practiced fractions and watched a short YouTube video on fractions. Jonathan created fractions based on ten different pictures. Jonathan drew out different fractions based on different word problems. Jonathan watched a brainpop video on fractions and took a short quiz. Jonathan read a fraction book on YouTube and created different fractions with the book.

Brainstorm ideas of what people and objects would be at a circus. Then draw a circus tent scene.

This morning we began with our daily language review. This activity was enriched by discussing the “tense” of the sentences as well as their type. We looked at capitalization and punctuation in the closing of a friendly letter as well as discussed the literary element of cause and effect in one of the sentences. Additionally, we examined double negatives such as “doesn’t never”. We then read chapters 4 – 7 in our book, Dolphins at Daybreak. After each chapter, we worked through comprehension and critical thinking questions. We focused on the vocabulary terms peeping, defective, scram, and bobbed with our reading. We made predictions as we read and inferred as to why we thought the mini-sub was damaged even further. We discussed rereading when the sentence doesn’t make sense. Jonathan drew an illustration to reflect what he saw for one of the scenes in chapter 7. Additionally, we read a portion of the text in which the author used the literary device of repetition. The words calmly and calm were used multiple times in a small section of text. We discussed how the author’s use of repetition helps to provide emphasis on a particular item. In this case, we were reading how Jack and Annie were trying to say calm when escaping the mini-sub with the shark in the water. To enrich our literature topic, we read an article entitled Watery Wonders of the World which discussed the dives of an extreme diver who explores sinkholes, underwater caves, and icebergs. We read of some of her experiences and then watched a short supplemental video that showed us some of the animal life, islands, and icebergs of the world’s five oceans. For writing today, Jonathan continued working on his short story about a boy discovering that his pet can talk. We discussed features that his story needs to contain as well as a beginning, middle, and end. Jonathan began working on his story. He read the first few sentences to me and we discussed his overuse of the word “and”, which at many times was starting the sentence.

Jonathan worked on the tiaga forest biome. He learned where this biome is located. Jonathan looked at world maps and learned that the taiga forest takes up more land than any other biome on Earth. He also learned that this biome is in Russia in the area known as Siberia. It is also in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Canada, and Alaska. Jonathan drew the biome for his practice of the important concepts. He made the types of trees found in the taiga which include many conifers. Jonathan learned the vocabulary word coniferous. He studied the needle formation and cone types as well as tree shapes of the spruce, pine, cedar, and fir. Jonathan learned that the caribou travels south to get out of the long winter. He also had a demonstration of the concept of long winter when we did the Summer and Winter Solstice diagrams yesterday. Jonathan learned that the taiga has wolverines, the Cooper's hawk, wolves, moose, the showshoe hare, deer, lynx, and chipmunks. Jonathan learned that many of the animals have broad feet so that they can walk on top of the snow. He learned that the winters are very long and very dark, and that the summers are very short with light almost 24 hours per day. He learned he meaning of the "Land of the Midnight Sun."

Jonathan reviewed urban, rural, and suburban communities and their characteristics. Jonathan created a poster for the suburban community. He drew a representation of the suburban community and he added the pros and the cons for living in the suburbs. Jonathan watched a video on taking care of communities. Jonathan drew areas in each community where trash would be found.

Jonathan practiced adding money by "shopping" at a store with prices. He was able to choose two items and add them together and see if he had enough money to purchase them. Jonathan completed multiple different word problems based on this store. Jonathan created a restaurant menu with prices for his food. We will be using his menu to purchase food tomorrow.

I came up with a final project to add to his webpage/portfolio pages of his site. We came up with a page that would educate some people about Pokemon. The first step was to list all of the types Pokemon. He gave me the list and I instructed him to create an image that would represent each type. He chose his first three characters, illustrated each, took process pictures, and sent the images to me.

Jonathan has been tasked with continuing his work on different Pokemon types. Jonathan chose his next subjects which were ghost and fairy type Pokemon. I informed Johnathan that I needed him to make sure that he uses his own poses but use reference to make sure that the characters had all of the details that were required. He took progress pictures of his work and sent them to me so that they could be added to his webpage.