This morning, Jonathan took an end-of-first-grade math assessment. This assessment covered the general curriculum of first grade math. Jonathan demonstrated ready knowledge of his addition and subtraction facts of 0 – 20. He was assessed on time to the hour and half hour and showed 90% accuracy with verbal knowledge that he can tell time to the minute as well. He was able to answer missing addends for single-digit addition problems (2 + ___ = 10). He was readily able to add and subtract two-digit numbers with tens (i.e. 20 + 7 and 80-30). He was able to add and subtract two-digit numbers in a vertical format without regrouping. He was provided drawings to help with horizontal presentations of two-digit by two-digit addition and he used this to help him with the one of three problems that needed regrouping. He did well with word problems requiring one – three steps involving addition and subtraction. He is able to visualize a square with 4 dots presented, but needed prompting to tell me how many sides it has and could not derive that it has 4 equal sides independently when asked to tell me about the sides. There are several skill areas that he has not quite achieved which involve comparing numbers and expressions, fact families, place value, money, geometry, and mixed addition and subtraction. These areas will continue to be addressed in his math programming with the anticipation that he will readily accomplish these tasks prior to the end of the school year. For enrichment, he should begin to work more on two-digit by two-digit addition with regrouping as well as word problems with increasing steps and difficulty. We wrapped up our session with a fun, educational Brain Pop Jr. on place value. We learned the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands. Jonathan scored a 4/5 on the follow-up easy quiz.

We continued our challenge with the surprise folded drawing. Jonathan decided we should each draw a zoo. He added an abundance of details to his picture. He's a very diligent worker.

Jonathan acted out a scene using his stuffed animals and toys. He did a scavenger hunt that ended in creating a commercial. We did a "toy store" acting activity.

Religion: Today we began our study of Easter in Jonathan’s We Believe textbook. We read about the joyous time of Easter. We discussed signs of life that we see outdoors. From the textbook, we read from Matthew 28: 1- 10 which told of an angel telling Mary Magdalene and Mary that Jesus had risen from the dead and to go tell the other followers. Language Arts: In practicing alliteration, Jonathan declared today as “Marvelous Monday”. With our daily language review, we discussed how book titles will be underlined when we write them. We also identified our sentences as declarative or interrogative as well as determined the complete subject and complete predicate. In Jonathan’s iReady textbook, we completed pages 137 – 138. We read about key points and reasons to support key points. We read an example in the text. Using a provided source text, Upsetting the Balance (about food chains), we identified the key point between two given examples. We then found a reason in the text to support the key point. Jonathan then completed two assessments related to our novel, Afternoon on the Amazon. After several days of practice, Jonathan scored 11/12 + the bonus word (stretches) on his spelling test, which was up from 5/12 on the pretest. He then scored 15/15 on his multiple-choice whole book test on our novel. We enjoyed a fun language activity in which Jonathan had to practice categorizing. He was given a list of items and had to develop a question for them. For word work today on IXL, he worked with identifying how many syllables in words such as caterpillar, umbrella, and microscope. Finally, we continued our focus on the rainforest. We began researching for our new writing project in which Jonathan will create a chapter book on animals of the rainforest. We looked up the ocelot, yellow spotted river turtle, boa constrictor, and purple honeycreeper (bird). We took notes on each animal as to their diet, appearance, interesting facts, and where in the rainforest they reside. We looked at pictures of each as well. Jonathan drew an illustration of the boa constrictor. We discussed how to indent and he began writing a paragraph about the appearance of the boa constrictor. On National Geographic Kids, we looked at pictures of some animals and plants of the
rainforest. To wrap up our session, we watched a video giving a nice overview of the temperate and tropical
rainforests.

We worked on playing basic rhythms from a sheet called "10 Breakfast Snare Drum Exercises" from Learndrumsforfree.com. The rhythms were paired with breakfast food words that match the written notes and subdivisions.

Using 5 12"X12" pieces of foil, Jonathan created posable animal and people figures. Also after I read a short book to him, "Mr. Silly", Jonathan created 4 of his own "Mr. Men" characters who lived in the ocean.

Using perpendicular straight lines, markers, scissors, and tape, Jonathan turned a flat piece of white paper into a moving 3 D decoration for his pencil. By folding paper and using markers, he continued yesterday's lesson where he created animals whose mouths would open to reveal what the animal had eaten..

Jonathan used his toys to act out a scene. We played an acting game using the alphabet and creating sentences based off of a topic.

Jonathan used his toys to act out scenes. We played an acting game that incorporates the alphabet and creating sentences based on a topic.

Jonathan used his toys to act out a scene. We played an acting game that incorporated starting sentences with letters of the alphabet in order based on a chosen topic.