Today's lesson plan discussed natural resources, which was defined as a substance found in the Earth naturally. We discussed the importance of water, plants, and soil. Jonathan understands that plants provide us with food and oxygen to help us breathe. We discussed how plants also make and protect soil, feed animals, shelter animals and are used to make clothes and many medicines. We spoke about how soil contains important nutrients that plants and humans need to stay alive, and that it helps plants retain (store) the moisture needed to grow. Finally, we discussed the importance of water and learned that water is the most essential natural resource that the Earth gives us. Jonathan correctly stated that people can live longer without food than water.

Today, Jonathan ordered three objects by length, and compared the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object. He used a non-standard reference unit to measure objects by laying multiple copies of a shorter object end-to-end. When problem-solving, Jonathan demonstrates a good ability to decide if amounts or sizes are greater than, less than, or equal to each other, and understands that the number of reference objects is the length measurement of the item being measured.

Student Absent

Today we were to continue our novel study of Pirates Past Dawn, work on possessive nouns, and continue our nonfiction project. Jonathan was absent for his session.

We began the session reviewing the functon of each plant part. Jonathan labeled the functions of the flower, leaf, stem, and roots, and finished coloring the leaves on the plant picture we drew the other day. Next, Jonathan learned about the life cycle of a plant today. He learned that a life cycle shows how a living thing grows and changes, and that the plant's life begins with a seed. We then reviewed the major stages of the flower life cycle. Jonathan understands that the plant life cycle starts with a seed, and that every seed holds a miniature plant called the embryo. We reviewed the major stages, which are germination, growth, reproduction, pollination, and spreading seeds.

Jonathan solved problems that required him to be able to compare and interpret data in charts and graphs and answer questions about the data. He has demonstrated that he is familiar with reading tally charts and picture graphs and comparing quantities within 20. He is now beginning to order objects by length.

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Jonathan worked on his talent show star. We watched a puppet show to get ideas for his own puppet play. He practiced his song for the talent show.

Jonathan was given his canvas project and instructed to complete the line art for his image. Once Jonathan completed his project I had him sign the canvas and double check for any remaining details. We moved on to looking into a string art project for Jonathan. Jonathan kept with his theme of a Pokemon and chose a character. We made a complete list of all the colors he would need to complete the character and began the set up for the template of his image.

Religion: Today Jonathan began by recalling our discussion about Mary from yesterday. He read the Hail Mary prayer and drew a picture of her. We then read in his textbook about how the saints are close to God. We learned that saints are followers of Jesus who have died and now live forever with God. We read about six different saints. Language Arts: In Jonathan’s iReady textbook, we used the source book, Mice and Beans to examine what words tell us about key details and then what the pictures also tell us about key details in the story. These details help us understand more about the characters, setting, and events in the story. For our All About Me nonfiction text features project, we began with a book explaining pie charts. We examined pie charts and then made a sample chart using data from an adverb paper we completed last week. Jonathan then made a pie chart with labels using his five character traits from his glossary. He also wrote a title for his project, “Jazzy Jonathan”. He then wrote a caption for his photograph and he used markers to provide a decorative accent on all of these pieces. For literature today, we read chapter 6 of Pirates Past Noon. Jonathan then sequenced the beginning, middle, and end of the chapter. For a fun activity for a recap of chapters 5 and 6, he drew his own treasure map to capture the setting of the story. His map reflected the requirements: a pirate ship, an island shaped like a whale, the location of the treasure, and the location of the tree house in a palm tree. We then read chapter 7. For our follow up work, we examined the words lubbers and gale by telling what’s happening when used in the story, what he thought the words meant, and we used the dictionary to find the actual meaning. For grammar, we read the book, Under, Over, By the Clover: What is a Preposition? This fun rhyming book reviewed prepositions and we found ways to describe the funny characters in the picture at the end using prepositions. He then practiced using prepositions to complete simple sentences in IXL. Finally, we practiced spelling on Reading Eggspress focusing on the ee sound made by ea and ee. Jonathan worked through various games to practice proper spelling of words with these sounds like bleed, cream, green, and cheek. He scored 10/10 on the follow up test.