Jonathon continued working on his Pokemon project. He used acrylic paint for this project.

Language Arts: Today we began with our daily language review to examine capitalization and punctuation, synonyms, sounds in words, and ABC order. Next, we worked in his iReady textbook. Using the source book, Mice and Beans, Jonathan interpreted the feelings of a character, determined which sense the target word described, and identified the narrator. He also wrote two sentences to tell how he knows this is a made- up story. We then finished the revisions and edits in Jonathan’s writing piece in progress. We first try to see if Jonathan can find any errors to help with the self-revision process. He began to write his final draft by writing his introduction page and started the illustration. We enjoyed chapter 7 in our novel, The Knight at Dawn. Jack fell out of the castle and into the water! We discussed the meaning of the word “precipice” as used in the text. After lunch, a fellow student joined us for Word Work Wednesday! We used the word “tepid” to focus on today by finding the definition and part of speech in the dictionary. We also found the guide words on the top of the dictionary page, identified a synonym and antonym, and used the word in a sentence. Next, the two students put their grammar skills to the test with a game of Jeopardy! They took turns choosing categories and point values in the areas of adverbs, adjectives, articles, and the homophones to, too, and two. They did a great job and enjoyed this challenging game, asking to play again! We reinforced sportsmanship and ways to support fellow classmates in a game situation. To wrap up our joint session, we completed an activity focused on the main characters of our current novel study. The students looked through various descriptions and collaborated to decide if the adjective best described Jack or Annie. They then applied each trait to the appropriate character page. They also wrote about what the character looks like and something the character regularly does. Jonathan completed the task focused on Jack. Religion: We continued on in Jonathan’s textbook with lesson 23. Today we read about how we listen to God’s word and how the gifts of bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ. We focused on the key words Gospel (the Good News about Jesus Christ and his teachings) and altar (the table of the Lord).

Today, we performed a STEM hands-on experiment, exploring force as a push or pull energy that make something move. We used a game board, blocks, masking tape, two plastic bottles (one full and 1 empty), and an empty cereal box to explore what gives more push. We wanted to find out if an empty bottle has more or less push than a full bottle. Jonathan made predictions and had fun making a ramp using the folded game board and blocks, and rolling first an empty bottle and then the full bottle down the ramp. Jonathan shared his observations about how the push felt and predictions about what would happen if we rolled the empty bottle down the ramp if a cereal box was placed in front of the ramp. He had a fun time exploring different examples of push and pull energy in this interactive science activity.

Jonathan solved problems finding the unknown number. He appears comfortable applying strategies to solve problems using addition to check subtraction. We reviewed strategies of related facts and the commutative property of addition (using addition to check subtraction). Jonathan understands that missing addends may be found using different methods. He has been encouraged to use the relationship between addition and subtraction to find the missing numbers.

Language Arts: Jonathan shared part of his session with a fellow student for social interaction and team building. First, the students examined the suffixes -er (person who) and -ful (full of). Jonathan was not familiar with the term suffix, so this activity served as a great introduction for him. They created a craft of placing the suffix on a cloud, the definition on a lightning bolt, and root words for each suffix on raindrops onto a large poster paper. They set up their craft and pulled the root words from a baggie and sorted as appropriate. Together they shared the words they created and wrote them to practice the spelling for each. These included words such as thankful, joyful, cheerful, teacher, announcer, and biker. Jonathan added gamer to his! Next, we continued working together with a fun educational board game about context clues. The students took turns traveling along the board and reading questions which required them to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of a target word. This included words such as merchant and stalled. Each student took turns reading the answer key for the other. As we have been working on adverbs, we played another quick game to determine if the board space listed an adverb or a verb. The students shared various sentences using the words as well as their tricks for remembering each. To wrap up our joint session, we had fun with a plural noun word search. The words in the bank were written in singular form, but he had to find the plural version in the word search. All of the words ended in f or fe, requiring him to change the spelling to the -ves ending. After lunch, Jonathan worked on writing. We worked on the revisions and edits of Jonathan’s piece about a snowy day. We looked at punctuation, capitalization, verb tense and sentence structure. We worked to stretch some of his sentences to add more detail. I modeled how to write an introduction paragraph and we worked on completing that together. We enjoyed two chapters of our book, The Knight at Dawn. Jonathan responded to follow-up questions orally and also practiced his novel based spelling words for the week. Religion: Today we began lesson 23 which focuses on “We Celebrate the Mass”. We read about the importance of Sunday Mass, which is the Church’s greatest celebration. We read about how the Mass starts and how our prayer begins “Glory to God...”. We discussed ways to make people feel welcome and how we welcome people into Mass. Jonathan said his Our Father prayer as well.

Jonathan recited the song How Far I'll Go by Moana. He is learning the words so that he can pantomine the song for the talent show.

Jonathan and I continued to learn the words to the song"How Far I'll Go." I chunked the lyrics, and we worked on one section. We also added gestures to that one particular section.

We began with our daily language review which focused on common and proper nouns. For grammar today, we had fun with a Valentine themed task. Using the themed task cards, Jonathan worked to identify the word, or words, that solved the part of speech in question for that particular card. This included items such as prepositional phrase, adjective, adverb, predicate, and sentence type. Jonathan has not yet learned prepositional phrases, so we took a little time for a brief introduction and worked through those task cards together. Next, we took a spelling pretest with a word list generated from words related to our novel study, The Knight at Dawn. Jonathan scored 4/12, so we will work with the words he missed over the next week. These words include knight, guard, dungeon, castle, crocodile, and bridge. Our Fun Friday activity today revolved around an educational board game entitled, Inference: School Days! The game cards presented a short passage and a question with three answer choices. We had to read the card and infer the meaning of the card. Jonathan wrapped up his session with the last round of decoding Valentine jokes.

Jonathan came up with a scenario to act out. He also played the part of an audience member when watching other students act out their scenario.

Today we reviewed presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Jonathan completed a fact sheet, filling in the blanks to refine his ability to refer back to the packet to find answers. We also learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the dime and reviewed which presidents are on the penny, nickel, and quarter. Lastly, we discussed the history of the flag, its nicknames, what the colors stand for, and what the flag symbolizes - the people, the land, and the freedom of the USA.