Sadee completed a Dr. Seuss word search and worked on a spelling and vocabulary page. She completed 2 pages of her math practice and read the story Little Bunny Saves the Day.

Sadee flipped a penny 100 times and counted the number of heads and tails showed up. We recorded the results using tally marks. The total for heads was 53, and for tails was 47. Sadee had great fun with this activity. We then made a penny rubbing and Sadee wrote the year of the penny on the activity. Sadee was reminded how to write the number 6 as she occasionally reverses it. She next worked on a Statue of Liberty activity where she connected numbers 1 - 50 and then colored in the page as we reviewed facts. Sadee read a booklet about the Statue of Liberty and another on President Lincoln. We looked up images of the Statue of Liberty and Sadee asked relevant questions and then colored it in the activity book. Sadee made observations about Lincoln's appearance and traced his picture on the back of the book. She enjoyed today's activities.

Sadee and I began our session with 'BrainPOP Jr.' video, "Dr. Seuss" introducing the history of Dr. Seuss. Sadee practiced her spelling words on the whiteboard. Sadee did very well, only having difficulty with the word 'sighed'. Lastly, Sadee completed 100 subtraction problems in 10 minutes.

In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America Day, our session integrated various Dr. Seuss themed activities. Math: Today we reviewed concepts of her recent lessons. Sadee then completed Written Assessment 18 which covered subtraction word problems (-10), drawing pictures in a pictograph, using comparison symbols with equations, counting money (dimes, nickels, and pennies), drawing pictures to represent numbers and then writing in expanded form, and solving addition equations. She did a terrific job with only one minor calculation error yielding a score of 95%. After reading, “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss we completed a fun activity of graphing colored Goldfish crackers. Sadee tallied and drew a pictograph to reflect how many. She then responded to comparison questions. Bible: Sadee practiced her memory verse by writing and saying her verse (Isiah 55:6). She later scored a 100% on the recitation of this verse. ELA: We began with writing today to complete Sadee’s flag project paper. She copied her three sentences from her “sloppy copy” beautifully onto her final page. Next, we completed some make-up work from her absence this week. Sadee wrote her spelling words two times in her notebook as well as two dictation sentences, completed a phonics activity, and put her spelling words in alphabetical order. We moved on to our Dr. Seuss activities by starting with a handwriting paper in which Sadee copied sentences (as written by her teacher) about Dr. Seuss. She worked very hard to write neatly! We learned about making text connections with text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text with our reading of “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”. We enjoyed a reading of “The Cat in the Hat” and “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back”. We completed a comprehension and recall activity after the first story. Then, after hearing both stories, we completed a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the main events, characters, and setting of both stories. Sadee also identified nouns, verbs, and adjectives related to the stories.

Sadee began today's session completing her math work. She worked on subtraction and obtained a 97% on this exercise. Next, we read a Dr. Seuss book, "I am Not Going to Get Up Today." Sadee asked me to read it first, and then asked to read it herself. She read very well, requesting little assistance for accuracy. We then worked on three more activity sheets (counting, word search, and alphabetical order). Sadee had fun celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday today at school wearing the color green, as requested.

Math: Today we began with written assessment 17. This tested Sadee’s skills with addition word problems, reading a chart to find most and fewest, measuring in inches, time, place value, and addition and subtraction. Sadee scored a 94% with one minor calculation error. We then completed Saxon lesson 95. The focus of this lesson was subtraction by 7, in which Sadee is quite fluent! It also focused on estimating and counting large collections. We reinforced estimating and rounding to the nearest 10 with a learning video on Brain Pop Jr. Her Guided Class Practice / Homework activity tasked her with word problems using time in hours, expanded form and written number form, pictographs, matching numbers and words, time, rounding, and addition and subtraction. We are working to make sure she uses the “key” to reflect items in her pictographs. We continued our review of time and subtraction with flash cards and quick subtraction drills.
Bible: Sadee worked to memorize her Bible verse for the week. We also enjoyed reading a children’s picture book of the Bible story of David and Goliath.
ELA: For writing today, we added two more sentences to her flag picture project. We worked with her spelling words through writing them two times as well as generating two sentences using words from her list. To tie in with her social studies activities, we enjoyed the fiction book, “Duck for President” by Doreen Cronin. Sadee then completed a creative writing piece using the prompt, “If I would be president”. Her initiatives as president would be to drink coffee (as Duck did in our book), change the spelling of “would” to “wod”, and change the flag to pink, white, and purple! Her phonics textbook activities tasked her with identifying the “tain” in words like fountain, captain, chieftain, changing the y to “i” and adding the suffix (er, est), identifying prefixes, circling compound words in a word search, identifying the correct -dge words to match a picture, marking special sounds, and writing antonyms.

Sadee practiced her spelling and vocabulary. She completed her 100 subtraction problems in 7 minutes with 100% accuracy.

Sadee began class with a cardiovascular, obstacle course warmup. Next, she participated in a game of basketball. Then, Sadee partook in a soccer passing activity, focusing on kicking the ball to a designated target. Lastly, she played a game of ping pong and practiced her hula-hooping skills.

Sadee enjoyed performing an experiment using materials which included pennies, salt, and vinegar this morning. Part of the experiment took one hour before results could be observed. Sadee noticed that in one of the two bowls, the combination of salt and vinegar produced a chemical reaction that cleaned the pennies. In the other bowl, using just the vinegar was to have created a chemical reaction called oxidation; however, Sadee waited for these pennies to turn a blue-green color but it had not yet changed by the end of class. She read a book called the Lincoln Memorial and was proud to demonstrate her good reading skills. We then watched a video about the Liberty Bell and Sadee also worked on a map activity. She counted the states and circled her state of Georgia. Sadee finished up by completing her penmanship page, taking care to bring her letters down to the line. I read the next chapter, 'The Mystery' in 'The Boxcar Children, the Yellow House Mystery' before we ended our productive session.

Today we were scheduled to complete exercises in spelling, phonics, grammar and reading. Sadee was absent due to illness today.