Atticus worked on his art show project. He finished his sketch on the canvas and began to plan the background, sketching it out as he goes. He then made final details to his underdrawing.
Atticus worked on his mural designs for 15 minutes of class. We then moved in to talking about what he will be working on for the school’s art show in March. We chose a reference images and did a sketch of how he wanted the piece to look. He then sketched his idea onto his canvas.
Today, we read a scientific text about lowering heart disease risk. Atticus underlined the cause and effect of a heart attack. We discussed how you can make choices to keep your heart healthy and recorded his ideas in the science workbook. We read a passage called, "A Day in the Life of a Cardiovascular Technologist." Atticus explained if he would like to become a cardiovascular technologist by writing a paragraph.
Atticus opened Adobe XD and we worked together to create new navigation buttons for the first four pages of his mobile prototype. Atticus wrapped up his work by creating a home page and genre page. Atticus connected the pages together, tested his work, and saved his progress.
Assignment
n/a
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Atticus brought up some biological inappropriate topics up in class. I did redirect him and move past the subject matter. I also said that the information that he was asking about should be talked to with his parents.
Atticus and I reviewed this weekend's homework. The mid-topic quiz covered understanding equations and solutions, applying properties of equality, and writing and solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations. Atticus is still struggling with writing equations for situations and is making progress on solving equations with fractions and decimals. We will review it again tomorrow before moving forward. For homework, Atticus was assigned the remaining lesson's quiz questions.
While Atticus has done well with his written chapter summaries, he remains unclear on run-ons and fragments.As such, we had a grammar lesson today on sentence mechanics. I demonstrated parts of speech-subject, verb, object, and prepositional phrase -and explained what constitutes a run-on sentence and what constitutes a sentence fragment. I then distributed run-on and fragment exercises .After Atticus completed the exercises, we reviewed his answers and addressed incorrect responses. Last, I provided some spelling instruction.
Atticus completed a reading comprehension article on the Pyramids and answered in writing comprehension questions pertaining to the article. He continues to explore vocabulary words for this unit of study and write the definitions into his notebook. He read a biography about Jean-Francois Champollion and we discussed his contributions to the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Today, we explored how blood is transported throughout the body. We completed a lab activity where we counted our pulse after quietly sitting for 1 minute and after jogging in place for 1 minute. We compared the resting pulse with the jogging pulse and wrote a sentence recording our observation. Atticus wrote an answer to the following question: "Why do you think your pulse changed when you exercised?" We read a passage discussing the circulatory system. We recorded and illustrated the following vocabulary words: atria, ventricles, arteries, veins, capillaries.
We continued working on Giorno's Theme. We added some single bass notes on the left hand to support the right hand melody. We worked on proper finger placement.
