Liam and I began our session with a calendar activity - identifying the month, day of the week, date, time, weather, and his feelings. Liam then completed a warm-up activity - completing ten problems focusing on math strategies. Liam then copied down lesson 1.2 and 1.3 vocabulary - number line, array, rows, columns, commutative (order) properties of multiplication. Lastly, Liam began working on Lesson 1.3 Arrays and Properties, completing guided practice problems.

Liam completed a reading comprehension activity on a story he read, "Moving Day." We reviewed our rules on pronouns and explored how they were used in the story. We talked about verbs and their use in sentences, and then completed an activity discovering them in the story. We listed short e words and then used them to make a story. We discovered the sound soft c and soft g make, as well as, hard c and hard g.

Liam imaged, read, and manipulated sounds in syllables containing short vowels, two vowels, vowel+r, and diphthongs. He read Star words 701-800 with only two errors. Finally, he read a grade-level paragraph.

Liam and I began our session with a calendar activity - identifying the month, day of the week, date, time, weather, and his feelings. Liam then completed a warm-up activity - completing ten problems focusing on math skills. Liam then completed Lesson 1.1 Relate Multiplication and Addition - completing guided practice, independent practice, and problem-solving problems. Liam also completed Lesson 1.2 Multiplication on a Number Line - completing guided practice, independent practice, and problem-solving problems, using a number line to represent and solve multiplication facts. Lastly, Liam completed five minutes on Math Prodigy - focusing on three-digit plus three-digit addition.

He completed an activity using his new vocabulary words for a story about "Great Monuments." He wrote all his vocabulary words and their definitions into his notebook. He finished an exercise demonstrating his understanding of the use of a metaphor. He read the story aloud and completed, in writing, comprehension questions about the story.

He completed several activities on Christopher Columbus. He discovered why he is considered a great explorer. He completed an experiment that demonstrated how and why boats float.

We explored his new vocabulary words and their definitions. His stories today were biographies, so we discussed what a biography was. He answered in writing comprehension questions covering both stories. He learned how the main characters in both stories took a problem and invented a solution for that problem. We worked with short u words, and words that end in double consonants. He completed an activity making words plural.

Liam and I began our session with a calendar activity - identifying the month, day of the week, date, time, weather, and his feelings. Liam then completed a warm-up activity - answering ten math problems. Liam then completed a readiness test, practicing different strategies. Liam wrote down lesson 1.1 vocabulary in his math journal such as equal groups, multiplication, equations, unknown, factors, and product. We then continued working on guided practice problems for lesson 1.1 - how can you find the total number of objects in equal groups? We will continue with this topic during our next session, working on independent problems. Lastly, Liam completed ten minutes on Math Prodigy - reading bar graphs and answering questions.

Liam successfully imaged, read, and manipulated sounds in syllables containing two vowels, diphthongs, and vowel +r. He practiced Star words from list six without error. Finally, he read a grade level passage at a rate of 90 words correct per minute.

We began the study of plants and their parts by reading about the giant Redwood Trees. We watched a video about the giant redwoods learning about their growth process. We discovered their amazing root system, and how baby redwoods can grow from these roots. We learned how leaves produce food for the tree through photosynthesis.