We played songs on the electric keyboard, and learned the note names for the keys.

Prepare a batch of miso soup and a side of steamed edamame

This morning, Libby and I began with a review of the Make a 10 strategy. Libby was given groups of items less than 10 and she determined how many more she would need to have 10 in all. We continued to practice this skill with imaginative play using her stuffies at a pretend tea party. Next, we worked on the doubles strategy. The doubles fact to 10 were written on the whiteboard and we listened to a doubles fact song.

Practice random letter symbols and sounds. Write the upper or lower case letters for examples given. Decode short cvc and short vowel words with the ch, sh, and th digraphs. Do sight word practice sheet and practice letter formation. Read decodable book. Draw and write to practice sentences.

We looked at images of fun places in Spanish speaking countries that people can visit.

We used key Spanish words while we discussed the images.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk and calendar writing activity, worked on her phonics activities, put together her daily sentence puzzle and read and discussed her Scholastic News Magazine about jellyfish.

Use the discovery of a caterpillar building a cocoon to create a short story...illustrate and write three simple sentences. Practice short vowel sounds and build words together. Write the word you and then complete a sheet for and, you, & look.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk and calendar writing, put together her daily sentence puzzle, worked on her phonics activities, and observed the baby chicks.

Libby and I continued to work on the ways to make 10. She wrote part-part whole models to show the different ways to make 10 and used small counting cubes to model each part. Then, the cubes were pushed together and placed on the whole to show a total of 10. Next, we used the same models to solve subtraction problems starting with 10. Libby created stories and took a part from 10 to find the other part.

This morning, Libby and I worked on the friends of 10. We used an erasable 10-frame and 2 colored dry erase markers to show the different ways to make 10 and wrote the two corresponding number sentences for each. Then, Libby wrote the number sentences on her paper and circled the "friends" with colored markers to make friend bubbles.