Arianna continued with the lesson using If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. We then covered a list of goods and services for additional review of the concept.

This morning, we began with a new April calendar. We looked at the color pattern of the numbers for the dates. We marked out the days that have passed this month. Danny is able to state the days of the week (only needing a little help), but he has not mastered the skill of stating today, yesterday, and tomorrow. We completed a task in which we used a calendar with simple pictures and incomplete dates. We added in the missing numbers and answered questions by finding the items on the calendar. For example, the question asked when Earth Day was. On April 22, there was a picture of a globe. I explained to Danny that the “date” is made up of the month and the number that’s on that day. We worked through several different examples. We will continue to focus on practicing basic calendar skills. In continuing to discuss Earth Day, Danny completed painting his globe by adding Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. We completed an Earth Day recycling activity in which we looked at pictures of sorted recycled materials (bottles, plastic, paper, boxes, and cans). Danny counted each sorted item and colored in a bar graph to reflect the number of items in each recycle bin. He then decided which had the fewest and the most. We discussed recycling these items specifically by naming them (like milk jugs, soup cans, water bottles, etc.) and how it helps our earth. We reviewed wants and needs but discussing what each means. This is still a tricky concept. Danny enjoyed playing our needs and wants board game again in which he had to identify the pictures and discriminate as want or need as well as just stating a want or a need depending on the board space. We ended our time by reviewing the cardinal directions song and trying to point in the room to match the directions being said.

This morning we continued celebrating Earth Day! We added some land with green paint to Danny's globe project. We enjoyed two short videos about Earth Day from Sid the Science Kid and Discovery Education. We followed these up with an easy reader that Danny took home to share with his family. These sources reminded us that it's important to take care of our home, the Earth, by doing things such as: recycling, donating old toys and clothes, planting trees, and turning off lights and water. Danny added on the last page of the booklet that a way he can help Earth is to "pick up garbage". Additionally, we sorted statements about the Earth by deciding if the statement was a fact or an opinion. We continued our discussions on needs and wants. We watched a Pebble Go digital reader on the topic and a reader booklet that showed things kids need and then added the detail of what they want. For example, one boy needs food and wanted pasta. We then worked to sort a few more pictures between the two. Danny demonstrates a general understanding of the concept but has not shown consistency for mastery. We went through some general examples verbally in which he had to respond want or need.

We watched two tutorial videos that will help Stephen navigate the site, as well as, become familiar to various resources and tools to help him make informed decisions. Stephen used the last 20 minutes of the session to review/check his previous purchases and conduct research on companies of interest. Stephen is very interested and has laser focus the entire session.

In this lesson, Gracyn worked on the topic of goods and services with If You Give A Mouse a Cookie. She also worked to identify goods and services from the world around her.

In this lesson, Arianna worked on the topic of goods and services with If You Give A Mouse a Cookie. She also worked to identify goods and services from the world around her.

Stephen registered for the online stock market game today. We discussed the definition of economics together. We watched two tutorial videos related to using the stock market game site. Then, Stephen made his first two stock purchases.

Bobby wrote down and we discussed the definition of economics together. We watched two tutorial videos related to using the stock market game site. Then, Bobby made his first two stock purchases.

Ethan was absent today.We were scheduled to watch a couple of tutorial videos on using the Stock Market game site, as well as discuss the comparative economic systems article.

Student absent today.