I returned Stephen's Barefoot Mailman review and labeled/shaded map of the USA. We discussed the comments I wrote that highlighted what Stephen did well, as well as, areas that need to be improved. Then, Stephen put together a puzzle map of the 50 states of the USA. He will take a quiz next Monday on the 50 states.

This morning Danny and I wrapped up our studies of American Symbols. We reviewed our FL Studies Weekly packet entitled "Celebrate America". We reviewed that symbols are something that stand for something else. We also reviewed that Rosa Parks wanted equality for African-Americans. Danny scored a 5/5 on our follow up retest. For his final assessment, he sorted 12 pictures to find the 8 correct American Symbols pictures and 4 incorrect pictures. He sorted them all correctly! Next, we began our next unit of our FL Studies Weekly with our packet on "Needs and Wants". We discussed that needs are the things that we must have to live, while wants are things we'd like to have. We sorted nine pictures into want vs. need. These included items such as food, water, soda, a football, and an iPhone. Danny first cut the nine circular shaped pictures providing for a nice fine motor task. He then had to look at the starting letter of "want" and "need" to determine on which page to paste the picture. We discussed the items and sorted them together. We then began labeling each picture by Danny copying my written words. We will complete this task tomorrow. We also introduced writing the date on his papers (4-11-17); we will continue practicing this on all his tasks.

Ben was surprised to learn about the Holocaust. This is one area in history that he did not seem to know about before we reached it in the text/timeline. We read in the text about the rise of Hitler, concentration camps, the Holocaust and genocide. We supplemented our reading with a short video on BrainPop about Hitler and the Holocaust. Ben asked some great questions. He finished painting his 3D globe for Earth Day and it is hanging in the front of the school. He added banners that encourage recycling.

Stephen completed labeling and shading his map of the United States. Stephen will receive a classwork grade for the assignment. Stephen felt more confident about where each of the 50 states are located on a map. There will be a quiz of the 50 states early next week.

Bobby is working on the creative element of the project. He is still adding content to iMovie slides and adjusting font, and effects.

Jackson worked on his project. He is working on content and paraphrasing information.

Ethan completed the Social Studies and Listening Skills portion of the test.

In this lesson, Arianna learned about Urban, Suburban, and Rural communities. After completing a worksheet, she went on to color an urban scene and then create a diarama of "Commute Community ".

In this lesson, Gracyn listened as I read to her regarding some first communities in the medieval times. As she listened, she colored pictures of castles. We had a good discussion about the fairness of the lord of the manor and his unfair treatment of his workers.

In this lesson, Arianna continued with the material from her previous teacher. She studied about Ben Franklin and his contributions to his community. She also worked on bodies of water.