Today, Teddy and I worked on hitting the birdie over the net.
Our goal was to do the longest rally.
We set a goal of 10, but we beat that goal and got 12.
Teddy completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, finished his calendar talk and calendar writing, worked on his phonics activities, put together his daily sentence puzzle, and learned about the sun.
We began the session with an IXL exercise and ended with me reading passages going over story elements after identifying the title, author, illustrator of the book. Teddy answered most queries correctly and was afforded minimal prompts to facilitate his performance on others requiring inferential reasoning skills.
This morning, Teddy worked on understanding the hundreds chart with a plus 1, minus 1, plus 10, minus 10 puzzle activity. Then, he completed fast fact checks on adding 1 through 9 and subtracting 1, 2, or 3. Teddy used different highlighters to mark the facts with the addition strategies that have been learned such as friends of 10, doubles, and plus 9. Finally, Teddy answered cumulative review questions on understanding addition.
Teddy worked on the doubles fact strategy to help him understand halving and doubling quantities while also preparing for the future strategy on using known doubles facts to find near doubles. We reviewed the doubles facts to 10 and the concept of even and odd. Then, Teddy matched doubles facts to their sums and practiced skip counting by 2s. He finished with subtracting 1, 2, or 3 and adding 1 through 9, fast facts checks.
Teddy began a Mother’s Day project today: constructing a jewelry box. He watched an origami tutorial to fold a base structure using green paper. We attempted to cover it with blue clay, but when supplies ran short, we rolled multiple colors into thin coils, sliced them into discs, and pressed them onto the box’s surface to simulate paint strokes. He ended class with five minutes of free time playing Poki games.
