Some Highlights

I don't remember everything we did today, but these are some of the highlights.

WRITING: Clarissa wrote a story about a girl named Paint. It was a good story with beautiful illustrations. One of her goals this year is to learn to type so that she can do her stories on the computer and have tools like spell check to help with her writing. Today was her first time typing up one of her stories, she did a really good job and enjoyed putting the words in different fonts and boldness. I taught Jared several different ways to organize your thoughts for an essay, gave him the topic for his Beowulf essay and helped walk him through the elements of a 5 paragraph essay.
SCIENCE:While Clarissa was working on her story, the girls decided to play doctor. I gave them some books about the human body to look at to add to their game.

VOCAB: We read a book called, "Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster." It was really funny plus it taught the meanings of a lot of new words. It is about a girl who mistakes the word Miscellaneous to mean Miss Alaineus. We joked about dressing up for Halloween as characters like, Mr. E (mystery), Miss Adventure (Misadventure), and Miss Take (Mistake), etc.

MATH - Jared and I played a multiplication gave from Family Math pg. 246. We worked on a new way of multiplying and had to round our answers then find them on a Bingo type board. It was challenging for both of us, but we figured it out and had fun with it.