Lesson Review                           2GedSuccess                        September 2005

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Tuesday, September 06, 2005                          2 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

       WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in writing; Create documents (letters, directions, reports, graphs) (Basic

                                                 Learn strategies for organization (Writing)

Writing:

Started the class giving some prompts - mostly for Colin and ended the class by going over

revision strategies  - mostly for Bobbie.

The two learners worked hard all period - just writing and taking time to conference and discuss

their issues with writing or the particular piece they were working on.

  Student Comments

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[I learned today because . . .] I was given examples of what is required most.

[I could have learned more if . . .] I just relaxed

Wednesday, September 07, 2005                    2 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

        Compute with whole numbers, fractions, decimals & integers using appropriate algorithms and a variety of techniques (Number

                                                       Relationships & Computation)

         MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations; approach practical problems by choosing from a variety of math techniques

Review of long division

Math placement assessments (informal for placement in books) and overview of how the books

work.

These two kids were extremely invested.  Only one of them took (a very short) break (near the

  Student Comments

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?:] Review of what I know and discovering what areas I need to work on

Tuesday, September 13, 2005                          1 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

       WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in writing; Create documents (letters, directions, reports, graphs) (Basic

                                                 Learn strategies for organization (Writing)

                     Explore scientific or technology content areas using methods of inquiry & information technology ()

Only one student showed today, but he logged into Moodle and enrolled in the Charboneau Fall

Writing course where he evaluated a sample essay in a thoughtful way. He also started a very

good first draft and started to revise it to make it look more like a five-paragraph essay.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005                    2 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

        Compute with whole numbers, fractions, decimals & integers using appropriate algorithms and a variety of techniques (Number

                                                       Relationships & Computation)

         MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations; approach practical problems by choosing from a variety of math techniques

Math - Place Value, Order of Operations and practice with Long division or word problems.


Tuesday, September 20, 2005                          2 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

       WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in writing; Create documents (letters, directions, reports, graphs) (Basic

                                                 Learn strategies for organization (Writing)

Writing Five Paragraph Essays

Assessing essays in Moodle and working out some writing projects.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005                    3 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

          Represent and use numbers in a variety of equivalent forms and in order relations (Number Relationships & Computation)

         MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations; approach practical problems by choosing from a variety of math techniques

Math - Mostly independent work, but we all practiced converting decimals to fractions in a

step-by-step manner.

1. Counting the decimal places to 2. Identify the correct denominator.  Then we  3. used the

decimal (without the point) as the numerator and 4. Reduced to lowest terms if necessary.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005                          1 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

       WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in writing; Create documents (letters, directions, reports, graphs) (Basic

One student.  Worked on writing and Civil War research

Wednesday, September 28, 2005                    2 Learners Present                 2.5 hours

         MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations; approach practical problems by choosing from a variety of math techniques

Math - Indendent Work.

One learner did a post test in the Decimals and Fractions book and then took home the Percents

and Proportions Book.  The other finished a Civil War quiz before practicing whole number

operations (especially rounding) and starting to learn some basic measurements.