Adrian's Work Log

Monday, 4/27 Adrian enjoyed writing his acrostic poem.  Here he is performing it. Here is a link to a video of him reciting it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ s941Pm6LZwVSG9eM6 Rough draft 5 Kind things Pictograph I walked him through a number line but realized I did it wrong...or weird.  Should have added all the 10s first...sorry. Watching the seed video Tuesday, 4/28 The boys love poetry!!!  I'm so surprised, to be honest.  But they love rhythm and reciting the poems.  Here is Adrian reading today's poem: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAgYpYOXc9OvYxmP_zs6CmMtrz1dg4dH/view Here's his drawing of what's happening in the poem.  Not very inspired.  Sorry--they kept wanting to go back to read the Dog Ate My Essay poem instead... He was inspired by this journal entry, though...Wow! Here's his pictograph.  He got bored with the food items we surveyed yesterday and made up his own.  Given he did it w...

Tuesday, April 21  Today's news about the cancellation of the rest of the year hit this boy hard.  He literally climbed on my lap and stayed there for a 10 minute hug. After some Mandala coloring with me, he felt better. He made me this: Wednesday, April 22 Today their work continued to be shoddy, BUT I tried to sneak in some extras.  They already made treasure maps way back during the first week of being home (I think it came home as an assignment from either you or Mrs. Sanpietro-can't remember)  But they made new ones.  But we go hiking a lot.  I will put them in charge of the map next time.  I showed them a Borderland map today and explained to them how to read it, why scale was important (so they didn't get stuck doing too-long a hike--they seemed to understand that!), direction, the legend/symbols, etc. Today for earth day we read through the poem and had a much better discussion of why the earth is like...