Andrew began the lesson practicing all the vowels and their keywords. He practiced saying the consonants and digraphs: th, g, f, and sh. Andrew practiced the welded sounds: old, ind olt, ing, am, all, onk. Andrew then read review words hamstring, badlands, and pigskin from the magnetic tiles. He divided each of these words into syllables. We did a vocabulary study on the words Badlands and pigskin. Andrew saw the pictures of the Badlands National Park. He enjoyed learning about this desolate terrain in South Dakota. Andrew also did research with me about the term pigskin as it refers to the football. He was very amazed to learn that in the 1800's the pigs bladder was inflated to use as a ball. It was hard to inflate, and sometimes they filled it with straw instead. Andrew learned that when Goodyear invented the product, "rubber," that the pigskin went out of fashion and the rubber ball took its place. Andrew practiced reading the nonsense words wigglet, contimp, thipnest, plimmut, and podjift from the magnetic tiles. He divided these words into syllables. Andrew practiced writing the sight words: another, over, under, new, and after. He used colorful pens on the whiteboard. Andrew read a large stack of 3.2 B words and 3.2 nonsense words by playing "ladder." He was given the 3.2 B word, "skeptic." We discussed this word and began to create a dictionary entry for it. Andrew focused on the lesson today.