Christopher started his lesson reviewing all of the vowel sounds: a,e,i,o,u, and schwa. Christopher needs review on schwa because he thinks it makes a /w/ sound because the keyword is wagon. Today I pointed out that it is the unstressed syllable "on" that has the schwa sound. Christopher practiced the consonants and digraphs: sh, g, r, and z. He practiced the welded sounds: olt, ind, ong, ung, all, and am. Today I introduced the suffixes "ed" and "ing" to Christopher. He read the words twisted,, twisting, rented, renting, folded, and folding. Christopher identified the base word and the suffix. The information about suffixes was added in the spelling section of the notebook. Christopher practiced marking up the words rented and folding. He learned to underline the base words and circle the suffix using colorful markers on the whiteboard. Christopher also marked up the vowels and underlined blends. We played the game that Christopher designed to practice a word stack from 3.5. For authentic reading, we read three paragraphs from the New York Times about tic tocs. Christopher finds this subject interesting and this helps Christoper find value in a newspaper to read about something that interests him.