Christopher started his lesson writing sight words: about, over, give, come, and she using colorful markers and a whiteboard. He continued preparation for his dictation test by marking up the words swinging and invented. Christopher underlined the base word and circled the suffix. He then proceeded to mark up the vowels, digraphs, and blends. Christopher did his dictation by writing five sounds. He wrote five real words and five sight words. Christopher wrote three sentences using the words from lesson 3.5. At the end, Christopher used a red pen to do the analysis of his paper. He did a great job on the sight words and got them all correct. He underlined the base word of the words from 3.5 and circled the suffix. Christopher scooped the syllables correctly on the nonsense words. He read the sentences back to me and spelled words orally that I asked him. Christopher needed review today on capitalizing the first word of a sentence and remembering to end the sentence with a period. Christopher ended the session by starting a reading titled: An Investment Plan. One of the vocabulary words was "solvent." In order to explain this word, we discussed the running of a lemonade stand. I explained the words revenue, cost, and profit to Christopher using simple math. Christopher understood the concept. We then discussed the second part of the reading which used the word "bankrupt." In very simple terms, we discussed what would happen if the cost of the lemonade stand was greater than the money that was made from selling the lemonade. Christopher is ready for the test on book 3 tomorrow. He has made very good progress.