Christopher started his lesson by reviewing the long sounds of a,e,i,o, and u. He reviewed the vowel consonant e rule. Christopher practiced the sounds of consonants and digraphs: sh, g, z, wh, w, p, and qu. Christopher began his dictation. He wrote the sounds that were dictated. He wrote the real words for 4.2 and the nonsense words for 4.2. Christopher took a break to review sight words: because, cause, wherever, goes, going, and cause. He wrote these with colorful pens on the whiteboard. Then, we continued the test. Christopher got all the sight words correct. He wrote three sentences that were dictated successfully. With a little reminder, Christopher wrote the first word of the sentence with a capital letter. We worked on making the lower case letter "p" by starting it below the line so that the puff part of the "p" lands on the line. This is still not a habit, but maybe with more repetition, it will become a habit. Christopher began the analysis of the words with a red pen. He scooped two syllable words. He marked up two and three letter blends. He marked up the syllables that were closed and correctly marked up the words that had a vowel consonant e syllable. We will continue this on Wednesday.