Christopher started the lesson today by returning to the dictation we did yesterday. He worked on scooping multisyllabic words, marking up vowels, and underlining blends. Christopher knows how to mark up two syllable types correctly. He reviewed how to mark up a vowel-consonant-e exception by writing v-e and making an X over the symbol. Chrisotpher read each of his sentences and showed me the correct punctuation. He
remembered to capitalize the letters at the beginning of the sentence. Christopher circled sight words and spelled all sight words correctly. Christopher spelled such words as distribute, demonstrate, and Valentine aloud from memory. He is learning to spell one syllable at a time. Christopher continued the lesson by reading Valentine Kate on p. 61. He asked me the meaning of the word "contemplate." For this word, we discussed the meaning. A definition was entered into his dictionary and a sentence was added. Christopher drew a diagram of himself contemplating a taco. He wanted to tell me today about" braised beef." Christopher has brought in some humor recently by talking about spaghetti and pesto sauce. Christopher ended the lesson by practicing some new sight words: down, does, sound, found, Mr., for, book, wanted, and she. Christopher wrote all of these words correctly using the red dry erase marker on the whiteboard.