Language Arts: In his iReady text, we began Unit 3 entitled Craft and Structure in Literature. We read about how authors use special words to tell how people or animals feel. We looked at a provided picture and found feeling words to use to describe the drawing. He then matched the senses words to the appropriate picture. Next, we enjoyed the chapter, Stinkerbell, Shinkerbell in our novel, Stink The Incredible Shrinking Kid. Shrink and Judy accidentally let the class pet, Newton the newt go down the sink drain and they turned on the garbage disposal! We discussed figurative language used in the text such as “get cold feet” and “go back to the drawing board”. To further our discussion on nouns, we watched the Brain Pop Jr. learning video on plural nouns. Jonathan scored on the 4/5 easy quiz and 5/5 on the hard quiz. For writing today, Jonathan began the publishing process of his small moment story about Christmas Day. Using the version from yesterday in which we did our revisions and edits, Jonathan rewrote all four pages of his story incorporating the changes. Finally, to wrap up our day, Jonathan completed a little more diagnostic work on IXL to fully determines activities for growth. Religion: We continued in the We Believe textbook by starting with a review of our song from yesterday, We Celebrate with Joy. We read about ways we’d celebrate a special person coming to visit. Jonathan used his creativity to color the special words used in the prayers “Alleluia” and “Amen”. We read a prayer of thanks and Jonathan drew a picture of himself worshiping God with his parish.