Language Arts: After our daily language review, we read the book, The Polar Bear Son An Inuit Tale by Lydia Dabovich. This sweet story tells of an old woman who raises a polar bear and then releases him to save his life. This is a source text for Jonathan’s iReady textbook. In that textbook, we read about how authors use words to tell and words to show how a character feels. This helps us understand characters and their actions. We then used page 24 from our story to find words that show how the woman feels and then interpret from those words, how she is feeling. For word work today, we watched the Brain Pop Jr. learning video. Jonathan scored a 4/5 on the easy quiz and a 5/5 on the hard quiz. We then repeated our picture sort from the other day for short a and long a words. Jonathan improved 18/20 today and questioned himself on two or three other words. For writing today, Jonathan continued the publishing process of his small moment story about Christmas Day. He worked on illustrating his four pages and also created a cover for his story. In our revisions, we looked at making sure the illustrations match the text. Next, we read a chapter from our chapter novel, Stink The Incredible Shrinking Kid. In this chapter, we read about Stink’s favorite president, James Madison. Lastly, we finished up our session with a fun Word Ladder! This activity reinforces phonics, spelling, and grammar skills. We climbed the ladder reading clues and making slight modifications to each word to match the target. We worked from boat and through ten changes, we ended up at plane! Religion: Today we discussed that a sacrament is a special sign given to us by Jesus. We went through the seven sacraments and discussed each. These sacraments include Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, and Penance and Reconciliation.