Language Arts: This morning we completed our daily language review for yesterday and today (since there was no school yesterday). Jonathan practiced correcting sentences and matching words based on vowel sound. He needed a little assistance with homophones and making connections such as sock:foot and mitten:(hand). We also worked through sequencing of common activities. Next, we read the poem, I’m Staying Home from School Today. In his iReady textbook, we identified which sense helped us best interpret target words in the poem and Jonathan wrote a sentence identifying what these words help us picture. Speech bubbles and thought bubbles were the focus of our next activity. We read two Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems which utilize speech and thought bubbles. We talked about each, the concept of how they are used, and incorporating them into writing. Additionally, we examined words and their synonyms for emotions and appearance that can be used in writing. We read through these two anchor charts and hung them in his room for a writing resource. For phonics work, Jonathan completed a short i /long i word sort at 100%. Finally, we ended our day with our novel study, Stink The Incredible Shrinking Kid. We read the final chapter and learned that Stink has accepted the current status of his height! We began a review of the book by completing follow up questions for previous chapters in a reader’s response journal. Jonathan is working to answer questions in complete sentences.
Religion: We began with a review of the Seven Sacraments. Jonathan was tasked with drawing a web page to share about one of the sacraments. He chose matrimony and drew a great picture. In Jonathan’s We Believe textbook, we began lesson 17, which is entitled, The Church Welcomes New Members. We read about the Sacrament of Baptism in which we become children of God and members of the Church. Baptism is the first sacrament we receive.