Language Arts: Jonathan’s daily language review added matching vowel sounds and identifying descriptions tasks in addition to his correction of two sentences. He scored a 100% on his short / long u vowel picture sort. Next, in his iReady textbook, we continued identifying which senses the words captured (for example: dirt was flying everywhere). As we have been studying parts of speech, we picked back up on plural nouns with a fun story and activity booklet. We began reading The Elves and the Toymaker. As we read the story, we were tasked with generating related word lists based on pluralization rules for most words (add s), words that require an -es, and words that require us to drop the -y and add -ies. We continued reviewing our novel, Stink The Incredible Shrinking Kid with Jonathan working through his reader’s response journal. He is answering questions in complete sentences and also practiced matching words from the story with the same vowel sounds. For writing, Jonathan began writing a fictional story based on our novel study. His story will tell the adventure of Newt the Newton and his adventure after he escapes. We worked on brainstorming various ideas to write more creatively. Religion: Today we learned more about the Sacrament of Baptism. We learned that water is an important sign of Baptism. During the sacrament, we are placed in water or water is poured on us. We read through a script and looked at pictures of a Baptism. Jonathan colored a portion of his Baptism art project for the week.