Christopher started his lesson by reviewing the long and short vowels with their key words. He reviewed the consonants and digraphs: sh, g, v, z, and th. Christopher reviewed the welded sounds: ive, ind, ink, and all. We reviewed the following words from Book 4 using magnetic tiles: snake, reptile, valentine, solve, expensive. Christopher played a snowboard game with me to practice large stacks of words from 4.1-4.4. The words he reviewed included vowel-consonant-e words, words with two kinds of syllables, multisyllabic words, and nonsense words. Christopher practiced these words as he took turns moving around the gameboard that had different snowmen and winter comments like "sled down the hill three spaces." Christopher read the real words and the nonsense words for his charting test. He got 15/15 on real words and 14/15 on nonsense words, missing the nonsense word, "stathe." At our next meeting, Christopher will take the markup test and the spelling test. We ended the lesson with a short reading from Because of Winn Dixie. We read about the part where the preacher talks to Opal about how people have their own troubles and that if they seem cross, it could be that they are suffering from some problem. Christopher listened during this reading. He worked well today.