Christopher started his lesson today spelling nonsense words with vowel-consonant-e. Chrstopher successfully wrote the words sheves, glire, vennape, wames, and colgrone using colorful markers on the small whiteboard. He was then ready for his nonsense word spelling test. Christopher spelled fifteen words correctly on his test. He has officially passed Book 4. I congratulated him on this success. We then introduced the new concept of "open vowel" in Book 5. Christopher read the word "my." This was the introduction to the use of the letter"y" when it is a vowel. "Y" has the sound of long "i" in many words in the English language. Christopher read six more words with open vowels. He read she, no, acorn, hi, me, try, flu, and pupil. Christopher could see that long "u" has two sounds. One of them has an /00/ sound as in the word "flu." Christopher also learned the guide word for long "u" being "pupil." He read this word correctly. We reviewed the fact that Christopher now has three syllable types in his knowledge base. He has the closed vowel sound, the vowel-consonant-e, and now the open vowel sound. Christopher reviewed the words: inexpensive, disruptive, and dissolve. He was able to tell me that the "ive" is a vowel-consonant-e exception. Christopher was reminded that the construction of the word "dissolve" is based on the fact that any word in the English language ending in a /v/ sound, is followed by a silent "e." Chrisotpher read the words flu, try, spry, she, and why. We discussed the vocabulary words: spry and pry using a discussion and a sentence for each. Christopher did very well today.