This morning we started with the daily language review, which focused on contractions. We enjoyed reading four chapters of our novel study, Dinosaurs Before Dark. We read about their encounter with the T-Rex and how they got away! We worked through our reader’s response journal with some written and some verbal responses. Next, we worked through a long-vowel pattern word sort (13) which focused on words such as black, space, and brain. (Short a CVC, long a CVC+e, and long a CVVC). Once Jonathan got going on the task, he did a nice job. He was able to identify the two “oddball” words and the two sets of homophones. Finally, in honor of Fun Friday, we played a fun game called Pirate’s Treasure. This educational board game focused on context clues. With the task cards we either examined the underlined target word or provided the missing word in the sentence based on meaning in the context of the short paragraph.