Christopher started his lesson today reviewing the closed vowels, v-e vowels (long) and open vowels (long.) He used the guidewords and followed on the vowel chart. Christopher read six words from the word box for 5.2. He included a nonsense word and two B words. Christopher read ten sentences. In each of these sentences he had to scoop the sentences into phrases. On each sentence, we stopped to examine the open vowel words. Christopher reviewed the markups for the words: vacant, moment, begin, student, polite, fragrant, human, pupil, Irish, try, locate, and eject. Christopher watched as I marked up the words on the whiteboard explaining why I make each mark, Christopher reviewed the vocabulary words: vacant and migrate. We discussed the migration of birds. We will begin marking up of words and dictation at the next lesson. I hope you enjoy a week's vacation. I will see Christopher again on March 30th.