Religion: In Jonathan’s We Believe textbook, we were reminded that we celebrate that Jesus rose to new life during Easter. Jonathan decorated an Alleluia banner with signs of new life. He drew eggs, a chick, a baby bunny, flowers blooming, and green leaves and blossoms on the trees. We then read the lyrics to the hymn, Alleluia No. 1. Language Arts: In our daily language review we found 5 mistakes in each sentence involving punctuation, capitalization, and verb tense. We discussed abbreviations, prepositions, homophones, and sentence types (declarative and interrogative) as well. Next, we worked in his Ready Classroom textbook. Using a source text, Upsetting the Balance, we found the key point in the middle paragraph and identified a sentence as a reason to support the key point of the paragraph. We then continued our study of the rainforest. We read an article entitled, What Lives in the Rainforest? on www.readworks.org. We examined the vocabulary terms of habitat, include, and nature. We discussed the meanings of these words and read them in example sentences to gain further understanding through the words in context. Jonathan then worked through a 10-question follow up assessment. He remembered key details of the story, however was more challenged when asked to find evidence, draw conclusions and infer from portions of the text. We will continue to incorporate more of these tasks into his sessions to develop his depth of understanding of text and application of knowledge gained. For writing, Jonathan finished his informational page about the boa constrictor. He wrote two more paragraphs, working on indenting, about what the boa eats and some interesting facts. We discussed ways to grab the reader’s attention for the interesting facts and we started that paragraph with a question. Jonathan read his three paragraphs to me and we discussed the spelling of several homophones and his use of commas. We wrapped up this activity by looking at pictures of boas and we watched a short informational video about how boas first bite and then constrict their prey. Finally, for word work today, Jonathan sorted 1, 2, 3, and 4 syllable words on IXL (level D – A2).