Religion: Today Jonathan chose a poem from his prayer booklet in the back of his We Believe textbook. He read the Sign of the Cross prayer. As a review, we went through the vocabulary from unit 1 which includes Sign of the Cross, commandments, prayer, Holy Family, Blessed Trinity, and creation. We used digital flash cards to review and discuss the words. Language Arts: After our daily language review, we moved into our study of the rainforest. On readworks.org, we read an article entitled, Can the Amazon Be Saved. This 4th grade level article explained the importance of the rainforest and the problems associated with deforestation. Jonathan did a great job on the follow-up questions related to comprehension as well as cause and effect. We looked at pictures of maps to help us see some of the details provided in the article. We discussed the key word of “harmful” in our vocabulary discussion. For writing today, Jonathan illustrated and colored a picture of the ocelot to add to his animals of the rainforest project. Using our research notes, we discussed ways to generate sentences for an informative writing piece. We worked on indenting and using different transitions at the start of each paragraph. He wrote two paragraphs today about the ocelot’s appearance and where it resides in the
rainforest. Finally, we read chapter 6 in our novel, Sunset of the Sabertooth. We had to end our session with Jack and Annie falling into a deep hole in the ground! How will they get out?