Religion: Today we reviewed the unit 1 vocabulary digital flash cards. We discussed any that Jonathan did not recall. Language Arts: It is Word Work Wednesday! We used the word “resume” to focus on today. We found the definition and part of speech in a dictionary packet, the guide words on the top of the dictionary page, identified a synonym and antonym, and used the word in a sentence. We reviewed guide words and discussed how the first guide word is the first word on the page and the last guide word is the last definition on the page. Next, we continued our discussion of deforestation and protection of the rainforest. We completed an activity in which we sorted statements as to whether they are harmful or not harmful to the rainforest. We worked together to complete this higher-level, critical thinking activity. We read about how they tap trees to get latex. For writing, we continued working on our animals of the rainforest non-fiction piece. Jonathan finished writing about the ocelot by discussing how it camouflages in the rainforest. He also wrote about what it eats as well as how and when it hunts. He added his interesting fact as a question at the end of his page. We worked together to read our notes and develop informative sentences with varied sentence structure and transitions. For literature, we answered questions for comprehension critical thinking for our reading of chapter 6 yesterday. We then read chapter 7 of our novel, Sunset of the Sabertooth and discussed how the characters were feeling as they were being rescued out of the deep hole in which they had fallen. We then went through our recall and comprehension questions to assess Jonathan’s understanding of the text.