Language: According to Jonathan, it’s Thumping Thursday today! In his daily language review, we focused on capitalization, punctuation, phonics, and we labeled the sentence types. In his Ready Classroom book, we read page 141 about comparing two texts. We read the definitions of compare and contrast. We read through some questions we can ask ourselves as we are reading to compare and contrast for a deeper understanding of the text. We then completed page 142 in which we compared and contrasted the photos on two different source texts. For comparison we noted that both pictures showed women, while to contrast, one was a drawing while the other was a photograph. We enjoyed reading chapters 8 – 10 to finish our novel, Sunset of the Sabertooth. We worked through comprehension and critical thinking questions after each chapter. We also did a pronoun hunt on some of the pages in the book. Finally, Jonathan did a lot of writing on his animals of the rainforest project. We wrote all about the purple honeycreeper describing what it eats and where it lives. He also wrote a lengthy paragraph about the different appearance of the males and females. We discussed ways to mix up the format of his sentences, different transition techniques, when he could use a pronoun or if he needed to mention the noun by name, and ways to incorporate adjectives.