Religion: Today Jonathan read the Act of Contrition prayer from his We Believe textbook. We then had fun reviewing the unit 1 vocabulary terms with a word scramble. He did a great job and only needed help with “commandments”. Language Arts: Jonathan took his whole book assessment for our novel, Sunset of the Sabertooth. He did a terrific job scoring 15/16 (94%). We then worked through an activity to practice the literacy skill of cause and effect related to events in our novel. A few of these were tricky and we worked through them together. Also related to our novel study, we discussed character traits to describe the main characters, Jack and Annie. Jonathan needed prompting to generate adjectives for them, which is a skill we will continue to develop. Next, we expanded on the compare and contrast lesson from his Ready Classroom textbook. We worked through a compare and contrast of our novel, Sunset of the Sabertooth and another Magic Tree House book of his choice, Dinosaurs Before Dark. We discussed events and details from each stating what was alike and what was different. We enjoyed some Sci Show Kids videos about ice age animals and glaciers which told us about the Ice Age 12,000 years ago. We learned that approximately 1/3 of the Earth was covered in ice. We also learned about animals such as the mastodon, mammoth, smilodon (sabertooth), and glyptadon. For Fun Friday, we enjoyed Jeopardy (7). This one requires a lot of spelling! Jonathan answered 5 questions of increasing difficulty in each category related to homophones, spelling of tricky words, homophones they’re/their/there, and generating a contraction and using it in a sentence.