Religion: Today Jonathan read the Our Father prayer from the prayer booklet in his textbook. We then reviewed the six vocabulary terms from Unit 2. This included words such as Church, Apostles, and Temple. Language Arts: Jonathan declared that it is Moon Monday, since we are starting our new Magic Tree House novel, Midnight on the Moon today. We started our session with our daily language review and proofreading sentences. With this, we looked at possessive and object pronouns. We discussed the sentence types of declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory. Additionally, I spent a little more time discussing the imperative sentence with him and we went through some examples. Next, we wrapped up Jeopardy (7) from the other day as Jonathan had about 5 questions to complete. This focused on homophones, tricky spelling words, and contractions. As we have been discussing text features, we read about important words. We read a passage about sharks that included bold words and words written in italics. We talked about both types of ways to mark important words and highlighted each with two colors to demark them in the text. We practiced reading italicized words with different voicing to help show the emphasis. We will continue to practice this skill in all of our oral reading. Jonathan then read the four pages of his animals in the rainforest non-fiction writing piece. We identified words that are “important” and should be in his glossary. He used a dark crayon to write over these words and make them appear “bold”. Some of the words he chose are: decurved, omnivore, nocturnal, and mollusks. Finally, we enjoyed reading the first two chapters of our book. In one portion of dialogue in the book, the character Annie spoke three words written in italics. We discussed why these words were being emphasized and worked to execute this orally. After each chapter, we completed comprehension and vocabulary related questions. We used context clues to help with the meanings of “gasped” and “chamber”. As we wrapped up our session, we started a spelling pretest for words related to our novel. We will finish this in our next session.