Religion: Today Jonathan chose a prayer from his booklet and read Grace Before Meals. We then reviewed his Unit 2 vocabulary with a word scramble activity. He remembered all 6 of the terms. Language Arts: This morning we continued with some enrichment activities for our literature study of Midnight on the Moon. We read a narrative fiction piece (3rd grade level) from readworks.org entitled, What Should We Take to the Moon? This article tells of all the things a young boy is packing just in case he gets to go to the moon. We discussed the meanings of vocabulary terms from the story: authentic, arrange, and possession. We then worked through comprehension and critical thinking questions from the story. Some of these questions asked Jonathan to infer and draw conclusions from snippets of provided text. These provide a nice challenge for him. He scored 8/10 on this activity. Next, we watched a video about the International Space Station from Sci Show Kids. This video gave us a tour around the space station and showed us ways the astronauts care for themselves with special body wipes (instead of showers) and how they have to exercise for two hours each day so their muscles don’t get too weak in the absence of gravity. Finally, Jonathan took his final assessments for this novel, which included a 15-question whole book test (15/15), and an analysis of words from the book in alphabetical order (5/6). Jonathan showed me the cover of his non-fiction writing project, The Amazing Amazon, which he had started on Friday and finished over the weekend. It is bright and colorful and reflects his awesome creativity! He clipped all of his pages together to put the book in order for final publication. He was praised for all of his hard work on his writing and I encouraged him to read the book with his family for homework. Our final activity of the day involved starting our next novel of study, Dolphins at Daybreak (Magic Tree House #9) by Mary Pope Osborne. We started with a spelling pre-test of challenging words such as vessels, curious, strength, sparkled, and our bonus word, oceanographer. We will practice the words he missed throughout the week. We then began reading chapter 1, but will have to finish it in our next session as time just flies when you’re having fun!