This morning Jonathan and I focused on imperative and exclamatory sentences with our daily language review. We then jumped right into literature! We read chapters 4 – 7 of our novel, Ghost Town at Sundown. In our reading we discussed the rules that Jack read for handling a horse. We looked at pictures and discussed stirrup, saddle, and saddlebags. We talked about the term “cowpoke” and used it different ways. In our follow-up questions activity, Jonathan was tasked with making up his own cowpoke nickname (like the characters in the book) and after a bit of prompting and my example of “Blondie” for myself, he came up with “Brownie” and then switched it to “Slick”. We discussed characteristics of someone who would be “Slick”. Jonathan also used cowpoke terminology to fill in the blanks of sentences using language such as rustlers, split the wind, over yonder, and young’uns. Additionally, we practiced Jonathan’s novel-based spelling words on his wipe board app on his iPad. Next, I introduced Jonathan to figurative language. We watched the Brain Pop Jr. learning video called Similes. We saw some great examples of this literary device and will continue studying similes further this week. Finally, we continued working on his writing piece about a pet that can talk! Jonathan continued writing his beginning. He was focusing on how much he had written and how much he had left on his paper. We discussed that the importance is the quality of the beginning, middle, and end. We want to make sure he tells a complete story vs. focusing on the paper.