This morning we began with our daily language review. We have been enriching the editing portion (capitalization and punctuation) of this activity over the past few weeks by reiterating the verbiage for possessives, contractions, sentence type, subject/predicate, and verb tense. Next, we finished our novel, Polar Bears Past Bedtime by reading chapters 7 - 10. We examined similes throughout our reading. After each chapter we completed comprehension and critical thinking tasks. This included answering recall questions with details from the text, finding adjectives to describe the Northern Lights, drawing his own polar bear mask like the characters in the story, and solving anagrams to unscramble words from the text (for a higher level of difficulty, the word bank was not provided). We watched a Brain Pop Jr. learning video about Facts and Opinions. We discussed the terms “confirm” and “verify” for facts and how the word “favorite” indicates opinion. Jonathan scored a 5/5 on the follow up easy quiz. We then completed our assessment for Polar Bears Past Bedtime. Jonathan was tasked with answering fact and opinion questions related to the novel as well as sequence events from the story. He scored 15/15 on these tasks. To enrich our study, we practiced Jonathan’s novel-based spelling words as well as read non-fiction passages with pictures about narwhals and the arctic fox. Religion: Jonathan recited the Hail Mary and Our Father prayers.