Kellan started his lesson by completing the Dictation test he started last week. Kellan wrote five sight words. He wrote three sentences with words having welded sounds. Kellan needed a little prompting to remember how to spell comb, and want. With a little help, he showed me that he now knows these words. Kellan did the analysis of his sentences. He remembered to start each sentence with a capital letter. Kellan spelled all the words correctly and marked up vowels, digraphs, and welded sounds. Kellan circled sight words. He needed to make one correction on the word "of." Next Kellan started a brand new lesson on 2.2 Blends. He began with the vowel sound review with keywords. Next Kellan gave the sounds for z, r, l, s, ck, h, n, m, f, c, t, and w. He pronounced the welded sounds: unk, onk, ink, ung, ong, and ing. Kellan started with a review of baseword suffix patterns. He read sing, and fangs from the magnetic tiles. Next he read, "tongs." Kellan did not know the meaning of the word "tongs." We went into the kitchen and he manipulated the tongs in the utensil drawer. Then, luckily, there were tongs right on top of the donut box. Kellan manipulated the tongs to get a donut. We wrote the definition and a sentence in Kellan's notebook and he drew a diagram. Next, Kellan was introduced to the concept of a blend. He understood the lesson about how two or three consonants come together to make a blended sound as in the word "pest." Kellan could see that a blend might be at the beginning or the end of a word. Kellan read the word: clock. He was able to identify the "cl" as the blend, and the "ck" as the digraph. Kellan had a great lesson.