This afternoon we began with a review of our novel, The Lemonade War. Piero was presented with statements and a word bank. He scored 9/9 on completing the statements to assess comprehension and recall of the text. We then completed reading chapter 2 and a portion of chapter 3. We discussed vocabulary such as joint venture and deserting. We also discussed figurative language such as “insides felt runny like a fried egg that hasn’t cooked enough” as well as more slang terminology such as freaky, chill, ‘cuz, and buck (dollar). We discussed the purpose of a lemonade stand and what it would mean to “drink all our profits”. We were excited to find “pedaled” and “pedestrian” in the text, which are part of the Latin root of “ped” that we are studying this week. Piero answered 4/5 questions correctly when asked to identify which “ped” word works with the sentence I provided. He quickly discovered the last one with a review of his notes. We also completed a shared reading of the non-fiction, RAZ Kids story Dawn of the Doughnut (level U). We started working through the comprehension questions together as we ran out of time. Oral language: Overall, we are working to stretch responses into full sentences vs. one-word answers. Modeling is being providing and I request echoing from Piero as well to help develop his conversation. We had fun with our Would You Rather game in which we asked each other questions like, “Would you rather fly a kite or swing on a swing?” Next, Piero provided verbal information and a caption to a picture of an elephant standing on a chair in fear of a mouse! We also worked with past tense + -ed pronunciation. We discussed the definitions of some of the words. Piero used them in a sentence with modeling provided as needed. Finally, as Piero is a Marvel Comics fan, we are working on a project to give information about some Marvel superheroes. Piero gave me responses to my questions that we entered in the Google Slide. Today we focused on Captain America!