This afternoon we began with our summary of The Lemonade War. We worked through a review of the end of chapter 4. Piero did a nice job filling in the missing information, scoring 10/12. This provides us a nice way to recall and analyze what we are reading. Today we read chapter 5. There was a great deal of vocabulary and figurative language in this section. We discussed the meanings and usage of words such as showoff, irritated, miser, and charity. Additionally, we analyzed phrases such as “Evan boiled over” and “The words felt like disgusting spiders running out of his mouth”. We also inferred how Evan was feeling about the bet they were making and what was about to happen when Jessie’s lip was trembling while they were arguing. Next, we reviewed our vocabulary study of the prefixes re- and un-. Piero worked to fill-in-the blank of sentences using a word bank of re- and un- words. He scored 6/8 on this task. Additionally, we learned about pronouns and the male and female forms. We practiced producing sentences and replacing the subject noun with a subject pronoun. Oral language focused activities: We had fun with our interview questions today in which I learned why Piero would rather be a master at drawing instead of an amazing singer and also why he’d rather be a superhero instead of a wizard. We worked further with strong articulation of the soft g, “j” sound at the initial and final position of words. Piero used the word list to create sentences. This provided the opportunity for expanding vocabulary with words such as badge, courage, hedge, jog, and edge. Finally, we explored more open conversation with our Marvel project focusing on Ironman.