Kellan started his lesson by reading the story from 3.2, The Handball Contest. Kellan looked at a picture of a handball court in order to understand how the game is played. Kellan needed work-ups on the vocabulary words: handball, hot rod, and inept. Kellan was able to retell the problem of the story about two boys who planned to play handball together. Kellan was able to tell me that the insult by one boy was a problem because when you get insulted, you may feel bad about yourself. Kellan discussed the turning point of the story as being the choice that Stratis made to ignore the insult that he was inept at playing handball, and instead, he tried his very best and found out that the game was very close and he might beat his opponent next time. Kellan and I discussed how the choice to refuse to accept a negative comment and still take on a challenge is the best solution for a positive outcome. For the vocabulary words: a definition, sentence, and illustration were added to the notebook for each word. Next, Kellan started a new lesson by reviewing all the vowel sounds with their keywords. Kellan reviewed the consonants and digraphs: g, f, wh, p, qu, j, x, y, and m. Kellan reviewed the closed vowel exceptions and welded sounds: old, ind, olt, ang, all, and unk. Next, Kellan marked up the review words: gangplank, blindfold, and hundred. He did well boxing the welded sounds in gangplank. We reviewed how to mark up the closed vowel exceptions in blindfold. Next, Kellan was introduced to the ending blend sound of /kt./ Kellan read the words: construct, conduct, distract, exact, and subject. He scooped these words into two syllables. We discussed the words conduct and object as being both nouns and verbs and that the syllable that gets the accent distinguishes which use of the word you are using. Kellan played "ladder" with a stack of words from 3.3. He also wanted to play chutes and ladders with the 3.3-word list. Kellan took the charting test on p. 56. At first, Kellan had trouble with the words: obstruct and instinct. After four attempts, Kellan got the word correct and I adjusted his score. He got 15/15 for the lesson test. Next week we will do the sentences.