Richard did well reading a story that focused on the -ad and -an families. He was able to independently match sentences to pictures and answer questions related to the text. Sight words were reviewed. Richard was introduced to the long a with the spelling rule of a-consonant-e. Counting by tens, the days of the week and the months of the year were reviewed and practiced. Richard enjoyed using the balance scale to determine how many cubes different items required to balance the weight.