Today we began our session with a review of Friday’s reading, chapters 4 – 6 of Fantastic Mr. Fox. We then read chapters 7 – 9. After reading each chapter, Piero worked to complete a fill-in-the blank summary. He scored 9/10 on his summary items today. As we read, we discussed pronunciation and meanings for words such as swore, starve, smothered, wafted, weak, and undefeated. To review vocabulary from chapters 1 -3 of our text, Piero did a nice job with a crossword puzzle. We discussed examples of each word as he found their locations in the puzzle. Next, we continued our new study of the figurative language concept of personification. We read examples and discussed the items being described and interpreted the intended meanings. This included items such as “leaves danced” and “car screamed”. To reinforce reading skills, Piero read a passage about The Milky Way. He completed sentences to identify the main idea and six details. While he was given the support of partially written sentences, he was not provided a word bank. Piero did a great job using the text to assist him in completing this task to 100% accuracy. Lastly, we worked with words using the suffix, -less today. Piero read through a word list combining the roots and the suffixes with definitions as well as completed fill-in-the blank sentences using -less words. This was a tricky list including some words such as worthless, effortless, and powerless. Oral language directed activities: Our Marvel project had us discussing the character, War Machine today. We shared information as we completed our slide. Next, we interviewed each other with some fun Would you Rather questions. I learned that Piero would rather be a popular author vs. a popular rock band musician and he’d rather live in a triangle-shaped house than a circle-shaped one! He did a nice job supporting his responses. Finally, we continued on with the Piero’s Revolution story. We looked at possessive pronouns, compared their and there, condensed items (such as “always” instead of “need so much”), and we worked for consistent verb tense and pluralization.