Today we began with a review of Fantastic Mr. Fox chapters 10 – 12. We then performed a shared reading of chapters 13 – 15. Modeling of proper pace and fluency was provided. We also focused on the strong English j sound at the beginning of “jar” and medial position in “badger”. These chapters were a little bit longer than over the past few days, so we spent a longer time with literature today. As we read, we discussed the meanings and pronunciation of words such as storehouse, pushcarts, doubt, crumbly, and cider. Piero performed at 12/16 on our summarizing and discussion activities related to the reading. To reinforce vocabulary from our novel, Piero worked through a crossword puzzle for terms from chapters 7 – 9. The puzzle format provides nice support for use of these new terms. We then continued our study of suffixes by adding -ful (full of) to our curriculum. Piero read through a word list of root + ful words such as beautiful and doubtful. He then completed fill-in-the blank sentences using words such as cheerful, scoopful, and armful (with a word bank). He did an awesome job with this activity! Lastly, we worked with making inferences. Our task involved reading a riddle and using our world knowledge, we had to guess “Where Am I?”. Oral language directed activities: Today we had a nice discussion of the Marvel character, the Winter Soldier. Piero laughed when I asked him who he wants to discuss tomorrow as he’s run out of ideas! I made a new suggestion and we laughed at how many Marvel characters there are! We said he’ll be an expert on all of them! We also enjoyed some Would you Rather questions. We both decided that we’d rather have a see-through submarine than a flying magic carpet so we could see the marine life and coral.