Kellan started his lesson by writing four vocabulary words from his new unit using vowel consonant e. Kellan wrote whine, slope, flute, and quake. We worked on the meaning of slope. A definition for "slope" was entered into Kellan's dictionary. A sentence was added about biking down a slope. Kellan did a diagram of a boy on a bicycle riding down a slope. For the word "flute" we looked up a picture of a flute and discussed how the note that is heard is produced by blowing air over a hole in the pipe and how the air column is lengthened or shortened by pressing the valves. Kellan then watched a short video of a lady playing Joyful, Joyful on the flute. Kellan discussed the meaning of the word "whine" and we compared it to the homonym "wine." Kellan used the vowel chart to help him spell the word "tune." Kellan could see that the guide word for "tune" is "rule." Here the "u" sound is not long like in "mule" but abbreviated as in the word, "rule." Next, Kellan read a word list from 4.1. He got 15/15, making a few corrections on his own as he went along. Kellan read ten sentences successfully. Kellan played Quick Drill in Reverse. He is learning to think of the vowels as having a short or a long sound. Kellan practiced consonants, digraphs, and welded sounds. Next, Kellan wrote the words scrape, slope, mule, throne, and prize. He is having some confusion on homonyms, so we are working that into the lesson, for examle: throne and thrown. Kellan was also introduced to the concept that an "s" between two vowels, sometimes says: /z/ as in the word "wise." Kellan practiced spelling the sight words: done, are, come, gone, and one. We discussed the use of the verb "gone" as being the past participle for the verb "to go." We discussed the conjugation of the verb "to go" in the present tense, the past tense, and the past perfect tense, "had gone." Kellan practiced marking up the new vowel consonant e words and learned to put a long sign over the vowel to make it sound like its own name. Kellan successfully wrote five real words, five nonsense words, and five sight words. He wrote one sentence. Kellan is adjusting to the new complexity of his Wilson lesson.