Patrick and I read The Old Lady who wasn't Afraid of Anything. We stopped and discussed the events, predicted, and read-on to confirm. I encouraged him to draw conclusions when possible. He made a jack-o-lantern by sketching out a design, cutting and glueing tissue paper, and adding glitter. These skills will help develop his fine motor ability. He was introduced to new sight words and recorded them in his book; there, she, he, was, and does. Please continue to practice these daily. He learned that contractions are words that are made up of two individual words and contain the same meaning. He practiced crashing together many words with "is" and "not," and replacing the vowel in the second word with an apostrophe. He was successful with writing and reading words with "is," ( she's, he's, it's, that's, there's) and was able to write words with "not," but found it diffcult to read words with "not." (doesn't wasn't weren't, can't, don't) He practice phonemic awareness of words with end blends; sp, sk, st by writing them on the board, classified by their common blend. If you know how to spell -rust, then you know how to spell -dust. Patrick finds it difficult at times to not include additional or inaccurate sounds due to the barrier of his letters getting mixed up in his mind.