Today Patrick and I continued working on main idea. He studied several abstract (more challenging) picture clues to determine a specific main idea. Patrick determined baseball positions were supporting details to the main idea of a baseball team. The I gave Patrick a wordless book and he wrote the detail that matched the picture in the illustration. Tomorrow we will read the actual book and compare his details to the story. Then Patrick and I took turns reading from the dolphin book. We spent a lot of time and word work and decoding today. Patrick may need to review sight words again. Then he continued with his journal passage from yesterday. We again spent a lot of time of word work and spelling.