Yanuell was excited to begin his day reading more of our dinosaur library books. He chose to read, The Search for Antarctic Dinosaurs, by Sally Walker, because we had discussed how difficult it must be find them in the frozen tundra yesterday during our research. This amazing book describes how paleontologist Dr. William Hammer and his team of scientists uncovered the 180-million-year-old fossilized remains of Cryolophosaurus ellioti - the first dinosaur found on mainland Antarctica. Yanuell could not have been happier reading the text that explained what it is like to hunt for fossils on the coldest place on Earth. After completing the book, we did a geography study on the continents. Using a map in the book and the globe we examined the locations of the continents, the oceans, and the climates of the continents based on location. Yanuell drew his own map of the world and labeled the land masses appropriately. After our dinosaur and geography studies, we worked on sight words and found 7 that Yanuell would work on for this week. He was very excited about all of the sight words that he recognized and we celebrated his hard work and knowledge. Next, Yanuell read his first level E book and did an amazing job!!! We worked on strategies to determine unknown words and different phonics rules to help with decoding. After reading, Yanuell listened to the book and also took the comprehension quiz. He is looking forward to challenging himself and completing level E quickly.