Gracyn was introduced to this week's spelling words. They included big, pig, dig, said, hand, jump, and her bonus word is Easter! Today she wrote them each once. In writing she wrote about what is under her bed. She said "Under my bed is a silly monster with three eyes!" Then she drew a funny picture. Next we learned about amphibians. We watched a video about the life cycle of a frog. Then we googled pictures of frogs. The tree frog is Gracyn's favorite frog! We did some time on reading eggs and then we read a level E book on Arctic Animals. Before she read we brainstormed what she already knew about arctic animals. I wrote her responses on the board. Then we did a book walk and she recognized many of the animals from her science lesson on Arctic animals. We looked at some of the words that could be challenging and wrote them on post its. Then it was time to read. She did a great job sounding out the words she didn't know. I was very proud of her. We did a worksheet on simple predicate. First I modeled what a predicate is. Then she was able to successfully identify the simple predicate in each sentence.