Today we continued studying timelines. We delved deeper into the subject with our FL Studies Weekly work packet. We learned that timelines show events in the order in which they occurred. We examined a four-picture timeline of the Pilgrims journey to America. We identified the pictures and then discussed them in various ways such asking Danny to find the picture of the event described or finding the picture in the ordinal position. Danny scored a 5/5 on the follow up assessment for our lesson. We then applied this knowledge in reading and answering questions in a simple 6-year timeline of a little boy. Danny helped me write (by copying) some of the words needed to complete the answers. In his Harcourt Social Studies workbook, we ordered events in a timeline, trying not to be tricked by extra pictures presented but not used. He did a good job sequencing the holidays shown. We reviewed his flip book we made yesterday, still heavily focusing on country and state. We watched an automated reader about Christmas. This shared the date, basic story, Santa, and Christmas today. We continued our discussion with a nonfiction selection, Christmas, by Trudi Strain Trueit. This book provided a picture key in which Danny could use to help me read the sentences. These sentences simply described how some people decorate for Christmas such as hanging stockings, putting up a tree, and putting up lights. Danny wanted to see Annie and Moby talk about Christmas again in the Brain Pop Jr video about winter holidays. We read a sweet story, Merry Christmas Ollie! by Olivier Dunrea. Ollie and his gosling friends are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Father Christmas Goose. Danny laughed at all the ways the little goslings were sitting in the snow! We finished the book, Tick Tock by James Dunbar. This section of the book discussed days, weeks, months, and years. We reviewed the days of the week and the months of the year. We talked about significant months such as Danny's birthday, my birthday, and various holidays. Finally, Danny worked a little more coloring his polar bear. Today he focused on some very thin lines and he colored in a pattern, leaving two spaces blank in between each colored line.