Gracyn and I began the second book of the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne, entitled The Knight at Dawn. We read chapter 1 in which Jack and Annie recalled the events of their first journey in the tree house. We were reminded that they found a gold medallion with the letter M on it, but don’t know who the tree house belongs to or where it came from. At the end of the chapter, Annie had declared she was heading back to the tree house, even though dawn had yet to break! We were so filled with suspense as to if there would be someone in the tree house during the night, that we read on and completed chapter 2! Jack and Annie arrived to find an empty tree house and then traveled to a place with knights and a castle. Gracyn answered follow-up questions for each chapter and did a nice job writing in complete sentences as we discussed the proper procedures for wording each sentence, sounding out words, and proper punctuation.