This morning Gracyn and I reviewed chapter 4 in her Magic Tree House book, The Knight at Dawn. This chapter described the feast. Next, we read chapter 5, "Trapped". The children end up in the armory. They encounter a row of standing suits of armor with no helmets on them. Jack ends up putting on a helmet and the visor slams shut! He couldn't get it open and then is grabbed by someone! We discussed vocabulary concepts such as: halt, armory, and visor. Gracyn helped me write complete sentences to three follow-up questions. She did a nice job with her recall of the material. We finished up our session with an Earth Day themed activity. I read statements to her and she used the bold words in the sentence to form a contraction. She had a little difficulty at first with deciding which letters to eliminate, and we worked through writing them together.