Yanuell wanted to begin our session where we had left off yesterday by writing each other messages in the Skype text box without speaking. We continued telling each other jokes and riddles trying to get the other to laugh out loud and break the silence. Yanuell did an excellent job creating his own jokes and riddles. Several times he took a break from writing to add his new jokes to the Pages document he created yesterday. The riddle from today that Yanuell was most proud of was: what do you call a tiger that swims? Answer: A tiger shark. During the activity, we were able to work on writing, punctuation, phonics, and spelling. One of the jokes that we found today focused on the word racecar which is a palindrome. Of course with Yanuell, it immediately became a teachable moment. He learned about what a palindrome is and several examples of them. After the writing activity, Yanuell wanted to transition to the Storyline Online website to listen to a few books. He commented that he hadn't been to this website in a long time and was excited to listen to one of our most favorite books ever, Library Lion. While on the site, Yanuell looked at the new titles that had been added since we last logged on as well as listening to Library Lion, Catching the Moon, and Clark the Shark. We discussed the main idea and theme of the books as well as the importance of illustrations in picture books. To end his language arts session, Yanuell began reading an article on the Newsela website called, Animals Atlas: Africa. During the reading we discussed vocabulary words and context clues. Yanuell will finish reading this article on Monday.