It’s Thrilling Thursday! Morgan reported that on Thursdays in Georgia, they get to prepare for their spelling test with fun activities. She had asked to type her spelling words today. We worked through them several times with typing. She had a few errors that we practiced a few extra times with typing and air writing. She practiced her keyboarding skills as well. She continued the activities in her spelling book. This included writing two sentences about why she’s grateful for others using a spelling word and her own personal target word. She did a nice job and we discussed spelling errors on other words as well as punctuation and capitalization along the way. Her spelling book contains a Writer’s Thesaurus. We read about how items are entered in the thesaurus with the definition, word used in a sentence, synonyms, and an antonym. We used the thesaurus to complete designated tasks. Later in our session, Morgan completed a practice spelling test, scoring 11/12. We then wrote sentences using the spelling words. We identified spelling errors in other words as well as punctuation mistakes. After discussion, Morgan was then tasked with trying to add an adjective into her sentence. She did a nice job and we’ll review her last sentence in our next session. For literature, we continued reading our Aesop’s Fables. We discussed how we are practicing inferencing in reading the story and working to determine what we think the moral of the story might be. Morgan is really enjoying these stories and doing an excellent job retelling the stories, recalling details, and inferring the moral. We are working through unfamiliar vocabulary as we read. This included words like flattery, deceiving, flock, exquisite, and outdistance. We read The Fox and The Crow (moral: Beware of flattery. It can make you forget what is sensible.), The Boy Who Cried Wolf (moral: Don’t tell lies. People may not believe you when you tell the truth.), The Cat and the Mouse (moral: Appearances can be misleading), and The Stag at the Pool (moral: Value everything about yourself. Each part is important and unique). Morgan’s strong moral fabric is lending itself well to interpreting this type of literature and she is really enjoying it! For handwriting practice, Morgan worked in her cursive writing book on the letters g and o pages. She is working to not make a little extra loop at the top of the letter o. For Latin, Morgan reviewed her 5 adverb vocabulary cards in various ways. She also worked to write the correct meanings in her workbook. Also, in her workbook, we read about adverbs and were reminded that they describe the how, when, why, and where something was done. We practiced working with the provided adverbs (loudly, quietly, sadly, etc.). Finally, we also worked on Science today. We read the text lesson 6.2, which revolved around static electricity (the build-up of nonflowing electricity). We also read that opposite charges pull toward each other (attract) while the same charges repel. We read about conductors of electricity (materials that allow electricity to flow through it easily) such as metal and water while insulators, such as plastic, or rubber, do not allow electricity to flow through easily.