We kicked off our session with spelling work. Morgan looked over list 27 and chose 10 words for focus this week. These words use the suffixes -ly, -ful, and -ness. We reviewed that if the word ends with a consonant and a y, then you change the y to i and add the suffix. Her list included words such as happily, wonderful, helpful, and sadness. She also chose two of the four vocabulary words from the lesson and looked up the definitions in the included student dictionary. She chose forgetful and lonely. We also looked up the bonus word, stifle, in the children’s dictionary. Also in the text, she sorted the full list by each of the three suffixes. In literature, we read chapter 7 of The Trumpet of the Swan. We made predictions and discussed the content for comprehension. In this chapter, Sam takes Louis the swan to school as he wants to learn to read and write due to his defective voice. We discussed the vocabulary words slate, pupil, and rapped in our reading. As we read, we looked at context clues to help Morgan come up with a meaning for the words captivity, communicate, compliment, and catastrophe. Morgan then used each of these words in writing her own sentence. Morgan then answered four short answer comprehension check questions. For the focused vocabulary for this chapter, Morgan wrote the definitions for refuge, captivity, and catastrophe in her project journal and we discussed the meanings. For Latin today, we reviewed the six vocabulary words in order to match the English meanings with the Latin words. We also reviewed that these terms reflect the verb “to be” and that this shows how things are, not an action.