Today Max had a new list of vocabulary words assigned from his school in Monaco. We went onto spellodrome.com and he was able to copy down list 25 into his yellow vocabulary workbook. Then he created a story using 3 of the vocabulary words as assigned. He chose to write a story about a trip to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. He wrote two nice paragraphs using great handwriting, creativity, good conventions, and good spelling.
For reading, a couple of times throughout our math lessons, we took a break to read aloud from "Ramona the Pest". It was a nice reprieve from the math he was working so hard on!