Jonathan wrote a scene with a scenario that he made up. he used his stuffed animals and blanket to set up the scene. After we wrote the scene, we read it. We then played an acting game where one person continues a story and it goes back and forth between the actors.

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Jonathan practiced his song for the talent show. We also set up a scene with his Minecraft toys.

Religion: Today we continued in chapter 26 of Jonathan’s We Believe textbook. Jonathan reviewed what he feels is God’s creation by drawing a picture. We reviewed ways that Jonathan can share God’s love through a checklist. He also drew a picture of himself and wrote about what makes him a disciple of Jesus, how he can help take care of God’s creation, and about a special gift he has from God. He scored 5/5 on his follow-up assessment of this chapter. Language Arts: For literature today, we read chapters 6 - 8 in our novel, Night of the Ninjas. We worked through some follow-up discussion questions after our reading and completed our crossword puzzle focusing on vocabulary from the novel. Jonathan practiced his novel-based spelling words as well. Additionally, we learned about the figurative language skill of alliteration. Using a word bank for support, Jonathan practiced alliteration by adding a third word to a list of words with the same starting letter. This included phrases such as (Gavin’s gold glasses and silky satin sash). In his iReady textbook, we continued our study of comparing characters. We discussed two characters from his source texts and identified a difference and a similarity. Jonathan answered some questions for a chapter check-up and did a great job. We then read about the integration of knowledge and ideas in informational text. Jonathan compared and contrasted two photographs containing lions. For our non-fiction text features project, we practiced using an index. Jonathan used a sample index and found the targeted words. We reviewed the differences between an index and a table of contents. We also completed an activity to practice using the glossary. Jonathan found definitions and examined the word order used in the glossary. We continued our grammar work with some practice using prepositions on IXL. Jonathan filled in the blank on sentences with multiple choice options. Finally, we wrapped up the day looking at some named pictures of animals that live in the rainforest. Jonathan selected three to research for our writing assignment that will occur after spring break.

Demonstrate how to fold and cut paper to create a pop up card. Draw a jungle background on the inside of the card and separately draw a jungle animal which can pop up.

Jonathan worked on telling time. I started the lesson with the story of the “Turtle and the Hare”. I used these two characters to help him relate to the hands on the clock, the turtle being the hour hand and the rabbit being the minute hand. As I changed the hands on the clock, Jonathan read the times; first hour, then half hour and lastly minute. He also watched a “Brain Pop Jr.” lesson on telling time to the minute.

Jonathan was given the drawing prompt of magical and instructed to come up with an illustration based on the prompt. Jonathan came up with his own Pokemon. I took a picture of the image and we worked together to create a cleaner version of his work. Jonathan finished up his design with a pass of color.

Religion: Today in Jonathan’s We Believe textbook, we read about how we are all important to God. To expand, this explored how God created each of us and we discussed our similarities and differences. God wants us to use our gifts and talents and use them to take care of creation and to take care of one another. We discussed Jonathan’s special gifts and how shares them with others. We listened to the song, Malo! Malo! Thanks be to God. We also read about how we care for and respect all people. Language Arts: It is Word Work Wednesday! We used the word “stealthy” to focus on today. We found the definition and part of speech in a dictionary packet, the guide words on the top of the dictionary page, identified a synonym and antonym, and used the word in a sentence. We reviewed guide words and discussed how the first guide word is the first word on the page and the last guide word is the last definition on the page. Today we read chapters 3 - 5 in our new literature study of Night at the Ninjas. Jonathan practiced his spelling words to accompany our novel. After reading, Jonathan did a great job with discussion questions to assess his comprehension of today’s material. We then completed ½ of a crossword puzzle focusing on higher level vocabulary words from the text (including vanish, weary, and samurai). In his iReady textbook, we read about comparing characters. We learned that comparing and contrasting can help us understand the characters better. We read passages describing the experiences of two different characters, which we then compared and contrasted. We then used source texts to continue exercising this skill with written responses. For our nonfiction text feature study, Jonathan wrote captions for nonfiction pictures. The pictures were of various animals in their habitats. Jonathan did a nice job generating a sentence to use as a caption for each of the six pictures. Finally, on IXL, Jonathan practiced choosing the correct preposition to complete the sentence.

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Religion: Today we began chapter 26 in Jonathan’s We Believe textbook. This lesson is entitled, We Care for the Gifts of God’s Creation. Jonathan read the lyrics to the first part of the song, Shout from the Mountain. We read about how God has given us all of creation to use and enjoy. We read about taking care of our creation with examples including cleaning up litter, watering plants, and Jonathan drew about building homes for those in need. We also read about how animals are part of God’s creation as well and how we care for them. Language Arts: We began with our daily language review routine. Jonathan completed the Monday and Tuesday tasks today which focused on capitalization, punctuation, adjectives, alphabetical order, vocabulary, writing a question, and rhyming. Next, we reviewed possessive nouns with a Brain Pop Jr. learning video. Jonathan and I worked through the easy quiz together. We completed an activity related to our novel, Pirates Past Dawn, in which we used items and people from the book and made them possessive (i.e. Annie’s boots and Jack’s pencil) to practice this skill. Additionally, we completed a sense activity from the book in which we discussed which of the five senses the items in the word bank fell under. Jonathan took his final assessment for our literature study by completing a 15-question whole book test. He scored 14/15 on his follow up exam. We then began our next novel, Magic Tree House #5, Night of the Ninjas. Jonathan took his spelling pre-test for words based on the novel. This includes words like warrior, shadows, enemies, and squeak. Using an online source, we read the first two chapters of the book. We examined the cover of the book and made predictions as to what we thought might be happening. We found the title and the author’s name. To continue our study of nonfiction text features, Jonathan practiced using a table of contents. We also read four interesting short passages about bees. For each passage, Jonathan then made an appropriate heading (nonfiction text feature) to briefly describe the passage.