Building on yesterday's session on identifying character traits, we continued today to locate textual examples of character development. I explained that novels often portray how a character changes or learns from his experiences. Atticus discussed how Omri realizes that his now alive "toy " Indian has feelings and that Omri's prior treatment of Little Bear was insulting. We then noted how Omri has adopted the role of parent to the three inch tall Indian and how that experience matures and changes him. We further discussed Little Bear's often child-like demanding behavior as supporting our conclusion that Omri has assumed the role of parent. At the end of the session,Atticus wrote a chapter summary based on the reading and on our class discussion.

Today, we continued reading about the digestive system. We read, underlined, illustrated and added the following words to our science notebook: esophagus, peristalsis, and villi. We answered the following prompt in our science notebook: "As bread is digested, it interacts with other body systems. Explain how the different body systems are involved in the digestion of bread."

Strength training with light weights for the upper body. Squats to warm up the legs in preparation for kicks.

Stretches and hip mobility exercises for the legs.

Complete the class with a Sparring combination to include: Backfist, Punch, Hook punch, RHK, turning Hook kick, followed by Jumping RHK

Finish Class with some badminton practise.

This morning, Atticus and I reviewed last night's homework on understanding equations and how a solution of an equation is a value for the variable that makes the equation true. He did very well with his homework and took the lesson's 5-question quiz, scoring 100%. Then, we began the next topic on applying properties of equality. We discussed how the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division properties of equality can be used to write equivalent equations. Atticus answered questions related to the lesson and was assigned the practice and problem-solving problems for homework.

- chapter 6 quiz-

review for Chapter 6 quiz -

I placed two topic charts on the board : Fantasy/ Ordinary and Omri/ Little Bear. I then asked Atticus to complete the charts by identifying from chapter 1 examples of fantasy and the ordinary and by identifying character traits of Omri and Little Bear . Atticus did very well with both exercises and we discussed how the author's mixing ordinary scenes with fantasy enables the reader to readily "accept" the elements of the fantasy . We then located textual support for the character traits Atticus identified for Omri and Little Bear. Last, using a list of time sequence connector words, Atticus prepared a written summary of Chapter 1 which we reviewed to address spelling and punctuation.

Atticus presented his report on the Phoenicians' navigational contributions to the class. He forgot to bring in the written report, so he recited his report from memory. We reviewed for the test tomorrow.

Today, Atticus read about how digestion works. We read a passage discussing the types of digestion, the mouth, the esophagus, the stomach, the small intestine and the large intestine. We underlined, recorded in our science notebook, and illustrated the following vocabulary words: digestion, mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, esophagus, peristalsis and villi. We viewed a diagram illustrating the different organs of the digestive system and traced the movement of food through it.

I worked Atticus to create the shadows for the clothes and skin in his painting.