Continue to practice the ch, sh, ck, th, & wh digraphs. Create words and sound them out. Practice the long vowel sounds when paired or adding e to the ends of words. Introduce the sight words for the week and practice writing them as well as correct letter formation. Read a decodable book.

Teddy and I discussed the chess pieces in Spanish. He then got to choose a chess piece about which to watch a video in Spanish. He chose La Torre.

This was intentionally used as a source material in the target language discussing a familiar subject.

Teddy then was given an opportunity to move the pieces around the board in a game. Each time that he would move, he would say "I move the ______ (name of the chess piece)." in Spanish.

Teddy will many times do a great and quick job of internalizing the information that we use in class and retaining it. However, today when I asked him the name of some the pieces at the end of our session, he was not able to say them.

We discussed this and highlighted the importance of having fun and learning while we do it.

Teddy completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, finished his calendar talk and calendar writing, put together his daily sentence puzzle, worked on his phonics activities, and finished his STEM project.

Work on short vowel words with an, am, em, and en. Decode words with the digraphs ch, sh, and th. Review sight words with a game. Practice reading a decodable book out loud to me. Write down words based on the sounds I give him.

Practice writing upper and lower case letters. Say the sounds as we write them. Show words and state what sound begins and ends the words. Practice sight words for the week and prior words. Read decodable book. Do a word family sheet.

Practice pointing out b, d, and p in words with the letters at the beginning and end of the words. Use letter cards to practice decoding words. Review the sight words of the week. Read decodable book and write recognized words down.

Introduce new sight words. Practice sounding out words with consonant digraphs. Refer to the letter cards for the digraphs. Read and find words we sound out together. Write word families together on worksheet.

Teddy was in a positive, high-energy mood. He chose to work with clay and learned to mix custom colors. He created a set of clay burgers. We ended the session with 10 minutes on Poki Games.

Teddy and I used the verb tener to play the game Guess Who?

We began our session looking at an unusual science article showing images of a two-headed snake. Teddy was very interested in this rare reptilian phenomenon, and we read and learned a little about it. Next, we learned about the celebration of Cinco de Mayo. Teddy shared his knowledge about this holiday and learned more information to add to his existing knowledge base. We learned that it commemorates Mexico’s victory over the French during a battle that occurred 163 years ago. We looked at pictures and read that we celebrate here in the United States with parades, festivals, Mariachi bands, Mexican folk music, dancing, Mexican and Mexican American cuisine, and festive costumes. We watched a mariachi band play songs and learned the vocabulary words 'commemorate' and 'cuisine,' amongst others that came up in our research.