* word-building practice: did four graded worksheets on -ack word family, which I printed off from a new site I found with awesome free printable literacy resources
* writing: I agreed that the worksheets probably counted as writing, especially when you consider that the fourth worksheet was a grid where she had to write out 9 root words each with the suffixes -s, -ed and -ing added!
* Australian history: reading aloud one of our new library books, Little Felons: Child Convicts 1788-1853, by Melanie Guile, part of the Children in Australian History series. Beth loved it and wants me to look for the rest of the books in the series
* reading: read 6 new pages out from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
* cooked herself lunch using the stove
* reading: repeated the new pages from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
* I requested the other three books in the Children in Australian History series from the library
* “weight-lifting”: once again, she did all ten words without a mistake. We practiced “-ck” words to reinforce the earlier worksheets. I introduced one 6-letter word (“struck”), which she found intimidating at first but was able to sound out and copy from memory, which increased her confidence. I also stopped including 3-letter words at all, and she had absolutely no difficulty with the 4-letter words.
* tutoring with Dennis 6-7pm
* looking over my shoulder while I read customers_suck, she had no trouble reading and sounding out a random comment: “the…the…the… THE GRINCH!” Funny that we were just reading that story yesterday 🙂