We did this Five in a Row title last week and the first part of this week with Mark.  He really enjoyed the book.  We didn't do a lot of the activites from the FIAR TM because many of them were above him.  Mark calls the book "Yangtze River book".  He asked me to read it many times each day.  I was able to get away with reading it just once a day; however, he did talk his siblings into reading it for him at other times during the day. 

I copied the cover of the book (reduced in size) and we put it on our time line at 1933, when it was written.  He really liked this.  Usually it's just the older three that put stuff on the time line.  We also put one of the copies on the map at China.  He would ask me "Where Yangtze River be?"  By the middle of the week, he could tell me that it is in China. 

He also really liked how the master would call the ducks "La-la-la-la-lei!".  He asked me if one day I could call him that way.  We did.  It was fun.

Mark also learned to site read 6 words last week. 

The older three still enjoy FIAR as much as Mark.  They have chores and then free time while I do FIAR with Mark.  Everyday they did their chores quickly so they could join us for FIAR.