Jude Justifies a Lie

I set up Jude on his music curriculum online and walked away.  When I returned, I asked him if he had done activity 3 of this silly echo clapping, which we’ve been working on for a few weeks.  He said that he had.  I didn’t believe him and questioned him further.  Finally, I asked him if he had done activity 3 TODAY and he finally admitted he hadn’t.  I called him front and center and told him that him intentionally deceiving me is a lie and that lying is a really bad sin.  He said that he didn’t think he had lied saying, “I was just being technical.”