April 4-8

I hope everyone had a peaceful Spring Break!  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
  • phonics: exceptions to murmur diphthongs
  • phonics: decoding multi-syllabic words
  • phonics: digraphs gn, wr, ph, kn, and ck
  • phonics: digraphs with plural endings and multi-syllabic words with digraphs
  • writing: begin new informational writing piece (we will be pulling information from the book we read about Theodore Roosevelt to write about about him)
  • comprehension: compare and contrast Theodore Roosevelt and Marching with Aunt Susan
  • comprehension: read Lincoln (a poem) - objective: to describe how words supply meaning in a poem
  • comprehension: discuss and determine author's purpose in the three texts we have been reading
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