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
