Today we were able to have our first discussion on "The Tale of Despereaux"! We went over the vocabulary works that they defined over the past 2 weeks and then discussed the questions and the story- what fun!!
The students are are really enjoying the story and eager to get reading the next several chapters. Their homework is to read chapters 13-17 for next week and complete the vocab. and questions.
We also started working on some analogy type of worksheets. These start by looking at things that are similar to other things and will move to more analogy type, higher level thinking, activities. My thoughts are the way we improve our reading is to grow our vocabulary, so the more words we can learn, define and play with the better readers we will become. They will see analogies throughout their schooling- including on the SAT!!
They have a packet of worksheets in their folder, but these are NOT required homework, we will be going over them in class each week.
Please be sure your child is reading "The Tale of Despereaux" and completing the assignment for next week! Thanks ;+)
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