Reading We have started the Newbery Award winning novel From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg this week. The novel is about a young girl named Claudia who decides to run away from her home in Connecticut to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. But she needs someone to accompany her, so she convinces her younger brother Jamie to go with her. The adventure begins!
We will finish reading and discussing Chapters Two and Three, pages 19-42. Please ask your child to tell you about what they have read.
Vocabulary words from these chapters include:
1. possessions
2. resisted
3. percolator
4. penetrated
5. stowaways
6. expenditures
7. extravagant
8. cheapskate
9. gorgeous
10. fatigue
Writing assignments Our focus will be on identifying subjects and predicates in as we read through the novel. We will also be looking for different parts of speech, particularly nouns and verbs, to make the connection between subjects and predicates.
Students are also working on independent writing activities, using the writing process.
Spelling Look for a list to come home this week! Words will be taken from our novel.
