In class this week and next we are reading the story of Bunnicula written by Deborah Howe and James Howe. Today we read Chapter 2 and discussed the vocabulary words and genre of this story. Students will be taking this chapter home to reread tonight as a homework assignment. Bunnicula is about a vampire rabbit, but the horror aspect of the plot is mild. It's a wacky story, told from the point of view of a dog named Harold and sprinkled with goofy one-liners. We will be reading this book in place of our Storytown book. (https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/bunnicula-a-rabbit-tale-of-mystery)
Here's a short video trailer of the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY2PlQ_wdBk
Today are scheduled campus and bus evacuation drills. Because of the drill time, Block 2 will have LRC/Library on Thursday.
For our classroom read-aloud, Block 1 is reading Sideways Stories from Wayside School and Block 2 is reading Athlete vs. Mathlete by W.C. Mack.
Just a reminder that this week's spelling words are very difficult. They all have Vowel-Consonant-Consonant-Consonant-Vowel patterns. We will continue to practice during the week. I would encourage every student to use the Spelling City link to Unit 9 words below to practice at home.
http://www.spellingcity.com/wisyanski/
Our grammar skill is focusing on prepositions this week. We will be creating buried treasure maps using prepositions to describe the location of the treasure. Funbrain has many enjoyable grammar games to play at home.
http://www.funbrain.com/tour/gg.html - Funbrain grammar games
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