Reading with Mrs. Bender

Our story this week was "Trapped in the Ice" about Shackleton's trek across Antarctica.  We watched a video about this adventure and talked a lot about the hardships the men encountered.  Skills this week was focused on outlining, finding the headings and the main ideas.

We also began our new novel Dear Levi which is about the adventures of a young boy as he travels across the Overland Trail.  It fits in perfectly with our Adventure stories from our anthology and the outlining skills as Dear Levi is a collection of letters and each entry is dated.