Today's lesson focused on reading comprehension and spelling/suffixes. For homework, Atticus answered reading comprehension questions on "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and on an historical account of the battle that occurred during the Crimean War. During class, we focused on answering all of the questions and using the text to locate specific answers. Atticus then revised his homework questions and placed his answers into full sentences. We then read the entire poem aloud noting the rhythm and rhyme scheme. During the second segment of the session, Atticus completed exercises on the "doubling rule" when adding a noun suffix to a root word. He did very well with the exercises.