Today, in honor of Roald Dahl’s birthday next week, we started our mini class novel – The Twits.
Synopsis from amazon.
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don’t just want out, they want revenge.
Be sure to follow along with your child as we read through this delightfully hilarious (and sometimes face scrunching) book. We’ll be doing a lot of in-class activities as we read different chapters each day.
Today, we explored sensory description and figurative language as we delved head first into Mr. Twit’s beard (gross!). Ask your child how Mr. Twit was described, and remind them to include his ‘jungle of a beard’.
