Unit 4, Week 5 - If You Could go to Antarctica

     This week our Focus Story will be If You Could go to Antarctica by Fay Robinson.  With this story, the students will be introduced to the creatures and terrain associated with Antarctica. We will meet penguins, seals, and humpback whales, just to name a few--as well as discuss icebergs, the weather, and why most plants cannot grow in this region.
      Our Target Skill this week is learning to classify and categorize gathered information.  We will also continue to work on making predictions, sequential order, and identifying the main idea of a story.  The students will work to identify, form, and match the letter 'Ee' to its phoneme--/e/.  We will focus on the short vowel sound this week.

Amazing Words:  Antarctica, continent, icebergs, penguins, seals, whales

High-Frequency Words: go, here, from  (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)

Letter: Ee


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