Sunday, December 15, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Unit 3, Week 4 - Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear / Turtle Splash!
Our Focus Stories this week will help us to answer the question: Where do different animals make their homes? Both stories fall under the genre of Informational Text. Our first text this week will be Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear by Brenda Williams and Rosamund Fowler. Through this story, we will learn about the habitats of these and many other animals as we travel around the world meeting all sorts of creatures in their natural environments.
Our second story this week will be Turtle Splash!, by Cathryn Falwell. In this story, 10 turtles are sitting on a tree and whenever they are startled by another animal in the forest, one falls off into the water below! It is a great story to practice counting down. It also provokes discussion about nature and provides fun facts about the animals that the reader encounters throughout the story. Our Target Skills for this week are blending phonemes, identifying medial sounds, reading with expression, classifying and categorizing, identifying number words, determining cause and effect, identifying author's purpose, making inferences/predictions, and verbs in the past tense. We will also be working to identify the letter Bb and its corresponding phoneme, /b/.
Letter: Bb
High-Frequency Words: are, now (Please continue to practice all of our high frequency words!)
Oral Vocabulary (Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear): burrow, desert, lodge, patient, shade, soaring
Select Vocabulary (Turtle Splash!): idle, lounging, scampers, timid
Thanks to www.amazon.com for the cover images and summaries!
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Unit 3, Lesson 3 - A Zebra's Word / What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
Our Focus Stories this
week will help us to answer the question: How do animals use their different
body parts? Our first story is entitled A Zebra’s World, written by
Caroline Arnold and falls under the genre of Informational Text. With this text we will follow the development
of a baby zebra to its maturity.
Our second story this week is What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. It is
also an Informational Text. In this story, we will
explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths,
noses, feet, and tails.
Our Target Skills this week are blending
phonemes, final sound recognition, reading rate, using context clues,
identifying author’s purpose, utilizing text and graphic features, and
recognizing capitalization and punctuation.
We will also be working to identify the letter Ff and its corresponding
phoneme, /f/.
Letter: Ff
High-Frequency Words: you, what (Please
continue to practice all of our High-Frequency Words at home!)
Oral Vocabulary (A Zebra’s World): daily, herd, muscles, pattern, several, and
usually
Select Vocabulary (What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?):
belongs, capture, nasty, and sensitive
Thank you to www.amazon.com for the cover images and text summaries!
Thank you to www.amazon.com for the cover images and text summaries!
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