This week our Focus Stories will help usto answer the Essential Question: What steps can someone follow to plant and grow flowers? As such, both of our stories are Informational Texts this week. Our first story will be Oscar and the Frog by Geoff Waring. "Oscar is a curious kitten, and at the pond he is full of questions about growing things. Luckily, Frog can help with the answers — after all, he’s gone through some impressive changes himself! From butterflies to ducks, plants to kittens like him, Oscar finds out how living things begin, why they eat, and how they grow."
Our second story will be Zinnia's Flower Garden by Monica Wellington. "Springtime is here, and Zinnia can’t wait to plant her seeds and watch them grow. She carefully takes care of her garden, watering her plants, weeding, and waiting patiently for something to sprout. And soon enough, the first seedlings appear!"
Our Target Skills will be blending and segmenting phonemes, substituting phonemes, pausing for punctuation, using context clues, identifying the sequence of events, utilizing text and graphic features, and visualizing. We will also be working on distinguishing between the long and short 'Ee' vowel sounds.
Letter: Ee
High-Frequency Words: she, all, over, when, her, come
Oral Vocabulary (Oscar and the Frog): bank, gills, hatch, shrink, stared, tadpole
Selection Vocabulary (Zinnia's Flower Garden): fragrant, inspects, pesky, sprinkles
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