Unit 5, Week 4 - Red Eyes or Blue Feathers / Chameleon, Chameleon

     This week our Focus Stories will help us to answer the essential question: How do animals' colors help them survive? Both of our stories fall into the genre of Informational Text.  Our first text will be Red Eyes or Blue Feathers, written by Patricia Stockland and illustrated by Todd Ouren.  This story describes how animals survive in the wild by adapting their colors to the environment that they live in. A few of the animals shown include a red-eyed tree frog, a polar bear, a red fox, a seahorse, a killer whale, a macaw, a black rhinoceros, a jewel beetle, and a chameleon.
     Our second text is entitled Chameleon, Chameleon and is written by Joy Cowley, photographed by Nic Bishop.  Through this story we will experience the many moods (and colors) of chameleons. One brave chameleon ventures from the safety of his tree in search of a new home. On his journey, he meets other rain forest animals, not all of them friendly! Alas, the new tree he chooses is already home to another chameleon. She dons her aggressive coloring until she's sure that the visitor is friend, not foe. Then they welcome each other with brilliant, happy colors
     Our Target Skills this week will be blending and segmenting phonemes, substituting phonemes, pausing for punctuation, classifying & categorizing, adjectives, drawing conclusions, identifying the author's purpose, and the capitalization & punctuation of questions.  We will also be working with the initial phonemes /h/ and /k/.  

Letters: Hh /h/ and Kk /k/

High-Frequency Words: he, no, away, by, must, there (Please continue to practice all of our High-Frequency Words at home!)

Oral Vocabulary (Red Eyes or Blue Feathers): communicate, mood, scent, sly, survive, temperature

Selection Vocabulary (Chameleon, Chameleon): danger, juicy, peaceful, poisonous



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