Unit 3, Week 4 - Farfallina and Marcel

      This week our Focus Story will be Farfallina and Marcel by Holly Keller.  This is the tale of the unlikely friendship between a caterpillar (Farfallina) and a goose (Marcel).  Suddenly, Farfallina disappears for a long time and reemerges as a butterfly.  Will the two friends be able to find and recognize each other again?
     Our Target Skill this week will be learning to identify the plot of a story.  We will also continue to practice character identification, making predictions and retelling a story.  We will work on identifying, forming, and matching the letter Ff to its phoneme--/f/.


Amazing Words: goose, gosling, caterpillar, butterfly, reflection, cocoon

High-Frequency Words:  see, look  (Please continue to practice all of our Popcorn Words at home!)

Letter: Ff


Thank you to www.nwf.org  for the cover image!