Unit 3, Week 1 - Little Panda

     This week our Focus Story will be Little Panda by Joanne Ryder.  We will learn all about baby pandas and discuss the parallels between panda and human babies through this heart-warming story of the birth and growth of Hua Mei, the first giant panda cub to survive in captivity, in the San Diego Zoo.
     Our Target Skill will be comparing and contrasting.  We will also continue to practice retelling a story and identifying the main idea of a story.  We will work on identifying, forming, and matching the letters Bb and Nn to their sounds--/b/ and /n/, respectively. 

Amazing Words: weigh, measure, healthy, bamboo, curious, and explore

High-Frequency Words:  me, with, she  (Please continue to practice the following words at home as well: I, am, to, a, the, little, we, my, like, have, is, he, for.)

Letters: Bb and Nn

Thank you to http://www.digitalpencil.org for the cover image!