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!
Friday, November 22, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Unit 3, Week 2 - Storm Is Coming! / Snow
This week our Focus Stories will help us to answer the question: What do animals do when the weather changes? Both stories fall under the genre of Fantasy. Our first story this week will be Storm is Coming! written by Heather Tekavec and illustrated by Margaret Spengler. When the old farmer warns that a storm is coming, the dog spreads the word and leads all of the animals to shelter. Huddled together, they wait anxiously for the storm to come. But who is this frightening creature named Storm, and what will happen when he arrives?
Our second Focus Story this week will be Snow by Manya Stojic. Moose, Bear, Fox, and Hare frolic in a snowy, glowy Winter Wonderland. Winter is coming to the North Woods and the animals are all getting ready for the first big snow.Our Target Skills this week will be blending phonemes, identifying final sounds, reading with expression, classifying and categorizing, identifying verbs in a sentence, forming conclusions, and understanding characters. We will also be working to identify the letter 'Nn' and its corresponding phoneme--/n/.
Letter: Nn
High-Frequency Words: with, my (Please continue to practice all of our High-Frequency words at home!)
Oral Vocabulary (Storm is Coming!): guard, huddle, nodded, pasture, silent, and stampede
Select Vocabulary (Snow): drifted, gathering, swirled, wisely
Thank you to www.amazon.com for the cover images and summary information.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Unit 3, Week 1 - Every Season / Jump Into January: A Journey Around the Year
This week our Focus Stories will help us to answer the question: How does the weather change in different months and seasons? Both of our stories this week will fall into the genre of Informational Text. We will begin with Every Season, written by Anne Love Woodhull and Shelley Rotner. The narrator of this story will take us on a cyclical journey through all four seasons, describing in great detail what makes each season unique.Next we will read Jump into January: A Journey Around the Year by Stella Blackstone and illustrated by Maria Carluccio. This book is full of picture puzzles for us to solve as it takes us month-by-month through the year.
We will focus on the following Target Skills this week: blending phonemes, pausing for punctuation, figurative language, subject of a sentence, comparing and contrasting, and questioning. We will also review Aa, and is corresponding "short" vowel sound.
Letter: Aa
High-Frequency Words: come, me (Please continue to practice all of our High-Frequency words at home!)
Oral Vocabulary (Every Season): bloom, peck, scatter, speckled, store, tracks
Select Vocabulary (Jump into January): glistens, jive, local, orchard
Thank you to www.amazon.com for the cover images and summary information!
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
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