Unit 1, Week 2 - Friends at School / How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?

     Our Informational Text this week will be Friends at School by Rochelle Bunnett, photographs by Matt Brown.  With this story, we will spend a day at school with a classroom of boys and girls, two African spur tortoises, and a guinea pig named Mocha. We will join Annie, Ryan, and all of their classmates as they learn and have fun while engaged in an assortment of school activities. Sara and Luka feed a carrot to Mocha, while Ellie and Molly put on a puppet show. Zane mixes up a "moo-shake" with bananas and strawberries at snack time, and Dash wears a fireman's coat during a field trip to a fire station.
    Our Big Book this week will be the fantasy story, How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We will join the fun as dinosaurs ride the bus, read their favorite books, and have fun on the playground with all their friends.
     Through these texts and small groups, we will work on the following skills this week: identifying beginning sounds, pausing for punctuation to enhance fluency, understanding characters and author's purpose, and making inferences/predictions.  

High-Frequency Word: like (Please continue to review the word "I" at home, as well!)

Oral Vocabulary (Friends at School): busy, company, container, job, scoop, and tortoises

Selection Vocabulary (How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?): bullying, tidies, fidget, and interrupt

     Thank you to www.biblio.com and www.scholastic.com for the cover images!