This week our stories will help us to answer the question: Why do different animals move in different ways? Our first story falls into the genre of Realistic Fiction and is entitled Jonathan and His Mommy--written by Irene Smalls and illustrated by Michael Hays. In this story, a mother and son explore their neighborhood, and, as they do, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss-cross steps and backwards steps. 
Our second story this week is Move! by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. This story is an Informational Text. We will follow a variety of animals as they swing, dance, float, leap, and slide from page to page, and then learn why these animals move the way they do, from the jumping spider who dances to impress and then floats away on a thread of silk, to the roadrunner who flies, but not too far, and would rather run to catch its prey. Our Focus Skills this week will be blending and segmenting onsets and rimes, reading with expression, identifying key details, comparing and contrasting, visualizing, classifying/categorizing action words, and color words as adjectives. We will also focus on learning the letter Cc and its corresponding phoneme--/k/.
Letter: Cc
High-Frequency Word: a (Please continue to practice all of our High-Frequency Words!)
Oral Vocabulary (Jonathan and His Mommy): backward, beat, leap, strange, wiggle, zigzag
Selection Vocabulary (Move!): colony, rustling, slithers, startled
Thank you to www.amazon.com for the cover images!
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