This week our Focus Stories will help us to answer the question: What can we create with shapes? Both of our stories are fictional this week. First up we have David's Drawings--story and pictures by Cathryn Falwell. This text is Realistic Fiction. "In this gentle and appealing story, a boy figures out how to stay true to his own artistic vision while allowing his friends to express their own creativity." (School Library Journal) Our second story this week will be Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh. Three mice show us how they can make and do many different things (They even find a way to trick a sneaky cat!) with a variety of shapes.
Our Target Skills this week include: blending phonemes, reading with expression, classifying/categorizing shape words, adjectives for size and shape, story structure, understanding characters, and summarizing. We will also review the letters and sounds that we have studied thus far (m, s, short a, t, c, and p), as well as their corresponding phonemes--/m/, /s/, /a/, /t/, /k/, and /p/. Letters: Mm, Ss, Aa, Tt, Cc, Pp
High-Frequency Words: Review see, a, we, to
Oral Vocabulary (David's Drawings): add, fluffy, fresh, grinned, moment, shyly
Selection Vocabulary (Mouse Shapes): hurry, pounced, sneaky, tricky
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