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



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