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
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