Our Focus Stories this week will help us to answer the question: Where do different animals make their homes? Both stories fall under the genre of Informational Text. Our first text this week will be Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear by Brenda Williams and Rosamund Fowler. Through this story, we will learn about the habitats of these and many other animals as we travel around the world meeting all sorts of creatures in their natural environments.
Our second story this week will be Turtle Splash!, by Cathryn Falwell. In this story, 10 turtles are sitting on a tree and whenever they are startled by another animal in the forest, one falls off into the water below! It is a great story to practice counting down. It also provokes discussion about nature and provides fun facts about the animals that the reader encounters throughout the story. Our Target Skills for this week are blending phonemes, identifying medial sounds, reading with expression, classifying and categorizing, identifying number words, determining cause and effect, identifying author's purpose, making inferences/predictions, and verbs in the past tense. We will also be working to identify the letter Bb and its corresponding phoneme, /b/.
Letter: Bb
High-Frequency Words: are, now (Please continue to practice all of our high frequency words!)
Oral Vocabulary (Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear): burrow, desert, lodge, patient, shade, soaring
Select Vocabulary (Turtle Splash!): idle, lounging, scampers, timid
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