Unit 4, Week 4 - Nicky and the Rainy Day / Sheep Take a Hike

     This week our Focus Stories will help us to answer the question: What kinds of things could happen on a hike?  Both of our stories fall into the genre of Fantasy this week.  Our first story will be Nicky and the Rainy Day, written and illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev.  Instead of moping about inside when the weather is not favorable, Nicky leads his friends on an inside adventure until the weather clears enough for them to take their fun outside.
     Our second story this week is Sheep Take a Hike, written by Nancy Shaw and illustrated by Margot Apple.  This is a fast-paced, rhythmic, rhyming and poetic story describing a flock of sheep and their preparation for an upcoming hike together.
     Our Target Skills for this week include: blending and segmenting phonemes, pausing for punctuation, identifying antonyms, cause and effect, identifying the sequence of events, and past tense verbs.  We will also be working to identify the letter Dd and its corresponding phoneme--/d/.

Letter: Dd

High-Frequency Words: go, for, here, they, soon, up (Please continue to practice ALL of our high-frequency words at home!)

Oral Vocabulary (Nicky and the Rainy Day): blizzards, boring, cliffs, impossible, jungle, and meadow

Selection Vocabulary (Sheep Take a Hike): bicker, compass, hiking, and tramp


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