Our Focus Stories this week will help us to answer the question: How do musicians work together to make music? Our first story will be Simon and Molly Plus Hester by Lisa Jahn-Clough, which falls under the genre of Realistic Fiction. Simon and Molly were the best of friends, just the two of them. Until Hester moved in. Hester doesn’t want to ride the two-wheeler, like they always do; she wants to make paper airplanes instead. And the toast Simon makes for her is too boring; she wants to add cinnamon sugar. Molly happily goes along with all of her changes, but Simon liked things the way they were before Hester moved in. With Hester around, will Molly still want to be his friend?
Our second story will be Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin, written by Lloyd Moss and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. This book of poetry is "a masterpiece that is the perfect introduction to musical instruments and musical groups, and a counting book that redefines the genre."Our Target Skills this week will be blending phonemes, segmenting phonemes, reading with expression, determining key details, determining author's word choice, inferring/predicting, and multiple-meaning words. We will also be working with the short and long vowel sounds of the letter Oo.
Letter: Oo
High-Frequency Words: make, them, give, play, say, new
Oral Vocabulary (Simon and Molly Plus Hester): idea, just, plain, teach, together, until
Selection Vocabulary (Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin): adore, eager, gleeful, hesitate
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