Communities Unit 2

What lives in the forest? Life in the Forest By: Claire Daniel What lives in the forest?

Objectives Yesterday: Long u, e and Review Long o and Contractions, High-Frequency Words, One and More Than One Today-TEST DAY: Spelling and Phonics: Long u, e and Inflected Ending -ed Skill: High-Frequency Words Grammar: One and More Than One

Morning Warm-Up! We read how each plant and each animal-even slimy creatures that crawl in sludge-are part of the environment. They all need each other to grow healthy and strong.

Question of the Day How do members of a community need each other?

Review Oral Vocabulary Find words in the message that: tell what happens when plants and animals thrive tell what we mean when we talk about creatures tell what we mean when we require something describe some animals

Amazing Words environment require slimy thrive sludge inhale capture creature Objective: Build oral vocabulary.

Just what do they mean? environment – the world around you that affects how you live and grow require – to need or insist on having thrive – to stay healthy and grow inhale – to draw in

Just what do they mean? slimy – something covered with a slippery, gooey material sludge – a thick, wet, slimy material capture – to catch creature – a living animal or person

Share Literature – listen & respond Time to Listen Share Literature – listen & respond Why Beavers Love Wolves Yesterday the class listened to find out why the beavers and the wolves are important to one another. Today listen to find out why having no wolves was a bad thing. Read Aloud

Share Literature – listening comprehension Time to Listen Share Literature – listening comprehension Read Aloud Why Beavers Love Wolves Why was it bad when there were no wolves? We can say the plants and animals in “Why Beavers Love Wolves” live in balance. What do you think this means?

Build Oral Vocabulary Remember what happened to the beaver pond. What might happen if certain animals in your neighborhood, such as squirrels, were all moved to another place? Use some of this week’s Amazing Words to describe how the other plants and animals in the neighborhood would be affected.

Blending Strategy Long u, Long e (CVCe) We have had words like hide and rode. Long u, Long e (CVCe) cube = c u b e these = th e s e fume Pete dune Gene cute use tune eve Zeke fuse huge

Long u, e (CVCe) Word Review

these

cube

cubes

huge

cute

mule

tube

flute

Steve

Pete

June

Gene

dune

eve

rule

Inflected Ending –ed= /t/, /d/, /ed/ Blending Strategy We have had words like kicks and kicking. Inflected Ending –ed= /t/, /d/, /ed/ kicked = kick ed filled = fill ed wanted = want ed rushed worked printed checked looked thanked yelled planted brushed called tilted asked wished

Inflected Ending –ed Word Review

hunted

rested

wanted

handed

camped

walked

talked

crushed

pitched

missed

asked

kicked

spilled

called

filled

Sentences To Read

He gave the green cube to Zeke. Duke is a huge mule that likes to eat. Gene plays the flute with June. The huge fuse is for the tube. The rule is to not be so rude. The purple prune is for the mule. Steve and Gene can sing that tune. For a beautiful scene, go to the beach. I’ll see if I can go to the huge home.

Long u, Long e, and Inflected ending -ED Review Pete checked the rule. Duke filled the tube with these stones. June handed the flute to Steve. Zeke jumped on a huge sand dune.

High Frequency Words Pages 114-115

grow

food

around

find

water

under

High-Frequency Words Review find around water under food grow Take a walk. Look all _________. In the ________ and ________the ground. You’ll ________ animals that you know, Eating _________ to make them ________.

Spelling Words huge cube use tube June rule cute mule flute rude Objective: Segment sounds to spell words.

Go to your testing spots. Life in the Forest Test Time Go to your testing spots. Good luck!

Time for Stations

A report has a serious voice. Writing and Grammar Writing Trait- Voice A report has a serious voice. Pages 136-137 Report Prompt Life in the Forest tells about plants and animals that live in a forest. Think about plants and animals that might live in a park. Write a report about them. One and More Than One Many nouns add –s to mean more than one. Nuts + s = nuts bug + s = bugs A bear looks for grubs under rocks. A bear is looking for more than one grub. It is looking under more than one rock.

Writing and Grammar Look at the report. Underline the nouns that mean more than one. Circle the letter that makes the nouns mean more than one. Many plants and animals live in a park. Flowers and trees grow in a park. Birds, squirrels, and rabbits live in a park.

Grammar

Research/Study Skills Teach/Model: Use Alphabetical Order Words in a dictionary or encyclopedia are in alphabetical order. Why does this make words easier to find? When I put words in alphabetical order, I look at the first letter in each word. Then I think about the letters in the alphabet. Which letter comes first, r or f? I know that f comes before r in the alphabet. Now I know that fox comes before rabbit in alphabetical order.

Research/Study Skills Teach/Model: Use Alphabetical Order Fill in the letters. A B C _ E _ G H I _ K L _ N O _ Q R S _ U V _ X Y _ _ B C _ E F G _ I J _ L M _ O P Q _ S T _ V W X _ Z

Research/Study Skills Practice: Alphabetical Animals Put these words in alphabetical order. woodpecker hummingbird squirrel grub bear 1. ______________ 2. ______________ ______________

Wrap Up Your Week! Why do all plants and animals require a clean environment? What creatures thrive in a swamp? How do plants and animals live together?

How Do Plants and Animals Live Together? What Plants Need What Animals Need soil water light air birds can eat insects that eat plants food homes trees birds and insects drink nectar

Preview Next Week Next week we will read about animals that live and work together in communities that are almost like human communities.

Extra

Daily Fix-It 1. the bear isnt sleeping. 2. The squirrel gathered nut

Waltke’s Web Powerpoint http://classroom.jc-schools.net/waltkek/First1.html Mrs. Waltke is a veteran teacher living in Jasper and working in the Jasper School System.

Carl’s Corner http://www.carlscorner.us.com/ Cherry Carl is a retired teacher who lives in California. She teaches at UCLA.

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