4 th Grade Reading Lesson 13 The Cricket in Time Square/Oak Grove Picnic

Let’s look for each of the long vowel sounds. Even when the sky turned hazy, the cargo pilot put on his uniform.

shell fin army Mom drip dusty

Vocabulary Words wistfully scrounging acquaintance excitable eavesdropping sympathetically logical

Please complete each sentence with your own beginning. 1.____ when I caught him eavesdropping on my phone conversation. 2.____ and listened sympathetically to the crying lost child. 3.____ would be the logical thing to do after she found the wallet.

Please complete each sentence with your own beginning. 4.____ made John look wistfully out the window at the lake. 5.____ after the bear was found scrounging through our camp. 6.____ because she is a close acquaintance of mine. 7.____ the excitable hamster ran around the cage.

Directed Reading: “Oak Grove Picnic” Page 102 & 103 What are the animals doing? What news does Ruben the squirrel has and how did he learn it? Page 104 & 105 What do the jays think about the news? Why do you think the owls are interested in going to the picnic? What does Amy, the baby deer, wish for?

Page 106 & 107 How are the oak trees and acorns useful to the animals Why did the owls finally go home and how did this make the other animals feel?

1.Taking the logical way home would a.take you home quickly. b.make you get lost. 2.Listening sympathetically to a sad friend would a.make the friend feel worse. b.make the friend feel better.

3. If an animal is scrounging for food, it is a.hungry. b.burying the food in the ground. 4. When you are please to make someone’s acquaintance, you say a.hello. b.goodbye.

5. Looking at the picture of his mother wistfully, the young man started to a.cry. b.laugh out loud. 6. As the old man was eavesdropping he a.told them the whole story. b.overheard what the story was about.

7. Jack is very excitable when he goes to a a.baseball game. b.funeral.