Unit 1 Week 6 Animal Park

Day 1 Street Rhymes! Tall giraffes with spotted skin, Monkeys that can make you grin, Panda bears with black and white faces, Elephants from far-off places. I like seals and tigers too. My favorite animals are at the zoo. Question of the week: What can we learn about wild animals by watching them? Build Oral Language: One thing we can learn by watching animals is how they move. How is the snake in the picture moving? (wriggling). Let’s add We learn how animals move and wriggling to our map. The animal in the tree is a tarsier. How can it move? (It can climb.) Let’s add climb to our map.

Concept Map This week we will read about wild animals that live in a special park and what animals do there all day. Let’s add We learn what animals do all day to our map.

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Build Oral Vocabulary Our world is home to many _______________. If I go to the desert, I will probably see_______. The forest is a great place to ____________.

Phonemic Awareness In the picture, what is shining up in the sky? (sun) The middle sound in sun is /u/. Listen as I say the short u sound: /u/, /u/, /u/. Three are three sounds in sun: /s/ /u/ /n/. The middle sound is /u/. There are two sounds in up: /u/ /p/. The first sound is /u/. Model: Have children identify other items or actions in the picture with the short u sound. (mug, skunk, hug, cup, bug)

What do you know about reading these words? Phonics top jet bug cut rug mud tub run but cup sun nut dud luck rub What do you know about reading these words?

Spelling words crust bump jump must just dust trust dusk hunt lump

Text Based Comprehension Read “The Fox Family”

Daily Fix It 1. junp onto a bus to go home. Jump onto a bus to go home. 2. many of them sit in sunn. Many of them sit in sun.

Writing: Brief Composition Connect to Familiar Texts Use examples from A Fox and a Kit or another nonfiction text familiar to children. A Fox and a Kit tells about real animals. It tells real things about the fox and her kit. It tells how the fox takes care of her baby. It does not tell made-up things.

Day 2 Animal Park Watching Wild Animals Sing “Big Round World” Where do the chipmunks in the song live? (in the forest) What could you watch them do there? (run and race)

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Concept Map

Phonics lamp /l/ /a/ /m/ /p/ ten lamp /l/ /a/ /m/ /p/ tent fast rust bend milk camp belt desk gift romp pond must

Vocabulary

Daily Fix It 3. my buss ran into a bump. My bus ran into a bump. 4. Frogs ren intoo the pond. Frogs run into the pond.

Antonyms stop go win sad pull top

Exclamatory Sentences His frog is the best pet!

Writing Wild Animals We Watch birds

Handwriting

wet tag dot spin twig job flap truck men quick pup

Day 3 Animal Park

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Phonemic Awareness Rhyming words: Remember that rhyming words are words that end with the same sounds. Lets find two things that rhyme with trust. When I look at the picture, I see a crust of bread, and I see some old trucks with rust on them. Crust and rust rhyme with trust. Have children produce words that rhyme with dunk (skunk, trunk, junk)

hand band mud dust pup tusk lump bunt Say the sounds in your head for each spelling you see. When I point to the word, we’ll read it together. mud dust pup tusk lump bunt

Daily Fix It 5. Jummp up for a nutt Jump up for a nut. 6. she kut a rug up She cut a rug up.

High- Frequency Words and Selection Words Have children say and spell the words with you. many into High- Frequency Words and Selection Words Nan and Ken got _______ his black truck. Yes, many fast _______ ran past Mom and Dad. Big can stomp and swim in the park. Will _______ sit in the mud if the sun is hot? Jack went _______ and fed his dog. Kim gets six blocks and stacks them ______. home them zebras into hippos elephants into zebras elephants hippos home them

Exclamatory Sentences Big cats can run fast! Team Talk Have pairs generate exclamations they might have said if they had been riding on the truck in the Animal Park. Have children say these sentences with the appropriate intonation That was such a great surprise! I am so excited! I’m very worried about the test!

Day 4

Amazing Words desert forest world chatter silent snort medicine poisonous

Phonemic Awareness hut undo trust upon hunt us This week we read about how hippos sit in mud. Listen as I say the three sounds in mud. /m/ /u/ /d/ The middle sound in mud is /u/. Now we’re going to say Some other words and listen for the sound /u/. I will say a word. Raise your hand if you hear the /u/ sound at the beginning of the word. up it uneven ever umpire apple uncle odd unsafe use Now I will say some more words. Repeat each word after me. Raise your hand if you hear the /u/ sound in the middle of the word. tub nest tusk dunk milk mat stuck club stop bud Now you say the word and tell me if you hear the /u/ sound at the beginning or in the middle of the word. hut undo trust upon hunt us

Phonics pen You studied words like this one last week. What do you know about the vowel sound you hear in pen? trip You also studied words like this. What do you know about the consonant sounds you hear at the beginning of trip? When I say a word, hold a hand up high if it has a short e sound, or shake your head no if it does not have short e: net, six, sled, dress, bug, grill, step, black, ten, snap. Write each word in the correct column. Short e Not Short e

Fluent Word Reading Tell children that they can blend some words on this list, and others are Word Wall words.

Use rhyme and rhythm in poetry Complete the following two-line poems using rhythm and rhyme. Together read the rhymes while clapping the rhythms.

Daily Fix It 7. did you jump onto the bus Did you jump onto the bus? 8. Can you take the bus heme. Can you take the bus home?

Writing

We observed an animal and wrote notes about what we observed to help us remember. Now I will look at the notes I made. I will see if all my notes are about my animal. If some of the notes are about other animals or other things I observed, I will cross them out. I will also check my spelling. If a word is not spelled correctly, I will write the word again with the correct spelling. Have children look at the notes they made during Day 3. Instruct them to work with a partner to go over their notes. Tell children that tomorrow they will organize their notes in order to share them. must dump bus

Day 5

What is the cause of the disappearing birdseed? What is the effect on the birds?

Daily Fix It Did the bus hit a bump? 9. Did the bus hit a bummp. Did the bus hit a bump? 10. Can you see the elephants ruun. Can you see the elephants run?