2.  How do you know if you should put on warm clothes or cool clothes before you come to school?  Have you seen someone using a tool or technology that tells about weather? What did that person use?  Tell about a weather report you saw on TV or heard on the radio.

3. warnings- things that tell of danger predict- to say what will happen temperature- how hot or cold something is

4. I wonder why thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes are called “wild”. I can make a text-to- self connection from something that I have seen. I’ve seen strong winds and lightning during a thunderstorm. These strong winds knocked down trees. But I’m still not sure why the storms are called wild. I have seen wild animals like tigers. I can infer that the author called this weather “wild” because people don’t know what the weather will do. Page 18- The World of Weather (below) Flash…Ka-boom! A thunderstorm can mean spring has begun. It might be the wildest weather you’ve ever seen. Tornadoes and hurricanes are other kinds of wild weather.

5. Can you make a connection to this caption? What other strategies can you use to better understand this page? In a thunderstorm like this, lightning can damage buildings and trees. (p. 18 The World of Weather)

6.  Might someone want rain or snow? Why?  Read pages 24-29

7.  Two words put together to make a compound word. The two words do not always keep their meanings.  Examples: fishbowl, backyard  Circle the word parts: doghouse popcorn weekend

8. High Frequency Words: gone, great, only, pulled, upon Decodable Reader #15: My Great Day Fluency: “Summer Friends” (Phrasing) Practice Page 232

9. Underline the verbs: Future tense verbs use the word will to show that something will happen in the future. My grandmother will visit next week. The stores will open early on Saturday. We will camp out next summer. They will live in the new house. Tense of a verb tells when something happened. Present tense verbs tell something is happening now, in the present. Past tense verbs tell something that has already happened in the past. Future tense verbs tell something that is going to happen in the future.

10.  Expository Paragraph Have you ever wondered why birds sing? When spring comes, birds settle down to have a family. The male finds a place for a nest. He sings a song to tell other birds that he has found a home. Then he sings a different song to attract a mate. Then he sings to tell other birds of his kind to stay off his property. Other birds of the same kind sometimes answer.  Closing Sentences Birds sing for a few reasons. Do you ever think they sing for you?