Unit 2 Week 1
Big Idea: Animal Discoveries - How do animals play a part in the world around us?
Weekly Concept: Animals and Nature
Essential Question: How do animals survive?
Genre: Fiction
Strategy: Make, Confirm, Revise Predictions
Skill: Character, Setting, Plot
Spelling Words
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bag
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box
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fox
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dog
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lock
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pot
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cone
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home
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nose
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poke
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rope
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side
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line
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have
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off
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took
Vocabulary Words
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adapt - When something has to adapt to a new place, it must become used to it.
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climate - The climate is the temperature and the amout of rain that is in a place.
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eager - When you are eager, you want to do something very much.
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freedom - Freedom is bing able to move about or acti as one wants.
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fresh - When something is fresh, it is new or not spoiled.
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sense - Sense means a feeling you have about something.
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shadows - Shadows are dark shapes that are made when something is in front of a light.
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silence - If there is silence, it is still and quiet.
High Frequency Words
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because
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friends
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have
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picture
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school
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off
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know
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cold
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family
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took
Dear Family Member:
For the next two weeks, our class will be focusing on the ways in which animals survive. Some animals live in hot places; others live in cold places. Wherever they live, animals need to adapt to their environment.
Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we'll be practicing.
Word Workout
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Words to Know: prefixes You will make up a sentence using one of the words on the list and have your child tell you what the word means. Then you will reverse roles.
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Spelling/Phonics: short o and long o As you say each list word, have your child spell it and then say a rhyming word. Then your child will write a short two-line poem using one of the rhyming word pairs. This week's phonic sounds are short o as in hot and long o as in bone.
Comprehension: character, setting plot
You and your child will look at pictures and make up a story about the pictures. Your child will write one or two short sentences explaining the plot, or what happens in the story.