What can we learn by exploring the desert?

1. What can we learn by exploring the desert?

2. Small Groups Timer

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6. Big Question:What can we learn by exploring the desert? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

7. A Walk in the DesertMonday

8. A Walk in the DesertMonday

9. Today you will learn about: • new amazing words, • inflected endings – adding –ed and –ing, • main idea and details, and • statements and questions

10. Exploring SpaceMonday

11. arid • ar - id • Something that is arid is very, very dry. • Deserts are arid because they don’t get much rain. • The air in your house in the winter might be arid because the heat is on all the time.

12. landform • land - form • A landform is the shape formed on land. • Landforms are things like hills, mountains, lakes, and deserts. • The landforms in Arizona include mountains and desert, as well as rivers.

13. precipitation • pre-cip-i-ta-tion • Precipitation means any kind of rain, snow, hail, or other form of water that comes down from the clouds to the ground. • A desert area is dry because it gets very little precipitation. • Many kinds of trees that grow in forests need a lot of precipitation.

14. Rules • If a word has a short vowel, double the end consonant before adding –ed or –ing. • If a word has a sneaky e, drop the e before adding –ed or –ing.

15. Inflected Endings We will learn about words whose spelling changes before an ending is added to the base word.

16. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

17. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

18. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

19. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

20. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

21. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

22. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

23. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

24. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

25. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

26. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

27. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

28. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

29. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

30. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

31. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

32. Inflected Endings Decide if the base word’s spelling will change when you add –ed or –ing.

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35. Let’s Talk About Exploration!

36. Main Idea and Details • The main idea is the most important idea about the topic. • Details are small pieces of information in a selection that tell more about the main idea. • Good readers decide which ideas are most important as they react.

37. Read – Aloud: Saguaro Cactus

38. Monday’s Fix-It talked about the desert We talked about the desert. when can we go When can we go?

39. Grammar: Statements & Questions • A statement is a sentence that tells something. A statement ends with a period. Some places are very dry. • A question is a sentence that asks something. A question ends with a question mark. What can live in a very dry place? • A statement and a question begin with a capital letter.

40. Grammar: Statements & Questions • can an oak tree live in a very dry place • Can an oak tree live in a very dry place? • an oak tree needs plenty of water • An oak tree needs plenty of water. • it cannot live in a very dry place • It cannot live in a very dry place.

41. Grammar: Statements & Questions • does a cactus need much water • Does a cactus need much water? • a cactus does not need much water • A cactus does not need much water. • where does a cactus live • Where does a cactus live?

42. A Walk in the DesertMonday

43. A Walk in the DesertTuesday

44. A Walk in the DesertTuesday

45. Today you will learn about: • new amazing words, • inflected endings – adding –ed and –ing, • main idea and details, • text structure, • high-frequency words, • vocabulary words, and • statements and questions

46. Exploring SpaceTuesday

47. dunes • dunes • A dune is a hill of sand in a desert. Dunes are formed when the wind blows the sand. • That dune wasn’t there last time we came to this beach. • The dunes in a desert shift and change.

48. ledge • led - ge • A ledge is a shelf. • If you are in the desert, you might see a coyote up on a ledge. • There is a toy on the window ledge.

49. haven • ha -ven • A haven is a safe place. • A big cactus is a haven for lots of animals. • Your school is a haven for you during a big rainstorm.

50. Rules • If a word has a short vowel, double the end consonant before adding –ed or –ing. • If a word has a sneaky e, drop the e before adding –ed or –ing.