What can we discover by exploring nature? Click to listen to story.

1. What can we discover by exploring nature?Click to listen to story.

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3. Vocabulary & Amazing Words: Arcade Games Jigword Matchword Speedword Wordsearch Word Web Spelling City – Vocabulary Words Spelling City – Amazing Words Spelling Words: Speedword Word Web Quia Games Spelling City High Frequency Words Fill-in-the Blank Spelling City Review Games

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8. Big Question:What can we discover by exploring nature? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

9. Henry & MudgeMonday

10. Henry & MudgeMonday

11. Today we will learn about: • new amazing words, • consonant blends, • character and setting, and • predicates

12. Exploring SpaceMonday

13. galaxy • gal – ax - y • A galaxy is a huge group of stars. Earth and the sun are part of a big galaxy. • On a clear night you can see a galaxy of stars. • Scientists say there are lots of galaxies besides the one we are in.

14. galaxy

15. tranquil • tran - quil • Tranquil is how you feel when you are very calm and peaceful. • Looking at the stars makes me feel tranquil. • A warm summer night seems tranquil.

16. wildlife • wild - life • Animals and plants that live wild outdoors are called wildlife. • There are many kinds of wildlife in the forest. • We saw many kinds of wildlife when we went camping.

17. wildlife

18. We are going to listen to a song about camping and looking at stars. Tranquil Nights Click to listen. Sing With Me

19. Consonant Blends • b ack • w ing • What do you know about the consonants at the end of these words? • Today we’ll learn about consonant letters whose sounds are blended together in words.

20. Consonant Blends • tr u st • This word begins with two consonants and ends with two consonants. • We have to blend two consonant sounds together to read the word. • You can also blend words by saying the sounds before the vowel together, saying the sounds of all the rest of the letters together, and then blending the two chunks.

21. Consonant Blends • spr - ead • This word begins with three consonants. • We have to blend the sounds of all three consonants together to read the word.

22. ask tribe grand flute stamp place stripe scrub Consonant Blends

23. dusk strap mask blame bride splat clamp frame Consonant Blends

24. Making Word Letter Tiles a - o b - c - d - f - l - m - n - p - r - s - t

25. dwell strong stink jump scrub track mask spring plug scrape flex smile split drank stung Word Reading

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27. Word Family Word – not(online dictionary)

28. Word Family Word – not knot blot pot tot cot plot trot slot clot dot

29. Word Family Word – thing(online dictionary)

30. Word Family Word – thing king kingcobra ring wing string wring bling sling

31. Let’s Talk About Exploration!

33. Character and Setting • Characters are the people or animals in stories. • Authors describe their characters. They tell what the characters look like, how they act, and how they think. They also tell about the setting, or where the story takes place. • Knowing about characters and setting can help a reader better understand a story.

34. Read Aloud Just a Little Patience

35. Daily Fix-It we saw a bird’s nesst in a tree We saw a bird’s nest in a tree. went on a camping trip We went on a camping trip.

36. Grammar: Predicates Predicates tell what the subject of the sentence did. Every sentence must have a predicate. • We hiked up a mountain. • We hiked up a mountain. • The trail was hard. • The trail was hard. • It climbed up and up. • Itclimbed up and up.

37. Grammar: Predicates • My dad helped me a little. • My dad helped me a little. • The view at the top was great. • The view at the top was great. • I enjoyed that hike. • I enjoyed that hike. • My dad carried a backpack. • My dad carried a backpack. • He gave me a snack. • He gave me a snack.

38. Wrap Up Your Day! • Consonant Blends • Character and Setting • Let’s Talk About It • Tomorrow we will read about a family that explores nature by going camping.

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40. Henry & MudgeTuesday

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42. Today we will learn about: • new amazing words, • consonant blends, • character and setting, • monitor and fix up, • high-frequency words, • vocabulary words, and • predicates

43. Exploring SpaceTuesday

44. underneath • un – der - neath • If you put a book under your chair, you can say the book is underneath your chair. • My socks are underneath my pajamas in the top drawer. • In my lunchbox, I have an apple underneath my sandwich.

45. identify • i - den - ti- fy • When you identify something, you tell what it is. • The tags on a dog’s collar identify the dog’s owner. • I put my name on my lunchbox to identify it.

46. detective • de - tec - tive • A detective is a person who tries to solve a mystery or figure out a problem. • You are a word detective when you figure out what a word means. • A police detective figures out who is responsible for a crime.

47. Consonant Blends • mask • You can read this word because you know how to read words with consonant blends. What sounds do the letters sk stand for in this word? • When you come to a new word, look at the letters from left to right and think about the sounds. • Say the sounds in the word to yourself and then read the word.

48. Sing With Me • We are going to listen to a song. • Nature’s Creatures • Click to listen.

49. creatures flock crows black bluebird screeching gray croaking frogs snakes stretched Consonant Blends: Find the words in “Nature’s Creatures” that have consonant blends.

50. Sort these words with consonant blends: bride, plump, grace, slide, stand, brand, slump, stride, space, stump, trace, strand