Why should we learn about cowboys? Click to listen to the story.

1. Why should we learn about cowboys?Click to listen to the story.

2. Small GroupTimer

3. Vocabulary & Amazing Words: Arcade Games Jigword Matchword Speedword Wordsearch Word Web Spelling City: Amazing Spelling City: Vocabulary Spelling Words: Speedword Word Web Quia Games Spelling City High Frequency Words Spelling City Review Games

4. Cowboys

5. Cowboys

6. Cowboys

7. Cowboys

8. Cowboys

9. Big Question:Why should we learn about cowboys? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

10. CowboysMonday

11. CowboysMonday

12. Today we will learn about: • Suffixes –ness and –less • Cause and Effect • Graphic Organizer • Commas in Compound Sentences

14. climate • cli – mate • Climate is the kind of weather that happens in a particular place. • The desert has a dry climate. • There is a lot of rain in a rain forest climate. • Florida has a much warmer climate than Michigan has.

15. livestock • live - stock • Animalssuch as cows or chickens that are raised on farms are called livestock. • The rancher’s livestock grazed in the fields. • It was Jeff’s responsibility to feed the livestock each morning.

16. livestock

17. occupation • oc – cu – pa – tion • An occupation is the work that a person does to earn a living. • A firefighter has a dangerous occupation. • My sister changed her occupation from a teacher to a lawyer.

18. occupation

19. Listen to this song about cowboys.

20. Suffixes • useful - sadly • We studied words like this already. • What do you know about reading these words? • Today we’ll learn about adding suffixes –less and –ness to the end of words. • Each suffix has a special meaning. • -less - without • -ness - the quality of being ______

21. Suffixes • kind ness • This is a two-syllable word made from the base word kind and the suffix –ness. • You can chunk the word into its part—base words and the suffix. • Then cover the suffix, read the base word, and then blend the base word and the suffix to read the whole word. • kindness – the quality of being kind.

22. careless carelessly sadness friendless laziness useful usefulness hopeless hopelessly Suffixes

23. darkness painless fitness weakness bottomless sickness Suffixes

24. Suffixes

25. Suffixes

26. Suffixes

27. Suffixes

28. Suffixes

29. Suffixes

30. Suffixes

31. Suffixes

32. Suffixes

33. Suffixes

34. Suffixes

35. Suffixes

36. Suffixes

37. Suffixes

38. Suffixes

39. Suffixes

40. Suffixes

41. Suffixes

42. Suffixes

43. Suffixes

44. Suffixes

45. thoughtless fearless painlessly useless lonely watchfulness pointless actor carefully brightness graceful gentleness illness teacher awareness Suffixes

46. Cowboys

47. Cowboys

48. Cause and EffectGraphic Organizer • Remember A Birthday Basket for Tia. • What caused the musicians to begin to play their guitars and violins? • What would have happened if Tia had not entered the room? • Good readers understand what happened in a story and why it happened.

49. Cause and EffectGraphic Organizer • Sometimes there are clue words to help figure this out. • Look for the clue words because, so, and since. • It is important to understand what you read. A graphic organizer can help you understand what happened in a story and why it happened.