Animal Homes

1. Animal Homes Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Shared Reading Word Practice Phonics Practice High Frequency Words Additional Resources

2. Question of the Day • How do animals build their homes?

3. Draw Conclusions • When you listen to a story and look at the pictures, think aboutwhat you hear and see. • Use what you already know to make up your mind about thingsin the story. This is called drawing conclusions.

4. Amazing Words

5. sit on the top step

6. Sit on the top step.

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12. Let’s Write Answers to Questions • What do you do after school? • I play with my friends. • I ride my bike. • I go to t-ball practice.

14. Question of the Day • Which animals build their homes on land?

15. the dog jump on the bed

16. The dog jumps on the bed.

17. Shared Reading • Pages 4–5 • Why did she build a nest? What are some other reasons animals build homes? • Pages 6–7 • What are the names of these animals? Pages 8–9 • In what kinds of places do these animals like to live? What is an amphibian?

18. Shared Reading • Pages 10–11 • How can their homes protect them? How is a snail's shell different from a hermit crab's shell? • Pages 12–13 • What kind of home do most spiders build? What other kinds of homes do spiders build? • Pages 14–15 • Where do birds build nests? Why do birds build nests?

19. Shared Reading • Pages 16–17 • What do wasps make their nests out of? • Pages 18–19 • What is a large group of ants or termites called? What kinds of homes do ants and termites build? • Pages 20–21 • Where do mice live? What kind of place do mice look for to build their nests?

20. Shared Reading • Pages 22–23 • Where do marmots build their nests? What do they do in their burrows? • Pages 24–25 • What kind of animals are these? What kind of homes do wild dogs build? • Pages 26–27 • What kind of animal is this? Where do polar bears spend the winter?

21. Shared Reading • Pages 28–29 • What do they do instead? When do bats eat and sleep? • Pages 30–31 • Why do many animals live on the banks of rivers? Where does a kingfisher lay her eggs? • Pages 32–33 • What do we call a beaver's home? How do beavers keep predators from getting into their lodges?

22. Shared Reading • Pages 34–35 • Where do they sleep at night? How is the way apes go camping the same and different from the way people go camping? • Pages 36–37 • What kinds of animals make their homes here? What kind of animals make their home where you live? • Pages 38–39 • What do these pages show us how to make? Why would we want to learn how to make a pond viewer or a nest? • Page 40 • What do you see on this page? Why would that be helpful?

23. Draw Conclusions • Display page 13. • The trap-door spider hides in a tunnel and darts out to catch its prey. I know thatprey is an animal that other animals eat. What would I call the spider? • I think that a spider is a predator.

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35. Let’s Write Complete Sentences over there The pencil sharpener is over there. • Which answer is a sentence? It must tell a complete thought.

37. Question of the Day • What kinds of animals live in water?

38. she has the best dog

39. She has the best dog.

40. Drawing Conclusions What is happening in this picture?

41. Word Practice • it

42. Word Practice • big

43. Word Practice nest

44. Word Practice spot

45. Word Practice egg

46. Word Practice rest

47. Word Practice fed

48. Word Practice den

49. Word Practice will

50. Word Practice stop