Frog and Toad Together Comprehension Strategy: Author’s Purpose Visualize Genre: Animal Fantasy Phonemic Awareness: Isolate Final Phonemes Segment and Blend Phonemes Add Phonemes Phonics: Vowel: r-Controlled ar Adding Endings Unit 3 Week 4

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Day Four

Street Rhymes! In March we plant seeds for hours, April brings sunshine and showers. Tiny sprouts will grow soon, And finally in June, The plants will have colorful flowers.

What are all the people in the picture doing? People can help plants grow. How is the woman helping the plants to grow? We can water plants. Where are the plants she is watering? In a greenhouse. A greenhouse lets in sunlight. Page

What changes happen in a garden? People can help plants grow. We can water plants. We can keep plants in a sunny place. We can build fences to protect plants. Nature helps plants grow. Rain waters plants. The sun helps plants grow. Seeds grow into plants. Plants can grow flowers. Plants grow to be different sizes.

The song says that a gardener knows what makes a garden grow. A gardener decides what to plant in the spring. Gardener Nature sprout

gardener A gardener decides what to plant in the spring. A gardener can grow flowers, vegetables, or trees.

If I were a gardener, I would ____________________. When I’m outside one thing I enjoy about nature is ____________. When a seed sprouts, it becomes a _________.

nature Nature Flowers are a part of nature. What other things are parts of nature. Nature is… trees, sky, animals.

Putting - ing Identify actions that end in –ing.

batting ripped hoppin g dotted shutting stepped shutting digging tagged

stopped tapping hopped planning shutting ringing sipped dripping hummed yelled askedzipped p. 361

Stepped Mopped Jogged Tapped Flopped Stepping Hopped Slipped Tripped Dapped Napped Running Hopping Dripping Stopped Tapping getting Buffy Huffed Puffed Do You Could Was A good People Into Look

Frog and Toad Together - 2 Comprehension Strategy: Author’s Purpose Visualize Genre: Animal Fantasy Phonemic Awareness: Isolate Final Phonemes Segment and Blend Phonemes Add Phonemes Phonics: Vowel: r-Controlled ar Adding Endings Unit 3 Week 4

Content Knowledge What does the song mean when it says, “It takes time to see the plants”? Each tree and weed and lima bean Shows its favorite shade of green. Each tree and weed and lima bean _____ its favorite shade of green.

Content Knowledge What does the song mean when it says, “It takes time to see the plants”? The sun grows dim, the wind blows cold. The sun grows _________.

What changes happen in a garden? People can help plants grow. We can water plants. We can keep plants in a sunny place. We can build fences to protect plants. Nature helps plants grow. Rain waters plants. The sun helps plants grow. Seeds grow into plants. Plants can grow flowers. Plants grow to be different sizes.

Segment and Blend Words barn b ar n yarn y ar n hard h ar d star s t ar farm f ar m start s t ar t car jar tar mark garden arm harp The Sound of ar - artist

Will it be dark when we get home? Spring starts in March. The lot by the park is patched with tar.

dipped wishing tagged sinking planning listed letting thanking digging kicked napped banged

dipped wishing tagged sinking planning listed letting thanking digging kicked napped banged

Nat slipped on the ice. He kissed and hugged his mom. Kim likes batting and pitching.

Day Three

Content Knowledge Expand the Concept What does the song tell us about what seeds need before they can become plants? sunshine rain time to grow

Animal Fantasy: Made up story with animals Animals do things that real animals can’t do. Listen to our story, “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and about the magic beans. How is it different from the seeds in Frog and Toad? Build Oral Language

How does Jack’s seed change quickly? Add to Concept Map

Jack’s beanstalk was so humongous that he could not even see the top. When something is humongous, it is very very _________. The humongous cake was enough to serve one hundred people. Her humongous dog could hardly fit inside the car. What is something humongous that you have seen? hu – mong - ous

People can help plants grow. We can water plants. We can keep plants in a sunny place. We can build fences to protect plants. Nature helps plants grow. Rain waters plants. The sun helps plants grow. Seeds grow into plants. Plants can grow flowers. Plants grow to be different sizes.

Today we are going to add sounds to words to make new words. Look at the picture and find a car. Listen as I say the sounds in car: k ar. If I add the sound t to the end of car, I make a new word: car t cart.

Segment and Blend Words y ar n - yarn b ar n - barn are m - arm s t ar - star f ar m - farm s t ar t - start car jar seat seed seek seal harp The Sound of ar - artist car d - card ten t - tent for k - fork s t ar k - stark

dark clapping I know the sounds for d, ar, and k. I blend them and read the word dark. I know how to read words with base words and endings.. The base word is clap and the ending is –ing. I blend them and read the word clapping.

fibbing snapping farm start plugged fanned mark p. 361 Say the sounds in your head for each spelling you see. Look for word parts you know. when I point to the word, we’ll read it together. Fluent Word Reading

Phonics Blend and Read Each word in these lists has either a double consonant ending or the sound /ar/ spelled ar. Let’s blend and read these words.

Phonics

Say and Spell Clap it Out Say Word Spell it Say it Spelling

ask

Spelling aske d

Spelling plan

Spelling planne d

Spelling hel p

Spelling helpe d

Spelling dro p

Spelling dropp ed

Spelling call

Spelling called

Spelling again

Spelling soon

Spelling rain

Spelling shouti ng

Spelling shoute d

Spelling shouti ng

Spelling read

Spelling head

Spelling ground

Write the sentences. Read the sentence. Read the sentences to your partner. 1.Jenny dropped the ball again. 2.Mom asked Clark to be home soon. 3.Sam called us to plan a trip to the farm. p. 373

1.Soon the _____ will start falling. 2.How can I sleep with so much _____ going on? 3.“He got the ball again!” we______. 4.I ______ that story a few times. 5.Don’t be afraid to pet my cat on his _____. 6.The mice dug holes in the ______. shouting

Read Main Selection Plot Understanding the plot makes the story interesting. p. 133 What is Toad’s problem in this story? How does he try to solve it? Animal Fantasy: What do Frog and Toad do that are not like real frogs?

Some verbs use the ending –ed to tell what happened in the past. Verbs use the helping verb will to tell what will happen in the future. 1.Jan will open the box. 2.We slipped on the ice.

Make up sentences using the correct form of these verbs: jump, paint, talk, fix. 1.Yesterday _______. 2.Tomorrow ________. 3.Next year _________. 4.Two days ago _______.

Day Four

Frog and Toad Together Comprehension Strategy: Author’s Purpose Visualize Genre: Animal Fantasy Phonemic Awareness: Isolate Final Phonemes Segment and Blend Phonemes Add Phonemes Phonics: Vowel: r-Controlled ar Adding Endings Unit 3 Week 4

Day Five

Frog and Toad Together Comprehension Strategy: Author’s Purpose Visualize Genre: Animal Fantasy Phonemic Awareness: Isolate Final Phonemes Segment and Blend Phonemes Add Phonemes Phonics: Vowel: r-Controlled ar Adding Endings Unit 3 Week 4