1. Communities
Unit 2

2. What happens inside a bee hive?
Honey Bees
By: Jesus Cervantes
What happens inside a bee hive?

3. Objectives Yesterday:
Long e: e, ee and VCCV Syllable Pattern, High-Frequency Words, and Nouns in Sentences
Today:
Spelling and Phonics:
Long e: e, ee and VCCV syllable pattern
Skill: Compare and Contrast Grammar: Nouns in Sentences

4. Morning Warm-Up!
Today we will read about honey bees. First we’ll read about the different kinds of bees and the jobs they do. Then we’ll learn about how they live together.

5. Question of the Day
What do you know about bees?

6. Amazing Words individual industrious slither special romp creep
Objective: Build oral vocabulary.

7. Just what do they mean? individual – one person
industrious – working hard
special – different from or really good
creep – to move slowly and quietly

8. Just what do they mean? slither – to move along by sliding
romp – to move or play in a lively way

9. Share Literature-Build Concepts
Time to Read
Share Literature-Build Concepts
A Frog in the Bog
This story is told in rhyme. Rhyming words sound alike at the end. The words look alike at the end too. Yesterday we read to find out how the critters in the bog moved.
Listen today to find out what lessons the critters in the bog learned.
By: Karma Wilson

10. Monitor Listening Comprehension
What lessons did the critters learn? How can you tell?
Would a happy animal or a sad animal romp?
Why would the animals romp away from the frog?

11. Phonemic Awareness
Do you think the frog’s scream was as loud as a trumpet?
Listen to the sounds in trumpet. trum, pet
I see two syllables in trumpet. Then I blend the parts together.
Now listen to the sounds in kitten.
kit, ten = kitten
What are the syllables in kitten?
What word do the syllables kit/ten make?
picnic pretzel
insect hidden
Objective: Blend and segment syllables.

12. Blending Strategy Long e: e, ee we = w e seed = s ee d
We have had words like these and Pete.
Long e: e, ee
we = w e seed = s ee d
me see need sleep
wheel he beef
free she queen
green teeth deep

13. Long e: e, ee
Word
Review

14. free

15. she

16. three

17. trees

18. bees

19. sees

20. seen

21. keep

22. feet

23. meet

24. speeds

25. wheel

26. feel

27. weed

28. cheese

29. Blending Strategy Syllables VCCV tablet = tab let until
We have had words like tab and let.
Syllables VCCV
tablet = tab let until
attic kitten rabbit
problem traffic button
hidden object fabric

30. Words To
Know

31. napkin

32. ribbon

33. rabbit

34. happen

35. until

36. soccer

37. buttons

38. slippers

39. mitten

40. kittens

41. basket

42. insect

43. Busy, Buzzy Bees
Every little bee must work to help the hive. Some must work to keep their pretty queen alive. Others fly from flower to tree To collect sweet things they see Oh, they work all day and never quit at five. A bee worker feeds the babies all day long. She must see that they grow healthy, big, and strong. Bees don’t worry about the weather. They just keep working together. As they work, they buzz out one big happy song.

44. he, happen, deep, rabbit, sweet, tablet, wheel, basket
Sort Words
e, ee
Two Syllables
he, happen, deep, rabbit, sweet, tablet, wheel, basket

45. Sentences To
Read

46. The bee fed on sweet nectar.
The cheese is a rat’s best meal.
The chick peeps until it becomes free.
The deep green dish belongs to Lee.
It will take a week for the weeds to grow back.
Keep the three things for the queen.
Keep your teeth for your pillow.

47. Spelling Words be see he tree me feet we week she green
Objective: Segment sounds to spell words.

48. Spelling Practice be
feet he
see we
green me
she
tree
week

49. Where do you see honey bees?
First
Bees get nectar from flowers.
Next
They take the nectar back to the hive and make honey.
Last
The bees store the honey in the hive’s wax cells.
Where do bees live?
How do bees make honey?

50. Connect to the Selection
Build Background
Connect to the Selection
A beehive is a busy and amazing place! Honey bees live there in big groups. Do you think a community of insects can be like a community of people in some ways? In the selection we are about to read, we’ll find out how bees work and live together in a beehive.

51. Vocabulary Selection Words
worker – a person, animal, or insect that does a lot of work
flowers – the colored part of a plant that makes seeds or fruit
nectar – a sweet liquid that is made by flowers
honey – a sweet liquid made by bees
cold – something that is not as warm as your body

52. Vocabulary

53. High Frequency Words Pages 140-141

54. family

55. other

56. also

57. their

58. some

59. new

60. High-Frequency Words Monitor Progress
also new some
other their family
food grow
little many
work together

61. Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast Strategy: Preview
Things that are alike are the same, and things that are different are not the same.
As you read, ask yourself how things are alike.
As you read, ask yourself how things are different.
Strategy: Preview
To preview means to look at the pictures and read some of the sentences to find out what kind of selection it is and what it might be about.

62. Comprehension Ask yourself these questions as you read Honey Bees?
What kind of selection is this?
What might this selection be about?

63. Time To
Read
Honey Bees Pages

64. Time for Stations

65. The bees work to gather nectar.
Vocabulary
Antonyms
The worker bees work hard all the time. Look at the sentences and find the two words that have opposite meanings.
The bees work to gather nectar.
They do not stop to play.
Words like work and play that have opposite meanings are called antonyms.

66. Multiple-Meaning Words
Vocabulary
Multiple-Meaning Words
outside inside The workers fly outside the hive.
The queen stays inside the hive.
bad good We made a bad mess.
Honey tastes good.
hot cold The hive is hot in summer.
Bees don’t like the cold in winter.
large small The queen bee is large.
The baby bees are small.

67. Writing Trait of the Week Introduce: Focus/Ideas
Good writers focus on an idea. All their sentences tell about this idea.
Think about the idea the author focuses on in Honey Bees.
Honey bees live and work together.
What do the pages of the story tell about how bees live and work together?

68. Writing Trait of the Week
Introduce: Voice
Identify and cross out the sentence that does not focus on the idea.
Bees make honey for food.
Honey is made from nectar.
Bees store honey in wax cells.
Bees will attack a bear.

69. Grammar – Nouns in Sentences
Apply to Writing
Nouns are used in sentences to tell what the sentence is about.
Practice
Suggest words to complete a sentence about each of the following:
worker bees
a bee hive
honey

70. Grammar – Nouns in Sentences
Practice
Answer the questions by completing the sentence with a noun.
What can make honey?
What can swim?

71. Wrap Up Your Day!
Think about what you wanted to learn before we read Honey Bees. Did you find out what you wanted to learn?
How is a beehive like our classroom? How is it different from our classroom?

72. How is a community of insects like a community of people?
fly
sting
buzz
lay eggs
cook food
go to school
have hobbies
What Some Insects Do
What Some People Do
eat
walk
live in communities
work
play

73. Tomorrow we will read about another busy insect.
Preview Day Four
Tomorrow we will read about another busy insect.

74. Extra

75. Daily Fix-It
1. do you see the be? 2. Shee wants nectar

76. Waltke’s Web Powerpoint
Mrs. Waltke is a veteran teacher living in Jasper and working in the Jasper School System.

77. Carl’s Corner http://www.carlscorner.us.com/
Cherry Carl is a retired teacher who lives in California. She teaches at UCLA.

78. Time to Listen to the Story
Honey Bees
Pages

79. Extra pictures

82. Grammar