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

2. Question of the Day How do beavers build homes?

3. beavers teeth and tail are tools expert swimmers eat plantsbuild lodges

5. let’s get on the jet

6. Let’s get on the jet.

9. tinten pen

10. petpot pop

11. sitsat set

12. yell fell fill

13. best rest nest

14. with that come where

17. Let’s Write Telling Sentences I am a teacher. I am a teacher. I live in a brown house. I live in a brown house. Did I begin the sentence with an uppercase letter? Did I end the sentence with a period?

19. Question of the Day What do beavers look like?

20. i ran on the red rug

21. I ran on the red rug.

22. Shared Reading Page 3 What kind of animal is this? Why is this beaver all wet? Pages 4–5 What is the beaver doing in this picture? What is a beaver lodge made out of? Pages 6–7 What do beavers do with their long, sharp front teeth? How does a beaver balance itself when it stands on its back legs?

23. Shared Reading Pages 8–9 Where do beavers build their lodges? What else do beavers build? Pages 10–11 What happens when a beaver builds a dam? What do their lodges look like? Pages 12–13 What can beavers do in the water? Do you know how to swim?

24. Shared Reading Pages 14–15 What helps a beaver swim? What else does a beaver use to help it swim? Pages 16–17 What else does a beaver use its tail for? What is the beaver doing with its tail? Pages 18–19 What made the water splash? Where did the beaver go?

25. Shared Reading Pages 20–21 What are the baby beavers doing? Could you swim when you were a baby? Pages 22–23 What does the baby beaver do with its eyes? Do you keep your eyes open underwater? Pages 24–25 What are this mother and kit doing? Why do beavers comb their fur?

26. Shared Reading Pages 26–27 What is the beaver doing in this picture? How would you like to chew on a tree? Pages 28–29 What do the lines point to? Pages 30–31 What do you see at the end of each line? Can you find the word dams in a yellow box? On what page numbers can I read about beaver dams?

27. Main Idea The main idea tells: the story’s about who what or

28. Word Work Jim

29. Word Work and

30. Word Work Kim

31. Word Work had

32. Word Work pet

33. Word Work lots

34. Word Work fun

35. Word Work fed

36. Word Work got

37. Word Work nest

38. Word Work hen

39. withfor little theyhave was for the where

44. Let’s Write about beavers

46. Question of the Day Why do beavers get wet?

47. i have a big sled

48. I have a big sled.

49. Main Idea What is the main idea of these stories?

50. Word work fell

51. Word work pig

52. mask

53. Word work lamp

54. Word work sled

55. Word work next

56. Word work sent

57. what havethree see tothe look theygo

58. Word Work funmomdadandget setuphillcanon trippansinbignest eggs pond bump frog jump

62. Let’s Write Adjectives What adjectives can you use to describe a beaver?

63. Question of the Day What does a beaver use its tail for?

64. will you sit with me

65. Will you sit with me?

67. what the with do

71. Let’s Write- Beaver’s Lodge

72. Question of the Day How do beavers build homes?

73. do the dogs bark a lot

74. Do the dogs bark a lot?

119. Additional Resources KindergartenKove http://www.scsk12.org/SCS/subject-areas/Kindergarten-Kove/K.6.3.html Blending games http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/cvc/whirl/index.shtml Configurations http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/hfwords/starwords/gam e.shtml Fishing Phonics- beginning and ending consonants http://www.professorgarfield.org/transport/transport.html Beaver photos and info http://www.nhptv.org/Natureworks/beaver.htm Beaver photos and info http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/Org/caer/ce/eek/critter/mammal/beaver.htm Video clips- beaver ( choose vintage clip and med.bandwidth) http://www.hww.ca/media.asp?mcid=1