1. Night Worker

2. Question of the Day Who works at night?

3. Plot plot The beginning, middle, and the end of a story is the plot. What is the plot of Old MacDonald Had a Workshop?

4. Amazing Words

5. where is the little bug

6. Where is the little bug?

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13. Let’s Write Questions  What is your favorite color?  What is your last name?  Where do you live? Did I begin each question with an uppercase letter? Did I add a question mark at the end?

15. Question of the Day What does an engineer do at night?

16. i see a bug on the rug

17. I see a bug on the rug.

18. Shared Reading  Pages 4–5 What time of day is it? What is Alex doing?  Pages 6–7 What does Papa give Alex? Why did Papa give Alex a hard hat?  Pages 8–9 Who is Papa talking to? What other night workers do they see?

19. Shared Reading  Pages 10–11 Where do Alex and Papa go? What does Alex see there?  Pages 12–13 What do Papa and Alex use to see at night? Do you ever use a flashlight to see in the dark?  Pages 14–15 What kind of machine is this? Have you ever seen a real bulldozer? What was it doing?

20. Shared Reading  Pages 16–17 What is Alex waving at here? What does the excavator do?  Pages 18–19 What kind of machine is this? What are the night workers doing with the concrete?  Pages 20–21 What did Papa do so Alex could see the machinery better? What do you think the crane is carrying?

21. Shared Reading  Pages 22–23 How will he help? Have you ever gotten to ride in a big machine like this?  Pages 24–25 What is Alex doing here? How do you think Alex feels right now?  Pages 26–27 What is the loader doing with its load? Who is making it dump?

22. Shared Reading  Pages 28–29 What do Papa and Alex do while the workers are taking a break? What do you think will be built there?  Pages 30–31 Where is Alex now? Where are Papa and Alex going now?  Pages 32–33 What is Alex doing here? What has Alex left sitting on his bed?  Pages 34–35 What is Alex doing? What could he be dreaming about?

23. Plot Alex goes to work with his dad. Alex watches the night workers. Alex goes home to bed.

24. Word Work bug bug

25. Word Work Gus Gus

26. Word Work hug hug

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28. Word Work sun sun

29. Word Work got got

30. Word Work sat sat

31. Word Work withtheagowas

36. Let’s Write Write a sentence about The Night Worker.

38. Question of the Day In which jobs can we run big machines?

39. will you cut the bun

40. Will you cut the bun?

41. Plot  What happens at the beginning of the story?  What happens in the middle of the story?  What happens at the end of the story? Alex goes to work with his papa. Alex watches the night workers and gets to help. Alex goes home to bed and dreams about being a night worker.

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64. Let’s Write Using Vocabulary The engineer draws the plans. The foreman gives the directions. The workers wear hard hats.

65. Question of the Day What is it like to work at night?

66. put the bug in the box

67. Put the bug in the box.

69. myforthe ofwitha iswewhat

73. Let’s Write a Story  Where will it take place? We need to decide the setting.  Who are the characters?  Every story has a beginning, middle, and an end. Let’s create the plot.

74. Question of the Day Who works at night?

75. Can sam fix the box

76. Can Sam fix the box?

121. Additional Resources  Nina Names Things- City http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/nina/index.htm  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  6.4 The Night Worker http://www.coloring.ws/construction1.htm  General site http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html  Kindergarten Kove http://www.scsk12.org/SCS/subject-areas/Kindergarten-Kove/K.6.4.html