1. Unit 6: Growing Up Week 2 Day 4
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Unit 6: Growing Up
Week 2 Day 4

2. Extend the Theme
Theme Question: How do living things grow and change?
Focus Question: How does a plant grow?
Think about an animal and plant you have seen together.
What does the animal need to learn or find so it survives?
How does the plant change as it grows?

3. Extend Theme Vocabulary
Theme Vocabulary Words
Synonyms
Examples
form
grow
develop
puddles
communities
clouds
protect
defend
guard
save
helmets
sunscreens
families
laws
problems
challenges
difficulties
knots
storms
roadblocks
Can you think of things that form, protect, and cause problems?

4. Summarize Why is summarizing a good strategy and how do we use it?
Let’s look on pages 22 & 23.
I say this to summarize: Young wild animals learn about food and fighting. They copy adults.
The birds and bear cubs learn to get food by watching adult animals.
But lion cubs play fight. I can make an inference that the lion cubs saw adults fight.

5. Use Text Evidence Pages Question Text Evidence 16-17 18-19 22
How do living things grow and change?
The author states, “Some young animals always look like their parents. Some young animals’ bodies change a lot.” A giraffe grows bigger. A frog’s body changes a lot as it grows.
18-19
Some animals grow quickly and some grow slowly. 22

6. Word Study: Review Suffixes
Adding –er and –est to adjectives and adverbs
Example: A bigger elephant runs faster than a small one.
The biggest elephant runs fastest of all.
How many elephants are there in the second sentence?
small
smaller
smallest
wet
wide
silly

7. Spelling These are in weeks. These belong to us. These can make music.
These are not adults.
These are wild animals.
These grow on trees.
These hold things.
These need lips to make them.
Sometimes we give or get these.
This is in the past.

8. Fluency: “Go Garden ” Article

9. Choose a Presentation Format
Ways to Publish:
Make a booklet
Make a poster
Write neatly on paper