1. Day OneShared Reading Day OneShared Reading Day TwoAmazing Words Day TwoAmazing Words Day ThreeHigh Frequency Words Day ThreeHigh Frequency Words Day FourLetter Practice Day FourLetter Practice Day FiveAdditional Resources Day FiveAdditional Resources

2. Question of the Day How do families cooperate?

3. Sequence In a story something happens first, something happens next, and something happens last. sequence This is called the sequence.

4. Amazing Words

7. i am plaidypus

8. I am Plaidypus.

9. O o

12. I am

13. Let’s Write Plaidypus looks ________.

15. Question of the Day How can I help my parents?

16. i found a platypus

17. I found a platypus.

18. Shared Reading Page 5 What is it? What is cutting the plaid material? Pages 6–7 What will the buttons be used for? What do you think the plaid material and buttons will be used to make? Pages 8–9 What did Grandma do with Grandpa's old plaid shirt? Who made Plaidypus?

19. Shared Reading Pages 10–11 Who came sliding down the slide? What did Plaidypus come down? Pages 12–13 What happened to the girl and Plaidypus? Have you ever fallen off a swing? Pages 14–15 The girl says "Uh-oh." Why does she say "Uh-oh"? The girl remembered that she forgot Plaidypus at the park. What did she do?

20. Shared Reading Pages 16–17 Where did the girl find Plaidypus? Pages 18–19 Where did the girl and her Plaidypus go next? Pages 20–21 What did the girl discover after she put the groceries away?

21. Shared Reading Pages 22–23 What did the girl see on the shelf? What did she say to Plaidypus when she found him on the shelf? Pages 24–25 At the lake, does Plaidypus sink or float? What did Plaidypus do? Pages 26–27 How did the girl find out that Plaidypus was gone again?

22. Shared Reading Pages 28–29 What did the fisherman pull from the lake on his hook? Plaidypus was pulled from the lake on a fishing hook. What did the girl say? Pages 30–31 Where is the girl now? What is she doing with Plaidypus? Pages 32–33 What did the car hit? What do you think happened to Plaidypus?

23. Shared Reading Pages 34–35 What did the girl make to help her find Plaidypus? What did the girl put on the sign to show who Plaidypus is? Pages 36–37 How many days did the girl wait? How do you think she feels? Do you think the girl will ever find Plaidypus? Pages 38–39 What was in the sack? What does the girl say to Plaidypus?

24. Shared Reading Pages 40–41 What is wrong with Plaidypus? What happened to Plaidypus? Pages 42–43 What does Grandma do? What kinds of fabrics did she use? What did the girl promise she would never do?

25. Sequence She takes Plaidypus to the park. She falls off the swing and goes home. She discovers she has lost Plaidypus.

26. P p

28. littleamI

33. Let’s Write Draw a picture of Plaidypus. Is he lost or found?

35. Question of the Day How do you help your family members?

36. i am big sam

37. I am big Sam.

38. Sequence Where did Plaidypus get lost first? Where did Plaidypus get lost next? Where did Plaidypus get last?

39. Q q

41. amI little the little the

45. Let’s Write How would you feel? lost unhappy, puzzled, found glad, happy,

46. Extension– Day 2 Platypuses live in Australia. A platypus has a broad, flat, and long snout like a duck. It is often called the duck-billed platypus. A platypus is a good swimmer. It has webbed feet and a broad, flat tail. A platypus eats worms and shellfish. It also uses its bill to get small animals in the water. A platypus is 16 to 22 inches long and weighs about 5 pounds. A platypus has a brown fur coat. A platypus lives in a burrow (a hole in the ground) in the banks of a stream.

47. Question of the Day How do you help at home?

48. i am lost

49. I am lost.

50. Let’s Write About Feelings I look ________. happy

51. R r

53. am the I little

57. Question of the Day How do families cooperate?

58. the cat got lost

59. The cat got lost.

60. S s

62. SORQP

63. qsorp

64. I

65. little

66. the

67. am

68. Additional Resources Find the Missing Animals http://pbskids.org/teletubbies/animals.html Sesame Street Find A Letter www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/games/play.php?contentid=1209 Magic Mailbox ABC’s Game www.tvokids.com/framesets/bby.html?game=199& Platypus info www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/681.shtml Platypus swimming ( video clips) http://video.aol.com/video-detail/duck-billedplatypus/1970084344?icid=acvsv4 Close-up Photo www.nowpublic.com/environment/closer-view-platypus-swimmingmelbourne-zoo See/Hear Platypus www.earlham.edu/~whistem/platypusindex.htm Kindergarten Kove http://www.scsk12.org/SCS/subject-areas/Kindergarten-Kove/K.1.3.html