Unit 2

1. Unit 2 Week 4

2. Monday Opening • the big dipper is the name of a group of stars. • The planet mars is close to Earth! • Can you sea the stars at night. • Journal Prompt: Write about a time when you helped someone. How did you feel? How do you think the other person felt?

3. Monday Spelling • Pretest in your writing journal Letter Blends • th as in thumb, then *sh as in shell • wh as in whale *ng as in sing • ph as in phone *ch, tch as in cheese, pitch • Practice book pg. 114

4. Monday Grammar Possessive Nouns • A possessive noun is a noun that shows who or what owns or has something. • Add an apostrophe (‘) and the letter sto make a singular noun possessive. Examples: • Clayton’s telescope is huge. • The girl’s toy spaceship is tiny. • Add an apostrophe (‘) to make most plural nouns possessive. • Add an apostrophe (‘) and sto form the possessive of plural nouns that do not end in s. Examples: • boys boys’ children children’s

5. Monday Grammar Possessive Nouns Practice: Identify the singular possessive noun in each item. 1. The star’s light is bright. 2. We can feel the sun’s heat. 3. I learned the planet’s name. 4. Mr. Chung’s favorite planet is Mars. 5. That is Omar’s bike. GR 25

6. Unit 2, Week 4Vocabulary tour volunteers thrilled slogan deserve

7. Unit 2, Week 4Vocabulary • A tour is a short trip to a place of interest with a guide. • Our class took a tour of the science museum. • Have you ever been on a tour? What did you see?

8. Unit 2, Week 4Vocabulary • Volunteers are people who do a job willingly without getting paid. • Sometimes volunteers work in museums. • Where else might volunteers work?

9. Unit 2, Week 4Vocabulary • To be thrilled is to be very excited or happy. • I was thrilled when everyone came to my party. • When was a time that you were thrilled?

10. Unit 2, Week 4Vocabulary • A slogan is an easy-to-remember phrase that is used in advertisements or by special groups or organizations. • “Service with a smile” might be a good slogan for a store. • Why should a slogan be easy to remember?

11. Unit 2, Week 4Vocabulary • If you deserve something, you have a right to it. • The girls deserve praise for their hard work. • When do you deserve praise?

12. Read Aloud “The Song of the World’s Last Whale” • This folk song is actually a poem. Many people consider folk songs to be poems. A folk song shows strong feelings about a topic. • Both poems and folk songs often have rhythm, meter, and rhyme. • Poems and folk songs are written in lines or stanzas.

13. Read Aloud “The Song of the World’s Last Whale” • Define: Reefed is a sailing term that means folded up to be made smaller. • Example: The first mate helped the captain reef the boat’s sail. • Ask: Why would a sail need to be reefed?

14. Read Aloud “The Song of the World’s Last Whale” • Define: To be passionate about something is to be filled with emotion, or intense feeling. • Example: The actor was passionate about making good movies. • Ask: What are some things that people might be passionate about?

15. Read Aloud “The Song of the World’s Last Whale” • Define: Fate is what will happen in the future. • Example: It was the boy’s fate to become a doctor like his father. • Ask: What is a synonym for the word fate?

16. Read Aloud “The Song of the World’s Last Whale” • After the first stanza, Turn to your partner and discuss where the narrator is and what he is doing. • After the second stanza, The narrator recorded whales singing. What did he do to record them? Tell the steps he took. • After the last stanza, Tell your partner what the narrator says to the reader about saving the whales. Explain why he says this.

17. Are these kids preserving, or saving, the beach? How? What kinds of litter wash up onto California beaches?

18. Unit Theme Big Idea • Communities band together and donate money to save something of importance to the people living there. CONNECT TO THEME • What have we read about so far? What new things did we learn about communities banding together to save something important? • What are different things communities can do to help save something important?

19. Word Study – Context Clues • Sometimes you will come across an unfamiliar word. When this happens, you can look for clues in nearby sentences. One kind of clue is an example. It tells or shows exactly what the unfamiliar word is. Red and blue are examples of colors. Robins and owls are examples of birds. • Read “Context Clues” on the bookmark on page 224. Then use examples to determine the meaning of the word slogan.

20. Gorilla Garden Author’s Purpose What Is It? • An author’s purpose is the reason the author writesa story or article. Authors write to entertain, inform, or persuade. Why Is It Important? • Identifying an author’s purpose can help you figure out how to read the selection and what to look for as you read. For example, readers might read nonfiction more carefully and slowly than stories written to entertain.

21. Gorilla Garden • To figure out the author’s purpose in a story, the reader can look at the genre and clues in the story. • Authors who writes to entertain tell an interesting, funny, or exciting story that readers will enjoy. • Authors who write to inform present facts and information about a topic. • Authors who write to persuade present facts and opinions that try to persuade a reader to think a certain way, to do something, or to take action for a cause.

22. Gorilla Garden-Author’s Purpose

23. Vocabulary Practice • Where would you like to go on a tour? Why? • How do volunteers help others? • What are synonyms for the word thrilled? • What kind of slogans have you seen or heard? Are they effective? • How is the word deserve different from the word want? Explain.

24. Monday Writing • Write about a moment when you did something that was hard for you.

25. Strong Verbs • Strong verbs are verbs that help writers show, rather than tell. They are verbs that are very vivid and precise and create a picture in the reader’s mind. If you write I went to school, you will want them to show how they were moving as they went to school. • Strong verbs are verbs that show more detail about an action.

26. Strong Verbs • I will show you a sentence where the verb is weak. I want you to think of stronger verbs to replace this weak one. I hit the ball. • What is the verb in this sentence? • A strong verb can not only show us that the ball was hit, but also HOW the ball was hit. I smashed the ball.

27. Strong Verbs • Smashed is a strong verb because it gives the reader more information. It tells us that the narrator not only hit the ball, but hit it hard, and probably with a loud sound. Can you think of more strong verbs to replace hit? • Strong verbs don’t always have to be forceful. A strong verb is simply very descriptive. It can be a very quiet word. For example, instead of look I can say I glanced at something. “Glance” is not a loud or forceful action, but it’s very specific. When I say I “glanced” you know I looked quickly.

28. Strong Verbs • Copy these two sentences onto the next blank page in your Writer’s Notebooks and rewrite each sentence by replacing the verb with a strong verb that shows more precise detail. This verb should answers the question, How?

29. Tuesday Opening • both books are about foxs. • Baby foxs are called pups! • next week we will sea a fox. • Journal Prompt: Write a paragraph telling why or why not butterflies are important to our environment.

30. Tuesday Vocabulary • Why do tours need guides? • Why do volunteers work for no money? • Have you ever felt thrilled about something? Explain. • Where can you read or hear a slogan? • Do you always get what you deserve? Why or why not?

31. Tuesday Vocabulary Strategy - Examples • Apes, monkeys, and humans are all primates. • You must walk around the zoo since cars, trucks, and other vehicles are not allowed. • The animals come from rain forests, deserts, mountains, and many other habitats. • Small rodents such as rats, mice, and gerbils are in a special room. • In the wild, wolves, lions, and hawks are all predators.

32. Tuesday Spelling • Silent Letters • kn as in know • mb as in lamb • • rh as in rhyme • gn as in gnat or sign • bt as in debt • mn as in hymn • • wr as in write • gh as in ghost • l as in calf

33. Tuesday Spelling • Word Sort • Sort the words in your plastic baggies into no more than 5 groups. • Be ready to share the rule you sorted your words by. • Complete 25

34. Tuesday GrammarPossessive Nouns • A possessive noun shows who or what owns or has something. • Adding an apostrophe (‘) and the letter smakes a singular noun possessive. • Adding an apostrophe (‘) to the end of a plural noun makes it possessive. • Adding an apostrophe (‘) and sforms a possessive of plural nouns not ending in s. • Examples: • book book’s • men men’s • cats cats’

35. GrammarPossessive Nouns • The men’s guide took them to the museum. • men’s; plural • The star’s color is blue. • star’s; singular Practice: Identify the possessive noun as singular or plural. • The planet’s nickname is the Evening Star. • The women’s spacesuits were ready. • My friend’s assignment was to read about the stars. • The children’s field trip was to a planetarium. • We drove there in the parents’ cars. • Practice Book pg. 116

36. Tuesday Phonicsletter blends

37. Tuesday Phonicsletter blends Practice Book page 107

38. Here’s My Dollar Genre • Nonfiction gives information about real people, places, or things. Read to Find Out • Why did the author write about Angel?

39. Home Grown Butterflies Drawing Conclusions What Is It? • Readers can use facts and details from a nonfiction selection, as well as their own experience, to help them come to a new understanding of the text. This is called drawing conclusions. • Readers usually make inferences about information the author has not included when they draw conclusions. Why Is It Important? • Drawing conclusions helps readers identify and understand information and ideas that the author doesn’t tell the readers directly.

40. Here’s My Dollar Author’s Purpose What Is It? • An author’s purpose is the reason the author writesa story or article. Authors write to entertain, inform, or persuade. Why Is It Important? • Identifying an author’s purpose can help you figure out how to read the selection and what to look for as you read. For example, readers might read nonfiction more carefully and slowly than stories written to entertain.

41. Author’s Purpose

42. Tuesday - Writing • Write about a moment when you were someplace hectic. • Sometimes we need help thinking of strong words to use to describe what we’re doing. It will be helpful to create a class list of some strong verbs that you can post and they can use in the future.

43. Tuesday Writing • Think about what you like to play outside or inside with a friend or family (excluding computer and video games and movie watching). For example: • Words to show that someone is moving fast. (raced, sped) • Words to show that someone is moving slow. (crept, meandered) • Words to show how someone threw something. (I ‘fired’ the pillow at my brother.)

44. Strong Verbs • When you brainstorm, you are listing ideas as quickly as possible. It is important that you work quickly in order to write as many words as possible. • Draw and number columns 1–3 in your Writer’s Notebooks. In each column, write as many verbs that you can think of for each category. Moving Fast Moving Slow How something is thrown

45. Wednesday Opening • Do bunnys have clawes • Read these bookes about rabbits? • I saw two wolf cubs near the creak. • Journal Prompt: Write a list of all the facts you have learned about raising butterflies.

46. Wednesday Spelling Complete each group by filling in the blank with a Spelling Word. • baby bird is a … • large ocean mammals are … • opposite of thin is … • Food made from milk is … • Opposite of alie is … Can you think of any of your own? Complete SP26

47. Wednesday Vocabulary • What is the difference between a sidewalk and a dirt path? • Would you be more likely to grumble about something if you were happy or angry? • Would you find a trader in a supermarket? How do you know? • What is the difference between a plant blossoming and growing? • How is screaming different from wailing? • When do you think someone might feel lonesome?

48. Wednesday Vocabulary Practice In your writers notebook create word squares for each of this weeks vocabulary words. 1. In the first square write the vocabulary word. 2. In the second square write a definition in your own words. 3. In the third square draw a picture of the word. 4. In the fourth square write an antonym or opposite of the vocabulary word. Repeat for each of the words.

49. GrammarPossessive Nouns • Add an apostrophe (‘) and sto singular possessive nouns: a star’s light. • Add an apostrophe (‘) at the end of plural possessive nouns that end in s: many scientists’ tools. • Use an apostrophe (‘) and sto the end of plural possessive nouns that do not end in s: the children’s telescopes; the people’s spacesuits.

50. GrammarPossessive Nouns Review: • The men’s guide took them to the museum. • men’s; plural • The star’s color is blue. • star’s; singular • Practice: Practice using apostrophes in possessive nouns with the following items. • the movements of the planets • the orbit of the Earth • the books of the children • the project of Meg • the telescopes of the two boys • GR 26