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Unit 4: Seasons and Weather
Week 3 Day 4
Extend the ThemeTheme
Question: How do
weather and seasons
affect our lives?
Focus Question: How does
severe weather
affect us?
What is the weather like in July?
What season is this month part of?
The poem for January is called “The Wolf Moon.” It is about wolves crying on a cold night. In our area, we don’t have wolves, but we do have cold weather and snow in January. When I think of weather and the seasons in January, I think of how quiet and still it is outside. I would call this the Still Moon.
Let’s extend our knowledge of the theme vocabulary words shadows and hidden by sorting related words.
Sort the words into the correct column in the chart.
Extend Theme Vocabulary
covered shadedshady hid shown
dark hide sunlight seen out of sight
Theme Vocabulary Activity
Word Similar Word Parts
Synonym Antonym
shadows
hidden
What does it mean to visualize?
- Now let’s read aloud pages 26-27 and model visualizing.
In the Poem Pictures in My Mind
The pond is black and icy; it must be cold.
I picture how the beavers’ lodge is warm, dry, and safe.
I can use the poem and the
picture to visualize what it
is like in November. The
pond is black and icy, so it must be
cold.
Turn to pages 24-25.
Why do you think the poet tells the hare to hush, beware, and take care?
What do you visualize about the hare?
Use Text Evidence
Pages Question Text Evidence10-15 How does spring weather
affect plants, animals and people?
16-21 How do you think summer weather affects farmers?
22-29 How does cooler weather affect life from September through December?
Pages 8 and 9: These pages tell me that snow falls and covers the Earth. I see in the picture that no one is outside. I’ll record this evidence: During the snow moon it is cold and snow covers the ground, so people stay inside.
Word Study: Review Syllabic Patterns
• When a word ends in a consonant plus –le, we divide the word into syllables so that the last syllable usually contains a consonant plus –le.
• For example: pud dleta ble
• When a two-syllable word has two different consonants in the middle, we divide the word between the consonants.
• For example: problemnapkin
Draw a line to divide the word into syllables.
panda wiggle
window staple
after jungle
enjoy title
Fluency: “Pecos Bill” (phrasing)
Practice Companion p. 252
Revise the Model
It has a slide, swings, and Monkey
Bars The slide is tall. When I’m on
the swings, I can feel the chains
and the plastic seat that bends
when I sit on it. There is also a
basketball kort. I don’t play
basketball. People screaming and
laughing, shoes making noise,
and balls bouncing.
Edit the Model
I like our playground at school. It has a
slide, swings, and Monkey Bars. The
slide is tall, curvy, and bright yellow.
When I’m on the swings, I can feel the
bumpy chains and the smooth plastic
seat that bends when I sit on it. There is
also a basketball kort. People screaming
and laughing, shoes shuffling, and balls
bouncing.
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