Theme 5: Family Time
Theme five, Family Time, explores many fiction and non fiction stories including “Brothers and Sisters” by Ellen B. Senisi, “Jalapeno Bagels,” a story about a family business, by Natasha Wing, “Carousel,” a story about a little girl who receives a special gift, by Pat Cummings, “Thunder Cake,” about a young girl afraid of thunderstorms, by Patricia Polacco, “A Curve in the River” by Anne Cameron, illustrated by Gail Piazza, “Slippery Siblings” by Sandra Webber, and a chapter book, “The Cool Crazy Crickets” by David Elliot. We will discover how people in families learn from and help one another.
In addition, the children continue to work on adding details to their writing. Everyday the children write in a journal and practice adding more details to their sentences to make their stories more interesting for the reader. The class continues to work on their poetry skills and their writing pieces as we prepare for Literacy Night.
Comprehension Strategy:
Evaluate
Question
Predict/Infer
Monitor/Clarify
Comprehension Skill:
Making Generalizations
Follow Directions
Making Judgments
Sequence of Events
Phonics/Word Structure:
The –er ending in two- syllable words
Contractions; the –le ending in two syllable words
Sound of y at the end of longer words; the prefix un
Base words and endings –ed, -ing;
silent consonants gh, kn, b
High Frequency Words:
middle, trouble, uncle, early, hair, instead, aunt, million, pair, air, child, heavy, hour
Theme five, Family Time, explores many fiction and non fiction stories including “Brothers and Sisters” by Ellen B. Senisi, “Jalapeno Bagels,” a story about a family business, by Natasha Wing, “Carousel,” a story about a little girl who receives a special gift, by Pat Cummings, “Thunder Cake,” about a young girl afraid of thunderstorms, by Patricia Polacco, “A Curve in the River” by Anne Cameron, illustrated by Gail Piazza, “Slippery Siblings” by Sandra Webber, and a chapter book, “The Cool Crazy Crickets” by David Elliot. We will discover how people in families learn from and help one another.
In addition, the children continue to work on adding details to their writing. Everyday the children write in a journal and practice adding more details to their sentences to make their stories more interesting for the reader. The class continues to work on their poetry skills and their writing pieces as we prepare for Literacy Night.
Comprehension Strategy:
Evaluate
Question
Predict/Infer
Monitor/Clarify
Comprehension Skill:
Making Generalizations
Follow Directions
Making Judgments
Sequence of Events
Phonics/Word Structure:
The –er ending in two- syllable words
Contractions; the –le ending in two syllable words
Sound of y at the end of longer words; the prefix un
Base words and endings –ed, -ing;
silent consonants gh, kn, b
High Frequency Words:
middle, trouble, uncle, early, hair, instead, aunt, million, pair, air, child, heavy, hour