Getting Ready to Read

What can we learn about the past by examining its relics?

What kind of relics are you familiar with?What new information did these relics provide?Turn to page 202• What kinds of relics are show in these

photographs?• What do you call a person who looks for

relics?• Why is it often difficult to find relics?• What can we learn about the past by

examining its relics?

Getting Ready to Read

Amazing wordsPaleontologistsQuarryExplanationFormationListen for these words as I read Discovery!

Getting Ready to Read

Getting Ready to Read

In Discovery!, we learn that paleontologists are people who uncover fossils. What do you think paleontologists do with fossils?Besides digging up fossils, what else do paleontologists do?

Getting Ready to Read

Amazing Words• Quarry – a place where stone is dug, cut, or blasted for use in

buildingMy aunt’s granite countertops came from a quarry that is far away.What kinds of stones come from quarries? What are they used for?

• Formation – the arrangement or order of somethingThe Canada geese were flying in a perfect V formation.What formations have you seen in nature?

• Explanation – aims to make clear, explain or give reasons for something

The teacher gave an explanation I could understand about long division.Make an explanation about what you are learning in social studies.

Read and Comprehend

Main Idea and DetailsBackground Knowledge

What is the main idea of a passage or paragraph?What are supporting details?Today we’re going to read about archaelogists and artifacts.Read Artifacts, then make a chart like the one on page 204 using information from the article.

Read and Comprehend

Fluency PracticeRead paragraph 3 of Artifacts out loud with me.Now read it out loud with your partner.

Read and Comprehend

Vocabularypottery superstitious divine restore approximately excavated watchfully terra cotta mechanical

My sister made a clay bowl in her __________________ class.Our new house has a _______________ roof.If you can fix the ____________ parts, the wagon will work.It is a _____________ belief that you should not walk under a ladder.The townspeople want to ____________ the run-down courthouse.In ancient times, rulers were often worshipped as ____________ beings.There were __________ 350 people at the game.The babysitter waited _____________________ on the bench while the children played in the sandbox.The man who __________ King Tut’s tomb became famous.

Language Arts

Research and InquiryYou will research what fossils and relics can teach us about the past. Your task is to write a report about your findings.Brainstorm questions about fossils.

Language Arts

Time for a spelling pre-test

1. suspend2. pendant3. conductor4. novel5. productive6. numeral7. reserve8. numerous9. preserve10.pending

11.pendulum12.deduction13.novelty14.numerator15.reservoir16.conservatory17.appendix18.impending19.induct20.innovative

Language Arts

Possessive NounsComplete the Possessive Noun worksheet together with the class.

Language Arts

Writing – MysteryThis week, you’ll write a mystery. A mystery is a narrative in which a puzzling problem or question is explained or solved. In a mystery, important clues challenge readers to solve the mystery. At the end of a mystery, the problem is solved.

Read the mystery on our worksheet.How is this a mystery?

Key Features:• Presents a problem that must be solved• Includes descriptions of setting and characters, including

someone who solves the mystery• Builds suspense and provides clues• Ends with the mystery solved