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Unit 4: Seasons and Weather

Week 4 Day 4

Extend the ThemeTheme

Question: How do

weather and seasons

affect our lives?

Focus Question:

How can we measure and

predict weather?

Let’s turn to page 5 and see if the text can help us answer the focus question.

I’m thinking about measuring rainfall. I read my rain gauge at home, but the meteorologist on TV tells how much rain falls at the airport. The city has a rain gauge there. Meteorologists read that gauge and record rainfall every day.

Can you or someone you know predict the weather?

What do you know about how meteorologists predict the weather?

Let’s review the meanings of our vocabulary words in the chart.

Then, let’s sort the words into the correct part of speech column below.

Build Vocabulary Connections

Theme Vocabulary

seasons hidden temperature

shadows

warnings hibernate predict

Noun VerbAdjecti

ve/Adverb

What does it mean to visualize?

- Now let’s read page 20 and model visualizing. - Place a check in the column of the senses you used.

Visualizing the Five Senses

Sight

Hearing

Smell

Touch

Page 16 cornfield

Page 20

I can use my senses to visualize what is being

described. I picture long, dark shadows set in stripes. I can see the

corn, and it’s taller than me. I can hear the raccoons rustling and breaking off the fat

ears of corn.

Turn to page 19.

Can you describe how the deer move and eat? Do you hear anything? What can you smell?

Analyze Text Structure

Pages Question Text Evidence24-25 What is one tool that we can

use to predict weather?

16-21 Where is information given in sequence?

In the story When the Moon is Full, the text is organized in the order of the months of the year.

Read pages 8-9 in The World of Weather. The weather changes are described in the order that they happen.

Phonics: Schwa Sound The words below all have a schwa sound in them. Can you sort the words in the column with the correct vowel schwa sound?

A E I O U

kangaroo camel circusballoon

zebra lemon pencil ribbon

eagle table

Phonics: Word Families

Drew

Scoot

Meet Drew and Scoot. Can you give them each 4 words to add to their word family

-ew -oot

SpellingWrite the correct spelling word for each sentence.

1. I need a cardboard _________ for art class.

2. One student is learning to play a _______.

3. The plants ________ tall in ten weeks.

4. I like to eat vegetable ___________.

5. The wind ________ leaves in the yard.

6. Stickers have _________ on the back.

7. These books are ________ at the library.

8. Facts state the __________.

9. We dropped sticks _________ the river.

10.I _____________ the answers to the test questions.

Fluency: “We Need Some Sunshine”

Practice Companion p. 268

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.

Publishing: Final Draft

When we prepare our writing for publishing, we make a nice, neat copy that includes the revisions and edits we made.

We space our lines neatly so that our writing is easy to read.

We include a title

and our name.