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Focus of the Week - Home Letter
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Dear Family,
We'll begin this week with a humorous fiction story called Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type. Farmer Brown's cows have found a typewriter and they're using it to demand better working conditions. What will Farmer Brown do? We'll also read about how real animals communicate in the informational text Talk About Smart Animals! Throughout the week, we'll consider the question "How can people and animals help each other?"
Your partner in education,
Mrs. Dudas
Domain: Social Relationships
Lesson Topic: Animal and Human Interactions
Essential Question:
How can people and animals help each other?
Target Vocabulary:
problem, impossible, understand, impatient, furious, demand, gathered, believe
Phonics and Spelling Skills:
Base Words and Endings -s, -es (including pronunciation and syllables)
Vocabulary Strategy:
Prefixes pre- (means "before") and mis- (means "not" or "badly")
Comprehension Skill:
Conclusions--use details to figure out more about the text
Comprehension Strategy:
Infer/Predict--use clues to figure out more about the story parts or important ideas
Writing Focus: Informative Writing--instructions
Grammar Skill: Compound Sentences
Fluency:Accuracy: Expression
Activities to Do Together with Your Child at Home:
Vocabulary
Use this week's Target Vocabulary words to make up silly sentences about cows.
Talking Game
Play a talking game with your child. Choose a word that you both use often such as "we" or "me." Then try not to use that word when you talk to each other. Can you do it?
If These Walls Could Talk
Ask your child to write a letter to our family from the family pet (an imaginary one is fine if you don't have a real one!). The letter should persuade your family to treat the pet differently.
Math: Chapter 3: Graphs and Data Analysis
Religion: Advent and Chapter 9: God Gives Us Laws
Science: Plants: What Are Some Plant Parts?
Social Studies: Communities/Citizenship
