Unit 2 Week 5 Day 5: Life in the Forest

Communities

High Frequency Words: around, find, food, grow, under, water

Comprehension: Author’s Purpose

Grammar: One and More than One

Vocabulary :Amazing Words: environment, require, thrive, inhale, slimy, sludge, capture, creature

Selection Words: forest, leaves, squirrels, hummingbirds, bear, woodpecker

Oral
Vocabulary
Review and Practice
(Amazing Words: slimy, sludge, capture, creature) / Yesterday we made sentences with some of the Amazing Words we learned this week. We need to make sentences with the rest of our new Amazing Words.
The first word is slimy.
If something is slimy it is covered with slippery, gooey material.
Let’s make a sentence using the word, slimy.
I’ll go first. “A snail is slimy.”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“A ____ is slimy.”
Another word is sludge.
Sludge is a thick, wet, slimy material.
Let’s make a sentence using the word, sludge.
I’ll go first. “I got stuck in the sludge at the bottom of the river.”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“There is sludge at the bottom of the _____.”
Another word is capture.
Capture means to catch.
Let’s make a sentence using the word,capture.
I’ll go first. “I will capture a dog.”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“I will capture a _____.”
Another word is creature.
A creature is a living animal or person.
Let’s make a sentence using the word, creature
I’ll go first. “A bear is a creature that lives in the forest.”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“A ______is a creature.”
ELL Reader / ELL Reader 1.2.5 Around the Garden
ELL Readers Teaching Guide Page 21-22
Review
Yesterday we read about things that live in a garden .
Do you remember what lived in the garden? (Encourage children to look through the pictures in the book to remember what happened in the story.)
Read the Book- Read the story with the children. Have children take turns reading each page, or have the children echo read. (The teacher reads one sentence and children repeat what was read while following the words with their fingers.)
Write a sentence that tells what lives in a garden.
Give a sentence starter if needed. “A ____ lives in a garden.”
Encourage children to read their sentences to each other.