Unit 1 Week 5 Day 2: Get the Egg!

Animals, Tame and Wild

High Frequency: saw, small, tree, your

Comprehension: Realism and Fantasy

Grammar: Telling Sentences

Vocabulary (Amazing Words): habitat, hatch, survive, gentle, nudge, perch, private, moist

(Selection Words): bird, nest

High Frequency
Words:
saw, small, tree, your / (Help children to respond to questions using complete sentences when appropriate. )
Here are the high frequency words we learned yesterday.
This word is saw. What word? saw
Everyone, spell saw. s-a-w
What word did you spell? saw
This word is small. What word? small
Everyone, spell small. s-m-a-l-l
What word did you spell? small
This word is tree. What word? tree
Everyone, spell tree. t-r-e-e
What word did you spell? tree
This word is your. What word? your
Everyone, spell your. y-o-u-r
What word did you spell? your
(Practice the word list until they read the list without errors.
Unpredictable individual turns. Not everyone will have an individual turn.)
Background Knowledge / Review ELL Poster #5 (Use high frequency words in sentences to describe the pictures on the poster; saw, small, tree, your. )
We’re going to use our high frequency words to make sentences about this picture.
The first word is saw. (Point to the girls and mother looking at the birds then say…)
They saw the birds.
Say the sentence with me. They saw the birds.
What did they see? They saw baby birds.
The next word is small. (Point to the baby birds then say…)
The baby birds are small.
Say the sentence with me. The baby birds are small.
Who is small? The baby birds are small.
The next word is tree. (Point to the tree with orange leaves then say…)
The tree has orange leaves.
Say the sentence with me. The tree has orange leaves.
What color of leaves does the tree have? The tree has orange leaves.
The next word is your. (Point to the boys running with the dog then say…)
Your dog is running.
Repeat the sentence with me. Your dog is running.
Whose dog is running? Your dog is running.
Oral
Vocabulary
Introduction
(Amazing Words:
nudge, perch, private, moist) / ELL Poster #5
Look at the birds in the nest. When the babies are big enough to fly their parents will nudge them out of the nest.
Nudge means to push softly. (definition)
Say it with me. Get read…Nudge means to push softly.
What is dangle? Nudge means to push softly.
Carefully give your neighbor a nudge.
I will give you a nudge if you start to fall asleep.
The squirrel will perch on the tree branch to eat it’s nut.
Perch means to rest or sit on something. (definition)
Say it with me. Get ready…Perch means to rest or sit on something.
What does perch mean? Perch means to rest or sit on something.
Point to a bird that is perching on a tree branch.
How would you look if you perched on a tree branch? Can you show me?
If the squirrel went into a hole in the tree to eat its nut it would be eating in private.
Private means alone or hidden from others.
Say it with me. Get ready…Private means alone or hidden from others.
What is private? Private is alone or hidden from others.
A letter to a friend is private. Only your friend can read it. A note to a teacher is private. Only the teacher can read it.
Look at the big, white birds swimming on the lake. Their feathers will be moist.
Moist means a little bit wet. (definition)
Say it with me. Get ready…Moist means a little bit wet.
What does moist mean? Moist means a little bit wet.
The puppy’s nose was moist.
The grass in the morning is moist.

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