Unit 2 Week 4

“Communities”

Big Question:

What is a community?

Question of the Week:

How do animal communities work together to survive?

Big Book:

“A Frog in the Bog”

Amazing Words:

enemy, extinct, protect, crater, holler, swamp, bluff, boisterous

Phonics:

Long o: spelled o_e

Contractions (will, not, am)

Song of the Week:

“Mama Newt Said”

Story of the Week

“The Big Circle”

Author: Eric Kimmel

Illustrator: Richard Bernal

Genre: Fiction

Comprehension Strategy:

Inferring

Comprehension Skill:

Sequence

Story Words:

 baby, circle, herd, meat, triceratops

HFW:

down, inside, now, there, together

Read Aloud

“A Clever Trip”

A story about how a mother animal protects her young.

Grammar:

Proper Nouns: Days, Months, Holidays

Centers