Monday, April 14, 2008

Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel





This week we will be reading Frog and Toad All Year. It's a story about two best friends, Frog and Toad. Frog tells his friend Toad a story about how he learned when Spring is coming. We can't tell you the signs of Spring that Frog tells Toad about; you'll have to read our story to find out!

Vocabulary: working, caught, son, near, cold

Reading Comprehension Skill: This week we will be working on Making and Confirming Predictions. We make predictions by what we know about the story, what we read in the story, or something that happened in our lives that we can relate to the story. If we find clues while we are reading, we can always change our prediction. At the end of the story, we all discuss if our predictions were right.

Spelling/ Phonics
In Phonics we will be working on the long/a/ sound. We will be using -ain and -ay to make the sound of long/a/.

Our spelling words this week have the -ain and -ay combination.

Spelling Words: day, may, play, rain, tail,trail, train, pail, today

Grammar- In Grammar we will be working on verbs. Verbs are action words, for example, jump, run, sleep, dance, and eat are action words.