How do plants change over time?
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Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Amazing Words
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adapt
annual
nutrients
bury
undisturbed
ancient
massive
sprout
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Vocabulary Words
Crossword Puzzle
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bumpy
fruit
harvest
root
smooth
soil
vine
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
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Spelling Words
put
push
cook
pull
stood
brook
full
hood
wood
footprint
July
pudding
shook
cushion
hood
Big Question:
How do plants change over time?
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Monday
Morning Warm-Up
People change as they grow
older. Animals change too.
How do plants change over
time? What changes have
you seen in plants that grow
near your home?
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Monday
Morning Warm-Up
People change as they grow
older. Animals change too.
How do plants change over
time? What changes have
you seen in plants that grow
near your home?
Today we will learn about:
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Amazing Words
Vowels oo, u
Sequence
Important Ideas
Adjectives for Number, Size, and
Shape
Anchored Talk
How Do
plants change
over time?
Plants change
during their
life cycle.
Plants need
things to grow
and change.
Weather can
change plants.
Click to
listen to
“An Annual
Event.”
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Amazing
Words
adapt
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a – dapt
When things adapt, they change to
fit new situations or surroundings.
The plant had to adapt to a bigger
pot.
The dog had to adapt to its new
home.
The families adapt well to living in
a different country.
annual
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an – nu - al
Something that happens one time a
year is an annual event.
A plant that lives only one year or
season is called an annual.
We have an annual Fourth of July
parade in our city.
We have an annual family reunion
in August.
nutrients
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nu – tri - ents
Nutrients are things like proteins,
vitamins, and minerals that people,
animals, or plants need in order to
grow and be healthy.
When you eat healthy food, you get
a lot of nutrients.
Fruits and vegetables have many
nutrients in them.
Vowels oo, u
The name of this card is:
The sound of this card is:
The spelling of this card is:
Vowels oo, u
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pup
What vowel sound do you hear in
this word?
Today we’ll learn that the vowels oo
and u can stand for the sound of oo
as in book.
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book
The letters oo can stand for the vowel
sound in book or in moon. Context
provides the clue to pronunciation.
 book
 cook
 stood
 hook
 foot
 wood
 good
 shook
 took
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The letter u can stand for short u or the
vowel sound in book. Context provides the
clue to pronunciation.
 put
 push
 full
Vowels oo, u
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pull
The u in this word stands for the /u/
sound.
Are the vowels sounds the same in
pup and in pull?
Vowels oo, u
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wool
bulldog
book
pudding
woodpile
must
brook
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overlook
number
bullet
footstep
full
wooden
textbook
sudden
Vowels oo, u
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cook
stood
full
wood
July
shook
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push
pull
brook
book
book
hood
put
PARTNER PRACTICE: TAKE TURNS 2 TIMES, CHORAL, BACK TO DESK,
READ ALONE, PRACTICE WORDS!
VOCABULARY
Root, vines, soil, bumpy, harvest, smooth, fruit
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We bobbed up and down in the car because the road was so _______.
The peach orchard has many _________ trees growing there.
Fall is the time to ________ apples.
Pumpkins grow on ___________.
The water in the lake was as _________ as glass.
Using good ________ helps plants grow.
The _________ of a plant gets water from the ground.
Daily Fix-It
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mike stod on a huge rok
Mike stood on a huge
rock.
put your cap on the hook
Put your cap on the
hook.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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An adjective describes a person,
place, animal, or thing.
Adjectives can tell how
something looks, sounds, tastes,
feels, or smells.
Words for number, size, and
shape are adjectives.
The words a and an are also
adjectives.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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A sunflower has small seeds.
The word a describes how many
sunflowers—one.
Small describes the size of the
seeds.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Tina planted ten sunflowers.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Tina planted ten sunflowers.
Sunflowers are tall plants.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Tina planted ten sunflowers.
Sunflowers are tall plants.
Seeds grow in large heads.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Tina planted ten sunflowers.
Sunflowers are tall plants.
Seeds grow in large heads.
Tina took out oval seeds.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Tina planted ten sunflowers.
Sunflowers are tall plants.
Seeds grow in large heads.
Tina took out oval seeds.
She filled five bags with seeds.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Tina planted ten sunflowers.
Sunflowers are tall plants.
Seeds grow in large heads.
Tina took out oval seeds.
She filled five bags with seeds.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Sort these words: ten, tall, large, oval, five, round
Describe Number
Describe Size
Describe Shape
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Sort these words: ten, tall, large, oval, five, round
Describe Number
ten
Describe Size
Describe Shape
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Sort these words: ten, tall, large, oval, five, round
Describe Number
ten
Describe Size
tall
Describe Shape
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Sort these words: ten, tall, large, oval, five, round
Describe Number
ten
Describe Size
tall
large
Describe Shape
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Sort these words: ten, tall, large, oval, five, round
Describe Number
ten
Describe Size
tall
large
Describe Shape
oval
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Sort these words: ten, tall, large, oval, five, round
Describe Number
ten
five
Describe Size
tall
large
Describe Shape
oval
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Sort these words: ten, tall, large, oval, five, round
Describe Number
ten
five
Describe Size
tall
large
Describe Shape
oval
round
Writing: Expository Text
Wrap Up Your Day!
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Vowels oo, u
Spelling /u/ words
Sequence
Important Ideas
Tomorrow we will read about
how a plant changes as it grows.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Monday
Journal Topic
Write about something you
do that is an annual event.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Tuesday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read about
pumpkins. In four months,
they grow from tiny seeds to
large, round fruits. What else
grows from seeds?
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Tuesday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read about
pumpkins. In four months,
they grow from tiny seeds to
large, round fruits. What else
grows from seeds?
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Tuesday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read about
pumpkins. In four months,
they grow from tiny seeds to
large, round fruits. What else
grows from seeds?
Today we will learn about:
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Amazing Words
Vowels oo, u
Vocabulary Words
Antonyms
Important Ideas
Sequence
Adjectives for Number, Size, and
Shape
Read-Aloud
Anchored Talk
How Do plants
change over
time?
Plants change
during their life
cycle.
Plants need
things to grow
and change.
Weather can
change plants.
Plants need rain,
sunlight,
nutrients and air.
Dust storms
bury plants.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Amazing
Words
blazing
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bla - zing
If something is blazing it is very
hot.
Families drove through the blazing
heat to escape the dust bowl.
It took many firefighters to put out
the blazing fire.
Tell about a time when the weather
was blazing.
Vowels oo, u
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look
You can read this word because you
know how to read words with the
sound oo/u/.
When you come to a new word, look
at the letters from left to right, and
think about the vowel sounds.
Say the sounds in the word to
yourself, and then read the word.
Vowels oo, u
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football
bushy
understood
shook
bullfrog
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hood
push
fully
bullet
notebook
Short u; Vowel Pattens oo, u
Spelling: Vowel Pattens oo, u
Vowels oo, u
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The cook put the wood in the
pit.
I wore a hood when I stood by
the brook.
Do not push or pull that big
hook!
Vocabulary Words
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fruit – part of a plant that contains seeds
soil – top layer of Earth’s surface
root – part of a plant that takes in water and
holds the plant in place
harvest – to gather crops
vine – a plant with a long, thin stem
bumpy – covered with high spots or lumps
smooth – flat or even
cycle – a series of actions that happen in the
same order
wither – to dry up
tendrils – a slender, curling part of a plant
(next slide)
fruit
soil
root
harvest
vine
bumpy
cycle
wither
tendrils
Vocabulary Words
put, cook, stood, full, wood, July, shook, push, pull,
brook, hook, hood, pudding, cushion, footprint
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Which words name parts of a plant?
root, vine
Which word names this group: apple, orange,
peach?
fruit
Which word names something that a farmer
might do?
harvest
Which words tell how something feels?
bumpy, smooth
Vocabulary Review
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fruit
water
harvest
animals
vine
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warm
bumpy
people
smooth
ago
Grape farmers usually start with old vines,
not new ones.
Build Background:
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Build Background:
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Daily Fix-It
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dad cut to pieces of wod
Dad cut two pieces of
wood.
my birthday is in july
My birthday is in July.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Words for number, size, and
shape are adjectives.
The words a and an are also
adjectives.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Writing Expository
Nonfiction
Wrap Up Your Day!
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Lesson Vocabulary
Sequence
Important Ideas
Antonyms
Tomorrow we will reread Life
Cycle of a Pumpkin.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Tuesday
Journal Topic
What kind of nutrients does a
pumpkin need to grow?
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Wednesday
Morning Warm-Up
What caused the dust storms
of the 1930’s?
What happened as a result of
these storms?
Today we will learn about:
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Amazing Words
Vowels oo, u
Antonyms
Fact and Opinion
Adjectives for Number, Size, and
Shape
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Amazing
Words
drought
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drought
In the 1930’s a drought began in
the Great Plains.
A drought is a hot, dry period
when it does not rain for a very
long time.
The drought caused the land to dry
up and crack.
The plants in the garden dried up
and died because of the drought.
If drought means “a dry period”
what words would mean the
opposite?
Anchored Talk
How Do plants
change over time?
Plants change
during their life
cycle.
Plants need things
to grow and
change.
Seed, root, leaves,
vine, flowers,
pumpkin fruit.
Plants need rain,
sunlight, nutrients
and air.
Weather can
change plants.
Dust storms bury
plants.
Too much sun
withers plants.
Insects can change
plants.
Too much rain
rots plants.
Bees pollinate
plants and cause
fruit to grow.
Harmful insects
eat plants.
Blend and Read. I do, we do, you
all do, you do!
Vocabulary Words
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What do people do during a harvest,
plant crops or pick crops?
Is soil something that hurts
pumpkins or something that helps
pumpkins grow?
What can you do with fruit, eat it or
water crops with it?
What is a vine, a fall celebration or a
plant with a long, slender stem?
Vocabulary Words
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What does the root of a pumpkin
plant do, act like a big umbrella to
protect the plant from the sun or
bring food and water to the plant?
Which is bumpy, a road with many
holes and lumps in it or a road that
is completely flat?
Which is smooth, a pond where the
water is still or a pond with many
waves in it?
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
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Spelling Words
put
push
cook
pull
stood
brook
full
hook
wood
footprint
July
pudding
shook
cushion
hood
Antonyms
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Antonyms are words with opposite
meanings. Name the antonyms in
this sentence.
Pumpkins can be bumpy or smooth,
large or small, long or round.
bumpy – smooth
large – small
long - round
Daily Fix-It
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the cok made a pumpkin
pie
The cook made a
pumpkin pie.
do you like puding.
Do you like pudding?
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Nouns name people, places,
animals, and things.
Adjectives describe nouns.
Adjectives tell how nouns sound,
smell, feel, look, and taste.
Adjectives also tell about the
number, size, and shape of nouns.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Wrap Up Your Day!
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Fact and Opinion
Fluency
Adjectives
Tomorrow we will read a poem
that explains how seeds know
which way to grow.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Wednesday
Journal Topic
Describe how a
pumpkin grows. Use
order words such as first,
next, then, and finally.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Thursday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read more about
how plants grow. Plants need
roots, soil, and nutrients.
What do you need to grow?
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Thursday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read more about
how plants grow. Plants need
roots, soil, and nutrients.
What do you need to grow?
Today we will learn about:
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Review Amazing Words
Vowels oo, u
Review c, -le words
Fluency
Adjective for Number, Size, and
Shape
Announcements
Read-Aloud
The Big Tree
ancient
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an - cient
Very old things are ancient.
Events that happened more than
2,000 years ago are ancient.
The pyramids of Egypt are ancient
structures.
massive
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mas - sive
Something is massive if it is
extremely large.
An elephant has a massive body.
A massive rock blocked the
entrance to the cave.
sprout
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sprout
A very young plant is a sprout.
When a plant begins growing from a
seed it sprouts.
The young bean sprout had little
green leaves.
A seed needs warmth and moisture
before it will sprout.
Anchored Talk
How Do plants
change over time?
Plants change
during their life
cycle.
Seed, root, leaves,
vine, flowers,
pumpkin fruit.
Sugar maple life
cycle: seed, root,
seedling, small
tree, large tree.
Plants need things
to grow and
change.
Plants need rain,
sunlight, nutrients
and air.
Weather can
change plants.
Dust storms bury
plants.
Too much sun
withers plants.
Insects can
change plants.
Too much rain
rots plants.
Bees pollinate
plants and cause
fruit to grow.
Harmful insects
eat plants.
Syllables: Consonant + le
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candle - can / dle
You can read this word because you
know how to read words with more
than one syllable.
If a word ends with a consonant and
le, those three letters make the last
syllable in the word.
a / ble
Syllables: Consonant + le
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Amazing Words
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adapt
annual
nutrients
bury
undisturbed
ancient
massive
sprout
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Vocabulary Words
Crossword Puzzle
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fruit
soil
root
harvest
vine
bumpy
smooth
cycle
wither
tendrils
Sentence Reading
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The bigger machines are the
bulldozer and the pulley.
Mom’s baked pudding is tastier
than any other in the world!
Are you carrying those full boxes
of books everywhere?
Sentence Reading
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This is the easiest way to move
the pushcart at work.
Look for the woman who writes in
the tiniest notebook.
Do you live near the sparkling
brook in the woods?
Word and Sentence
Reading
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
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Spelling Words
put
push
cook
pull
stood
brook
full
hook
wood
footprint
July
pudding
shook
cushion
hood
Fluency Routine:
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Page 72 – 75
I read
We read
You all read
You read!
Daily Fix-It
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did You put away your
game.
Did you put away your
game?
brad shok my hand.
Brad shook my hand.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
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Words for number, size, and
shape are adjectives.
The words a and an are also
adjectives.
Adjectives for Number,
Size, and Shape
Number
Size
Shape
Writing for Tests
Speaking and Listening
Speakers:
 Speak in a clear
voice.
 Speak slowly.
 Make eye contact
with listeners.
 Use appropriate
voice level.
 Tell all the
information.
Listeners:
 Sit quietly.
 Face the speaker.
 Listen to what the
speaker says.
 Ask questions if you
don’t understand
part of the
announcement.
Wrap Up Your Day!
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The woman pulled a cart full of
books to the nook where the
bookcase stood.
Today we read a poem about
seeds. Tomorrow we will hear
again about how plants grow
from seeds.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Thursday
Journal Topic
Write about getting used
to something new.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Friday
Morning Warm-Up
This week we read about
plants. We learned about
pumpkins and maple trees.
We also learned about other
seeds. How do seeds change
as they grow into plants?
Today we will learn about:
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Review Amazing Words
Review Vocabulary Words
Vowels oo, u
Adjectives for Number, Size, and
Shape
Circle Graph
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Amazing Words
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adapt
annual
nutrients
bury
undisturbed
ancient
massive
sprout
Read-Aloud
The Big Tree
Anchored Talk
How Do plants
change over time?
Plants change
during their life
cycle.
Seed, root, leaves,
vine, flowers,
pumpkin fruit.
Sugar maple life
cycle: seed, root,
seedling, small
tree, large tree.
Plants need things
to grow and
change.
Plants need rain,
sunlight, nutrients
and air.
Weather can
change plants.
Dust storms bury
plants.
Too much sun
withers plants.
Insects can
change plants.
Too much rain
rots plants.
Bees pollinate
plants and cause
fruit to grow.
Harmful insects
eat plants.
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Vocabulary Words
Crossword Puzzle
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fruit
soil
root
harvest
vine
bumpy
smooth
cycle
wither
tendrils
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the ____ so deep.
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a ____that it will keep.
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a root that it will keep.
Out of the dirt grows a big green ___.
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a root that it will keep.
Out of the dirt grows a big green vine.
It will bear some ___ so firm and fine!
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a root that it will keep.
Out of the dirt grows a big green vine.
It will bear some fruit so firm and fine!
Some feel soft and ___ and flat.
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a root that it will keep.
Out of the dirt grows a big green vine.
It will bear some fruit so firm and fine!
Some feel soft and smooth and flat.
Others feel rough and ___ and fat.
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a root that it will keep.
Out of the dirt grows a big green vine.
It will bear some fruit so firm and fine!
Some feel soft and smooth and flat.
Others feel rough and bumpy and fat.
But at ___ time we will pick and chat!
Vocabulary Words
smooth, bumpy, root, vine, harvest, soil, fruit
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a root that it will keep.
Out of the dirt grows a big green vine.
It will bear some fruit so firm and fine!
Some feel soft and smooth and flat.
Others feel rough and bumpy and fat.
But at harvest time we will pick and
chat!
Rhyming Words
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I plant a seed in the soil so deep.
It will grow a root that it will keep.
Out of the dirt grows a big green vine.
It will bear some fruit so firm and fine!
Some feel soft and smooth and flat.
Others feel rough and bumpy and fat.
But at harvest time we will pick and
chat!
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
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Spelling Words
put
push
cook
pull
stood
brook
full
hook
wood
footprint
July
pudding
shook
cushion
hood
Vowels oo, u
Find the words with oo or u.
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Those children took all the cookies.
Vowels oo, u
Find the words with oo or u.
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Those children took all the cookies.
Our bulldog likes the sock on my foot!
Vowels oo, u
Find the words with oo or u.
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Those children took all the cookies.
Our bulldog likes the sock on my foot!
Look at the crook get away!
Vowels oo, u
Find the words with oo or u.
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Those children took all the cookies.
Our bulldog likes the sock on my foot!
Look at the crook get away!
This is a good book.
Vowels oo, u
Find the words with oo or u.
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Those children took all the cookies.
Our bulldog likes the sock on my foot!
Look at the crook get away!
This is a good book.
Daily Fix-It
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the wagon is ful of
pumpkins?
The wagon is full of
pumpkins.
the strong wind shok My
car.
The strong wind shook my
car.
Sequence
Wrap Up Our Week!
Let’s Talk About Our
Changing World
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Friday
Journal Topic
Write about a
plant-growing contest.
Related Links
Science Reader:
 All About Plants
 Desert Plants
 Plants
 Saquaro Cactus
Discovery Streaming
Videos
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Growing Plants: Science in a School Garden
(22:49)
Plant Life Cycles (20:00)
How Plants Grow (19:00)
Debbie Greenthumb: How Plants Grow
(12:59)
We are now ready to
take our story tests.
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Story test
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Classroom webpage,
Student page,
Taking Tests
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Other Reading Quizzes
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