Where Are My Animal Friends?
Big Question: How does nature change
during the year?
Author:
William Chin
Illustrator:
Scott Gustafson
Genre:
Play
SMALL GROUP
Timer
BIG QUESTION
HOW DOES NATURE CHANGE DURING THE
YEAR?
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
Where Are My Animal Friends?
Day 1
Daily Fix-it
1. The bigest burd said good-bye first.
2. It was the sadest day?
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Daily Fix-it
1. The bigest burd said good-bye first.
The biggest bird said good-bye first.
2. It was the sadest day?
It was the saddest day.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Morning Warm-up
When summer is done,
We know winter will soon be here.
How does nature change during
the year?
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Change of Season
When the season starts to
change,
And temperature is falling,
Animals all know
Soon there will be snow.
It is time to go.
A warmer place is calling.
In winter, many animals
Just seem to disappear.
Some go hibernate.
Some, like ducks, migrate.
But if we just wait,
They’ll all be back next year.
Oral Vocabulary
• temperature
• season
• hibernate
• migrate
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Amazing Words
• temperature
Temperature is how cold or hot something is.
• season
A season is one of the four parts of the year.
• hibernate
Hibernate means “to spend the winter
sleeping.”
• migrate
Migrate means “to move from one place to
another.”
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Blend Words
• fat ter
• new est
• sad dest
• deep er
• slim mest
• green est
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Base Word
Ending – er
smart
thin
wet
quick
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Ending –est
Word Reading
• fewer
• smaller
• bigger
• sweeter
• taller
• hottest
• newest
• smallest
• skipped
• firmest
• stalled
• thinnest
• shorter
• tallest
• trotting
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
1. Reading WB page 53
2. Spelling WB page 69
3. Journal – Write to tell what bears
and geese do when winter is
coming.
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 1
Daily Journal Writing
Day 1
Write to tell what
bears and geese do
when winter is
coming.
Where Are My Animal Friends?
Day 2
Daily Fix-it
3. jay was the fasttest bird.
4. Duck were the slowest bird
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 2
Daily Fix-it
3. jay was the fasttest bird.
Jay was the fastest bird.
4. Duck were the slowest bird
Duck was the slowest bird.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 2
Morning Warm-up
Today we’ll read more about the
seasons. Each season is part of the
year. When one season ends, another
starts. How do our clothes change
with each season?
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 2
Amazing Words
• autumn Autumn is one of
the four seasons.
Unit 3 Animal Friends - Day 2
Word Work
gem
cage
bridge b r i dg e
-dge
• badge
• dodge
• ridge
• pledge
• trudge
Unit 3 Animal Friends - Day 2
Blend Words
• wedge
• judge
• Madge
• edge
• sludge
• ledge
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 2
edge
Word Reading – dge/j/
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
judge
gem
game
lodge
ridge
fudge
pledge
page
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
gate
bridge
nudge
porridge
smudge
large
ginger
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 2
Read the Words
“Does anyone
know where
Squirrel is?”
asked Bear. “ I
want to say
good-bye
before my long
nap. I won’t
see anyone for
1. Reading WB page 54, 55, 56
2. Spelling WB page 70
3. Journal – Write one fact you learned
from What Makes the Seasons?
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 2
Daily Journal Writing
Day 2
Write a fact from “What
Makes the Seasons?”
Where Are My Animal Friends?
Day 3
Daily Fix-it
5. It is cold last week?
6. some birds can not find fod.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
Daily Fix-it
5. It is cold last week?
It was cold last week.
6. some birds can not find fod.
Some birds can not find food.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
Morning Warm-up
Animals know when the seasons
begin to change. We’re going to
read how animals get ready for
winter. What’s something you get
ready for each year?
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
Amazing Words
• freeze
Freeze means
“to turn
something hard
because of the
cold.”
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
Comparative Endings and dge/j/
• smarter
• thinnest
• ridge
• badge
• wetter
• grudge
• smallest
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
Unit 3 Animal Friends - Day 3
The Coldest Time
When the seasons
change,
all nature changes
too.
All the animals must
judge
what’s best to do.
When the tree colors
grow bolder,
And the days start
turning colder,
Then they have their
Sort Words
tallest
bridge
stiffer
darker
fudge
biggest
shorter
pledge
budge
bigger
dimmest
stiffest
Endings – er
Endings – est
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
No Ending
Animals During Summer
Animals During Winter
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
People can tell when the
seasons change. We
might wear different
clothing and do different
things. What do you
think animals do when
the seasons change?
We’ll find out as we read
a play that tells about
some changes animals
go through when the
weather gets very cold.
Selection Words
•spring
•warm
•goose
•raccoon
High – Frequency Words
• small
• every
• does
• won’t
• many
• good-bye
• oh
• before
• right
• inside
• friends
• away
1. Reading WB page 57
2. Spelling WB page 71
3. Journal – Write about an animal you
might like to be and what you would
do in the winter.
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
Vocabulary
Many flowers bloom in spring.
The animals got a drink at the spring.
Writing Sentences
I like to be warm in winter.
I really can’t stay, Raccoon.
I will come back next spring.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 3
Daily Journal Writing
Day 3
Write about an animal
you might like to be
and what you would
do in winter.
Where Are My Animal Friends?
Day 4
Daily Fix-it
7. today isnt cold.
8. Some birds havent’ gon.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
Daily Fix-it
7. today isnt cold.
Today isn’t cold.
8. Some birds havent’ gon.
Some birds haven’t gone.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
Morning Warm-up
Today we are going to read some
poems. Each poem is about
changes.
Some poems are funny.
What changes might be funny?
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
Amazing Words
• weary When you are
weary, you are very
tired.
• bitterly Bitterly means “in a
sad or painful way.”
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
High – Frequency Words
before good-bye oh right won’t does
• The word means the opposite of left. ____________
• The word begins with /d/ and rhymes with fuzz
and buzz. ______________
• The word means the opposite of after.
_________________
• The word rhymes with go and so. ______________
• The word means the opposite of hello.
__________________
• This word is the contraction for will not. ___________
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
r-controlled er, ir, ur and Contractions
her
sir
fur
it’s
er, ir, ur
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
contractions
Word Reading
• wait
• perch
• push
• we’ll
• her
• doesn’t
• first
• let’s
• know
• I’ll
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
• we’re
• we’ve
• visit
• swirling
• bird
• done
• turn
• clerk
• Fern
• I’m
Read Words in Context
If the clerk doesn’t know which button to
push, let’s help her.
We’ve got time to wait so I’ll take a turn.
When we’re done with chores, we’ll visit
Fern first.
I’m swirling like a bird that has left its
perch.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
1. Reading WB page 58, 59
2. Spelling WB page 72
3. Journal – Write what Raccoon and
the other animal friends do the next
spring.
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 4
Daily Journal Writing
Day 4
Write what Raccoon
and the other
animal friends do
next spring.
Where Are My Animal Friends?
Day 5
Daily Fix-it
9. this animal is the bigger of all.
10. yesterday some toads hop around.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 5
Daily Fix-it
9. this animal is the bigger of all.
This animal is the biggest of all.
10. yesterday some toads hop around.
Yesterday some toads hopped
around.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 5
Morning Warm-up
We have read how the temperature
can change from season to season.
In autumn, some animals get ready to
sleep or to move to warm places.
What other changes do animals
make during the year?
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 5
Comparative Endings and dge/j/
Midge will try to dodge the smallest ball.
That cat won’t budge from the edge of
the shorter ledge.
The biggest dish of porridge is the hottest
too.
The greenest wedge of grass is by the
park lodge.
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 5
High-Frequency Words
before does won’t right good-bye oh
Raccoon will have to say ___________.
His friends _____________ stay.
Oh, me. _________, my.
They leave _________ the cold winds blow.
__________ Raccoon cry?
Oh, no. Oh, no.
He runs ___________ out to play in the snow!
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 5
Our Favorite Animals
Raccoon
Bear
Squirrel
Hummingbird
Goose
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1
2
3
4
5
1. Reading WB page 60
2. Handwriting sheet
3. Journal – Choose an animal. Write to
tell what it does in winter.
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Animal Friends – Day 5
Daily Journal Writing
Day 5
Write to tell what
animals do in the
winter.