Unit 4 Week 2 Day 2: Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Theme: Our Changing World
High Frequency: bumpy, fruit, harvest, root, smooth, soil, vine
Vocabulary (Amazing Words): adapt, annual, nutrients, undisturbed, bury, ancient, massive, sprout
Grammar: adjectives for Numbers, Size and Shapes
Building
Background/
Knowledge
Ell Poster # 17 Use high frequency word cards to show a word as you read the
sentences.
What is planted in soil?
What do the roots do for the plant?
What is a vine?
Have you ever harvested anything? What?
What does the fruit have to be in order to harvest it?
What is smooth?
What is not bumpy?
Vocabulary
What do nutrients do for the plant?
How do plants adapt to their surroundings?
Have you ever attended an annual event??
Amazing words: undisturbed, bury, ancient, massive, sprout
The watermelons lay in the ground undisturbed. Undisturbed means not
bothered.
Say it with me. Get ready.. ... undisturbed means not bothered.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready… undisturbed means not bothered.
What do call not bothered? Undisturbed
Angie took a nap undisturbed.
Watermelon seeds need to be buried. Buried means to put something in a
hole under the ground. Buried means to put something in a hole under the
ground.
Say it with me. Get ready.. ..buried means to put something in a hole under
the ground.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready…buried means to put something in a hole
under the ground.
What do call putting something in a hole under the ground? buried
The buried bulbs will bloom into tulips in the spring.
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In ancient times they planted watermelons too. Ancient means very old.
Say it with me….. ancient means very old.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready… ancient means very old.
What do call something that very old? ancient
The pyramids are ancient structures
One watermelon became massive. Massive means extremely large.
Say it with me. Get ready.. ... massive means extremely large.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready… massive means extremely large.
What do call something that is extremely large? massive
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Unit 4 Week 2 Day 2: Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Theme: Our Changing World
An elephant has a massive body.
The seeds sprout into a plant. Sprout means a very young plant
Say it with me. Get ready.. ... sprout means a very young plant.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready… sprout means a very young plant.
What do call a very young plant? sprout
The young watermelon sprout has little green leaves.
High Frequency
Words
bumpy, fruit, harvest, root, smooth, soil, vine
Review high frequency words that students were introduced to yesterday. Have them
say the word, spell the word, write the word using their finger in the air. Have them
spell the word aloud to one another.
Have students turn to the Table of Contents at the beginning of their reading books.
Tell the students that a Table of Contents is a menu of everything in the book. Have
Reading
students look for the title Life Cycle of a Pumpkin and follow the dots to the page
Comprehension number. Have the students turn to page 46. Have the students read the title with you,
along with the author and illustrator. Read together the question How does a pumpkin
go from seed to pie? Read the story to the students making sure they are following
along with fingers on each word.
As you are reading as a group, point out the selection words and high frequency words.
Make sure students understand the meaning of all words in the story.
Ask comprehension questions.
This story is an expository nonfiction story. Nonfiction selections describe
real people, places, or things. Expository nonfiction tells facts about a topic.
Where does the story take place? In the country out on a farm.
What do you think this story is mostly about? This story is about how a
pumpkin grows.
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