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Little Panda – Unit 3 Week 1 2014-2015
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Vocabulary
Goals
Objectives
and
Essential Questions/
Learning Targets
Essential Question:
How do people, plants and animals change?
Learning Target:
Reading (RI 2) I can find pictures or words that show the big idea.
Writing (WS 7) I can work with others to find out more about an idea.
Speaking/Listening (SL 2) I can answer questions about what someone reads.
Reading Standard (RI 2) With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Writing Standard (WS 7) Participate in shared research and writing projects (Example – Explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about
them.)
Speaking/Listening Standards (SL 2) Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. A.
Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. B. Recognize and name punctuation. C. Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel
sounds. D. Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound letter relationships.
Reading – cite, specific, main idea, key details, important, text, connect, link, events, characters, setting
Writing – project, research
Speaking/Listening – capitalize, punctuation, consonants, short vowels, letters, spell
AMAZING WORDS – weigh, measure, healthy, bamboo, curious, explore
DEVELOPING WORDS – panda, paw, leg, wobbly
EXPAND VOCABULARY – fragile, Chinese
SIGHT WORDS – she, with, so, some
Day 1
Read the essential question
and learning target with
students.
Build Background
SF Talk with Me Chart (13A)
SF Sing with Me Chart (13B)
SF Let’s Listen CD
SF ELL Poster
Focus and Review
Fluency Builder for the Week
Pandit Bandit
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Read the essential question
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Read the essential question
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Day 5
Read the essential question
and learning target with
students.
Fluency Builder for the Week
Pandit Bandit
Fluency Builder for the Week
Pandit Bandit
Fluency Builder for the Week
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Fluency Builder for the Week
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Sight Word Song: so
Sight Word Song: some
Sing all sight word songs
Sing all sight word songs
Introduce Sight Word Songs:
she, with, so, some
Introduce Reading Stations
Sight Word Song: with
Sing all sight word songs
Introduce Reading Stations
Introduce Reading Stations
Introduce Reading Stations
Day 1
 Activities
Watch the Panda Cam to view
live Pandas
 Materials
Haiku Page – San Diego Zoo
Live Panda Cam
 Activities
Picture Walk through the
book to look for clues
about the setting
Teacher will help students
fill in a Circle Map on
the SMART board
Notebook of clues they
found during the picture
walk.
 Materials
SF Text, Chart, CD, Circle
Map on SMART board
Notebook, Little Panda by
Joanne Ryder
Introduction of this weeks
letters:
Introduction of Information
Letter Vv
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Letter Ww
http://more.starfall.com/n/leve
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Letter Yy
http://more.starfall.com/n/leve
l-k/letter-y/load.htm?f
Use the Subpage for letter Vv
introduction.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
 Activities
 Activities
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Read Aloud
Paired Selection
Baby Panda
Animals Black and White
Dinner at Panda Palace
 Materials
 Materials
Haiku Page – Read Aloud
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Use the Subpage for letter Yy
introduction.
Day 5
 Activities
Read Aloud Anthology
Anna Panda Trades
Places
 Materials
Read Aloud Anthology
pages 89-91
Ask the following questions
once the story has been read
aloud.
1.Who are the characters?
(Anna Panda and her mother)
2. How are Anna and her
mother alike?
(They are both pandas and
they are both in the same
family)
3. How are Anna and her
mother different?
(Anna is a young panda; her
mother is an adult. Anna goes
to school but her mother does
not)
4. How are Anna’s and her
mother’s job different?
(Anna goes to school; her
mother takes care of the
house)
Day 1
Model fluent reading by
reading the story aloud with
expression.
Model reading strategy of
recall and retell by asking the
questions in the margin of the
text.
Create a list of “Vv” “Ww”
and “Yy” words and write
them on a chart paper. These
will be referred back to during
the week.
Guided Practice
Introduce Sight Word Songs:
she, with, so, some
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Rotate to 2 Stations today.
Rotate to 2 Stations
today.
Rotate to 2 Stations today.
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1.Have children look for the
Sight Words in the book
Sight Words in the book Look
Panda’s Nap – green (lower 2
At The Bear and butter them
groups)
with a yellow crayon.
The Baby Panda - yellow (top
2.Read the book together
2 groups)
having children to finger point
2.Read the book together
as they chorally read each
having children to finger point
page. Ask that they identify a
as they chorally read each
capital and lower case letter as
page. Ask that they identify a
they read.
capital and lower case letter as
3.Have children read aloud
they read.
one page at a time. Children
3.Have children read aloud
may want to take turns reading
one page at a time. Children
their favorite page.
may want to take turns reading
4. Play "Stack 'Em Up" Sight
their favorite page.
Word Towers!
4. Review the sight words for
Use sight word flash cards and
the week by reading them on
ask each child in the group to
the top of the sheet in the
read a word in turn. Each time
rectangle.
they read a word correctly,
5. Have children look at the
they get to add a block to their
words and decide which of
tower. Use blocks that do
this weeks words will fit into
NOT snap together, and the
the blocks provided.
kids usually stay VERY still
6. Write the word and then
and quiet as they try to not
allow students to share their
knock their stack down!
work.
TA Station
1 .Use the letter grids to time
the students for 1 minute and
see how many letters that each
students gets correct. Sheets
can be sent home for a takehome activity to complete the
other side. OR TA’s can call
out a letter and have students
to color or highlight the letter
that is called out.
2.DIBELS Games
TA Station
1.Picture sort V, Ww, and Yy
pictures.
2. Glue the header letters on a
1/3 divided sheet of paper.
3. Glue the pictures under the
correct letter.
4. Check for accuracy as you
have students say the letter,
picture name and sound for
each of the pictures.
Other
Individual Teacher
Computer. Listening
Other
Individual Teacher
Computer. Listening
Day 5
Rotate to 2 Stations today.
Independent Practice
Independent
Independent
Independent
Sheet –
.Sheet – Name the pictures.
Same as Tuesday
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Rotate to
the 221
Stations
today
Color
those that begin with the
Cut and glue the pictures
that children did not go to
sound /y/. Put an X on those
whose names begin like
Monday.
that begin with another sound.
wagon.
Bottom – Color or circle the
Back – Trace upper and
pictures that begin like yellow
lowercase Ww and then write
Back – Trace upper and
the letters on the foundations
lowercase Yy and then write
paper.
the letters on the foundations
paper.
Independent
Same as Thursday
Rotate to the 2 Stations today
that children did not go to
Monday.
Day 1
Review the various rounds
and places they will visit.
Discuss what will be done at
each location.
Day 2
Rainbow Trace –she
Trace the word she with s –
green (first letter) h-blue
(middle letter) and e – purple
(last letter) and ” e” red
(vowel) crayons. Trace the “s”
”h” with yellow (consonant)
Trace the “sh” orange
(diagraph)
Write she on the dotted lines
and then on the blank lines.
Cut and glue the letters to
form the word she.
Writing – RWT Journals
Draw a picture about the main
idea of the book Baby Panda
Day 3
Rainbow Trace – so
Trace the word so with s–
green (first letter), o – purple
(last letter) and ”o” red
(vowel) crayons. Trace the “s”
with yellow (consonant)
Write so on the dotted lines
and then on the blank lines.
Cut and glue the letters to
form the word so.
Writing – RWT Journals
Draw a picture about
something that you have
learned from the books we
have read about pandas this
week. Answer the following
question: What is one thing
that you have learned about
pandas?
Day 4
Rainbow Trace – some
Trace the word some with s –
green (first letter), o, m, with
blue (middle letters), e with
purple (last letter) crayons.
Trace the “e” with red
(vowel). Trace “s” ‘m”
consonants with yellow.
Write some on the dotted lines
and then on the blank lines.
Cut and glue the letters to
form the word some
Writing – RWT Journals
Draw a picture to illustrate one
of our amazing words:
weigh, measure, healthy,
bamboo, curious, explore
and write the word.
Day 5
Rainbow Trace – with
Trace the word with with w –
green (first letter) and “i” “,t”
blue (middle letters), –“h”
purple (last letter) and”i” red
(vowel) crayons. Trace the
“w”, “t”, “h” with yellow
(consonant) crayon. The “th”
orange (diagraph)
Write with on the dotted lines
and then on the blank lines.
Cut and glue the letters to
form the word with
Writing – RWT Journals
Draw a picture to complete the
sentence My favorite book
is…
Day 1
Demonstrate a Journal
Entry.
Write about one fun thing
you did during
Thanksgiving Break.
Day 2
Demonstrate a Journal
Entry.
Little Panda was about
Hua Mei and how she
changed. Write about
Hua Mei and things she
did as she grew.
Hua Mei was a panda.
She _____ and _____.
Day 3
Demonstrate a Journal
Entry.
How is a baby panda
different from its
mother? Write about it.
A baby panda can____.
A mama panda can ___.
Day 4
Demonstrate a Journal
Entry
We have found out how
Hua Mei grew and
changed. How have you
grown and changed?
Write about it.
Day 5
Demonstrate a Journal
Entry
Compare animal homes
thinking back to the
books we have read in
class.
Journal Suggestions
The Daily 5
Independent
Sheet – Van View
Cut and glue the pictures that
begin with Vv (van)
Back – Trace upper and
lowercase Vv and then write
the letters on the foundations
paper.
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