Night Letters
Unit 3 week 3
By Palmyra LoMonaco
Illustrated by Normand Chartier
Our
Story
for the
week.
Our Guided Reading Books
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/insect/firefly.htm
http://www.backyardnature.net/lightbug.htm
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/manduca2.htm#manduca1.gif
Night-Flying Hawkmoths
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/n
ectar_guide.html
Nectar
a sweet liquid that is secreted by the
nectaries of a plant and is the chief
raw material of honey
http://www.electrokits.com/References/Morse-Moris-Code
Morse Code, Moris Code and Phonetic Alphabet
Topics: References
Morse code (sometimes misspelled as "Moris Code") is a technique for
communicating and transmitting alphabetic and numbeic characters through
a series of "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs".
Letter Phonetic Morse Code
A
B
C
D
E
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
.-...
-.-.
-..
.
Morse Code
Sound
dit dah
dah dit dit dit
dah dit dah dit
dah dit dit
dit
Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction has
settings that can seem
real, but the stories
are made up.
Draw Conclusion
* A conclusion is a decision you reach
after thinking about facts and
details you read
* You can also use what you already know
to help draw a conclusion.
* Then ask yourself, “Does my conclusion
make sense?”
Subject-Verb Agreement
Action
Verbs
Linking Verbs
Being Verbs
Be form
Love of the Game
Subject Agreement Song
Sung to the tune of Bingo
first stanza repeated
By Frank and Kathy
When a Singular Subject needs an
Action Verb this is what he does oh,
he plays with a baseball,
he walks to the mall,
he makes a phone call,
and “S” is what helped him.
Singular Subjects
add “S” to
Action Verbs
(think s, s, +s )
When a Singular Subject needs a Being Verb
this is what he promised,
I am in love with you,
my love is very true,
I was telling the truth,
and this is what he promised.
Singular Subjects go
with Be form Verbs
am, is, was
When there’s a Plural Subject who needs
an Action Verb this is what they do oh,
they play with a baseball,
they walk to the mall,
they make a phone call,
and Action verb stayed the same oh.
Plural Subjects or
I, you, we, or they
just let the verb stay
There were Plural Subjects
who growled to Being Verbs,
and this is what they grumbled,
Don’t, want, am, is, was,
just, want, are and were,
Plural Subjects
go with Being
Verbs are , were
Are,
Were
Vocabulary
blade
a leaf of
grass
Noah had a blade of grass in his hair—leaf.
budding
Putting forth small
swellings on a plant
that will grow into
leaves, branches, or
flowers
The leaves were budding. They were
beginning to grow.
dew
The moisture from
the air that collects
in small drops on cool
surfaces during the
night.
The flowers had some dew on them-drops of water.
fireflies
Small insects that
give off flashes of
light when they fly
Another name for fireflies is lightning bugs.
flutter
to flap
the wings
I saw a lightning bug flutter its wings-flap.
notepad
A small book of blank or
lined sheets of paper in
which you write notes
or things that you need
to learn or remember.
I have a notepad in which I write.
patch
A small piece of
ground that is
different from
what surrounds it.
I walked past a potato patch yesterday- a
piece of ground.
nectar
sweet sap, or
liquid, produced
by a flower
I saw a butterfly sip the nectar from inside
the flower- sweet sap.
scratchy
rough, making
scratches on
your skin.
After touching poison ivy, I had a red,
scratchy arm- rough places on my skin.
Can you use
your vocabulary
words along with
this poster?
Spelling of /j/, /s/, /k/
* The soft sound of g/j, or dge.
* The sound /s/ can be spelled s or c.
*The sound /k/ can be spelled
c, k, ck, or ch.