A Fox and a Kit

Big Question: What can we learn about animals by watching them?

Author: Leya Roberts Illustrator: Charles Santore Genre: Nonfiction

SMALL GROUP
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BIG QUESTION:
WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT ANIMALS BY WATCHING THEM?

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

A Fox and a Kit Day 1

Daily Fix-it
1. Fox napz on her lap 2. frog sitts there too.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 1

Morning Work
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Take out your journal. Write the date in the upper-right hand line. Write the 1. Daily Fix-It on your first line. Skip to the middle of the page. Write the 2. Daily Fix-It on this line. Skip a line between your copied sentence. Write your fixed sentence on this line. There is an example on the board!

Daily Fix-it
1. Fox napz on her lap Fox naps on her lap.

2. frog sitts there too. Frog sits there too.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 1

Morning Warm-up
Mother birds help their babies. They use their beaks to get food. Have you ever seen a nest of birds? What can we learn about animals by watching them?

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

Squirrel Song
Oh, I see a baby squirrel Its right there in plain view. Ill quietly observe it To learn what wild squirrels do. Now I see the babys parent

Sitting high up in the tree,

And as I watch the baby, Mama Squirrels observing me.

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

Amazing Words
observe When you observe something you watch it. parent A parent is a father or mother. wild If something is wild, people do not care for or control it.
Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

Inflected Ending -s
tops lids s = /s/ or /z/ The s makes these words mean more than one. I nod. She nods. We look. He looks.

wags sips hops ticks gets

The s does not mean more than one on these words.
Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 1

Words

-s

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

Word Reading Inflected Ending -s

hits pops comes gabs packs likes sits rock
Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

sees hops jabs looks wins bat helps

1. Reading WB page 33

2. Spelling WB page 13
4. Journal Write about wild animals you have watched or observed. 5. Centers

6. Read a book at your desk.

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

Things Animals Do

How This Helps Us Know About Them

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

Daily Journal Writing

List wild animals you have watched or observed.

Unit 1 A Fox and a Kit Day 1

A Fox and a Kit Day 2

Daily Fix-it
3. The cat her sitz with mom. 4. she fitts in a small bed.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 2

Daily Fix-it
3. The cat her sitz with mom. The cat sits with her mom. 4. she fitts in a small bed. She fits in a small bed.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 2

Morning Warm-up
Today we will read about baby animals and how they can go. Some ride on a back. Others ride in a sack. How did you go when you were small?

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 2

Amazing Words
solo
Solo means alone.

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit - Day 2

Inflected Ending -ing

digs hops I jump. I am jumping. jump ing I help. I am helping. help ing fill ing lock ing fix ing look ing wax ing lick ing rock ing pass ing tack ing pick ing

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 2

Words pack quack look pick

-s

-ing

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 2

Word Reading - Inflected Ending -ing

packing wax doing tacking waxing seeing locking quacking looking picking fill going fixing filling helping

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 2

1. Reading WB pages 34, 35, 36 2. 3. Spelling WB page 14 Journal Write about your favorite zoo animal.

4.
5.

Centers
Read a book at your desk.

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 2

Daily Journal Writing

Write about your favorite zoo animals.

Unit 1 A Fox and a Kit Day 2

A Fox and a Kit Day 3

 We know that zookeepers take care of animals that live in zoos. What do we know about how zoo animals take care of themselves? We are going to read about a real mother fox and her kit at the zoo. Well find out what we might see them doing if we visited them.
Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 3

Vocabulary
animals dinner watch

High-Frequency Words
her and eat she too up this we

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 3

1. Reading WB page 37 2. Spelling WB page 15 3. Journal - Write about a baby animal you have seen or heard about. 4. AR test 5. Centers 6. Read a book at your desk.
Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 3

Ways Animals Move

carried walk

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 3

Word Choice
This animal is on the things.
Her baby is on the things too.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 3

 The foxes eat stuff. The fox has nice fur.

The kit goes to his mom.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 3

Word Order
like I watch play cat my to.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 3

Daily Journal Writing

Write about a baby animal you have seen or heard about.

Unit 1 A Fox and a Kit Day 3

A Fox and a Kit Day 4

Daily Fix-it
7. the mix is a hitt. 8. This mix winz too

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 4

Daily Fix-it
7. the mix is a hitt. The mix is a hit.

8. This mix winz too This mix wins too.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 4

Morning Warm-up
Today we will read about a zoo in a park. What kind of animals live there? Does a man mix their dinner too? Do people watch the animals play? Lets read about this new zoo!

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit - Day 4

Amazing Words
medicine poisonous

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 4

Amazing Words
medicine a drug that helps you feel better or makes you well poisonous If something is poisonous, it can cause sickness or death.
Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit - Day 4

too her

eat this

The foxes will ____________ dinner. Mother fox licks ___________ lips. ___________ is the best place to watch foxes. I went to the zoo, and Mom did __________.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 4

Short o and -s Plurals

tot tots pods

The ending -s stands for the sound /s/ or /z/.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 4

Word Reading
get sack Nick big can Bob me what help will box do Max for use lids locks here is Dot

Read Words in Context

What can Max do for me? Nick will help Bob get here. Use locks on the box lids. Dot is packing a big sack.

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 4

1. Reading WB page 38, 39 2. Spelling WB page 16 3. Journal Write something you know about foxes. 4. Take your AR test. 5. Centers 6. Read a book at your desk.
Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 4

1. The fox has a kit.

A fox the has kit.

2. A rock sits on the frog.

A frog sits on the rock.

3. Licks the mix the kit.

The kit licks the mix.
Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 4

Daily Journal Writing

Write one thing you know about foxes.

Unit 1 A Fox and a Kit Day 4

A Fox and a Kit Day 5

Daily Fix-it
9. The Fox sitts on a rock 10. my dog napps with Pop.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 5

Daily Fix-it
9. The Fox sitts on a rock The fox sits on a rock. 10. my dog napps with Pop. My dog naps with Pop.

Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 5

Morning Warm-up
This week we read about many wild animals. What can we learn as we observe animals?

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 5

 Mom pins and tacks the tag on the map.

Dad is fixing and waxing the van. Pam sits and rips the rag. Nick is kicking and passing it.

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 5

eat

her

too

this

Mama monkey gave ________ baby

A banana at the zoo.

Eat _________ fruit, said Mama,

And I will _______ it ________ !
Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 5

1. Handwriting sheet to be graded 2. Journal Choose an animal. Write about how it moves. 3. Take your AR test if you have read your book twice. 4. Centers

5. Read a book at your desk.

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 5

Daily Journal Writing

Choose an animal. Write about how it moves.

Unit 1 A Fox and a Kit Day 5