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
Timer

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

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

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 1

-s

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

-s

pack
quack
look
pick

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 2

-ing

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.

Spelling WB page 14

3.

Journal Write about your favorite zoo animal.

4.

Centers

5.

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

Unit 1 A Fox and A Kit Day 3

too
up
this
we

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

The ending -s
stands for the
sound /s/ or /z/.
Unit 1 Fox and Kit - Day 4

pods

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