Megan did a couple of word ladders today. One with words sit, hit, hat, had, hand, sand and stand and another one with the words hair , hail, fail , fall, ball, bald.
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On page 35, Megan is introduced to some word families used in Zack the Dog Part 4. The families were "oss", "ill", "ack", "im, and "ept" She had to circle the repeating part. On page 35, new words were introduced, cold, told, old, sleep , keep, your, says. Megan had to write and spell these words. On page 36, Megan had to read some sentences and draw a line between the sentences and the picture that describes the sentences, Such as "Is this your dog?" or "Nan told her pal to call her back". Then, Megan and I read Zack the Dog , Part 4 and answered questions regarding it on page 40, with a happy face for yes, sad face for no and a straight face for can't tell. Then, she had to write a sentence answering "Why Red did not run off. She wrote "Red did not run off because he could not leave Zack.
We discussed the definition of canal and basement. Megan understood basement well. I was surprised. I asked her if we have a basement. I am not sure she has ever saw a basement.
Sheiks given the picture and is asked to spell the word. I noticed she was looking back for one of them and said to do your best, but do not look.
France:
Puss n' boot
Megan and I read these three stories, discussing cunning, clever , wit and what exactly is a fairytale. She had no idea about what a fairytale, but knew some about what it is to be cunning and clever. In Puss n' boot,
Puss n' boot
Megan and I read these three stories, discussing cunning, clever , wit and what exactly is a fairytale. She had no idea about what a fairytale, but knew some about what it is to be cunning and clever. In Puss n' boot,
a guy is left a cat for his inheritance but this is no ordinary cat. First he can talk and understand people. Second, he is very cunning and clever. He first caught lots of animals that can be eaten for food and gave them to the King of the land saying these are from the Lordship Marquis De Carabas. He does this for a while to get the King to really know this Lord and to like him. Then, he has the boy pretend drowning in the river and then hides his clothes. He does this knowing the King is going to come by at any moment. When he does, he tells the King the Lordship Marquis of Carabas is drowning and that someone stole his clothes. The King has his men get him out and has his best tailors get him a really nice suit. Then, the cat goes ahead to all the lands and tells the people if they do not say this land is owned by the Lordship Marquis of Carabas, they will all be turned into sausagemeat. Afraid of this, the people listened. The cat goes to the castle of a big ogre who owns the castle and all the land and tricks him. He is able to change forms and so he first turns into a Lion and the cat is frightened. But, he then tells the ogre, after he changes back, that he can not change into something really tiny, say a rat or a mouse. He proves it to him that he can and when he does, he is eaten. When the king sees how much land this Lordship owns and his castle at the end, he tells the Lordship Marquis of Carabas, he can marry his daughter if he wishes. And so he marries her.
Br'er Rabbit gets Br'er Fox's food - Southern states of America
In Br'er Rabbit, the Rabbit wants Br'er fox's food, but is not sure how to get it. He sees him hammering nails into his roof and so he goes up and pretends he is truly helping him and hammers like crazy. It sounds like he is avoiding the fox's tail, but in the end, he nails it down. Then, he starts acting like he feels bad about it as he climbs down the ladder and goes to eat his food.
West African tales
In Anansi, this is a tricky , clever , cunning spider needs to capture three things in order to please the sun god and get ownership of all the stories. He tricks the hornets, the python and the leopard and , as a result, gets the right to owner ship of all stories. After this, Megan wrote up a sheet with a description of the spider and two things he does. She drew a picture of the spider. At the top, She writes the character and the Title of the story. Then, she is going to hide the top with construction paper and one has to guess what story she is taking about with her clues.
Br'er Rabbit gets Br'er Fox's food - Southern states of America
In Br'er Rabbit, the Rabbit wants Br'er fox's food, but is not sure how to get it. He sees him hammering nails into his roof and so he goes up and pretends he is truly helping him and hammers like crazy. It sounds like he is avoiding the fox's tail, but in the end, he nails it down. Then, he starts acting like he feels bad about it as he climbs down the ladder and goes to eat his food.
West African tales
In Anansi, this is a tricky , clever , cunning spider needs to capture three things in order to please the sun god and get ownership of all the stories. He tricks the hornets, the python and the leopard and , as a result, gets the right to owner ship of all stories. After this, Megan wrote up a sheet with a description of the spider and two things he does. She drew a picture of the spider. At the top, She writes the character and the Title of the story. Then, she is going to hide the top with construction paper and one has to guess what story she is taking about with her clues.
We read and Megan colored and placed important events into a pocket as we went.
jam , to ham to sad to sat. He had ____ and eggs for Breakfast, A boy's name, Not happy, She _____ on a chair.
Wag the Tail - Page 12
wag, a bag (a sack- change the first letter), tag, A game to play at recess (Change the first letter), To keep asking someone to do something - nag (change the first letter), To sleep for a short time - nap.
Starting with Pan, the next clue is a metal food container , can, this blows air to cool you down , fan, a boy grows up to be a ___, man.
This is a new idea I am trying. You start at the bottom of a ladder with a given word and using the clues they give you, change the letter you are told to into a new word. For instance, starting with cat, change the word in the next higher part of the latter to "The puppy ____ on my lap", the answer being Sat (change the first letter obviously. Doing this with the clues, she got cat, sat, mat, bat. Now this may seem easy to Megan, but I started her with the simpler ones so that she can get the idea of it.
We are reading this book by Laura Ingalls Wilder. While we read it, we discuss the important vocabulary and discuss what they are doing. Thinks discussed we're the churning of butter,what is buthering and the parts of the pig, venison and how they smoked it to make it last, bears, panthers, minx,muskrats. When reading this , one gains a sense of the life of a pioneer.
As we read this, we mop,eye a pocket of time, shown below. Basically the chapters are there and there are event cards, and as Megan hears the event, she puts the card into the pocket. I think it helps with retention.
