Little Grunt and the Big Egg

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Little Grunt and the Big Egg

• Pages 227-244

runt Family
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MondayDinosaur Dreams Listening Comprehension

• How do you know Jan really likes dinosaurs?
• How does the author make counting dinosaurs
  funny?
• According to Jan, what is wrong with counting
  dinosaurs as a way to go to sleep?
• Why is Jan able to fall asleep counting sheep?

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Build Background
Why People Keep Animals
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Develop Concepts

• What are some reasons a person might have to find
  another home for a pet?
• How does having a pet affect the members of a
  family?
• What kind of care does a pet require?

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Monday

• Vocabulary Words and Definitions
• Omelet Eggs that have been beaten and cooked,
  sometimes with other foods.
• Brunch a meal that combines breakfast and
  lunch.
• Peaceful calm and quiet.
• Escape to get free or get away from danger.
• Erupting to break out with force as lava does
  from a volcano.
• Lava hot melted rock that pours out of the
  mouth of a volcano when it erupts.

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Monday Spelling Words

• joyful soil joint everybody
• destroy royal voice everything
• employ spoil boiled except
• noise choice loyal exciting
• moist pointy annoy
• favorite

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Monday Spelling workbook page 36

• 1. voice 8. annoy 12. choice
• 2. royal 9. spoil 13. joint
• 3. noise 10. pointy 14. soil
• 4. employ 11. loyal 15. boiled
• 5. moist
• 6. destroy
• 7. joyful

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Monday Word Relationships page 254

• Multiple-Meaning Words
• Homophones Homographs Other
• Past, passed live having life right
• See, sea live to make ones home
  direction
• One, won tear a drop that comes
  or
• By, buy from the eye when crying
  correct
• tear to rip run
• go faster
• or
• tear in
• material

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Monday Grammar Worksheet page 43

• 1. goose P
• 2. mice P
• 3. teeth P
• 4. moose S
• 5. men P
• 6. women 11. geese
• 7. deer 12. children
• 8. sheep 13. feet
• 9. trout 14. teeth
• 10. men 15. mice

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Tuesday Fantasy Genre

• A FANTASY is a story or daydream that is very
  different from reality.
• In this story look for
• - events that could not really happen
• - characters that may or may not be realistic

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Tuesday Set Purpose

• One purpose for reading is to be entertained.
• Look at the beginning and pictures. What do you
  know or what to know?
• You need to set your own purpose for reading.

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Tuesday Restating Think and Respond page 244

• Little Grunts family members feel . . .
• I can tell that this story really couldnt happen
  . . .
• Little Grunt says hed better call George
  Georgina because . . .
• I think the Grunts lives will be peaceful from
  now on because . . .
• I used . . . . . . Reading strategy, which helped
  me by . . . . .

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Tuesday Vocabulary worksheet page 41

• 1. erupting
• 2. brunch
• 3. escape
• 4. omelet
• 5. peaceful
• 6. lava

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TuesdaySpelling worksheet page 37

• Voice voyce voice
• Soyl soil soil
• Annoi annoy annoy
• Noise noyse noise
• Roial royal royal
• Employ emploi employ
• Pointy poynty pointy
• Boyled boiled boiled
• Continued on next page

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TuesdaySpelling worksheet page 37

• 9. choice
• 10. moist
• 11. joint
• 12. loyal
• 13. joyful
• 14. spoil

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Wednesday Reality Fantasy Chart (T.P.245)

• Things that could Things that couldnt
• happen in real life happen in real life

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Wednesday Possible Answers Reality Fantasy
Chart (T.P.245)

• Things that could Things that couldnt
• happen in real life happen in real life
• People living in a people and dinosaurs living
  at
• Cave near a volcano the same time
• Young boy finds an egg the egg he finds is a
  dinosaur egg
• Young boy has a pet young boy has a pet
  dinosaur
• A volcano erupts, a dinosaur comes to the
  rescue
• Endangering the family

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Wednesday - VocabularyUse each in a sentence

• Vocabulary Words and Definitions
• Omelet Eggs that have been beaten and cooked,
  sometimes with other foods.
• Brunch a meal that combines breakfast and
  lunch.
• Peaceful calm and quiet.
• Escape to get free or get away from danger.
• Erupting to break out with force as lava does
  from a volcano.
• Lava hot melted rock that pours out of the
  mouth of a volcano when it erupts.

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WednesdaySpelling Worksheet page 38

• 1. pointy 7. destroy
• 2. joint 8. voice
• 3. choice 9. noise
• 4. moist 10. employ
• 5. annoy 11. royal
• 6. boiled 12. joint
• 13. choice

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Wednesday - Prove It!

• Read the passage
• Look it up in the story
• Write the page number where you found it
• Write T for TRUE statement OR
• Write F for FALSE statement
• If it is a FALSE statement - -
• Rewrite the statement to make it a TRUE
  statement on the lines provided.

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Wednesday Prove It! continued

• T/F Page Make a FALSE statement TRUE
• F 228 1. Once upon a time, in a big cave, past
  the volcano on the left, lived the Grunt
  Tribe.
• F 229 2. At that time of year, eggs were hard
  to find. Little Grunt looked and looked. No
  luck.
• F 231 3. The egg broke in half, and instead of
  the big egg sitting by the fire there was a
  baby dinosaur.
• T 238 4.
• F 238 5. The next morning, Little Grunt took
  George away from the cave, out to where he had
  found him in the first place.
• T 242 6.

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WednesdayWriting Create Draft

• 1. Draft the beginning
• Write a first sentence that introduces the topic
  of your essay.
• Then list the materials that are needed.
• 2. Explain the steps
• Use time-order words such as first, then, next,
  and after that to show sequence.
• Tell about the steps in the order they should be
  done.
• 3. Provide Details
• Add information that will help a reader do each
  step properly and safely.

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Thursday Retell Prompt

• When and where does the story take place?
• Who are Little Grunt and George?
• What problems do they face?
• How does the story end?

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ThursdayMaking connections page 252

• Little Grunt and George work together by . .
• The cave seems smaller as George begins to grown
  because . . .
• The dinosaur Sue is different from George because
  . . .
• I like the story (more / less) than other fantasy
  stories I have read because . . .
• The most recent dinosaur discovery I have heard
  or read about is . . .
• I would look to find out about the latest
  dinosaur research . . . . . . .

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ThursdayWorkbook page 42

• A
• B
• B

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ThursdayDecoding Phonics (T.P. 255A)

• beyond
• seriously
• recite
• depend
• generation
• A closed syllable ends with a consonant and
  usually has a short vowel sound (cut ing)
• An open syllable ends with a vowel and usually
  has a long vowel sound.

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Thursday - Vocabulary

• Vocabulary Words and Definitions
• Omelet Eggs that have been beaten and cooked,
  sometimes with other foods.
• Brunch a meal that combines breakfast and
  lunch.
• Peaceful calm and quiet.
• Escape to get free or get away from danger.
• Erupting to break out with force as lava does
  from a volcano.
• Lava hot melted rock that pours out of the
  mouth of a volcano when it erupts.

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ThursdayGrammar Page 104

• 1. men
• 2. women
• 3. moose
• 4. geese
• 5. foot
• Singular Plural
• 6. man men
• 7. woman women
• 8. moose moose
• 9. goose geese
• 10. foot feet

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ThursdayCause Effect

• The effect is what happened.
• The cause is why it happened.
• Match the cause to the effect by putting the
  correct letter in the blank
• 1. C
• 2. E
• 3. D
• 4. A
• 5. B

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ThursdayWriting - Revise

• Discuss your essay with your partner.
• Do you clearly state the topic and list all
  material needed?
• Are all the steps in the process included?
• Are your steps presented in time order?
• Revise your essay Be sure to
• - Spell plural nouns correctly
• Check for capitalization
• Check for punctuation

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Friday
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FridayGrammar Page 105

• 1. letter C Tuesday P Tuesday
• 2. alaska P Alaska
• 3. uncle C nome P Nome
• 4. bill P cousinC picture C Bill
• 5. Statue C balto P Balto
• 6. men 11. babies
• 7. children 12. doctors
• 8. cities 13. buildings
• 9. horses 14. deer
• 10. teeth 15. couches

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FridayLeveled Readers
Dont run scared . . Leveled groups are FUN!