Chester Cricket

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Chester Crickets Pigeon RideBackground
Knowledge Vocabulary
Story Introduction

• sensation feelers turbulent
• miniature hindrance swooping
• gust panic precious excerpt

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Excerpt

• There is an excerpt from the story Chester
  Crickets Pigeon Ride in your anthology.
• An excerpt is a section taken from a longer work.
• Good news - excerpts give you the idea of a story
  in fewer pages.
• Bad news - it leaves out important information.

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Some Cricket Facts

• Predators
• Spiders, some wasps, ground beetles, birds, small
  rodents and lizards are cricket predators.
• Interesting Behaviors
• To attract mates, males produce a sound made by
  rubbing their forewings against each other. The
  resulting chirping sound is picked up by the
  female's ears on her front legs. The chirp sounds
  are different for each species so that
  individuals can find their own species.

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feelers
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The Old Meadow

• Think about something you really miss (dont tell
  anyone what it is).
• We often get sad when we think of things we miss.
• Chester Cricket gets very sad in the story
  Chester Crickets Pigeon Ride.

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New York City

• Chester lives in Times Square?
• He really, really missed the Old Meadow where he
  grew up, especially seeing stars at night.

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Remedy for Homesickness

• Chester Cricket goes in search when he meets a
  pigeon name LuLu.
• Lulu helps Chester to feel less homesick.
• What do you predict she does?

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I do, we do, you do

• Vocabulary

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gust

• a sudden, violent rush of wind

What is the strongest wind gust ever recorded?
Mount Washington, N.H., holds the record for the
highest wind gust ever recorded at 231 mph on
April 12, 1934.
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precious

• highly valued or much loved
• (from Latin pretiosus "costly, valuable)

What is precious to you?
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panic

• a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety

Panic shuts down peoples thinking. Sometimes
this is helpful? How can it be dangerous?
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Defining Moments

• Use dry erase sheets to write your own
  definitions for the following words.

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clinging
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clinging

• Hanging on to something

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swooping
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swooping

• Coming down with a rush

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min ee uh cher
miniature
from Italian miniatura, in which the i is
meant to be pronounced
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miniature
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miniature

• A smaller than usual version of something

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turbulent
tur bu lent
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turbulent
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turbulent

• full of violent motion and agitation

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sensation

• sen sa shun

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sensation

• The patient has very little sensation left in the
  right leg.
• The music created the sensation of flying.
• The chili gave him a burning sensation in his
  thorat.

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sensation

• a vague feeling or perception caused the sense
  organs

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hindrance
hin drance
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hindrance

• The lack of imagination is a hindrance to good
  creative writing.
• Poverty should not be a hindrance to a good
  education.
• The cliff was a hindrance in his journey to the
  top of the mountain.

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hindrance

• something that prevents or makes it difficult