Week 7

Speech Sound Lesson

R Sound

Creative Uncle Creed

People I know say my Uncle Creed is crazy. He lives across from the beach. Every day he goes to the beach and finds crabs. Then he takes them home and puts them in a crib.

Not a box, not a cage, a crib.

Then he takes crayons and colors the tops of their shells.

"When the crabs move around they create what I call 'moving art'," he says. Some call it crazy, I call it creative.

He also collects scarecrows, broken pieces of concrete, crumbs, and fake crystals. He keeps them all in crates in his front yard, but I don't know where he gets them all from. People call him a packrat, but they shouldn't criticize. We all collect "stuff."

He has done some pretty incredible things. He has given a crow a bath in a creek, fed a cricket cream cheese, and crawled on cranberries to make his own cranberry sauce.

He is amazing at crossword puzzle. It has never taken him more than two minutes to finish any crossword.

He is building his own spacecraft too - not to go to space, just to learn how to build one.

People call me crazy, but I want to be like my Uncle Creed some day.

L Sound

Jungle Safety

April the elephant lived in Brazil. Her friends Lucy the Lizard and Lexie the Owl liked to be lazy. They would play on the log in the lake, take extra long lunches, and dig holes.

Then they met Albert the Whale, near a pool of water, by the ocean. Albert told them that it is okay to laugh, be silly, and lazy sometimes, but it was dangerous to do in the jungle.

Albert told them eleven ways that would help them be safer. April, Lucy, and Lexie listened and learned how to be more safe.

After Albert finished talking, the three friends yelled, "Thank you," to him as he swam away.

TH Sound

Exploding Cake

Thad liked to prank and scare people. He played the most jokes on people when he was in the fifth grade. He put thumbtacks on chairs, thickener in drinks, and told the class that their pet python had escaped. His favorite pranks were to turn the thermostat down really cold to try and freeze students out and to replace student's soda with mouthwash.

A few days ago, Thea brought in a cake to celebrate her birthday. Somehow, Thad got a balloon inside of it so when the teacher tried to cut the cake, it exploded all over everyone.

Thad had a lot of fun thinking of new ways to prank his classmates. His teacher, Ms. South, didn't think it was healthy. She knew Thad was a very thoughtful writer. He was also very smart in math. She thought his writing was so good that he could become an author someday.

Overall, Thad's grades were in the top three percent of his class. Ms. South didn't want Thad's talent and thoughtfulness go to waste. She thought about what methods she could use to help him focus in class and not cause so much trouble. Thad wanted to be in theater after he graduated high school. Ms. South told Thad that he could be in theater after he graduated.

"You're so smart! I think a thousand theaters would want you to work for them, but you have to stop the pranks," she said. Thad started to rethink his actions and what that would mean for him in the future. He apologized to the class and Ms. South, and said he would not prank anyone anymore.

Expressive & Receptive Language Lesson

Click on the following link below that will take you to a website called K-12 reader. Read the paragraph called "Dolphins". Then answer the following questions below: (email me responses to manuellal@norwalktruckers.net using complete sentences.)

https://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/find-the-main-idea-dolphins/view/

1. What is the main idea of the paragraph (what is the paragraph mostly about)?

2. Recall and List 3 details/facts that were discussed in the paragraph about dolphins?

3. What are dolphins? (What type of thing are dolphins, what do they do, what do they look like?)

4. How are mammals different than birds and reptiles?

5. Choose 2 mammals and then compare and contrast them by explaining similarities and differences between the two mammals.

Thursday May 7th, 2020

Expressive and Receptive Language Lesson

Then, click on the following link below from K12 Reader. This link will take you to a worksheet to complete regarding reading a paragraph, making inferences/predictions on what would happen next, and then being able to say/write what comes next in a sequence of events. To expand for more practice, after you read and decide what will happen next, see if you can recall and explain to someone at home the events that happened first, next, last, etc. Email me responses at manuellal@norwalktruckers.net.

https://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/what-happens-next/view/

Social Language Lesson