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111a
aquarium
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111b
Grade 4 Unit 4 Week 2 Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
Routine for Lesson VocabularyIntroduce People watch the fish swim in this aquarium exhibit. An aquarium is a building used for showing collections of live fish, water plants, and water animals. Lets say the word together: aquarium.
Demonstrate The aquarium show featured killer whales. Sharks are popular aquarium animals. Aquarium Adventures lets visitors swim with dolphins in a big tank.
Apply Why do you think people like to watch sea creatures in aquarium tanks?
Display Now I will write the word on the board. Lets read the word together: aquarium.
Pencil Talk An aquarium is also a tank or glass bowl
in which fish or other water animals and water plants are kept in water. Write a sentence telling what you would put in an aquarium at home. Use the word aquarium in your sentence.
Complete these sentence frames:
To clean her aquarium at home, Shelly had to __________.
A man in a wet suit swam in the largest tank at the aquarium, giving __________.
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112a
dolphins
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112b
Routine for Lesson VocabularyIntroduce These dolphins are leaping. Dolphins include any of the numerous sea mammals related to the whale, but smaller. Lets say the word together: dolphins.
Demonstrate Dolphins are very smart. Though they are as wild as whales, dolphins seem to enjoy being around humans. Though they live in water, dolphins are mammals and must breathe air.
Apply Tell how dolphins are like whales and how they are different.
Display Now I will write the word on the board. Lets read the word together: dolphins.
Team Talk Take turns with your partner telling facts
you know about dolphins. When you run out of facts, ask questions you have about dolphins. Talk about where you could find answers to these questions.
Look at the photograph on the front of this card. Begin a brief story about what you see. Take turns with your partner adding sentences to the story.
Aquarium shows often feature trained dolphins. Ask your partner what he or she expects to see a dolphin do at such a show.
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113a
enchanted
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113b
Routine for Lesson VocabularyIntroduce A fairy tale might take place in an enchanted forest. Enchanted is the past tense of enchant. Enchanted means charmed or delighted greatly. It also means put under a spell. Lets say the word together: enchanted.
Demonstrate Hansel and Gretel wandered in an enchanted forest. Enchanted visitors marveled at the beautiful estate. While the harp played, enchanted listeners made no sound.
Apply If you were enchanted by a painting, how did you feel?
Display Now I will write the word on the board. Lets read the word together: enchanted.
All Together Im going to describe some actions. If you
think an action shows people who feel enchanted, say Enchanted. If not, say Not enchanted.
At a concert, an audience listens in silence and then claps and cheers loudly at the end. A brother and sister do their usual evening chores of setting the table and filling the glasses. Young children watch a magician as if spellbound by his tricks.
Im going to read you a sentence. Enchanted passengers on this lovely ship dine on the finest food. What does enchanted mean?
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114a
flexible
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114b
Routine for Lesson VocabularyIntroduce The seal is showing how flexible it is. Flexible means easily bent; not stiff; bending without breaking. Lets say the word together: flexible.
Demonstrate A willow branch is flexible. Flexible people can touch their toes easily. The plumber used a flexible rod to clear a clog out of the bend in the pipe.
Apply Which is more flexible, a pencil or a rubber band? How do you know?
Display Now I will write the word on the board. Lets read the word together: flexible.
Action! Find two objects in the classroom, one
flexible and one not. Demonstrate each objects flexibility for your classmates. Let them announce which is flexible and which is not.
Think about how flexible each of the objects below is. Then show how much effort it takes for you to bend each one. If the object would break rather than bend, clap your hands after you bend it.
an uncooked spaghetti noodle a long stem of grass a large green branch a dried-up twig
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115a
glimpses
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115b
Routine for Lesson VocabularyIntroduce This man is taking glimpses from behind the door. Glimpses are short, quick views or looks. Lets say the word together: glimpses.
Demonstrate As you travel, take more than glimpses of the scenery. Bob caught glimpses of the papers Jen was hiding. Glimpses into the passing cars showed tired, stressed drivers.
Apply If you had glimpses of some pictures, would you remember details of them? Why or why not?
Display Now I will write the word on the board. Lets read the word together: glimpses.
All Together Im going to ask you some questions.
Answer yes or no.
If you are standing in front of a painting and looking directly at it, do you get glimpses of it? If you are at the back of the crowd watching a parade, do you get glimpses of the floats?
Im going to describe two situations. If you think you would take only glimpses, say Glimpses. If you think you would take long looks, say Long looks.
You find pictures of the kind of puppy you want to adopt. You go with your parents to a garden shop to look at plants, which you think are boring.
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116a
pulses
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116b
Routine for Lesson VocabularyIntroduce This graph shows pulses of sound in a visual form. Pulses are any regular, measured beats, such as the beating of the arteries caused by the rush of blood into them after the heart contracts. Lets say the word together: pulses.
Demonstrate Pulses of electricity allow a computer to work. Pulses of sound reach your eardrums and cause them to vibrate. Mark sent steady pulses of light with a flashlight as a signal.
Apply Are the pulses faster in a lullaby or a rock-and-roll song?
Display Now I will write the word on the board. Lets read the word together: pulses.
Action! Lets imagine we are at a rock concert.
The music pulses over us. Show how you dance to these pulses of sound. Use your hands and feet to keep to the beat.
Imagine you are a nurse counting a patients heartbeats. Tap your foot to show the speed of the pulses.
Imagine you are standing by a fish pond. Someone tosses a stone into the pond, and tiny waves pulse out from where it entered. Use your arms to show how these pulses of water move.
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117a
surface
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117b
Routine for Lesson VocabularyIntroduce The turtle comes to the waters surface to breathe. Surface means the top of the ground or soil, or of a body of water or other liquid. Surface can also mean the outside of anything. Lets say the word together: surface.
Demonstrate Light danced on the surface of the water. The surface of the gold bar glowed. Dragonflies flew over the surface of the pond, while fish swam beneath it.
Apply If you clean the surface of a car, what do you clean? What remains to be cleaned?
Display Now I will write the word on the board. Lets read the word together: surface.
Pencil Talk Look at the photograph on the front of this
card. Write a sentence describing what is happening. Use the word surface in your sentence.
Write surface at the top of a sheet of paper. Below the word, make two columns. In the first column, write synonyms for surface. In the second column, write words that can describe the surface of a body of water.
Write a sentence describing the surface of a baseball. Then write a second sentence describing what you think lies beneath the surface. Use the word surface in at least one sentence.
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