THIS WEEKSTUDENTS WILL LEARN Comprehension Skill GeneralizeComprehension Strategy Prior KnowledgeVocabulary Strategy Context Clues

Our Story for this week is Rocks in His Head

by Carol Otis Hurst,

illustrated by James Stevenson

Guided Reading Groups

BiographyA biography. It tells the story of a real person written by someone else. I’m going to write about my

dad and how he taught me to ride my bike.

When is it valuable to have unique interests?

Content Vocabulary

• forged heated metal until it is very soft and then hammered it into shape

• mentor someone who gives advice and shows you how to do or be something

• ornamental used as decoration

Vocabulary

attic Attic the space

in a house just below the roof and above the other room

boardBoard a group of people managing something.

chores Chores small tasks or easy jobs that you have to do regularly.

labeledLabeled put or wrote a label on something.

spare Spare means extra.

stamps Stamps are

small pieces of paper with glue on the back for mailing letters and packages.

Skills

When the prefixes pre-,

mid-, over-, and out- are added to words,

the base word stays the same:

prepaid, midnight, overflow, outdoors.

Generalize• When you read, you can sometimes

make a general statement about whatyou have read.

• A general statement tells how somethings are mostly alike or all alike.

• Look for examples. Ask what they havein common.

Use some of the vocabulary words with the poster.

United Streaming Links

Three Rocks   (11:00)

This video looks at three stones - a piece of igneous, a piece of sedimentary, and a piece of metamorphic rock - and investigates how they formed, and how they relate to one another through the rock cycle.

To celebrate the founding of Walkerville, Ms. Frizzle’s class sculpts a stone likeness of its founding father, Captain Walker. As they add the finishing touches, the statue tumbles down the mountain. Ms. Frizzle turns the Bus into a huge boulder and the kids into rocks while bumping down the mountain in a desperate attempt to save the statue.

 The Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls (26:12)

 Uses of Rocks and Minerals (18:00)

The rocks and minerals that form within the Earth are used to make many important materials. Witness how rocks are mined, processed, and then constructed into glass,

cement, bricks, houses, roads, and other objects used in our everyday lives.