VoyagesAn Ocean Trip

A Journey to a Distant Place

Monday

Where do you think this boat is from & where is it going? Why?

What do you think this boat is doing?

You can makes voyages, or journeys, on land too.

Do you think climbing this mountain would be an easy journey? Why?

What kind of voyage to do think these people went on?

Voyages can be "out of this world "adventures!

Do you think crossing this desert would be a fun voyage?

What kind of voyage would you like to go on? PB pg. 83

You are making inferences about these voyages.

What is inferencing?It is when you make your own ideas or conclusions from clues in the story or the pictures (illustrations)

Pedro’s JournalA Voyage with Christopher Columbus

August 3, 1492-February 14, 1493

I am going to read aloud part of a story, written in a diary form, about what one boy might have experienced during a voyage with Christopher Columbus.

Comprehension Skill: Making Inferences

Why are the men on the ship angry?

Why has Columbus bolted

his door shut?

It’s time for . . .

These are words. . .

We use them for . . .

Vocabulary

we want to know

Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

•anchor: a heavy metal hook attached to a ship and dropped to hold the ship in place.

•cramped: crowded; not enough room to move

• journey: a trip from place to another

•seeping: slowly leaking; oozing

•settlement: a small community in a new place

•survive: to stay alive; to hold up or withstand

•weary: tired; needing rest

Across the Wide Dark Sea

• We will be reading a story about a boy who travels on the Mayflower.

• Watch: “Who’s that Stepping on Plymouth Rock?”

Reading Book pg. 154 & 155

Making Inferences

• Author’s don’t always explain everything in a story.

• Active readers use story clues and their knowledge to make reasonable guess, or inferences.

Read Across the Wide Dark Sea

PB pg. 86

Suffixes –less and -ness

How could a ship so small and helpless ever cross the vast ocean?What does helpless mean?

Yet the storms and sickness went on.What does sickness mean?

You are Great Readers!!!

Across the Wide Dark Sea

Reading Book pg. 154 & 155Tuesday

It’s time for . . .

These are words. . .

We use them for . . .

Vocabulary

we want to know

Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

•anchor: a heavy metal hook attached to a ship and dropped to hold the ship in place.

•cramped: crowded; not enough room to move

Suffixes –less and -ness

Suffixes are word parts that are added to a base word.

You are going to get a card with –less on one side and –ness on the other side. I am going to flash up a word you hold up which suffix could be added to it to make a new word.

hope

help

end

sick

fearful

hopeful

Phonics Review

/oo/ sound and /ew/tooth, cook, and afternoon

tooth

chew

grew

cook

shoe

blue

boot

flew

shook

balloon

drew

spoon

You are Great Readers!!!

Across the Wide Dark Sea

Reading Book pg. 154 & 155Wednesday

It’s time for . . .

These are words. . .

We use them for . . .

Vocabulary

we want to know

Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

•seeping: slowly leaking; oozing

•journey: a trip from place to another

You are making inferences about these voyages.

What is inferencing?It is when you make your own ideas or conclusions from clues in the story or the pictures (illustrations)

Making Inferences

• Read pg. 173• Why does the Indian come alone?

• Why does the Indian bring his chief to meet with the Pilgram leaders?

• Why do the Pilgrams want to learn from the Indian?

Suffixes –less and -ness

Syllables

You are Great Readers!!!

Across the Wide Dark Sea

Reading Book pg. 154 & 155

It’s time for . . .

These are words. . .

We use them for . . .

Vocabulary

we want to know

Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

•settlement: a small community in a new place

•survive: to stay alive; to hold up or withstand

•weary: tired; needing rest

Pronouns

It’s Time for Jeopardy!!!