Schuster

Elementary

3rd Grade A Focus Calendar Week 7

Teachers: Mrs. Snchez and Mrs. Collins

Main Story:

TEKS:

Stone Soup

3.5A paraphrase the themes and

supporting details of fables, legends,
myths, or stories S

C.P.Q What is a fable?

3.5B compare and contrast the settings

in myths and traditional folktales.

C.P.Q. How can I compare and contrast the settings of folktales?

Genre: Folk
Tale

Period: October 6-10,

2014

Focus Poem:
Lucky Pebble

Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast

Sight Words
been, clean
real, teach,
please, sleep

Vocabulary

Narrative

Do you want to know why

This pebble is lucky?
I found it while camping
For hours away.
And before we drove home
I carefully placed it
Right on the bumper.
I hoped it would stay.

C.P.Q What is a folktale?. What is a theme and supporting details?

guests
DEF. Someone who is
Invited.
.

banquet
DEF. Large meal or feast

Third Person they,

them, she, her, he, him

And it did.
Through a rainstorm and traffic,
Through many a mile,
My pebble stayed put.
When I hold it I smile
For it makes me remember
When we traveled so far
And my pebble rode
All the way home on our car.

How can I the narrator is

first or third person?
First person I, me, we,
us

agreeable
DEF.Something enjoyable

gaze

To look steadily

curiosity
Desire to know or learn
something.

untrusting
Not trusting

Synonyms;
Different word same meaning
auto - car
gift - present
large big
rug carpet
speak - talk

Phonics
Spelling Words
Long E Sound
heel
week
creek
free
green
street
freeze

seal
sea
weak
bean
speaks
team
clean
cream
field