This document contains a lesson plan for day 2 of lesson 3. It includes a question of the day, a read aloud poem about a child's first day of school, vocabulary and reading exercises about long vowel sounds and subjects/predicates in sentences, and information about writing an informative paragraph. The lesson incorporates reading, writing, and language arts skills.

1. Lesson 3 Day 2

2. Question of the Day?
 What surprised you about school?
 What surprised me most about school
was ________.
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3. Today’s Read Aloud: First Day
of School
What is the purpose for listening or
reading a poem?
-For fun, or to understand someone else’s
feelings.

4. Today’s Read Aloud: First Day
of School
When I left home that morning
I thought the day would never end.
I didn’t know that later on
I’d Meet a new best friend.
You came up and told me, “Hi there!
Who are you? What’s your name?”
And from that moment on
Things just weren’t the same.
You were a litter older-
I was seven, and you were eight.
I had been scared to go to school
But you made it just great.
So now I’m Saying thanks
For what you did long ago.
You’re still my closest friend,
The best I’ll ever know.

5. Today’s Read Aloud: First Day
of School
 What happened to the writer on the
first day of school?
 How does the writer feel about the
other person in the poem.
 What pairs of rhyming words can you
find in the poem?
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6. Long Vowel Digraphs
Words with ee and ea
peg lean deep
The e in peg stands alone between two consonants and
that it is a short vowel. Lean and Deep have the
vowel pairs ea and ee, which usually stand for /e/. I
want you to repeat these words after me. Remember
when a pair of vowels sits between two consonants,
the first vowel usually has the long vowel sound.

7. Long Vowel Digraphs
peg lean deep
speed bed team
set teeth seal
tell leaf green
three dream then
mean tent sweet

8. Long Vowel Digraphs
I want you to write these sentences in your notebook. I
want you to circle the words with the long /e/ sound
and underline words with the short /e/ sound.
I had a dream about three men in a tree.
Do you feel clean when you get out the bathtub?
A hen does not drink tea, but it will eat a seed now and
then.

9. Long Vowel Digraphs
I had a dream about three men in a tree.
Do you feel clean when you get out the
bathtub?
A hen does not drink tea, but it will eat a
seed now and then.

10. Vocabulary
 Turn to page 86 and 87!
Look for these words in “Schoolyard
Treats” and how they are used within
each sentence.
chores, certain, resources, culture,
tutor, and uniforms

12. Vocabulary
“Schoolyard Treats”
You may think that a market is the best place to get
your food. Some children have other ideas. The
grown their own food while at school!
At the Edible Schoolyard in California, the children
have outdoor chores to do. Every morning they
choose a certain job, such as weeding or planting.
They work in the garden for about an hour and a
half. After the class, they talk about their day’s work.

13. Vocabulary
“Schoolyard Treats”
In Miami, Florida, a few elementary schools are part of the
Plant 1000 Gardens Project. The schools’ culture supports a love
of nature. Ion the gardens, the children plant tomatoes and
other vegetables. A volunteer tutor from a nearby farm helps
them. After they pick the crops, the children cook and eat the
tasty foods they grew.
These projects make learning exciting. When the children grow
up, some of them may have their own gardens or work as
chefs.
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14. “Schools Around the World”

15. “Schools Around the World”
 Genre: Expository Nonfiction
Turn to page 90-91! Let’s read!
What clues does the writer give to tell that you
will be reading about some of the differences
between schools around the world?
How are all schools the same?

16. Practice book pg. 21

17. DOL
3. sonia found a dogs.
4. The dog are brown?
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S dog
is
.

18. Complete and Simple Subjects
and Predicates
 The complete subject of a sentence is
all the words that tell who or what the
sentence is about.
Oscar’s yellow ball flew over the fence.
Oscar’s yellow ball is the complete
subject.

19. Complete and Simple Subjects
and Predicates
The complete predicate of a sentence is
all the words that tell what the subject
is or does.
 Oscar’s yellow ball flew over the fence.
Flew over the fence is the complete
predicate.

20. Now you try it!
 Write these sentences down in your notebook
now! Tell me what the complete subject is in
each sentence and tell me what the complete
predicate is in each sentence.
 The blue fish lived in a round bowl.
 Subject: The blue fish
 Predicate: Lived in a round bowl.
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21. Now you try it!
 Write these sentences down in your notebook
now! Tell me what the complete subject is in
each sentence and tell me what the complete
predicate is in each sentence.
 My sister Wendy went to the movies.
 Subject: My sister Wendy
 Predicate: Went to the movies
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22. Writing:
Informative Paragraph
 Gives facts about real things
 Has a topic sentence
 Discusses a topic that can be covered in
one paragraph

23. Writing:
A paragraph of information
 You need…
 A topic sentence- this tells what the
paragraph is going to be about.
 Use details to explain.
 Use transition words.
 End the paragraph with a sentence that
sums up the story.