Ben Franklin and His First Kite

Day 4

• Today we will read aboutan amazing invention.The inventor uses old

things in different ways.What objects might you

use in a new way?

InventingInventing is thinkingOf something that’s new.Inventing takes hard workAnd energy too.Each brand new contraptionStarts in somebody’s mind,With problems to solve andSolutions to find.Inventors must work hardAnd overcome doubt. But that’s what inventing Is really about.

Read Aloud

Read : “Crows in the City”

You will read another story about using something familiar in a new way.

Listen to find out crows are curious and intelligent.

What does the author think is curious about crows in the city?

Do you think crows are intelligent?

Amazing Words

curiouscurious – if something is curious, it

is strange or unusual.

intelligentintelligent– means bright or

smart.

contraptiondoubt energyglider(un)mannedsoar

PracticeThis word begins with a b and names two boys in

the same family.This word begins with a and tells what you did

when someone asked you a question.This word begins with p and means the opposite of

rich.This word begins with d and tells about things that

are not alike.This word begins with c and tells something you can

do for a baby who cannot walk yet.

brothers

answered

poor

different

carry

Phonics Reviewcrawlhaulbreathapplaudlawnfaultdrawweather

breadthreadheavysweateryawnspreadautofaucet

Word Readingsciencelearngreattouchshowearlyheavyslowlyopenedsaw

awfulshoesbarelywrigglethroughbuiltbecauselittleheadspush

Read the Sentences1. In science class, we learn how great ideas

turn into wonderful things.2. The book will show how early people moved

heavy stones.3. We slowly opened the door and saw that the awful pup had chewed most of our old shoes.4.The dogs can barely wriggle through the dog

door we built because it is so little that their heads touch the top.

Ben Franklin

Spelling Words

unhappy

refill

untie

undo

repay

unkind

undress

retell

reopen

refund

different

carry

Read the Questions What do you call a person who has no money?

__________Two men in the same family are not father and

son. What are they? _______What did you do when someone asked you a

question?_________What should you do when the road is closed?

Take a _____ road.Why didn’t the chicken run across the road?She wanted someone to ______ her.

different

poor

answered

carry

brothers

Daily Fix – It 7. Jan call my project silly

8. I thinke that were unkind.

Jan called my project silly.

I think that was unkind.