The Very Lonely Firefly
I hope you all had a great Fall break. In no time at all we will be planning for winter break!
I want to remind everyone, since I have been getting some questions about Surprise Bags, that our sound is available in LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS AT HOME on my blog page. You have to click on the current week (they are not in order and I don’t know how to fix that, sorry) according to the date.
The poem will always align with the sound for the Surprise Bag- Sorry Highland Park, this does not apply to you since Ms Vest does your Surprise Bags when I am not there 🙂 .
I put the poem on that page as well as activities for you to try. I want you to access that page so I put the Surprise Bag information there. My blog is always updated on the Friday morning before the week starts. Thanks so much. Hope that clears up any confusion!
Our story this week is about a firefly that sees different things that light up as he looks for a friend. When reading the book, stop to use ordinal words like first, second, and third (first the firefly saw a lightbulb, second he saw a candle, etc.). Use synonyms or describe new vocabulary words (the light ‘flooded’ the night- that means the light was everywhere! reflection– show them a mirror or google pictures of reflection). A fun activity might be to turn out all the lights in a small room in the evening, grab a couple of flashlights and move the light to some music like a firefly.
Here is a fun site to learn about fireflies Click Here
Don’t forget to click on the Language Extensions At Home to the right.