Scott Foresman Reading Street Centers Survival Kit Use the A Symphony of Whales materials from the Reading Street Centers Survival Kit to organize this week’s centers.
MATERIALS CD player, headphones, AudioText CD, Student Edition
Listen to A Symphony of Whales and “He Listens to Whales” as you follow or read along in your book. Listen for generalizations about whales.
If there is anything you don’t understand, you can listen again to any section.
MATERIALS Collection of books for self-selected reading, reading log
Select a book you have already read. Record the title of the book in your reading log. You may want to read with a partner.You may choose to read any of the following:
Leveled Readers
ELL Readers
Stories written by classmates
Books from the library
A Symphony of Whales
TEN IMPORTANT SENTENCES Read the Ten Important Sentences for A Symphony of Whales. Then locate the sentences in the Student Edition.
BOOK CLUB Read some other books, either fiction or nonfiction, about whales. Write a book review of your favorite or least favorite, and share it with a group.
MATERIALS Paper, pencil, copy of boxed suffixes and columns of words below
Make new words using the suffixes in the box below and the words listed underneath. Notice how the spelling of some base words changes when you add a suffix.
hope
use
warm
hot
messy
light
joy
quick
soft
empty
help
sad
thank
heavy
harm
Draw a square on a piece of paper and divide it into three rows and three columns, so that there are nine boxes within the square.
Write one new word from your list in each box.
Choose someone in your group to call words from your lists until someone gets three words in a row, or “Bingo!”
EARLY FINISHERS Write sentences using the new words.
MATERIALS Writing and drawing materials
Pretend to be Glashka and write in a journal.
Write a journal entry as if you were Glashka. Tell about one of the days or events in A Symphony of Whales.
Write in the first person, using words such as my, I, and me.
Think about how Glashka may have felt.
Use vivid words, such as soothing instead of low.
Remember to set your paper up like a journal, with a date on the first line.
EARLY FINISHERS Draw an illustration for your journal entry.
MATERIALS Writing materials, reference materials, Internet access (optional)
Working together, brainstorm a list of animals.
Go through your list and think about how each animal “talks.” What kinds of sounds do they make? Do the sounds they make change? (For example, cats meow when they are hungry, howl when they are angry, and hiss when they are scared or hurt.) You may have to do a little research to find out what kinds of noises some of the animals make.
Create a web for at least three animals on your list. Write the animal in the center circle and fill in the smaller circles with the kinds of noises the animal makes.
EARLY FINISHERS Write a short skit in which each person in the group plays a different animal. Try to write the skit using just animal sounds. Perform the skit for your classmates and see if they understand what the skit is about.
Drama
MATERIALS Computer, printer
Write an e-mail to Joe Mobley.
Look back at “He Listens to Whales.” Think of a question you would like to ask Joe Mobley.
Compose an e-mail to Mr. Mobley.
Remember to introduce yourself and tell him where you go to school. Let him know where you heard about him too.
Print out your e-mail.
EARLY FINISHERS Use the Internet to find out more about Joe Mobley and his work. Write a brief summary of what you have learned and share it with a partner.
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