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<div align="left">We LOVE our wonderful volunteers:  Many, many thanks to Cullen Hetzel's dad who was our only volunteer for the school Fall Festival!!! And our only volunteer for the <span style="color: red; ">*</span>Thanksgiving Festival and Feast... Coleson Kavouras' mom.  You made a difference!!!!  Thank you for taking time from your jobs and lives to help us!!!! </div>
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<div align="left"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><strong>Reading</strong></span>: <strong><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">“Land of Ice</span></strong>”; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sid Scores</span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"> </span>and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">My Father's Feet</span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">...</span>... <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Be sure to answer the questions after the story as well as make up some of your own to monitor if your student is paying attention to the story or just reading words. (rereading is a researched way to become better readers)</span></div>
<div align="left">We are working on <strong>Compare/Contrast</strong> and <strong>Monitor Comprehension</strong><strong> </strong>so help your student with these by noticing the details in each story they read (including the Saxon decodables and any other stories they may be reading).</div>
<div align="left"> <strong>Fluency Skill:  </strong>phrasing (Reading groups of words rather than sounding out each word)</div>
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<div><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><strong><span style="COLOR: #003300"><span style="COLOR: #003300"><em><span style="color: #800080; "><span style="color: #800080; ">I am now sending home a timed vocabulary sheet to help you with getting these vocabulary words fluently read.  Thank you to those who worked on this last week!!!</span></span></em></span></span></strong></span></div>
<div><strong><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Book 2 Vocabulary Words Already Learned</span></strong>:  </div>
<div align="left"><strong><span style="COLOR: #0000ff"><span style="COLOR: #0000ff">day  eat  first  said  time  was  don't  her  line  Mr.  new  says  water be  does  grow  food  many <span style="color: #ff0000; font-weight: normal; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><strong>way   your   arms   every   feet   head   school   useway   your   arms   every   feet   head   school   use </strong></span></span><span style="color: #000000; "><strong><span style="COLOR: #0000ff"><span style="COLOR: #0000ff"><span style="COLOR: #000000"><strong style="COLOR: #000000">(don't stop checking to see if they can read these with automaticity) </strong></span></span></span></strong>Unless your student can already read these words without hesitation, please use index cards to make "flash" cards and use them until the words are recognized automatically.</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<div align="left"><strong><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Spelling</span></strong>: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If you go to my “Neat Web Sites” and click on “Spelling City” (if you need my class log on name its- smithtr1), you will find ALL the Saxon lists for First Grade.  Your student can practice, take a test or you can run off fun activities to practice your words.  The words reflect whatever rules or elements we’ve learned in Phonics and eventually, sight words.  the test also includes the two dictation sentences below.</span></div>
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<div align="left"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><strong>Saxon Vocabulary Words Covered from Lessons 1-45</strong></span>:</div>
<div align="left">(make flash cards for these as they cannot be sounded out using our phonics rules )</div>
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<div align="left"><strong> <span style="color: #ff0000; "><span style="color: #ff0000; "> says   give   have   live</span></span>   </strong></div>
<div align="left">Make sure your student memorizes and can recognize these rules:</div>
<div align="left"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><strong>A vowel followed by a consonant is short. Code it with a breve</strong>.</span> (looks like a smile)      examples:  big  sad  up</div>
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<div align="left"><strong><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Should I use a "K" or a "C" Rule?</span></span>:</span></u></strong></div>
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<div align="left">This rule helps you decide when to use a "c" and when to use a "k" when spelling a word in which you hear the /K/ sound:</div>
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<div>   -use a "c" before "a", "o", "u" or any consonant</div>
<div><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Which letter(s) do I use to spell the "k" sound at the end of a word</span>:</span></div>
<div>   -use a "k" after a consonant (milk) or a vowel digraph (took, beak, week)</div>
<div>   -use a "ck" after a short vowel (back, deck, sick, sock, truck)</div>
<div>   -use a "ke" after a long vowel (bake, hike, poke, duke)</div>
<div><span style="font-size: 18pt; ">We are learning the two sounds of "y":  it says long I at the end of a one syllable word (by, cry, my, fry) and it says long "e" at the end of a two syllable word (happy, silly jumpy); also learning the two sounds of digraph "oo" (hook, tooth).</span></div>
<div><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 24px;">FLOSS Rule: A one syllable word with one short vowel in the middle will double the final letter of "f", "L" or "S" examples:  cuff  bill  miss</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; ">Make sure your student can skip count by 10's to 100, by 5's to 100 and by 2's to 20.  They need to know even and odd numbers to 20.  They also need to be able to identify numbers out of sequence on the 100"s board.  We will be using these concepts for telling time and counting nickels and dimes and reading thermometers and evens/odds and counting tally marks. Skip counting is essential for mastering these concepts.  we will also be learning how to take a number away from itself, subtracting "0" from a number and telling time to the hour on an analog clock.</span></span></div>
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