Home-School Connection

Word Workout Dear Family Member:

No two family members are exactly alike. Being in a
WORDS TO KNOW family means you share some traits and ideas, but not
others. We are reading a short story about a girl
anticipated encounter nourishing participate who grows up as a Kaw Indian in our
dejectedly grimaced ordeals victorious time. She has a very different idea
about what it means to be a Kaw
Two by Two Let’s choose two words and use them both than her grandfather. While we read
in one sentence. Then let’s choose two more. When Ta-Na-E-Ka, we’re comparing

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we have paired all the words, we can begin again with and contrasting important
different pairs and different sentences. characters and ideas in
this story.
SPELLING WORDS
This Week’s Skills

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Stop Me I’ll begin spelling one of the list words. See
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the rest of the word.

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And the Topics Are…
Let’s see if we can solve these puzzles. With a little logical
thinking, we can figure out what things are being compared. huge and
furry, climbs famous square head,
Each of these Venn diagrams compares and contrasts two
things. Let’s try to write the missing labels to tell what is Empire State monsters, created in
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Ejercicio de palabras Queridos familiares:

En una misma familia no hay dos miembros que
PALABRAS DE VOCABULARIO sean exactamente iguales. Cuando se pertenece a una
familia, se comparten algunas características e ideas,
anticipated encounter nourishing participate pero no otras. Estamos leyendo un cuento
dejectedly grimaced ordeals victorious sobre una niña de nuestra época, que
crece entre los indios Kaw. La idea
De a dos Vamos a escoger dos palabras y a usarlas en que ella tiene de lo que significa
una oración. Después escogeremos dos más. Cuando ser una india Kaw es muy

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hayamos formado pares con todas las palabras, diferente a la que tiene su
elegiremos otros pares para formar oraciones diferentes. abuelo. Al leer Ta-Na-E-Ka
vamos comparando y
PALABRAS DE ORTOGRAFÍA contrastando ideas y

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Interrúmpeme Comenzaré a deletrear una de las Ortografía/ Fonética: raíces del latín
palabras de la lista. Cuando se pas de qué palabra se
trata, interrúmpeme y continúa deletreándola.

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Y los temas son...
Vamos a ver si podemos resolver estos acertijos. Si usamos un
poco el pensamiento lógico podremos adivinar qué es lo que huge and
furry, climbs famous square head,
se compara.

En cada uno de estos diagramas de Venn se comparan y Empire State monsters, created in
Building, popular, laboratory,
contrastan dos cosas. Intentemos escribir los rótulos que
faltan para indicar qué es lo que se compara y se contrasta. people trying many wears bolt in
to hurt him movies neck

up to 150 up to 30
pounds, household pounds,
easily pets, furry, independent,
trained, cute ways to
chase mice need a
chase balls write to need a
computer, people, stamp,
can arrive commun- takes days
almost ication to arrive,
instantly, methods, used for
popular in need centuries
the last 20 an
served warm, served cold, years address
brown, drinks, ice cream and
served with sweet milk, can be
marshmallows malted

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