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1, 2, JUST FOR YOU! W-H-I-T-E SPELLS WHITE Find the letters W-H-I-T-E. Say the name of each letter as you trace it with your finger. Something has happened and the colors have disappeared from all the pictures. Decide which pictures should stay white and then use your crayons to add color to the others!

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Five of the best (and easiest) things you can do with your little ones to help prepare them for school success are singing, talking, reading, writing, and playing

NURSERY RHYME: BRUSH YOUR TEETH (Tune: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”)

Morning, noon and night!

Brush, brush, brush your teeth

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Until they’re clean and white.

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Here’s a Greek fable by a man named Aesop about a race between a tortoise and a hare. It may surprise you who wins!

here once was a hare who always bragged that he was the _______ animal in the forest. “Not even the wind is as fast as me!” the hare would boast. The tortoise got ________ of such bragging. “We all have heard you talk and talk about how fast you are, but we have never seen you ______. I’ll race you,” said tortoise.

GO!

The hare zipped o the starting line in a blur, leaving the t. tortoise in a pu The tortoise coughed, __________ her eyes, and took the rst of her slow, steady steps. The hare was soon way ahead, far down the road. The tortoise could hardly see the hare in the distance, but she wasn’t worried.

wake up. The tortoise didn’t stop. She just kept walking her slow and steady pace. When the tortoise was nearly to the nish line, the hare woke up. Yawning and rubbing his eyes, he was shocked to see the tortoise nearing the __________ line.

As the hare rounded the bend in the road, he laughed and thought, “This is too _______! I’m going to rest. That tortoise is so slow that I’ll get up in time andstill beat her to the nish line!”

The hare laughed and laughed. “There’s no way you can beat me! I am the fastest and you are the ____________!”

he hare and the tortoise agreed to race the next __________. They would race to a big tree down the road and around a bend. Many other animals came out to _________.

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The hare __________ to his feet and ran as fast as he could to try catching up to her to ______ the race.

ut by then it was much too late. The slow little tortoise The hare laid down on the warm, ________ the nish line rst. All of the soft grass and fell asleep! Later, when the tortoise walked right by forest animals cheered the ____________ hare, he didn’t loudly for her! July 21-27, 2021

About Aesop

Aesop was a storyteller. He lived about 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. His favorite story to tell was a fable. A fable is a very short story with a moral, or a lesson to teach.

Use the code to discover the moral of Aesop’s fable The Tortoise and the Hare. =A

Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Grapes tells about a fox who tries and tries to reach grapes on a high branch. Embarassed by being unable to jump high enough to

saying loudly that the grapes are sour

There’s Lots of Hares in There! Who found the most?

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One person is the hare and the other is the tortoise. Race against a family Look at a photo in the newspaper. Can you make the pose of the person in the photo? How long can you hold the pose?

TORTOISE BRAGGED FASTEST LAUGHED SLOWEST ASLEEP BOAST AESOP MORAL FABLE HARE BEND BEAT RACE WINS

Standards Link: Value physical activity for enjoyment and health.

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E T S E S R E D N M O E T A T R A L S S Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Hop Through the News Standards Link:

Language Arts: Identify action verbs.

ANSWER: Because they have turtlenecks!

Hop is a verb. It is an action word. Look through the newspaper for 10 or more action verbs such as swim, run, walk, etc. Can you act out each one?

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The Secret of

Smith’s Hill Written by Nancy Garden | Illustrated by Marilynne K. Roach

CHAPTER ONE: The Crash

STORY SO FAR: When the Claver family moves to rural Rhode Island to escape the escalating dangers of their big-city neighborhood, 10-year-old twins Kelly and James look forward to exploring their surroundings. Their parents look forward to gardening and enjoying their 18th-century house. But, the family’s first night’s sleep is disturbed by loud crashing sounds and the discovery that their best china has been smashed. Gradually, as more odd events take place, the twins realize that someone or something seems to be trying to communicate with them—and when their mother finds part of a Revolutionary War diary in the cellar, they suspect a connection between an 18th-century occupant of the house and the present-day disturbances. Could a Revolutionary War ghost be haunting the Clavers—and if so, why? It’s only after a serious rift in the family that the twins finally solve the mystery to their parents’ and their own satisfaction, taking action that restores peace to the old house on Smith’s Hill.

elly sat straight up in bed. The crash had been loud enough to wake the dead, as Mom would say. And it was still going on in a clanking, rattling way. At first, Kelly thought she was still in Boston and that the noise was traffic, maybe even an accident. But there was no screeching of brakes or screaming of sirens. Besides, it sounded as if it was inside the house, downstairs. Kelly looked over at James, her twin. Much as she liked him, she couldn’t wait till the paintin his new room dried because then for the first time in her life, she’d be able to have a room to herself. The Clavers had just moved to a house in a little coastal town in Rhode Island, to get away from the city. Gangs had moved into their old neighborhood, and one of them had been after James to join. When there was a drive-by shooting on their street, the twins’ grandparents had helped the Clavers put a down payment on an old house’a “handyman’s special,”

the real estate agent called it. Mom and Dad were going to plant a big garden to save on food. A construction crew had already dug a hole for a shed and a storage cellar under it for vegetables, and Dad, who had a couple of weeks before his new job started, was going to help. Mom was excited because their house, on Smith’s Hill, had been built in the 1700s; she liked history and wanted to learn about the people who’d lived back then. James was glad to be away from the gangs, and Kelly was excited about being in the country. James seemed sound asleep, as usual. It was a family joke that he’d probably sleep throughthe end of the world. The crash came again, less of a crash this time than a rattling, tinkling sound. The bedroom door cracked open and Mom stuck her head in. “You guys all right?” she whispered, shining a flashlight around the room. Kelly nodded and, giggling quietly, pointed to James. Mom giggled, too. “Just like

your father,” she whispered fondly. “He didn’t wake up either.” Mom sat on the edge of Kelly’s bed. “Did you hear it?” she asked. “Yup. Maybe it was Sphinx.” Sphinx was the Clavers’ elderly orange cat. “Probably.” Mom patted Kelly’s shoulder. “Let’s go back to sleep. We can check it out in the morning. Good night, Kel’.” “’night, Mom.” When Mom left, Kelly snuggled back under the covers. It had been a long day. First hadcome the flurry of moving men tramping in and out of their apartment, carrying furniture, lamps, and boxes of books and dishes and papers and knickknacks and toys. Sphinx got out into the hall twice. Cory, the twins’ baby brother, almost had a tantrum when Dad packed away his beloved alphabet blocks. Then came the long, boring car ride. And at last the Clavers had turned onto Smith’s Hill Road. At the very top of the hill, in fields with woods beyond, was Number 47, theirvery own house. No more stuffy apartment,

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Kelly thought sleepily; no more fights on the way home from school, no more “You-can’t-go-outby-yourself-because-it’stoo-dangerous.” And she and James would have the whole summer to explore. CRASH! There it was again.

CRASH-rattle-tinkle. This time James sat up. “Who-where-who?” he mumbled. From the room next door came Cory’s thin, high-pitched cry. Kelly jumped out of bed and switched on her Mickey Mouse lamp. “I

don’t know,” she said. “It happened before. A big crash like that. Like something dropped and broke,” she added, realizing it for the first time. “Mom heard it, too.” James’s eyes opened wide. “A window,” he whispered. “Those guys....”

“Not here,” Kelly said, trying to sound reassuring. “There aren’t any gangs here.” She hoped she was right. The sound came again, louder and longer, followed by Mom’s voice saying to Dad, “Roger, wake up!” “It’s inside,” Kelly whis-

pered, more nervous now. “Whatever it is.” James’s eyes grew wider and rounder. “A break-in!” he whispered. “Robbers! Like in the apartment next door that time.” “Shhh,” said Kelly―for suddenly she heard footsteps on the stairs.

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Smelly Sock spoke up, “Well I am not afraid of ‘The Attack,’ in fact, I think we need to get to the bottom of this mystery and find out where all this stuff goes!” “We need some investigator gear. I saw it on TV once, where detectives use things to help solve mysteries.” Chex said. Smelly Sock spoke up, "Well I'm not afraid of 'The

Attack,' in fact, I think we need to get to the bottom of this mystery and find out where all this stuff goes."

"We need some gear to help investigate." Chex said.

The sock crew searched and found a box in the closet. “This is it!” Chex said. “We can use these items just

like the detectives on TV and discover the mystery of the ‘The Attack.’

Moving from room to room, the sock crew searched for clues to where 'The Attack' could be.

“Guys!” Wooly yelled, “I think I’ve found something.” 5 July 21-27, 2021

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