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1, 2, JUST FOR YOU! A PERFECT TEN All aboard the number train. Write the numbers in order from 1 to 10 (or cut them out and glue them on!). When you are finished, color your train. Choo choo!

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The easiest way to practice counting up and down from ten is to use fingers and toes. Practice counting with your kids during bath time, diaper changes, long waits at a red light or in checkout line. Touching each finger or toe as you count helps your child learn many counting principles like order of numbers, one-to-one correspondence, and cardinality (the last number counted is the total number in the group).

FINGERPLAY: TEN IN THE BED There were ten in the bed and the little one said, “Roll over, roll over.” (make a rolling

There were nine in the bed and the little one said, “Roll over, roll over.” motion with your hands or body) So they all rolled over and one fell So they all rolled over and one fell out. out....

This is repeated until you get to the number one. Each time “roll over” is said, rolling motion is dramatized.

There was one in the bed and the little one said, “Good night!”

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Ever wondered where the money you spend in a store goes? Where that money goes is different depending upon who owns the store where you shop. In a store that is owned by someone who lives locally, more money stays in your community.

Standards Link: Math: Organize and display data in graphs.

Vol. 37, No. 24

Everyone should care about how much money stays in the community. Why? Look at the pictures below. They show a few of the many ways local businesses use the money spent in their stores to help their communities.

Here’s another way to show how shopping locally matters. Color these pie graphs. Color the parts that show money that STAYS in town GREEN. Color the part that shows money that LEAVES town RED. Source: Independentwestand.org/Civic Economics-Andersonville Study of Retail Economics

Replace the missing words MID COUNTY – On Thursday in this news article using night, the Mid-Co un ty Ti these words: basketball ______ got to tans their shots light up a newwatch scoreboard, thanks to Ho Office Supply. The Titan mer’s s won the gameand had extra rea son

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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words.

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Where can you buy the following items in your local area? Look through the newspaper or online and

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businesses in your community. Find out which of these are locally owned and which are not. Create a chart to show your findings. Standards Link: Data Analysis: Organizes data in simple charts.

Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

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Pretend you are a piggy bank and shake yourself. Can you hear the jingle of coins? Shake to the left! Shake to the right!

Try to walk across yo yard with a dollar bil your head. It’ll take so smooth moves to keep dollar from droppin

Standards Link: Physical Educat variety of basic and advanced mov forms.

Toss ten coins onto the sidewalk. Can you hop from coin to coin, standing on one foot? Next, do deep knee bends to pick them all up!

Source: Independentwestand.org/Civic Economics-Andersonville Study of Retail Economics

Find an article in the newspaper about someone who works in local government. What does he/she do? Why are they in the Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information. newspaper? Standards Link: Civics: Understand the organization of local government.

To find out the answer, cross out every B-I-L-L and the remaining letters reveal the answer.

Standards Link: Data Analysis: Organizes data in simple charts.

ANSWER: Of course. Mountains can’t jump at all!

Local Government

make a list of 10 or more businesses in your community. Find out which of these are locally owned and which are not. Create a chart to show your findings.

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FIRST-GRADE BOOK OF THE MON Dear families, Ham-Ham-Hamsters is an informational text. It provides information about Hamsters and how to care for them. Inside the back cover of the book, you can find other informational text by the same author. Remember to read 20 minutes every day to build strong reading skills and encourage a love for reading.

Happy reading!

About the author Bonnie Bader has written over 50 books for young people including 6 books in the popular Who Was? series. She was the Associate Publisher at Penguin Young Readers for 14 years, where she edited many best-selling series and created the Penguin Young Readers leveled-reading program. Bonnie holds a Master of Science in Education, and loves visiting classrooms to share her love of reading and writing.

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Natrona County School District Standard Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

Dear students, Do you ever wonder about animals that you see either in a pet store or in your environment? An informational text is a great way to find out about these animals. In this month’s book , you will find out information about hamsters. They are funny little creatures. Some things you may already know about hamsters, but there might be other information that you do not know. Use the space provided to write down everything interesting that you learned about hamsters while reading this book.

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The Valley of

No Return Written by John Tomerlin | Illustrated by Michael Lacapa

CHAPTER NINE: The Trap STORY SO FAR: Once more, Jamie and Salia find their passage through Havasu Canyon, Arizona, blocked. Standing atop Beaver Falls, they look for some way to reach bottom in order to continue to the Colorado River. rom where they stood, looking at the water plunging over the falls, the distance to the bottom seemed dizzying. With the river still in flood, and water reaching both sides of the canyon, there was no place for the boy and girl to climb down. “We’re stuck!” Jamie yelled above the roar of the falls. “We’ll have to wait here—or go back!” Salia glanced upstream. “Go back to where?” she asked. She was right. Behind them lay neither food nor shelter, nor any hope of rescue. Jamie felt a sense of defeat. “Jamie...” “What?” He turned. Salia took him by the hand and drew him to the edge of the boulder. She pointed to the

rocks below, then farther out, toward the middle of the pool. “You must jump strong,” she said, “all the way to where the water is deepest. Now!” She sprang forward, pulling him with her. Jamie knew he had no

choice—and if he resisted even the slightest, they’d land on the rocks. Holding his nose with his free hand, he leaped out over the void and began counting, one . . . two . . . thr— Which was as far as he got before they hit.

He swallowed a mouthful of water before feeling his feet strike the bottom of the pool. He bent his knees and shoved upward, kicking hard. When he broke the surface he saw Salia a few feet away. The current quickly carried her even farther from him, and he surprised himself by beginning to dogpaddle after her. It seemed he was learning to swim! The current helped carry them to the far side of the pool. They climbed out, soaking wet and shivering again. This time, however, Jamie, had been careful to wrap his sulphers tightly in their oilskin pouch, and was able to get another fire started. After they were warm enough, Jamie went to look for more wood, while Salia scouted the area for food. Jamie found a sycamore tree that had fallen against its neighbors, the top half remaining above water; he knocked it the rest of the way down and dragged it back to the fire. Salia returned with more nut-

filled cones and some berries, far, now.” along with several spears of “Don’t worry, nothing’s goagave—a green, woody plant ing to hurt us,” he assured her, with white flowers. When hoping it was true. peeled, the plant turned out Salia took the snare she’d to have a soft, moist center— made into a dense stand of and the petals were good, cottonwoods and returned a too! For the first time in two while later without it. “Perdays, they had nearly enough haps Tochopa will give us to eat. flesh to eat,” she said, and Later, Salia asked to use began cutting boughs for Jamie’s hunting knife to cut their bed. strips of leather from the strap There was nothing to do of her wicker basket. Then now but wait for darkness. she found a young willow tree Jamie asked Salia to tell him and sliced a pair of branches moreabout Tochopa. After from it, leaving a fork at the thinking for awhile, she end of one of them. began: “When the Pai—the She peeled and notched People—climbed to the top one branch, made a noose on the grapevine, they could from a piece of leather, and not see, because everything tied the noose to the end; was dark there. So they asked then she threaded some of Older Brother to make a the uneaten agave plant onto light—and when they woke a second string. up the next day, there was a Jamie knew without asking light in the sky. But it wasn’t that what Salia had made was bright enough to let them see a springe—the kind of trap well. the Havasupai used to catch That was the moon. The small game. next night they asked YoungThey walked on awhile, er Brother to make another carrying a smoldering branch light, and when they woke from the fire with them, until up again, the light was much they found another spring brighter. That was the sun. to drink from. Near it, they Since that time, the People started a new fire and prehave lived in the valley, and pared to spend their third Tochopa has watched over night. us.” “How much farther to the Salia looked to see how Colorado, do you think?” Jamie had enjoyed the story, Jamie asked. but he’d fallen asleep. “I don’t know,” the girl answered, and shuddered. “Not To be continued. Text copyright © 2002 John Tomerlin. Illustrations copyright © 2002 Michael Lacapa. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc. www.breakfastserials.com V

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Smelly Sock was so excited to go on his next adventure. He was anxious to learn about his new friends and where they had come from. Each sock had a tale to tell.

Smelly Sock told of his battle with the velcro, while Chex talked about his unintentional tumble. Dot wound up getting stuck in the couch and poor Wooly got left behind. Stripe's ordeal with static electricity was pretty scary but not as bad as Argyle getting thrown in with the towels. Wednesday, May 12-18,, 2021 | 11

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