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arch  chore  hard  horn  porch  pork  spark  sport

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Home Activity Your child reviewed words such as arch, horn, and chore that contain the vowel sounds ar, or, and ore. Write some of the words listed above. Have your child create new words by changing one or more letters in each word.

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DVD•72 Comprehension Facts and Details Review

Home Activity Your child learned to find facts and details in a play. Reread this play with your child, each reading the role of one of the characters. Discuss what you learned about bees and beekeepers. Help your child distinguish the facts from other sentences in the play. Ask your child for more details about bees. You may wish to find a book or online article about bees.

Read the play. Answer the questions.

Bees for the Farm

Characters: Farmer Dan; Joan, his granddaughter

Farmer Dan: I don’t have any bees.

Joan: That is good. Bees are bad. They sting people.

Farmer Dan: Bees are not bad. We need them to grow food. If they aren’t here to carry pollen from flower to flower, my trees will not grow fruit.

Joan: Oh, that is too bad. What will you do?

Farmer Dan: I know a beekeeper who sells honey. He puts bees on people’s farms. The bees make honey from the flowers. They also carry pollen from flower to flower. I asked my friend to put some hives near my fruit trees.

Joan: That is good. Now you will have bees.

Farmer Dan: Here he comes now. Welcome, bees!

1. What is one fact that is stated in the play?

2. Why is Farmer Dan upset that he does not have any bees?

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Home Activity Your child has been learning to spell contractions. Can your child think of other contractions that are not on the spelling list?

DVD•74  Spelling Contractions

ContractionsCircle the correct word. Write it. 1. Do you think its it’s spicy?

2. He had’nt hadn’t finished.

3. We can’ot can’t come with you.

4. Do you know who’s whos coming?

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Abraham Lincoln

Write this note on the lines.Correct the proper nouns.

Dear president lincoln, On monday, ms. grant taught me all about you. i learned about how you put the united states back together. Was it hard to get the country to end slavery and the civil war? Your friend, maya k. smith

Home Activity Your child learned how to use proper nouns in writing. Have your child write his or her name and address. Together, check to make sure your child used capital letters when necessary.

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Home Activity Your child reviewed proper nouns. Write your child a letter. Do not capitalize the proper nouns. Ask your child to circle the words that should be capitalized and write the words with capital letters.

Write the sentences.Capitalize the proper nouns.

1.Mr. lincoln was born on february 12, 1809.

2.He moved to indiana as a boy.

3.willie and tad visited abe’s office.

4.mr. lincoln tried to stop the civil war.

5.He signed a new law on january 1, 1863.

6.The civil war ended in 1865.

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Comprehension Author’s Purpose DVD•77

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The Hats of Presidentsby Tommy Capp

My second grade class is learning about Presidents of the United States. We are reading about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. Today, our teacher showed us pictures of the kinds of hats these men wore. It was fun to learn about these hats. George Washington wore a three-corner hat. This was a hat with three points. Abraham Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat. It was black and very tall. Sometimes Teddy Roosevelt wore a cowboy hat.

1. What is the author’s name?

2. Write the word that tells what the story is all about.

cowboys hats votes

3. Underline the sentence in the story that tells how the writer felt about the lesson.

4. Why do you think the author wrote this story?

Home Activity Your child answered questions about a story and told why the author wrote it. Together read a funny story. Ask your child to tell who wrote the story, what the story is all about, and why the author might have written it.

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