Spelling

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Spelling this week!
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Pattern study
Rules for c and -ck

• C says /k/
• ca
• co
• cu

-ck follows a short vowel in a one syllable word,
or in the first syllable.
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• picnic

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• frantic

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• poetic

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• plastic

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• attic

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• condition

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• calm

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• attack

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• bucket

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• check

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• nickel

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• picket

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• ticket

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• rocket

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• sidewalks

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• heroic

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• lucky

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• socket

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• cart

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• tracks

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Vocabulary this week!
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fatal

• Causes death

• Many years ago, heart wounds were usually
  considered fatal.

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suture

• Fiber used to sew (stitch) parts of the body
  together

• The boy needed to go to the doctor and have his
  open wound sutured together.

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Colleague(s)

• Person or people who works with you.

• My colleagues and I, at the LaMoure Public
  School, attended a Math Meeting the other
  morning.

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anesthesia

• Keeps you from feeling pain.

• At the dentists office you may receive local
  anesthesia to numb the teeth and gums. This
  prevents you from feeling too much discomfort
  during the drilling of your tooth.

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incision

• cut

• When treating a minor incision at home, first
  wash your hands thoroughly with soap to avoid
  infection.

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fact

• Something that is a certainty, it can be proven
  true.

• Is it fact or opinion that LaMoure is a town in
  North Dakota?

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Here is an example. Try to pick out the fact. In
America the traffic laws are too strict.In
America a red traffic light means STOP.In
America the biggest cars are the safest cars.
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Was it easy to spot the fact?
In America, no matter which of the fifty states
you drive in, a red traffic light means STOP.
The second sentence is a fact, or a certainty.

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