Question 1: Who is Tufan's best friend? Answer: Tufan's best friend is Sulayman. (Page 8) Question 2: What is the name of the Muslim hospital Tufan visits? Answer: The name of the Muslim hospital Tufan visits is the Najmabad hospital. (Page 13) Question 3: What does Tufan's father do for a living? Answer: Tufan's father is a shoemaker. (Page 10) Question 4: True or False: Tufan is forced to take a job to help provide for his family. True (Page 11) Question 5: Infer why Tufan is nervous working in the spice markets? Answer: Tufan is likely nervous working in the spice markets because he is afraid of getting caught by the police and put in jail. (Page 13)

1. What word rhymes with Humpty Dumpty? 2. Who was sitting on the wall with Humpty Dumpty? 3. What did Humpty Dumpty have to worry about? 4. What fell off the wall with Humpty Dumpty? 5. What animals came to help Humpty Dumpty? 6. What did the animals try to do to help Humpty Dumpty? 7. Who was able to put Humpty Dumpty together again? 8. What other words rhyme with wall? 9. What other words rhyme with tall? 10. What other words rhyme with fall?

Welcome to your Fact File on the planet Mercury! Mercury is the smallest planet in our Solar System and it orbits closest to the Sun. On either side of Mercury you can find Venus and Earth. The surface of Mercury looks like our Moon made up of many craters. There is no atmosphere on Mercury which means that the temperature is really cold in the night and really hot during the day. Since Mercury is so close to the Sun, the temperature during the day can get up to 427° Celsius! One interesting thing about Mercury is that it does not have any moons or rings like other planets. Gravity on Mercury is one third of that on Earth, which means that if you weighed 45 kg (100 lbs) on Earth, you would weigh only 15 kg (33 lbs) on Mercury! Despite its unforgiving environment, Mercury still holds a place of great mystery since no one has ever gone there except spacecraft. NASA's spacecraft Messenger has orbited Mercury since 2011 and has discovered many cool things such as mountains, snow, ice and an ocean of liquid metal! Mercury is composed mostly of oxygen, potassium, and magnesium. Mercury is known as the Winged Messenger because of one of its symbols. It is also famous for being the planet with the fastest orbit around the Sun of all the planets. So that’s your fact file about Mercury! But don’t forget that Mercury is very far away and no one can really visit it.

Stage 1: Pre-Writing – Basic recognition of letters in predictable and random sequences, beginning name writing and sight vocabulary. Stage 2: Emergent Writing – Fluent name writing and dedication to writing with purpose through filling out worksheets, copying and basic dictation. Stage 3: Inventional Writing – Development and use of simple sentence structures, demonstrating growing understanding and organization of language, ideas, and mechanics (such as letter formation, spacing, punctuation, proper nouns, etc.). Stage 4: Transitional Writing – Coming up with individual ideas and deciding on a genre/topic for writing, with increasing length and complexity of sentences, working in structure. Stage 5: Procedural Writing – Perfection of structure, with focus on connecting ideas and narrative sequence, use of proper punctuation, capitalization and quotation marks. Stage 6: Compositional Writing –Creative expression using multiple elements of language and mechanics in an organized and interesting way (theme, character development, descriptive language, figures of speech) to create stories and longer, formal compositions. Stage 7: Reflective Writing – Analysing and evaluating one’s own and/or published materials to strengthen one’s writing ability; also employing grammatical rules to refine one’s writing.

Welcome to the Planet Venus! Venus is the second planet from the sun and is about 109 million kilometres away from Earth. It is often referred to as Earth's sister planet as it is similar in size. Venus has a very thick atmosphere and has a type of gravity called a 'density gravity'. Venus has no moons and there is currently no life on the planet Venus. Venus is very famous for it's bright colour, which is why its nickname is 'The Morning Star' or 'The Evening Star'. It is visible from Earth and at night time it looks like the brightest star in the sky. The surface of Venus is very rocky, with hundreds of thousands of mountains, volcanoes and even mysterious valleys. The planet is made up of 97% Carbon dioxide and 3% nitrogen with a few other chemicals. The temperature of Venus ranges from 460 degrees Celsius during the day and around -200 degrees Celsius at night. This is because Venus captures most of the sunlight and because it has such thick clouds it traps the heat and creates a very hot planet. Humans have not yet been able to get to Venus, although a lot of work is being done to try and find ways to get to the planet. We hope you've enjoyed learning about Planet Venus! Image 1: Venus Image 2: Venus's Thick atmosphere

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Addition Practice 1. 641 + 125 2. 926 + 234 3. 728 + 221 4. 539 + 999 5. 187 + 778 Subtraction Practice 1. 475 - 137 2. 951 - 287 3. 763 - 265 4. 599 - 345 5. 420 - 144

Welcome to the planet Mars! Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun and is located between the planets, Earth and Jupiter. It is the second smallest planet in the solar system and is sometimes called the Red Planet because of its reddish rusty colour. Mars has a thin atmosphere which makes the planet cold and dry. On the Mars surface, there are no lakes, rivers or oceans and is made up of mostly carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon. Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos which were discovered in 1877 by the astronomer Asaph Hall. Mars has a lower gravity than Earth which means that if you weigh 70 kg on Earth, you would only weigh 27 kg on Mars! Although nobody has yet been to Mars, many spacecrafts and probes have already been sent to take pictures, take measurements and carry out experiments. Mars is also famous for having mountains, places of interest and other topography. Mount Olympus is the highest mountain on Mars with 21 000 meters of elevation – higher than Mt. Everest on Earth. So there you have it, many exciting facts about our neighbour planet Mars! 

Lesson Activity: Objective: Students will read and analyze the first three chapters of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and make inferences from the text to answer questions about the story. Anticipatory Set: Instructor should begin by providing students with the fun and mysterious synopsis of Coraline and discussing the genre of gothic horror with students. Introduce the elements of making inferences and giving examples for them to practice. Instructor should review the plot with students and ask them to guess what character traits particular characters will possess throughout the book. Instructions: 1. Explain to students that they will be reading and answering questions about the first three chapters of Coraline. 2. Give students the comprehension questions and answers to review. (see below) 3. Instruct students to answer the questions by making inferences or by connecting the plot to any character traits they have already discussed. 4. Make sure students write out their answers thoroughly with supporting evidence and page numbers where applicable. 5. Once students have completed the activity, review their answers in class or have them share. Comprehension Questions and Answers: 1. What is the title of the book and who wrote it? Answer: The book is called Coraline, and it is written by Neil Gaiman. 2. What type of housing does Coraline live in? Answer: Coraline lives in an old house, which is said to be “filled with all types of curious things” (Gaiman, 5). 3. What does Coraline's father do for a living? Answer: Coraline's father is an inventor, and he spends his time creating useless and often broken inventions (Gaiman, 7). 4. Why does Coraline's mother not pay attention to her daughters? Answer: Coraline's mother is a workaholic who spends most of her time on the phone doing less than pleasant work (Gaiman, 8). 5. What is the name of Coraline's neighbor, who lives in the flat next to hers? Answer: The name of Coraline's neighbor is Miss Spink (Gaiman, 9). 6. Where does Coraline find the door at the end of the hallway? Answer: At the end of the hallway, Coraline finds a small door that was painted over, just like the door in the drawing room (Gaiman, 15). 7. Describe Miss Forcible and Miss Spink's relationship with Coraline. Answer: Miss Forcible and Miss Spink are friendly towards Coraline and give her advice, however their advice is often outdated and out of sync with the modern world (Gaiman, 22). 8. What type of stories does Coraline's father tell her? Answer: Coraline's father tells her made-up, silly stories that usually have a moral to them or involve a lesson to be learned (Gaiman, 29). 9. What does Coraline find when she enters the other world? Answer: When Coraline enters the other world, she finds an exact replica of her apartment and her family, except everyone has buttons as eyes (Gaiman, 30). 10. What does the other mother promise to do, if Coraline solves the puzzle in the other world? Answer: The other mother promises to give Coraline anything she wants if she can solve the puzzle of the four doors in the other world (Gaiman, 35).

Day 1: Objective: To understand the basics of quadratic functions. -Introduce the AI Tool Assistant and its purpose (10 minutes) -Explain the fundamentals of quadratic equations including the different forms they can take (20 minutes) -Introduce the quadratic formula and demonstrate how to use it to solve equations (25 minutes) -Have the students practice solving a few equations (20 minutes) -Use the AI Tool Assistant for additional practice (15 minutes) Day 2: Objective: To develop skills in graphing quadratic equations. -Review quadratic equations and the quadratic formula (10 minutes) -Introduce graph of quadratic equations and discuss the components (15 minutes) -Demonstrate how to construct a graph from a given equation (25 minutes) -Have the students practice graphing equations (20 minutes) -Use the AI Tool Assistant for additional practice (15 minutes) Day 3: Objective: To practice solving equations involving quadratic equations. -Review fundamental concepts (10 minutes) -Explain how to solve equations with various forms of quadratic equations (20 minutes) -Demonstrate how to solve equations using the quadratic formula (25 minutes) -Have the students practice solving equations (20 minutes) -Use the AI Tool Assistant for additional practice (15 minutes)