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Sep 2023
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What's going on? What do you say we read a news article? It was kind of big news last week. As we read this, I'm going to have pictures for you and some definitions for the words. I'm just a little worried that they are out of order. So it might not be as organized as usual. And for that I apologize, but we will be able to read this article. So let's start at the top here and we'll read the title and it says a toddler lost in the woods is found asleep using family dog as a pillow. So when I first saw this article, I thought, oh, that's so cute. And I saw this little picture here. I thought, oh, this could be a toddler. We'll talk about what toddler is in a minute, but I can imagine her going out just for a little walk like toddler. Maybe we should talk about that right now, but it's a young child who's just recently learned how to walk. So maybe they're like between one and two years old. So typical toddler. So I don't know where the parents were. They probably just for a second stopped watching this child and it doesn't take long. I've been there before as a parent. It doesn't take long for your little child to like where they go. So it seems like in a matter of seconds, this person, this little girl was gone. So this takes place in Michigan, Faithhorn, Michigan. Never heard of this city, but a two-year-old girl who walked away from her home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula alongside two family dogs was found in the woods hours later sleeping on the smaller dog like a furry pillow State Police said. So in that paragraph, I do have Michigan's Upper Peninsula highlighted. So maybe we should talk about that and hopefully that's my next slide here. It is so organized so far. So Peninsula that means land that is surrounded by water but basically three sides. So if you look at that picture, you know, there's water like in the front of it to the left of it to the right of it, but not behind it. So if you look down, it's a noun. A peninsula is a thing piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. So if something is projecting out, it means like pushed forward and I do have another they talked about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and I wanted to show you what the state of Michigan looks like it's separated into two parts. So the bottom part that's kind of like a peninsula because it is surrounded by water, but it almost looks like how would I do it like a glove and sometimes whe


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