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    New Life of Fred books
    #106033 06/29/11 10:14 AM
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    Great news for all the LoF fans: you can now order 4 new books in the series that go BEFORE LoF: Fractions. Here is the link for ordering: new LoF books. Look for the titles Apples, Butterflies, Cats and Dogs. You can preview some pages and the tables of contents by clicking on the titles.

    Now for the-not-so-great news: they currently accept the orders but the new books will be shipped no earlier than the end of July, they do not have them in stock yet. Still, I am pretty excited to have the LoF books for my younger kids.

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    Re: New Life of Fred books
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    That's wonderful.
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    I'm bummed that both of my girls are beyond that now - they would have been great six years ago.
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    green valley #106053 06/29/11 01:04 PM
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    on the learning curve
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    on the learning curve
    shhhh. My older dd, who "hates" math, just sat down as I was looking at these books and started reading over my shoulder. She loved what she saw on the samples provided. Laughing out loud. In my most nonchalant voice, I asked if she thought it would be fun to get "a few" of these. "Yeah"....
    Score!!
    Thanks everyone!
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    Oh wow perfect for ds entering first grade next year... I bet he will love these and fly through them.

    ...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary
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    Oh thanks for this!
    Re: New Life of Fred books
    green valley #106137 06/30/11 02:36 PM
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    Very cool. My DS7 loves Fred. Just curious if anyone's school has used Fred as part of their curriculum? I'm forwarding info to my son's school....
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    Anyone have an idea of how the new books correlate to grade level?
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    green valley #106167 07/01/11 07:03 AM
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    Well time to the hour is k/1 skill...so I am thinking the first one is k/1 but some kids aren't reading in k so not as an independent book. Then one per year after that?

    I can't tell because I see my son doing the first two this year in first and the next two the following year. And then doing fractions in third. He may not go so fast but he might.

    ...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary
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    my son just said he didn't want to try this series because he didn't like the name fred.

    really?
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