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In this issue students will: read informational text about plumbers and plumbing as a careerunderstand steps to become a master in a tradeuse a ruler to select the correct length of pipe to repair a leaklook through the newspaper to locate words that have more than one meaning (like “trade”)match wrenches to nutsanalyze a newspaper article to respond to promptsfind trades advertised in the newswrite descriptively about your dream careerYou might also enjoy: Electricians. Science, Life Lessons an

In this issue students will: read informational text about electricityunderstand the benefits of a career as an electricianread about safety ruleslook for objects in the news that depend on electricity to worklocate newspaper words that relate to electricitydeconstruct a news article to think like a reporterwrite about your “mission possible”You might also enjoy: Carpenters. Combining Skills with Fun Creative Thinking Activities.https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Careers-Carpenters-Comb

In this issue young citizens will: read informational text about germs, viruses, and bacterialearn to practice healthy habitsunderstand proper hand washing techniquesolve a tricky number puzzlelook for cause and effect in a health article in the newswrite “Tips for Kids” on how to stop germs in their tracks before they make you sickfollow a germ’s journey from outside to inside you!

In this issue students will: follow written directions for holiday themed investigationsuse the newspaper to explore interesting sentencespractice subtraction facts to 20compose a winter poemYou might also enjoy: The Gift of Laughter. Learn Better, Faster and Have Fun Doing It.https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-The-Gift-of-Laughter-Learn-Better-Faster-and-Have-Fun-Doing-It-12426585 Reindeer Antlers. Naturalists Play Fun Reindeer Games.https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Produc

In this issue students will: read informational text about kidneys and other organsunderstand that organs work together to maintain healthcalculate sums and differences to label body partslearn fun facts and information about how kidneys functionuse pieces from pictures in the news to create a silly bodyidentify similarities between people photographed in the newspaperread closely to edit a storywrite descriptively about a favorite exercise

In this issue young botanists will: read expository text about why leaves change color in the fallunderstand the components of photosynthesismatch leaf shapes to find a twinunscramble letters to spell funky fall wordsuse the newspaper for a fall syllable scavenger huntlook for descriptive autumn words in the news, then s-t-r-e-t-c-h words into sentenceswrite an opinion piece about the pluses—or problems—of eating like a plant!