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The Mini Page — 2008 Activities
Get Wild! Read!
Issue 19
May 10-16
This week's standards:
- Students understand the characteristics and life cycles of organisms.
(Science: Life Science)
- Students comprehend and respond to a variety of images and text. (Language
Arts: Reading)
Activities:
1. Draw a picture of yourself reading one of the books in today's Mini Page. Then cut out newspaper pictures of things you find in nature, such as plants, animals or water, and paste them around the edges of your picture.
2. Show this Mini Page to family members and friends. Have them choose the three books they like best. Which books were the most popular? Which were your favorite books? Why?
3. Look through the newspaper with a friend. Circle all the newspaper stories that are related to animals, nature and the environment. Put a star by the story you like best.
4. Find at least two books in today's Mini Page that are about (a) animals,
(b) the environment, (c) the ocean, and (d) people helping nature.
5. Find and read a news story about nature and the environment. Write a two- or three sentence summary of the story. Then write your opinion of the situation presented in the news story. Finally, write a sentence telling what you think will happen next in the story.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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