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Ever feel like just hanging around doing nothing at all? Mother Nature has an animal that does just that each and every day! The sloth is a super slow fellow who spends most of his (or her) life hanging from the branches of a rainforest tree. Known for taking an extra long time to complete a task, this furry friend is in no hurry to hunt, eat, or digest food taking weeks from start to finish. We can learn how to take life a little slower by studying the sloth. Maybe he knows something we don’t!
In this issue animal lovers will:
- read informational text about sloths
- understand habits, instincts, and physical adaptations of the sloth
- calculate sums to solve a maze and answer a puzzler question
- scour the newspaper for multiple meaning words
- discover sloth facts
- use content clues to select appropriate vocabulary from a word list
- learn the identity of animal relatives of the sloth
- use a news article to practicing reading as slowly as a sloth to locate important details
- write creatively about a lion
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