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While humans have a hard skeleton on the inside and a soft body on the outside, most crabs have a hard skeleton on the outside to protect their soft bodies. Along comes the hermit crab without a full shell to protect its soft and very large abdomen. What’s a hermit crab to do? Borrow a shell found in the ocean to create shelter until he outgrows his home and moves to another. This clever fellow adapts to his environment with other talents including the ability to grow a new claw if one is lost. Traveling in packs, he’s no “hermit” at all! Come explore the ocean floor and discover the neighborhood of hermit crabs and their unique housing!
In this issue students will:
- read expository text about life science
- calculate crabby sums
- sequence events in a crab timeline
- create a “for sale” ad for a hermit crab’s home
- expand subject specific vocabulary words
- complete “cloze” reading with close reading
- edit descriptive text
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