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Friends come in all shapes, ages, sizes, colors, gender—and species! This issue describes how two very different animals came to be best pals. Terrible circumstances brought them together to the same place where they discovered each other and a thriving friendship ensued. There are lessons of respect, tolerance, optimism and hope to be learned and shared with your young animal lover.
In this issue young explorers will:
- Read expository Texta bout how unusual animals became friends
- Use context clues to fill missing vocabulary words
- Follow directions to draw a happy hippo
- Calculate animals sums to learn facts about hippos and tortoises
- Discover the meaning of foreign words
- Use the newspaper to inspire a rhyme time poem
- Go on a friendship search in the news
- Write a descriptive paragraph about a friend of your own
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