This is week seven of our Summer of Fun Program!
Take a whirlwind trip around the world! Invent a musical instrument, meet professionals in careers that travel, and plan your own dream trip.
Find This Week’s Lessons
Take a trip with Mrs. Mora as she teaches us how prefixes and suffixes can help us understand challenging words related to travel.
Learn strategies to help decode words using prefixes and suffixes. Mrs. Mora teaches us how large words, like renewable, can be easily decoded by understanding word parts!
Learn bow to use word parts, like prefixes and suffixes, to break big words down into understandable word parts.
Learn how to use vowels to break words into parts to make them easier to read. Mrs. Mora shows us how to break apart an important word to learn about syrup farming.
Farmers use a lot of challenging words as part of their work growing and harvesting our food. Mrs. Mora teaches us how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode words related to farming.
Meet poet laureates, discover a collection of poems written by Flint students, and visit a cool poetry competition in Lansing.
Lesson 1
Architects, restaurateurs, high school students, and scientists are joining forces to bring back a creature that fits in the palm of a hand: the oyster.
Lesson 2
Beavers are back in Britain—charming many Britons, perturbing others, and all the while stimulating a healthy debate about whether the island nation is ready to embrace a wilder future.
Lesson 3
An improbable alliance is giving a special bird—the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker—a new lease on life.
Lesson 4
Ecuador is the first country in the world to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution—to establish that species other than humans have their own legal right to exist. And now this revolutionary concept is being put to the test.