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1 Read a non-fiction book. Find your favorite cookie recipe and triple the ingredients. Plan a vacation to Disneyland. Determine your route. Highlight 10 major cities that you may visit to reach your destination. List their latitude and longitude.

Visit the NASA website. Write a 3-paragraph summary about our exploration of Mars.

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2 Read a newspaper article about a presidential candidate. List four important ideas about the person. Read an article about a scientific discovery. Summarize what it tells you. Read a book about a place you would like to visit. Copy your favorite poem and illustrate it.
3 Watch a science-related TV show and write a summary about the program. Include the name of the show, date and time on TV. List 10 Harding teachers' places of birth (City and State). Pretend to buy a new outfit. Use catalogs or ads to compute the total cost. Attach the ads. (Hint: Don't forget the sales tax 8%.) To celebrate Black History Month, read a Coretta Scott King Medal winning book (See poster outside LRC annex).
4 Find 10 different geometric shapes in a newspaper or magazine picture (example: squares, circles, rectangles, etc.) Cut out color and identify the shape in the picture. (Include a key.) Read a Fantasy or Science Fiction book. Visit the Library and find a book about science experiments. Complete an experiment and write your findings in a lab report. Create a movie poster of your favorite movie.

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