A band of sea travelers called the Vikings were the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas. A recent discovery may help answer centuries-old mysteries about these early explorers.

Read this Scholastic Magazine article and then make a copy of the Informational Text Response to organize your learning. 

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Here is a story about space exploration.

Find the percent change and tell whether it is a percent increase or a percent decrease.

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Watch this BrainPOP video about percentages. Talk about places we see percents when we go out in the community( i.e. sales tax, discount shopping, etc)

Engineers are building a powerful telescope that could launch a new era in astronomy. Prior to reading, think about this question. What challenges might be involved in building a giant space telescope? Then enjoy learning about the new James Webb Space Telescope that will be launched in 2021.

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Fact: Life is exhausting. But our super-fun fitness test will help you up your strength and stamina so that you barely notice.

First, have your child do some warm-up stretches: 10-15 arm circles (front and backward), 15 jumping jacks, running in place for 30 seconds, 10 leg squats, 10 push-ups, and sit-ups then go to GoNoodle and have your child pick a couple of PE/Dance videos.  

Visit this link to check out more of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most spectacular images:

• Choose three of your favorites that were not included in our “Hubble’s Greatest Hits” gallery.
• Click the title of each of your favorite images for a detailed description.
• Use the description to write a one-sentence caption summarizing the most important or interesting information about the image, like the ones in our gallery.

Don’t forget to include the year the image was captured! Then draw and caption your own artistic space scene.

Look at the images from the space telescope and talk about what your favorite is, and why you like it.