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By Juliette Underwood Looye - This books gives readers a glimpse into the world of ants.  It gives fascinating facts about these insects.  For example, ants can lift fifty times their own weight, each ant in a colony has a particular job, and ants sense things with their antennae.

by Barbara Reeves - Even though cities can be crowded and noisy, many animals call cities home.  This book describes animals, from pigeons to bats to foxes, that live in cities.  Readers find out how the animals thrive in this urban environment.  

Life on the prairie is an adventure, but Meg and her family realize that it is also hard work.  Tired of doing so many chores and living in a dark house, Meg longs for her friends and her grandma's beautiful house in Boston.  It is not until she becomes lost and afraid that Meg realizes the prairie is now her real home.  

Skills: analyzing data, reading charts and tables, constructing graphs, tree diagrams

Skills: adding three one digit numbers, estimating addition solutions, solve addition problems using currency, decimals, fractions

Skills include decimal comparison, exploring decimals using a variety of representations, ordering decimals, reading decimals, place value, and solving problems with decimals.  

Skills worksheets: comparing fractions, dividing regions into equal parts to recognize equal and unequal parts; exploring fractions using representations  

Skills: adding three one-digit numbers, estimating addition solutions, solving problems with currency, decimals, and fractions