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1, 2, JUST FOR YOU! LUCKY SEVEN Ladybugs have landed on the number seven. Count how many ladybugs you see. Can you count the number of spots on each ladybug? Before you finish, trace the 7 and the letters s-e-v-e-n. Magnificent!
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Create counting games while you play. Count up to a number or down from that number. For example: “Jump up and down 7 times. Look for six rocks. Stop at the 5th tree in the park. Draw 4 circles with sidewalk chalk. Ride 3 times around the block. Point out 2 leaves. Say hi to 1 bird.” LO GO
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food chain links plants and animals to each other for survival. For example, a plant gets eaten by a small animal. That animal is also food for another, larger animal. Ultimately, when plants and animals die, decomposers cause them to turn back into soil that will grow more plants and the circle of life continues. The diagram at right illustrates a basic food chain.
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Complete the Food Chains
Below are three unfinished food chains. Complete each chain by drawing, naming or pasting a picture of one of the choices of plants or animals who lives in that plant community. Think about which animals are herbivores, omnivores and carnivores.
Food chains all start with the sun. The sun gives energy to all living things because the energy from the sun goes into the plants. When primary consumers eat plants, they get energy. That animal will give energy to the animal that eats it.
Food webs show how different food chains are connected. For example, a mouse and a rabbit both eat plants and seeds. Like a spider web, a food web can be very complicated since there are so many different creatures.
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Evergreen Forest Community
snake
The forest community has many different kinds of trees. Ferns and mosses can also be found. PRODUCER
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bay nuts • leaves madrone berries
quail • squirrel deer
fox • bobcat
mountain lion coyote
worm • fungi bacteria
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Creekside Community
The area along the banks of a creek is mostly moist and shady. PRODUCER
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raccoon scrub jay
worm • fungi mushroom
Grassland Community
This can be a dry and hot area. Mostly low, dense bushes and a few wildflowers can be found there. PRODUCER
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flowers • seeds berries
rat • mouse insect
snake • bobcat lizard
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worm • fungi mushroom
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Community Connections
Let’s Talk!
What would happen if all of the plants and animals in one of the links in a food chain disappeared? Talk it over with a parent or family member. What would happen if one animal in a food web became extinct? Children are born curious. From their earliest days, sensory exploration brings delight and wonder. New discoveries
flowers • seeds berries
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snake • bobcat lizard
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Community Connections
Look through the newspaper for five or more people or places that are connected to your life. (Example: A grocery store where your family shops. What other connections can you find? Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
Children are born curious. From their earliest days, sensory exploration brings delight and wonder. New discoveries expand their minds. When they unlock the joy of reading, their world widens further. Magic happens. Kid Scoop opens the doors of discovery for elementary school children by providing interactive, engaging and relevant age-appropriate materials designed to awaken the magic of reading at school, at home, and throughout their lives. For more information about our literacy non-profit, visit kidscoopnews.org
Draw the thing that should come next to continue the pattern in each row.
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B S B A C T E R I A Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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Standards Link: Language Arts: Understanding meanings from context clues.
DECOMPOSER
The noun decomposer means an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals. Fungi are important decomposers at the end of the food chain. Try to use the word decomposer in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.
Plan a Picnic ANSWER: Because he was a real fungi!
Find an ad in today’s paper that is especially interesting to you. Using the subject of the ad, write a two-step word problem. Then, have a classmate try to solve your problem.
This week’s word:
Where would you go on a family picnic? What would you bring?
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R G A D D E BOOK OF THE MO N O C SE Dear families,
Do you like hearing about interesting animals? The non-fiction book, Slow, Slow Sloths by Bonnie Bader, taught me that there are many more things about sloths than I realized. This book includes great facts about sloths and their habits. Did you know that a sloths sleep for 15 to 20 hours each day. That does not leave time for much else other than eating. Enjoy reading this book with your child and talk about the great facts that you find about sloths. Ask them what their favorite facts are about sloths. For a child to become better at reading, it is important that they read for at least twenty minutes each night.
Happy reading!
About the author Bonnie Bader has written over 50 books for young people. She is the author of many of the Who Was? series of biographies. She has also wrote a number of books about animals. Ms. Bader is a teacher of writers. She has a Master in Education and one of her favorite things to do is to visit classrooms to share her love of reading and writing.
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Use the pictures to help understand the information when reading.
Write down some of the facts that you learned about sloths
Dear students,
Do you like learning about different animals? I love different types of animals. This month we are reading about sloths in our informational story Slow, Slow Sloths by Bonnie Bader. Did you know that there are two different types of sloths? One type has two toes and the other has three toes. Some sloths live in the same tree their whole life. I hope that you enjoy this book and learning about sloths as much as I did! Take turns reading with someone you love to read with, whether it is your teacher, a brother or sister, or a parent, make sure to talk about your favorite sloth facts that you learned reading this story.
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The Valley of
No Return Written by John Tomerlin | Illustrated by Michael Lacapa
CHAPTER FIVE: Swept Away STORY SO FAR: Trapped by flood waters, Jamie and Salia are forced to spend the night on a ledge part-way up a cliff face. As dawn breaks, the water reaches their place of refuge. amie and Salia jumped to their feet, looking for a way to climb higher. There was none. The cliff above them was too sheer, and water already was churning at their ankles. “Do you know how to swim?” Salia cried. “I don’t think so,” Jamie admitted. The only time he’d tried was after falling off his horse while fording a stream. He remembered kicking back to the surface before being pulled to safety by his father. “Then you must learn,” Salia said firmly. She took his jacket, knotted each of the sleeves, and handed one of them to him. “Hold tight,” she said, and slid off the ledge into the current. Jamie had no choice but to follow. When he did, the water
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pulled him under like a giant hand. Vague shapes beat at his head and body, and the branches of submerged trees threatened to jerk the end of the coatsleeve out of his hand. He remembered not to breathe, but wished he’d
thought to take his boots off, as they were dragging him down. In spite of their weight, he somehow reached the surface and filled his lungs with air. Salia gripped his shoulder with one hand and waved with the
other. “Swim!” she shouted, demonstrating a dog-paddle. “Kick your feet!” Jamie tried, but went down again. He doubled over to pull at the laces of his boots, stripping off one and then the other. This seemed to help, for he surfaced again. But in the meantime he’d let go of the coat—and Salia was nowhere near. He could see the shore a few yards to one side—an impossible distance away—and was about to sink again when he rammed against the top branches of a tree whose top was still above the surface. He clung to them with all his remaining strength. He thought he heard Salia call, but couldn’t see her. Then the tug of the river overcame his grip, and once more he was swept downstream. Jamie decided it made no sense to keep fighting; he could struggle a while longer, or just give up and let the river take him. The end would be the same. He closed his
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eyes and stopped moving his feet, wondering how it felt to drown. Instead, he felt the bottom. He opened his eyes to find himself in a curve of the creek below a small side canyon. Here, the water calmed and eddied back toward shore. He saw Salia already on the bank, reaching out to him. She helped drag him up, and he lay gasping for breath and spitting out some of the water he’d swallowed. He wanted to thank her for saving his life, but he couldn’t speak. He lay still, recovering his strength. After awhile the rain stopped and the sun appeared. The two young people spent the morning searching for food. One need they hadn’t expected was for water; the creek was thick with mud and debris washed down from the hillsides and upper valley, and they knew it would be dangerous to drink from it. Fortunately, the little canyon that was their refuge met this need as well. It had been carved by a spring part way up the rift in the rocks, and although the water tasted strongly of limestone it was fresh and clear, so they drank their fill of it. They found some wild grapes growing near the spring, and farther up the canyon Salia came upon
some scrub pines with small cones. She used Jamie’s knife to pry open the cones and dig out the pinyon nuts inside—still green and bitter, but soft enough to chew. The grapes, however, were hard and sour and tasted so bad that Jamie choked on them at first. In the end, hunger won out over flavor, and he managed to swallow a few. They’d spread their outer garments on rocks to dry, but they remained damp and clammy by the time the late-afternoon chill forced them to put them on again. Realizing that they would be spending a second night without shelter, they decided to try to build a fire; they searched the canyon for leaves and twigs, hoping to find enough dry tinder to start a flame. But when Jamie unwrapped the packet containing his emergency supplies, he found that water had gotten through to his red phosphor matches, and they would not light. Salia looked for sticks dry enough to rub together to make a flame, but it was useless, and she had to give up when her hands began to bleed. Cold and hungry, and completely on their own, the two young people prepared to spend their second night in the wild. To be continued.
Text copyright © 2002 John Tomerlin. Illustrations copyright © 2002 Michael Lacapa. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc. www.breakfastserials.com
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April 21-27 APRIL 26TH: NATIONAL NORTH DAKOTA DAY Natrona County Public Library Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. • Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. • Sunday, 1 p.m.-5p.m.
Library Calendar
(Social distancing is required and masks are recommended)
STORYTIMES EVERY TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY Join us every week at one of our 3 exciting StoryTimes for any age! TUESDAYS @ 10 AM Our TinyTots StoryTime for babies and toddlers, complete with books, songs, and dancing speciallytailored for our youngest patrons. WEDNESDAYS @ 10 AM
Reads & Rhymes is a storytime for children ages 3 and up, which includes more of our favorite picture books with customized subject matter and word count for our early readers. THURSDAYS @ 10 AM Our NEW moving, grooving StoryTime Dance Party, complete with dancing, singing, flashing lights, and exciting interactive story-telling.
EVENTS AFTERSCHOOL AT THE LIBRARY TOADSTOOL HOUSES (GRADES K-6) Wednesday, April 21 @ 4 PM | Crawford Room STORYTIME DANCE PARTY April 22 @ 10 AM | Crawford Room TAKE & MAKE FOR KIDS & TWEENS: PIPE CLEANER BEADED SNAKE April 26-29 all day TWEEN BOOK CLUB (4TH6TH GRADE): “THE WISHING
SPELL” BY CHRIS COLFER Monday, April 26 @ 4 PM | Crawford Room TINYTOTS STORYTIME April 27 @ 10 AM | Crawford Room AFTERSCHOOL AT THE LIBRARY: FUNNY FLIP BOOKS (GRADES K-6) Wednesday, April 28 @ 4 PM | Crawford Room We will have “Reads & Rhymes” on Wednesday mornings at 10am. Call 577-7323 or visit our website for more information.
The Library is now offering a service called tutor.com. It provides free online tutoring for all ages, from young children all the way up to adult learners. It’s a free online service (all you need is a library card to access it through the library’s website - natronacountylibrary.org).
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