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ACTION SONG: FIVE GREEN AND SPECKLED FROGS Five green and speckled frogs (hold up your right hand with five fingers spread apart) Sat on a speckled log, (place your left hand, palm down, beneath the right) Eating some most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum! One jumped into the pool, (tuck one finger on your right hand down) 3

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Where it was nice and cool. Then there were four green speckled frogs! Glub! Glub! (hold up your right hand with four fingers spread apart) Repeat counting down each time. End with “there were no green speckled frogs”

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In the fall, thousands of monarch butterflies clinging to trees blend in perfectly with autumn leaves, keeping them safe from predators.

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Natural News Find and read a newspaper article about the environment. Write a short summary of the article. Be sure to indicate the who, what, where, when, why and how of the article.

Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write summaries of expository text.

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The Valley of

No Return Written by John Tomerlin | Illustrated by Michael Lacapa

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A Fight To the Finish STORY SO FAR: When Captain Merriman and Wilman Manakita reach the Colorado River, the army camp they were expecting to find is no longer there. Meanwhile, Jamie and Salia are attacked by a mountain lion. “Look out!” Jamie shouted, but too late. The mountain lion sprang from the boulder, claws outstretched. Salia twisted to one side, but a slashing paw caught her on the shoulder, knocking her down. The mountain lion landed a few feet beyond her and whirled, crouched to spring again. With no thought, Jamie seized one of the limbs he’d cut for firewood. He swung it at the animal, but missed; he swung again, this time catching it a glancing blow. The mountain lion turned on him, hissing its fury. Jamie backed away, poking with the limb to defend himself. The limb was pointed at the end he’d whittled, and he jabbed with it repeatedly. The mountain lion continued to advance, batting the limb with powerful swipes of its

forepaw, forcing Jamie toward the edge of the river. Soon the boy could retreat no farther without falling in. Salia shouted and whacked

the mountain lion across its back with a stick of her own. The enraged beast spun to face her, but at that moment Jamie poked it hard in the flank, forcing it to

turn on him again. Salia renewed her attack, screaming loudly. The baffled mountain lion swung its head from side to side, uncertain as to which of them was the greater threat. But they gave it no time to make up its mind. They continued to charge forward, swinging and shouting. When Jamie lunged one last time, the mountain lion sprang back and to the side—saw the danger too late—and fell off the rock, into the river. They watched it paddle, head barely above surface, to the far side, where it dragged itself ashore and slunk away, dripping. “Are you all right?” Jamie asked when he could breathe again. “It hurt me,” Salia admitted, taking her hand from her shoulder. Two deep gashes were revealed running from her right shoulder almost to her elbow. Usually the sight of blood made Jamie feel ill, but this time it didn’t. He knew he had to do something. “I’ll make a bandage,” he said, “while you wash those cuts.” While Salia bathed her arm,

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Jamie removed his shirt and tore it into strips. He shivered with cold, but didn’t mind, remembering that she’d done as much for him. He sat next to her and pressed the cuts on her arm closed, then wrapped the wounds tightly. Some blood soaked through at first, then slowed and seemed to stop. “That’s about all we can do right now,” he said. “I’ll dress it again in the morning.” They slept little if at all that night. With only Jamie’s coat for cover, neither of them could stop shivering. And without a fire, both worried that the mountain lion might come back. Jamie felt responsible, knowing it was his blood that had led the animal to them. Sleep must have come at last, because the next thing Jamie was aware of was the feeling of the sun on his face. He opened his eyes and sat up. As usual, Salia was already up and working to start a fire. She’d found drier tinder, and had a small blaze going. Jamie jogged off in search of more wood, and returned with an armload of it, warmed somewhat by the exercise. Salia, on the other hand, seemed to have a fever. Her bandage was soaked with blood, and when Jamie took it off he saw that the

edges of the wounds were inflamed. He washed the strips of cloth in the river and dried them by the fire before wrapping the girl’s arm again. Salia was too weak to help look for food, and Jamie was unable to find any. But later in the morning Salia felt strong enough to stand and walk. So they drank their fill of water and started downstream once again. As they walked, Salia pointed out some leaves for Jamie to pick; chewing on them helped calm the pangs of hunger. She also had him dig up a strangelooking root, peel it with his knife, and mash it. After wetting it in the stream, he placed the makeshift poultice over the cuts on the girl’s arm and tied it in place. With two stout branches cut to serve as walking sticks (or weapons, should they need them again), they made their way onward. It was near midday when they began to hear water rushing. It was much louder than the stream. Sure enough, around the next bend in the canyon they came upon the swift, broad, brown expanse of the Colorado River. To be continued.

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