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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Page 3 C LASSIFIEDS E ASTERN O REGON M ARKETPLACE • 1-800-962-2819 • FAX 278-2680 © 2017 by V Vicki icki Whiting, Editor Je Jeff f f Schinkel, S Graphics V Vol. ol. 33, No. 7 The scientific name T for killer whales is O Or rc cinus or r ca. c They Orcinus orca. ar re often called or cas . are orcas. Ar r e you an eagle-eyed r reader? Are e eader? Re ead the article below and circle cirrc cle Read th he six errors you find. Then the r rewrite e ewrite it corr ectly on the lines correctly be elow the article. below O babies are called calves. Orca Th hey are born undurwater They undurwater. . As so oon as the calf is born, the soon mother orca helps it swim to m th he surface for its first breathe the of f air air. . iller whales are powerful power rful predators that eat fish, seals, se als, sharks and even other whales. H However, , they are not interest interested However ted in eating only people There has been on people. nly one attack on a person in the wild. wild whale seal. l. Interestingly Interestingly, , Scientists believe the wha ale mistook a surfer for a seal mistake the whale realized the mis stake and spat the person out. . Th he calf will drink its mother ’ s The mother’s cr ream-like milk for too years. cream-like Th he milk is about 48% fat and The he elps the calf develop a thin, helps w blubber . warm layer of blubber. From the land, the orca’ orca’s ’ s black and white pattern may not n look like good camouflage. But B it is, and it helps the orca prey. . sneak up on its prey Th he calf will start eating solid The fo ood such as herring herring, young food sa almon and squid at about tree salmon m months old. Orcas ha have ave a patch of gray the behind th he dorsal fin. This patch is called c a saddle patch. Each orca orc ca has its own distinctively distinctiv vely shaped patch. saddle pa atch. swimming When an orca is swimm ming swimming in the deep, fish swimm ming above only it look down and see on nly inky darkness. Fish swimming below a an orca orca’s s look up p to the white of the t orca’ underbody, , which blends underbody blend ds with the bright light of the sun shining down. Standards Link: Life Science: Students Stud dents know that living organisms have d distinct structures and body systems that serve specific specif fic functions in growth, survival and reproduction. rep roduction. Follow these easy steps to create a whale of a drawing! A orca never leaves it’s it’ s An fa amily . Even a fully grown family. ad dult male spends its life with adult th he family group called a pod. the M pods have between 5 and Most 50 0 orcas. Occasionally Occasionally, , two or m pods meat and briefly more f orm a “superpod” fo “ d” with ith up to t form 15 50 orcas. 150 Orcas ha have ave 40 to 52 sharp teeth, each of which w is about three inches long. lo ong. As an orca gets older g older, , it grows layers on the outsid de of its teeth, outside forming rings. r If you slice an o orca tooth and count the e layers, you can disco over the age discover orca. of the orc ca. Draw over the pencil lines in Erase ink. Er rase the pencil lines. Fill in the black patches p of the body body. . Orcas look a bit like fish h and live in the sea, but they are mamm mals. They are mammals. warm-blooded warm blooded, feed the eir young with milk warm-blooded, their and breathe air through nostrils called blowholes blowholes. . Orcas must hold their breath underwater. when they are underwat ter . Look at the two pictures, p then read how difference a male ho ow to tell the dif ference between b and each an nd female orca. Label ea ach one. The Th h male he l dorsal d l fi fin i is upright uprigh i ht h and d t triangular triangular. i l . Black and It can c be about six feet high and a is the tallest White and the dorsal fin in th he animal The female’s s is kingdom. T he female’ Red R All Over Look at one and shorter an nd curves p today’ s page of today’s backwar rd. backward. newspaper and ne cir in re ci circle d all red the words you know! Stand Standards dards Link: Life Science: Students know that organisms can be compared to observ ve their similarities and dif f ferences. f observe differences. Each underwater creat creature ture is worth points. Which h bubble has the highest score? Standards Link: Number Sense: Calculate sums and dif differences. ff ferences. BLOW BLOWHOLES WHOLES DORSAL DORSA AL KILLE ER KILLER WHALES WHAL LES ORCINUS ORCIN NUS FIN SURFER SURFE ER SEAL NOSTRILS NOSTR RILS RINGS S PATCH P A T TCH H GRAY GRA A Y WILD LIGHT T Standards Link: Vocabulary: V ocabulary: Understand level-appropriate y . reading vocabulary vocabulary. Find the word words ds in the puzzle, then in this week’s week’ w s Kid Scoop stories and an nd activities. W S E L O H W O L B T O H K R A H S K A H L R E H R A I O R G F A C E W L Y T I This week’ week’s s word: I A T F I L E A L N DORSAL L A R L E N S R E G P U D R I E U G O S The adjective dorsal means the top side or back of an animal. S R C F D O R S A L Orcas have tall, pointy dorsal fins. A T S L I R T S O N Standards Link: Letter seq sequencing. quencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan read reading. ding. Recall spelling patterns. Synonym Search h Try T ry r to use the word dorsal in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members. A Whale of a Pet Or ca and killer whale are Orca a synonyms. Synonyms have the same e or nearly the same today’ t s newspaper meaning. Look through today’s W r rite a for five or more pairs of synonyms. Write w paragraph using all ten words. ANSWER: In the “Kelp “ W Wanted” anted” ads! Standards Link: Grammar: Identify synonyms. Sta Standards andards Link: Life Science: Students know tha at living organisms have distinct structures that an d body systems that serve specific functions and in growth, g survival and reproduction. What would your life be like with a whale for a pet?