Columbia Gorge News www.columbiagorgenews.com Wednesday, June 9, 2021 B1 COMMUNITY Three families joined together to start Hood River New Middle School, pictured left to right, Chris and Eliza Eaton, Andy and Stephanie Kunkler and John and Jenn Hart. Contributed photo The Hood River New School is located at 2621 Wasco Street in Hood River. Contributed photo New middle school opens in Hood River School will also be home for Meyer Performing Arts Studio Hood River New School will open its doors September 2021 to middle school students from around the Gorge. With two experienced and credentialed teachers at the helm, the school looks forward to an exciting first year of challenging interdisciplinary project-based education, according to a press release. The idea for the school began earlier this year as a series of conversations between three families, who shared a vision for what kind of education they wanted for their children. after-school children’s theater programming. Hood River New School is currently pursuing 501c3 status, with the goal of being a board-led, non-profit inde- pendent option for middle school in the Gorge. Equity and inclusion are founding principles, and school founders are currently working on a clear and transparent process for offering tuition assistance. There is still space available for the 2021/2022 school year; families can request additional information on the school’s website, www.hoodrivernew- school.org. Beyond a rigorous academic curriculum that would inspire confidence and independence, they wanted learning to be relevant, creative, and fun, the release stated. To that end, New School has enlisted the help and expertise of many other community educators and organizations, including the Gorge Makerspace, Hood River Soaring, writers Eileen Garvin and Todd Mitchell, artist Michelle Yamamoto, children’s theatre director Teddy Meyer, Chalk School of Movement and Gorge Junior Sailing. The school’s partnership with director Teddy Meyer will expand beyond the school day, as Meyer Performing Arts Studio will be sharing the Wasco Street campus for Columbia Gorge News Spring! Oregon students make MSU honor roll HOME and GARDEN hg Montana State University has announced its undergraduate honor rolls for spring semester 2021. There are two MSU honor roll lists, the President’s List and the Dean’s List. To be eligible for the lists, students must have earned in at least 12 college- level credits. An asterisk follows the names of those with a perfect 4.0 grade point average for the semester. Condon: Margaret Campbell* Hood River: Riley Bauer*, Abigail Bergemann, Savanna Brentlinger, Daisy Dolan, Nicholas Osborn, Nicolette Paulus, Josie Petersen, Erin Sutherland Rufus: Max Martin Market Gorge Wide in monthly issues Full Color Every Ad! Adventure | Design | Food | Real Estate | Trends Happy Kids, Healthy Smiles for a Lifetime Pediatric Dental Clinic Designed for Your Children Now offering dental laser technology anesthesia & pain free dentistry 1935 E. 19th St. Suite 200 The Dalles, OR 541-296-8901 419 State Street Suite 4 Hood River, OR 541-387-8688 © 2021 by Vicki icki Whiting, Editor Je Jeff f Schinkel, Graphics Vol. ol. 37, No. 28 The monarch butterfly is poisonous and birds recognize their orange and black wings and avoid them. The viceroy butterfly is a tasty snack for birds. It protects itself by looking almost exactly like a monarch butterfly. It mimics the monarch. Replace the missing words. Are you a careful reader? Read the article below and see if you can circle all seven errors. Then, rewrite the article correctly on the blank lines. Look at the monarch and the viceroy butterflies. Can you tell which is which? hile quite small, the beautiful _________ and black monarch butterfly makes one of the longest migrations in the animal ________. Monarch butterflies live in Canada and Northern United States in the spring and summer. Every fall, when the weather turns _____, millions of monarch butterflies begin flying ________ to Southern California and Central Mexico. No one knows for sure why we call the insects butterflies, since the wurd has been in the english language for centuries (the word was buterfleoge in Old English, which means butterfly in our English tomorrow). Label each butterfly with the proper name. How many butterflies can you find on this page? In the fall, thousands of monarch butterflies clinging to trees blend in perfectly with autumn leaves, keeping them safe from predators. The butterflies ________ to the same forests each year, and some even find the same tree where their parents and grandparents wintered. Scientists aren’t sure how the monarchs know where to go each year, since they each only make the trip ______. larvae egg The butterflies mate in the winter. The male then dies and the female heads back north, laying eggs on milkweed ________ along the way. The females all die before the next fall migration begins. caterpillar MIGRATION MILKWEED MONARCH VICEROY MIMICS WINTER LARVAE BLACK AVOID NORTH SOUTH YEAR PUPA COPY A M A W I N T E R Z I N O I T A R G I M N S C I M I M Y L I B G R E D I O V A L P L N A G R N H R K U Y A O E N A T V W P M P C R Y R U A E A O I O K T C O E E N V A R C C H S H D Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. Draw and color this monarch’s other wing. adult butterfly pupa 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. There is only one thing the larvae of a monarch butterfly will eat. To find out what it is, circle every third letter. Butterfly is one word made from two words (butter + fly). This is called a compound word. Look through the newspaper for words that can be combined to make a new word. What things really bother or “bug” you? How do you deal with these things? Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information. Because it is such an old word, we don't really know who or when someone said, “That thing over there is a butterfly.” One stories is that they was named so because it was thought that witches took on the shape of butterflies and then stealed milk and butter. Some peoples think it comes from someone hearing “butter- fly” when someone else said, “flutter-by.” In other languages, the fluttery bugg is not called anything like “butter” and “fly.”