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Columbia Gorge News www.columbiagorgenews.com Wednesday, June 16, 2021 COMMUNITY B1 WALLACE & PRISCILLA STEVENSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL Students of the Month Above, Aurora Mordja, Tygh Valley Head Start; at left, Cascade Locks School stu- dents browsing books during the ExCEL After School program Literacy Night Event on May 10. Contributed photos Beck Sacquety, 4th Grade Hannah Politan, 4th Grade First Book promotes joy of reading Johanson Paul ■ By For Nancy First Book, Hood River and Wasco counties First Book Hood River and First Book Wasco County were busy this spring providing books to kids who would not normally have a chance to own them. One child said, “I’m so excited to read all the books! Really, we get to keep these books?” Another said, “I think I will like the butterfly book the best because it looks cool.” Not only do the kids receive books, but whenever possible, they can choose those they are most excited to read. In Wasco County, 142 children in kindergarten through third grade at Chenowith Elementary each received three books. Forty-five children each received three to four books through Next Door’s Healthy Families Home Visiting Program. At Tygh Valley Head Start (through Mid-Columbia Children’s Coalitions, Head Start), 17 early childhood students each received four books. Chenowith’s Roxanne Ringer said the kids have been overjoyed and truly thankful to receive the books — espe- cially because they do not have many books at home. According to a Tygh Valley Head Start home visitor, when the children receive their books, they “are all excited and love them, and most of the time we sit and read after they get the books.” A Head Start staff person said, “This year has presented us with a lot of chal- lenges. Being able to provide children and families with high quality, fun and engaging books to support literacy de- velopment, parent-child engagement, and to help promote the joy of reading at home, has been a gift.” In Hood River County, 120 May Street Elementary children each received five books, including book owner labels. On May 10 at Cascade Locks School, May 19 at Parkdale Elementary, May 25 at Mid Valley Elementary, and May 27 at Wy’east Middle School, about 400 students each received three books through the after-school program ExCEL. Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC) and Klahre House Alternative School (Next Door) students also re- ceived books from First Book. Teacher Damien Elderkin, ELL Migrant Program, said, “Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, I was unable to hold our annual event, so the students pre- viewed and claimed their books over a period of five days. We were not able to spend as much time doing activities. However, the students had wonderful discussions about the books they had already read, made recommendations to each other, and even made plans to pick and read books together.” Fall is fast approaching, and First Book need your help. Having quality, enjoyable books to read in one’s home is crucial to the students’ future. Send tax deductible donations to First Book Wasco County, P.O. Box 82, The Dalles, OR 97058, or First Book Hood River County, P.O. Box 221, Hood River, OR 97031. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer, contact Nancy Johanson Paul at 541-490-5330 or nan- cypaul@gorge.net. Claire Couvreux, 5th Grade Rubi Robles Guzman, 5th Grade Thatcher Wallace, 6th Grade Paola Garcia Gonzalez 6th Grade SPONSORED BY 509-493-2266 1001 E Jewett Blvd White Salmon, WA 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 © 2021 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 37, No. 29 Rudyard Kipling made up bedtime stories for his children. He wrote them down in 1902 and called them Just So Stories. Using a lot of imagination, these tales were fun ways to explain things like how the elephant got his trunk, the leopard his spots and the camel his hump. Come out and trot! Camel! You have given extra work to the other animals. You can live on your humph! Come fetch and carry things! How the _______ Got His Throat The Beginning of the _________ How the ______ Got His Hump How the First ______ was Written 9 + 9 + 9 + 2 8 + 7 9 + 9 9 + 9 + 3 How the __________ Got His Skin How the __________ was Made 8 + 8 + 8 3 + 3 + 3 + 5 How the ________ Got His Spots The _____ That Played with the Sea The Elephant’s ________ The _____ That Walked by Himself 12 - 4 22 - 5 6 + 3 + 3 Grrrrrrr! 32 - 9 HEY! W-w-what’s happening to my back??? 4 + 9 24 = RHINOCEROS 12 = CHILD 23 = CAT 21 = LETTER 18 = ARMADILLOS 15 = CAMEL 17 = CRAB 11 = BUTTERFLY 16 - 5 14 = ALPHABET 29 = WHALE 8 = LEOPARD 13 = KANGAROO Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Flow simple written directions. Other animals asked Camel to help with their work ... hen the world was new and the animals were just beginning to work for Man, Camel lived out in the middle of the desert because he didn’t want to work. Whenever anybody spoke to him, Camel just said . . . After three days, the Man spoke to Horse, Dog and Ox. You have missed three days of work. Now you’ll work without stopping or eating for three days! Rudyard Kipling wrote 12 Just So Stories. Do the math to complete the titles. The Sing-Song of Old Man _______ The __________ That Stamped Come plow! But how can I with this humph on my back? This made the three animals very angry, so they asked a Djinn (also called a genie) to help make Camel do some work, too. 419 State Street Suite 4 Hood River, OR 541-387-8688 That Humph-thing in the desert won’t work, so you must work double-time to make up for it! The Djinn warned Camel to stop saying “HUMPH.” But Camel said it again and again. So the Djinn cast a spell on Camel. nd since then, Camel always wears a lolloping humph (we call it a hump now to not hurt his feelings). But he never caught up with the three days of work he missed at the beginning of the world. And he has never learned how to behave! Why are they called Just So Stories? Put these sentences in order to discover the answer. LOLLOPING ALPHABET CHAPTERS BEDTIME LEOPARD KIPLING DESERT BEHAVE PLOW CAMEL DJINN HORSE TROT DOG I T P L O W G H I G C B D R G D J I N N H E E T O R T I H I A H S D D U L S O P P A E J T P D C R O T V R U I I S A S L E E T K T S M M E L R O D R A P O E L O S T E B A H P L A L Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. Just for Phun! Persons, Places and Things Look through the newspaper and find five of each of the kinds of nouns: Persons Places Things Cut them out and glue them to a piece of paper by category. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Identify and categorize nouns. When a P and an H are together in a word, they are pronounced with the F-sound (alphabet, dolphin, nephew and phone). Can you find 5 or more words in today’s newspaper that are spelled with PH? The PH can be in the beginning, middle, or end of the word. Standards Link: Language Arts: Identify digraphs. 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