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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
COMMUNITY
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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
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5th Grade
Thatcher Wallace,
6th Grade
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6th Grade
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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.
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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.
Favorite Author
Who is your favorite author? Write
down three significant or surprising
facts about that person.
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