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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2018
© 2018 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 35, No. 4
Chameleon Cutie
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The world’s smallest chameleon, the
Brookesia micra chameleon
lives on the island of
Madagascar.
Adult males grow to
only about a half-inch
(16 millimeters)
from nose to tail.
The world is full of tiny, adorable
little animals. This week, meet
some of them on Kid Scoop!
This chameleon is so small that
you might miss it if you don’t look
very closely. In fact, scientists did miss
this tiny guy for a long time.
Circle every third number to discover the year
the Brookesia micra chameleon was discovered.
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The Paedophryne amauensis
frog is about the size of a
housefly. It is so tiny that it can
fit on a grape. It measures only
about a third of an inch or
7.7 millimeters long.
How a Scientist Discovered the Tiny Frog
Christopher Austin is a herpetologist – a scientist that
studies reptiles and amphibians.
Replace the missing words.
Madame Berthe’s
Mouse Lemur
Can you find
each frog’s
identical twin?
He wanted to find the animal
making an unusual “tink-tink-tink”
sound in the tropical forest
of Papua New Guinea.
The world’s smallest primate _________
only one ounce
(30 grams),
or about the same
as a slice of ________. It is
called Madame Berthe’s
mouse lemur.
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JOE’S
While the cute critter is
super tiny, it has large
eyes which help it ______ at
night and a tail that is _______
than its body.
He heard the noise coming
from some dead leaves on the
forest floor. He looked and
looked but couldn’t find any
animals. He grabbed a clump of the
leaves and put them into a bag. Back
at his camp, he checked each of the hundreds of leaves in the bag.
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Imagine his happy surprise when a tiny animal hopped off one of
the leaves. It was a tiny frog that no one had ever seen before.
Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have structures that serve different functions in survival.
Same But
Different
Royal Antelope
The royal antelope is the world’s smallest antelope, measuring
only ten inches tall and weighing less than seven pounds (3kg).
This cute little creature lives in the rainforests of Ghana and Sierra
Leone, but the chances of you seeing one are very slim because
they’re nocturnal.
It’s the smallest bird in the
world and weighs less than
two ounces (57g). Don’t let
its size fool you! It’s tiny but
powerful. It can flap its little
wings 80 times per second!
How many words can you make with the
letters in Royal Antelope?
Tiny and small are
different words that
mean the same thing.
They are synonyms.
Look through the
newspaper for
some examples
of synonyms.
Can you find five?
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to
locate information.
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Dwarf Three-toed Jerboa
The dwarf three-toed jerboa is the world’s smallest rodent. It
weighs less than an ounce and is about 1.7 inches tall. Jerboas
live in deserts and dry areas in North Africa
and Asia, where
they dig
underground burrows.
Some people compare its little body to a:
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Standards Link: Follow simple written directions.
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ADORABLE
ANIMALS
PRIMATE
FINGERS
SIMILAR
ISLAND
LEAVES
SMALL
SOUND
NOISE
LEMUR
TINY
FROG
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Find the words in the puzzle.
How many of them can you
find on this page?
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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D R aya
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Newspapers provide loads of measuring
opportunities. Have students measure and
compare the width, height and area of photos
in the paper. Which photos are the biggest?
Why do they think that might be?
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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
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