The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current, January 07, 2015, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextA8 Hood River News, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 © 2014 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 31, No. 4 Each row of squares below have the letters of a word that can be found on this page. Read today’s Kid Scoop page, then try to unscramble them all. SCORE YOURSELF: 1-3: Hiker 4-7: Tree Lover 8-10: Tree Specialist ach year, a tree grows a new layer of wood under its bark. By counting these layers, called rings, you can discover the age of a tree. This year, after you take the decorations off your Christmas tree, count its rings! One ring equals one year. (The bark is not a ring.) Can you find out the age of your tree? Standards Link: Visual discrimination. My name is Dr. Cypress Sapling. I’m a dendrochronologist. What’s that? Well, a dendrochronologist is a scientist who studies the rings of trees. he rings of a tree can also show what the climate of the forest was during different years. Look at the tree trunk pictured above. Some of the rings are wide and some of them are thin. A wide ring tells us that this was a good year for growing. There was the right amount of water and sunlight. Drought causes slower growth and narrow rings. Dark spots tell us that the tree survived a fire that year. By reading the rings of trees, dendrochronologists can read the story of our planet, stories that reside in living trees and in logs used to build ancient buildings. Tree rings have told of weather patterns that lead to severe fires. They have revealed century-long droughts, insect plagues and times of volcanic eruptions. Standards Link: Life Science: When the environment changes, plant growth and survival are affected. GROWING TREES RINGS WOOD BARK COUNTING TRUNK FIRE CORE CABIN AGE SAMPLES PREDICT WEATHER My Christmas tree survived a fire one year. What year was that? In what year was my tree planted? Is my tree older than you? Find the ring that grew in 2011. Was this a good growing year for the tree? Standards Link: Math: Students use strategies, skills and concepts in finding solutions. I found an old log cabin while hiking last week. I took a core sample from the logs to find the age of the cabin. Core sample from Christmas tree Make a list of 18 words from the newspaper that have double vowels. Compare the core samples to see where the patterns of the Circle the vowels. rings match. The last ring of the living tree grew in the year Underline the vowel 2014. Count backwards from the bark to find out the age of whose sound you each tree. Cutting out the strips makes comparing easier. hear when you say the word. Use the core samples to complete the chart below. HEAT BOAT EIGHT Core sample from log cabin Standards Link: Math: Use a table to sort information and compute results. D R E H T A E W N P E N D R E R O C I R O S G T G C H O B E R E K R A B S U A D O L N E O N G N C I O P U E L W N T F C O M R S O G I I I T S A T O B A R N T S R S D E A E D G G R Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. 1. Use a strip of paper 60" long to make the timeline. 2. Divide the strip into enough equal segments to show the number of weeks left in the school year. 3. Find a newspaper article that interests you. Write the headline, lead sentence and date of the article in the first segment. 4. Follow the newspaper for more stories about this news item and add each story or commentary to the timeline. Core sample from living tree I don’t have to cut down trees to read their rings. Using a special tool called an increment borer, I can take a core sample from a living tree. A core cample is about the size of a soda straw, and the rings look like lines. Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities. Standards Link: Decoding: Recognize vowel digraphs. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple-step directions. The Life of a Tree Imagine you could talk to a tree that has lived for many, many years. What would the tree tell you about its life? … always staying on the trail when hiking through the forest.