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Hood River News,
Wednesday, May 20, 2014
www.hoodrivernews.com
H ELPING H ANDS
Helping Hands Against Violence hosted about 75
people May 14 for its annual community appre-
ciation event at Springhouse Winery. Five local
groups or businesses received special recognition
for their donations and efforts to support the
women’s shelter and its outreach programs for
women in crisis. At right, Helping Hands board
present Deanna Simonds tells the audience
about the work of Gary Hebener and Mosier
Grange, who renovated rooms inside the shelter.
Award winners, from left, are Mosier Grange’s
Carol Root Seeber, Gary Hebener, Sherrill Heben-
er, and Grangemaster Lois Root; Trina Rietsma,
Springhouse general manager; Cathy Butterfield,
Hood River Hotel general manager; Erin Trenholm
of Providence Hood River Memorial; and Kirby
Neumann-Rea of Hood River News.
Photos by Kirby Neumann-Rea
M AY S TREET
Photo by Deanna Simonds
Britney Chavez, second grade and Anna Campos, fifth grade, pull
weeds Saturday, along with Guillermina Gonzalez, Anna’s mother,
in the annual beautification day at May Street School. Parent and
student volunteers did plantings, spruced up the playground and
entry area, and other tasks.
C OFFEE C LATTER
Curtis Homes, with its panoramic view from the top of Button Bridge, hosted Friday’s Coffee Clatter, a monthly Chamber of Commerce
event. About 40 people squeezed into the airy, yet cozy, office, for introductions and round-robin announcements. The star of the show
was Cameron and Emily Curtis’ daughter, Lucy, 6 months, held by Julie Johnston of Curtis Homes.
© 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 31, No. 24
Small legs to
hold body at
shell opening.
This growing hermit crab is feeling
cramped. He has outgrown his borrowed
shell home and is
looking for a new
home. When he
finds an empty
shell, he uses his
claws to check
out the size. If the
size is right, he
cleans the shell carefully and quickly
pulls his abdomen out of the
old shell and sticks it into
the new one!
Standards Link: Life Science:
Students know animals inhabit
different kinds of environments.
Which shell will the
hermit crab pick?
He’ll pick the one with
numbers that add up
to an even number.
Draw a line from
each body part to
its description.
Abdomen
Antennae, used
to feel, smell and
taste things.
Walking legs, two
on each side.
Standards Link: Life Science:
Animals have structures that
serve different functions in
growth, survival and reproduction.
Find the Hermit Crab Twins!
11 + 6 + 2
9+5+3
3+9+5
6+4+2
The word
hermit describes
someone who lives alone.
Yet, hermit crabs live and
travel in colonies of a few
dozen to more than 100!
Both as a larva and an adult, a hermit
crab grows by molting. A hermit crab
has a hard outer covering called an
exoskeleton. This hard covering
doesn’t grow like human skin.
Instead, it must be shed when a new,
larger exoskeleton is ready. The new
exoskeleton is soft at first, and the
hermit crab must stay in its shell
until it hardens.
Which picture goes with each
sentence telling about how a
hermit crab grows?
1. Mother hermit crab carries
eggs inside shell.
2. Mother hermit crab releases
eggs that are ready to hatch
into the ocean.
LARVA
TENTACLES
HERMIT
ANEMONE
CRAB
MOLTING
ABDOMEN
SHELL
HOME
SKIN
SHED
CLAW
ALONE
HATCH
PREDATOR
Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week’s Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
S N E M O D B A E R
O E F C L A W N M O
L A L Y R G M E O T
H L O C D N A M H A
C A E S A I L O E D
T R U H H T O N R E
A V C E S L N E M R
H A R D K O E E I P
J N I K S M W R T A
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Community Adviser
Imagine you have been selected to advise on the
growth of your neighborhood. Look through the
newspaper for news articles showing things that
your community is concerned about. Make a list of
ways you think you could help your community.
Standards Link: Social Science: Students understand the ways in
which individuals and groups interact to solve problems in a community.
3. The hermit crab larva has
large bulging eyes and a
long shrimp-like body.
4. After its third molt, the
hermit crab looks more like
an adult hermit crab and will
move closer to the shore and
find a shell home.
Replace the words missing from this paragraph.
Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have structures that serve different functions in survival.
Front claws
Eyestalks
4 + 13 + 8
Standards Link: Number Sense:
Calculate sums; recognize even and
odd numbers.
ermit crabs are different from true crabs
in one important way. True crabs have a
short abdomen that is folded up under the
large shell on its back. A hermit crab has a
long abdomen that sticks out at the rear end of
its body. Because its abdomen does not have a
hard covering, it must borrow a shell to protect
this part of its body. The
abdomen’s curled shape fits
inside the spiral of a shell.
ome hermit crabs
carry sea anemones
on their shells. The sea
anemone’s __________
tentacles keep ________
away. In return, the
anemone, an animal
without ________, gets
carried to new ________
supplies. Sometimes the
anemone gets to ____
the hermit crab’s
_______________!
Standards Link: Life Science:
Students know sequential stages of life cycles are different for different animals
If a predator tries to grab a hermit crab, the crab must pull into its shell
quickly. If a predator manages to catch a claw, the crab can break it off,
leaving the predator holding the claw and nothing else. The hermit crab
will grow a new claw to replace the missing one!
Read some of the
Houses for Sale
ads in the newspaper.
Then, create a
House for Sale
ad for a hermit crab!
Standards Links: Writing
Applications: Write brief
expository descriptions.
When I am
crabby I …
Finish this story.
Are you an eagle-eyed reader?
Read the story below and circle
the eight errors you find. Then
rewrite the story.
Tide Pool Cycles
Creatures in tide pools need
water to survive. When the
sun evaporates tide-pool water
or a tide is lower than normal,
the animals must take action
to save themselves.
To kep from drying out, sea
anemones pull in there
tentacles and turn into soft
blobs. Sea cucombers
sometimes curl into bawlls or
cover itself with mud.
Clams and barnacles snap
their shells tightly closed,
traping water inside that keeps
them wett. When the water
level in in a tide pool drops,
some seaweeds make a slimy
mucus that coats their fronds.