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A8 Hood River News, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 S TERNWHEELER D AYS IN CL At top, 3-year-old Marin of Under- wood swings with her dad, Matt, at the Cascade Locks Children’s Play- ground at Sternwheeler Days on Saturday morning. Young Mountain Men campers from Burbank,Wash., tend a fire at Thunder Island. Amer- ican Legion Post 137 of Carson, Wash., marches among a line of cars during the parade. Volunteers toss goodies from their parade wagon. At bottom, mountain women of the Cascade Mountain Men represent old school finery, marching in the Sternwheeler Days parade on WaNaPa Street. A roller train with 10 kids winds its way through the Marine Park. Photos by Patrick Mulvihill © 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 31, No. 31 ugs have it rough! Insects are, for the most part, tiny and defenseless. Insects are a major food source for millions of different kinds of animals. Imagine being in danger of being eaten every day of your life! Luckily, we bugs have come up with some clever ways to protect ourselves from being eaten by predators. If a bug can’t be seen, it won’t get eaten. Cicadas sing loudly, but they are very hard to see because their bodies match the tree trunks on which they sit. Rain forest treehoppers or thornbugs look like thorns on a twig. These bugs feed together and face the same direction to look even more like real thorns. The planthopper looks more like a leaf than a bug. How many planthoppers can you find hiding in the leaves at left? Standards Link: Life Science: Understand insect relationships with their physical environment. How many cicadas do you see? Some bugs can squirt this smelly fluid at attackers. If enough fluid lands on an attacker, it may kill it. Usually, it only creates a burning feeling or temporary blindness. Fluid Meanings Some bugs avoid being eaten by tasting terrible. The monarch butterfly lays its eggs on milkweed plants. Its caterpillars grow up eating milkweed, which makes them taste bad. Lots of animals can’t eat milkweed, because it tastes awful and even makes some animals sick. When the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, the bitter-tasting chemicals from the milkweed are still in its body. Birds and other predators learn that the orange and black beauty is a snack to avoid. Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that organisms have distinct structures and body systems that serve specific functions in growth, survival and reproduction. Unscramble the title of this book. Then, check it out at your library this summer! Beauregard loves bugs. He sits quietly and watches carefully to see how many bugs he can spot in a day. On Monday he spotted two bugs. Each day since then he has doubled the number of bugs spotted. Record in his notebook how many bugs he spotted each day for two weeks. What day did he first spot more than 100 bugs? Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Read age-appropriate text in a variety of genres. Phasmids or stick insects resemble leaves or sticks. They can grow up to 20 inches long and are the longest insects in the world. Have you ever heard of a stinkbug? There are many kinds of bugs called stinkbugs. They all have a special scent gland in the thorax that produces fluids that smell disgusting. regory wakes up to discover that he has become a giant beetle! Surprisingly, no one notices him one bit. Not even when his slippery beetle self falls down the stairs and he lies there wriggling, all six legs in the air. Look through the newspaper and find synonyms for the word fluid. Try replacing the word fluid on today’s Kid Scoop page with each of the synonyms you found. Does the synonym change the meaning of any of the sentences? Standards Link: Vocabulary: Identify and use synonyms and antonyms. CAMOUFLAGE Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop SQUIRT stories and activities. CICADAS H O T W T N E C S N MILKWEED D E E W K L I M D A FLUID S M I M I C S I I T PHASMIDS GLAND G O K S A G U T M T SCENT G L C D Q L B T S A ATTACKER E G A L F U O M A C TWIG O S N N G B I E H K MIMICS MONARCH E A S S D T E R P E SNACK N H C R A N O M T R EGGS Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical BUGS words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. Buggy Adjectives Look through the newspaper and find 10 adjectives that describe one or more of the bugs on today’s Kid Scoop page. Use these adjectives to write a paragraph about the lives of bugs. Standards Link: Number Sense: Calculate sums to 20,000. Standards Link: Grammar: Identify and use adjectives in reading and writing. Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word HIDE in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row. Some spaces have been filled in for you. Wacky Bug Make up a weird and wacky bug and describe what it looks like, where it lives and what it eats.
