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I’ve sprinkled this
page with lucky clovers. How
many can you find?
Are you a car
careful
re eful r reader?
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Read
rticle below and see if you
the article
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ro ors. Then,
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circle
errors.
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re ectly on
rewrite
correctly
the blank lines.
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bug?
ug? It
It’s waaay
too small to hold a pers
person.
Who o flies in these l little planes?
Leprechauns?
rechauns?
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drone.
is a
r one
o . A drone
d
dron
flying gadget that is flown
by remote control.
Drones can hover like a h hummingbird, swoop like a b bat and fly
backwards like a dragonfl
ly!
dragonfly!
tiny
Small drones can carry tin
ny
cameras and they can go
places humans can’
can’t. t.
Look at the ways drones a are
being used. Why is a dron
ne
drone
better than a person for
each of these jobs?
F ir efigh t ers use them
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the em
t to
o w
a t ch f forest
or
o est fir
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h y
watch
fires.
Why?
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A drone is also called a UAV. What
does that stand for? Use the
Leprechaun’s
Code
chaun s Cod
de to find out!
In March
arch 2015, a large
lar ge storm
a anuatu, an
hit the e island of V
Vanuatu,
Pacific,
island d in the South Pacific
ng 1 11 1 people and making
killing
almost
st 200,000 people
eless. Nearly all the
homeless.
d’ s food crops were
island’s
oyed. People used a
distroyed.
pound foldable drone to
five-pound
fl
ly around the island and take
fly
pi
ictures of the damage to
pictures
figure
fi
igure out how to helped.
Drones are always being
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While they are often small and cute, drones s are not toys.
In fact, once you have a vehicle that can fly y over the fence
and see what’s going on at the neighbors,
hb you must
hbors,
follow rules and d etiquette about
privacy and safety
safety. . Be
sure to check with your
vernment
local government
officials about drone
laws in your
our area.
Drones are used by TV news
D
cr
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aren’ t
crewz
practical.
pr
ractical. They’re also used
by y real estate agents to show
home
ho
ome buyers beautiful overhead
views
vi
iews of a home and its
neighborhood.
ne
eighborhood. And drones are
a popular tool for wedding
photographers
ph
hotographers to shoot
overhead
ov
verhead video of the big
ocassions.
oc
cassions.
Flying a drone
rone involves
thinking and
nd making
ike a pilot. It
decisions like
takes time to master flying
tice in an empty
a drone and that means doing a lot of practice
field. (Check local laws before going to a field to practice.)
Meterologists use them
to track storms. Why?
Biologists use drones
to observe wildlife. Why?
Look through the
newspaper for five
or more adjectives
that describe a drone.
Use these to write
three sentences
about drones.
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to locate
information.
Each of the
these
ese Leprechaun hats has a
an
identical twin – except one. Can you find
fin
nd it?
Standards Link: Visual
V isual Discriminat
Discrimination:
tion: Find similarities and dif
differences
ferences in co
common
ommon objects.
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and
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Look through the newspa
newspaper
aper for an example
of how technology makes s life better for
people. Then, talk with a parent about ways
could
this same technology cou
uld cause problems.
Standards Link: Research: Use the new
newspaper
wspaper to locate information.
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This week’
week’s s word:
ETIQUETTE
The noun etiquette means
the rules about the proper
way to do something.
Wearing
W
e earing sandals to school
was not considered
correct etiquette.
etiquette .
Try
T
ry
r to use the word
etiquette in a sentence
today when talking with
family. .
your friends and family
What if pigs
could fly?
Write about what you think
would happen if pigs took
to the skies.