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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Page 4 C LASSIFIEDS E ASTERN O REGON M ARKETPLACE • 1-800-962-2819 • FAX 278-2680 © 2017 by y V Vicki icki Whiting, Editor Je Jeff f f Schinkel, S Graphics V Vol. ol. 33, No. 24 Have you ever heard hea ard someone say, say , “I’ve been n working like a dog”? People say this wh hen they work really hard. when Some people say this phrase started because sh heepdogs sheepdogs guard sheep from dawn until dusk, with only food, a place to sleep and af ff fection affection pay. . as their pay Can you figur figure e out wher where r e wor ds go in each of these words the article below? Holly H Holly, , a specially trained re escue dog, will receive a rescue __ _________ award for saving __________ vi ictims of the Kashmir victims Dogs have been sharing humans years. their lives with hu umans for at least 12,000 ye ars. Since early times, dogs g have helped p p people p in many y ways. y ea arthquake. earthquake. Holly H an nd her and ________ __ _______ Dogs have a bette better er sense of smell than huma humans. ans. They can detect one drop o of f blood in five quarts of wa ater! water! Dogs who help peo people o ple in their everyday liv iv ves lives are called canine companions and assistance dogs. Some dogs are carefully trained to o perform tasks that help the blind, deaf, f, physically-impaired. or physically-impaired red ed . Neil are N With W ith their ultra-sensitive ultra-se ensitive noses, dogs are m masters ast a at land fin ing buried lan finding nd mines. Mine-sniffing Mine-snif ff fing dogs dog gs have helped prevent thousands th housands of injuries and de eaths in deaths war -torn countries. countrie es. war-torn Trained sniffers T rained r snifff fers also a find people trapped in n collapsed drugs buildings and dru ugs hidden Some in suitcases. Som me dogs sniff have been trained d to snif f f buildings. out termites in bu uildings. Help Molly (the guide dog) lead Mark safely through g the park. p on n standby 365 days a year so th hat they can fly anywhere in that th he world when disaster the __ ________. _________. In n Kashmir Holly’ s heightened Kashmir, , Holly’s D R S T Q C A E B F G P O N K J I H L se ense of __________ proved sense in nvaluable; she ________ invaluable; se everal people who were then several M ha auled alive from hauled Fido o has sniffed snif fed out something someth hing buried under the sand. Connect the dots in alphabetical alp l phabetical h b ti l order! d ! __ ______________ buildings. _______________ Holly worked tirelessly without H __ ___________ in extremely ____________ ho ot weather hot weather. . Most homing pigeons co continually ontinually Some return to their nests. Som me people used to put this instinct to use. If they wanted to send a message traveling, home when they were tr raveling, lightweight they would write it on li ightweight paper, , roll it into a tube on a homing paper pigeon’s s leg, release the e bird and have pigeon’ the message fly home with w the pigeon. = = = = = = = = Homing pigeons have b been used in remote for areas to send requests fo or emergency emer gency help. frequently They were used frequen ntly in World W orld o War W ar a I to troops Cher Ami send messages g from troo ops p in the field. Homing g pigeon pi p igeon g Croix was awarded the French h award for heroism, the Cr r o oix de Guerre, Guerr e , important being for delivering 12 import tant messages, despite bein ng shot once. welve-year old Jak Jake ke is left as an orphan with n no inheritance except a dog. Mystery arises right away. . Where are the d diamonds his away dad is accused of steal stealing? Was s ling? Wa that really his dad buri ied in the buried Nevada Desert? Jake s sets out in search of the answers, aided by dog’s s keen nose. his dog’ Unscramble Unscra amble the title of this great book. book Then, Then check it i out at your local library! Answers can be found at www.kidscoop.com www .kidscoop.com Number Round U Up Look through the newspa newspaper aper for 10 numbers, cut them out and “herd” them together onto paper. . Round each number to the a piece of paper nearest 10. Next round e each number to the nearest 100. Standards Link: Number Sense: Round off offf numbers between 10 and 100. W What does Croix de e Guerre mean? Use the code to find out. CANIN CANINE NE MASTERS MASTE ERS SUITCASES SUITCA ASES PIGEO NS PIGEONS DEAF HOMING HOMIN NG RESCUE RESCU UE P A APER R PAPER T A ASKS S TASKS WA AT TER R WATER SHEEP P DUSK COLLA APSED COLLAPSED NOSES S P A ARK PARK In n today’s today’ today s newspaper, newspaper , f five sentences find co ontaining at least one containing adjective adje ective each. Underline ea ach adjective in re d . each red. the nouns U Underline described blue. . Use de escribed in blue the e list of adjectives and nouns no uns you find to write f new sentences. five Find the wor words rds in the puzzle, week’ w s Kid Scoop then in this week’s an nd activities. stories and … doing the right thing even when it is hard. C S E S A C T I U S O R E W O A R K I E L E N U S K S U D S L T G K C P N H F O This week’ week’s s word: A S S L E S O A R N CANINE P A P E R M E I E K The noun canine means a member of the dog family. family . S M H A I D G R T D E S O N E N I N A C D G G K R A P A W S Bosco is a lovable canine but he doesn’t doesn’ t neighbor ’ s cat. like our neighbor’s Try T r ry to use the word canine in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family family. . Puppy Tales Tell a tale about a puppy. Be sure to tell details like the puppy’s name, where it lives, what it looks like and what it does. You can start your tale with “Once upon a time …”
