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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
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C
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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.
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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 …”