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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015
© 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
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.
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
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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.
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?
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.
Phasmids or stick insects resemble
leaves or sticks. They can grow
up to 20 inches long and are the
longest insects in the world.
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Unscramble the title of this book.
Then, check it out at your library
this summer!
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Read age-appropriate text in a variety of genres.
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.
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.
FLUID
The noun fluid means a
liquid or something that
flows easily.
Water is a fluid.
Milk is a fluid, too.
Try to use the word fluid
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family members.
Wacky Bug
Buggy Adjectives
Standards Link: Grammar: Identify and use adjectives in
reading and writing.
Keep Your Toothbrush Clean
Store your toothbrush in an upright position. When you’re
done brushing, try to store it standing straight up and allow
it to air-dry until your next brushing. If there’s more than
one brush in the same holder, try to keep them as separate
as possible to prevent cross-contamination.
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ANSWER: A chocolate-
covered elephant.
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.
Dr. Chad Clement
Standards Link: Number Sense: Calculate
sums to 20,000.
Make up a weird
and wacky bug
and describe
what it looks like,
where it lives
and what it eats.