SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2018 | 5B
© 2018 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
Do the math to match each sea
star to its name.
Vol. 34, No. 35
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wice each day the ocean water rises and falls along the
coastline. This is called the tide. At high tide, the ocean water
covers the seashore. At low tide, the water recedes and much
of the shoreline is left exposed. But not all of it. As the tide
goes out, pools of water are left behind. These pools, called
tide pools, shelter many living creatures from the hot sun.
Standards Link: Life Science: Different animals inhabit different kinds of environments.
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1. Cut out each of the playing cards
and glue them to some heavier
paper, such as construction paper.
2. Shuffle the cards and lay them
face down on a table. Make four
rows with five cards in each row
as shown here:
The hermit crab is
a type of crab that
doesn’t have a hard
shell. It uses other
animals’ old shells
for protection.
When a hermit
crab grows, it
must find and
move into a
larger shell.
The biggest crab
is the Japanese
spider crab. It
has a 12 foot (3.7
meter) leg span.
Crabs are 10-legged
animals that walk
sideways. There
are nearly 5,000
different species
of crabs.
Limpets cling to
rocks using their
muscular “foot.” They
scrape off and eat
algae as they crawl
slowly along rocks.
No one knows how
they do this, but
limpets return each
night to the same
place on their rock.
A clam is an animal
that has two shells
to protect its soft
body. There are more
than 15,000 species
of clams worldwide.
The biggest clam
is the giant clam,
which grows up to
4.8 feet (1.5 meters)
long and weighs up
to 550 pounds (250
kilograms).
Barnacles start life
as tiny shrimp-like
animals. They attach
themselves head first
to a solid surface such
as a rock, dock or ship.
Some barnacles have
been found attached
to whales. Once
attached, a barnacle
forms a hard shell
around its body.
Sea anemones look
like flowers, but they
are predatory animals.
The anemone uses its
tentacles to capture
and sting prey.
Once a sea
anemone’s food is
caught, it closes its
body around it and
digests its meal
within 15 minutes.
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9 + 16 + 7
11 + 5 + 9
3. With one or more friends, take
turns flipping over two cards at
a time. If you match two creature
cards, keep the cards. If you don’t
get a match, flip the cards back
over but leave in the same position.
4. The game ends when all of the
matches have been taken. The
person with the most pairs wins.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow
multiple-step written directions. Life Science: Animals
have external features that help them thrive in different
kinds of places; there is a variation among individuals of
one kind within a population; students know examples
of diverse life forms in different environments.
Look through the newspaper to
find two things that go together.
Explain why the two things
belong together.
Standards Link: Investigation: Students recognize
similarities and differences in common objects.
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A sea urchin is a
spiny animal that
has teeth on its
bottom side. It uses
its teeth to scrape
algae from rocks.
Some sea urchins
have poison in their
spines. Urchins use
their spines to dig
holes for burrowing
and as a protection
from attackers.
Living sand dollars are
brown and are covered
with short spines
that feel like velvet.
Sand dollars burrow
into the sand to hide
from predators.
It takes a sand dollar
one to three minutes
to cover itself. That is
fast enough to escape
from a slow-moving
sea star.
The sand castle worm
builds a tubular home
for itself with sand
and a sticky mucus
it makes with its
own body.
When under
water, sand castle
worms extend
tentacles from the
tube to trap tiny
bits of food.
The sea cucumber
may look like the
vegetable cucumber,
but it is an animal
that is related to
the sea star.
To escape attackers,
a sea cucumber turns
itself inside out and
throws its internal
organs at the enemy.
The organs grow back.
Symmetrical Challenge
Some shapes can be split into two identical parts. Things
with matching halves are said to be “symmetrical.” Circle
the shapes that are symmetrical.
Standards Link: Math/Geometry: Identify figures that have bilateral symmetry.
TIDE
POOLS
WORLDWIDE
URCHIN
DOLLAR
SAND
ANEMONE
BARNACLE
CRAB
TENTACLES
SHELL
CLAMS
WHALES
PREY
SHIP
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25 = chocolate chip star
22 = sun star
48 = candy cane star
18 = basket star
27 = cushion star
12 = fat star
32 = comb sea star
16 = sunflower sea star
Standards Link: Life Science: Students know
examples of diverse life forms in different
environments; physical structure or behavior
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Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
T E S E L A H W C E
E T D O L L A R L L
N
I D
I
E P B O A C
This week’s word:
T U P O W A L L M A
RECEDE
A T R E R D L A S N
The word recede means
to move back or away.
C S E C N E L U L R
Water recedes at low tide,
revealing colorful shells
and creatures in tide pools.
L R Y A H E S R O A
E W S S H
I
P M O B
Try to use the word recede
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family.
S E N O M E N A P W
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Tide Pool
Treasures
Times Two
Search through the newspaper for 20
numbers that are multiples of 2. Clip and
glue the numbers on a sheet of paper in
order from smallest to largest.
One day I was exploring
tide pools along the shore
and discovered …
Finish this story.
Standards Link: Math: Number sense.
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