12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL OCTOBER 4, 2017
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 33, No. 43
Connect the dots to
complete the Santa Maria.
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Columbus Day is celebrated in
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the USA on the second Munday
in October. The date was
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Columbus’ landing changed both the
European and the American continents
forever. The Spanish called the
Americas the “New World.” But the
Americas – both North and South –
were not “new.” They were old
continents just like Europe,
Asia and the others.
However, the trading
between the
continents
that
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from
Columbus’ trip
made the entire
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world new. It brought
many changes to people and
places all over the world.
selected to be near the date in
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1492 when Christopher
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Are you an eagle-eyed reader?
Read the articles below and
correct the eight spelling and
grammar errors you find. The
first one is done for you.
Columbus landed on an eyeland
near the present-day Bahamas.
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Columbus was sponsored buy
King Ferdinand II and Queen
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Isabella of Spain. His crew sailed
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on three ships: the Niña, the Pinta
and the Santa Maria. Columbus
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was looking for a faster root to
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the Indies, the medieval name for
Asia. The quicker route would
have made trading for valuable
spices easier. Instead, he landed
on what we now know is part of
North america.
olumbus’ sailors traded buttons
and tools for Native American
hamacas (hammocks). These made
excellent beds on board ship.
Columbus made three more trip
to what was called the West
Indies. He died in 1506, still
Trading hamacas was just the beginning. Corn
and potatoes were also new to the Europeans.
They became important foods in both Europe
and Africa.
The outside or frame of a ship
is called its hull. How many of
these things can you find hiding
in the hull of the above ship?
• comb • hammer • broom
• fish
• pencil
• eyeglasses
Unfortunately, Europeans also brought new diseases to the Americas.
Diseases such as smallpox, measles and the flu eventually caused the
deaths of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.
Standards Link: History/Social Science: Students describe the early explorations of the Americas and the cooperation and conflicts that existed between the Indian nations, explorers and settlers.
believing he had landed in Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci’s voyage
along the cost of South America
in 1501 convinced most
explorers of that time that a large
continent existed a cross the
Atlantic. But Columbus didn’t
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eeping fresh water on the
Niña, the Pinta and the
Santa Maria was an important
job. When they set out to sea,
Columbus and his crew didn’t
know how long it would be
until they would be able to get
more fresh water.
How did the sailors load
water onto the ships?
Cut out the scrambled
pictures. Do the math problem
on each picture to rearrange
them in order from lowest to
highest to find out.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension:
Sequence information.
NRCO
TUNEPSA
ESOMOTAT
PESLPAENIP
CABTOOC
ATSOPOTE
LOCCOHTEA
SMOMCHAK
KUPMSNIP
believe that. He still thought he
Explore the
Newspaper
Scoop out water with buckets
and pour into barrels.
Enjoy fresh water on board
the ship!
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Row boat full of water back
to the ships.
Look at the list of things Europeans and Americans traded.
Then draw a line from each word in the list to its matching
scrambled word.
What Europe Got
from the Americas
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potatoes What the Americas
pigs
Got from Europe
corn
ESEGE
cattle
pineapples
ESEB
chickens
PAGSER
geese
GPSI
bees
grapes
TLEACT
tobacco
NISHCEKC
hammocks
chocolate
peanuts
pumpkins
tomatoes
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
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Fill lifeboat with fresh water.
COLUMBUS
TRADING
PUMPKINS
SHIPS
SCOOP
BROOM
MEASLES
SAILORS
SPANISH
CORN
SANTA
GEESE
DREAM
FISH
BEDS
Look through
today’s newspaper
to find words,
pictures and ads that
tell the following:
• something you
do well
• something you
dream of doing
• something you’d
like to learn about
Standards Link: Editing: Edit graphs to correct
spelling and grammar.
Complete the grid by using all the letters
in the word SHIP 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: Language
Arts/Research: Use organizational
features of newspapers to locate
information.
Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week’s Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
A H N H S
I N A P S
T S U B M U L O C E
N I G E S E E G S L
A F N P
I N A S A S
S N I K P M U P
I A
A H D B A N O T L E
S A A E M O A O O M
R I R D C O R N R A
F D T S M C O L S B
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Explorer Times
This week’s word:
ROUTE
The noun route means a
road or course of travel
from one place to another.
My mom takes the same
route from our house to
school every day.
Try to use the word route
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family.
Exploration
With a partner or two, pretend that you are a reporter
traveling with Christopher Columbus. Create a
newspaper called Explorer Times that has all the
news, views, sports, weather and ads from the voyage
with Columbus. Use your local newspaper for ideas.
Describe an area of the
Earth that you would
like to explore and
explain your choice.
ANSWER: Friendship.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write multiple paragraph
expository compositions using who, what, where, why and how.
had found a new route to Asia.
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