12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL NOVEMBER 15, 2017
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 33, No. 49
ave you ever joined a club? Maybe you joined a
group to play sports? Maybe you and friends
get together to play games or make craft projects.
Discover the Secret Code
The Backyard Treehouse Math Club is having a meeting.
To get in, you have to know the Secret Code Word.
Look at each of the kids below. Draw a line to the
kind of club you think might interest them.
Sports
Club
Chess
Club
Bird
Watchers
Club
Rotarians have a short test with
only four questions. (Rotarians
call this The Four Way Test.)
Rotarians ask themselves these
four questions about everything
they say or do.
Fill in the missing letters in this math crossword puzzle.
Then, unscramble the letters in gray boxes to discover
the Secret Code Word. Write it here:
Art
Club
1
2
3
4
5
7
8
6
9
If everyone asked themselves
these four questions before
they said or did something,
how would it make the world
a better place?
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Clubs That Help
11
Did you know that nearly every community has clubs
made up of people who want to help other people?
Helping others is sometimes called “being of service.”
DOWN
1. 21 - 7
2. 36 - 18
4. 12 + 10
5. 6 + 5
6. 36 - 16
12. 3 + 3
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These clubs do a lot for their own communities.
Some raise money and then donate the money to help
improve their towns. They also do work projects such
as cleaning up dirty streets, caring for gardens, serving
food and helping kids and education. And some raise
money to fight poverty and disease around the world!
Use the code to find out what these
kinds of clubs are called.
= B
= C
= E
= I
= L
= R
= S
= T
= U
= V
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ACROSS
3. 35 + 5
4. 51 - 21
5. 3 + 5
7. 19 - 9
8. 54 - 42
9. 32 - 31
10. 28 - 23
11. 19 - 13
13. 19 - 3
Clubs Known Around the World
Here are just a few of the many service clubs that can be found. There are many, many more.
Your local Chamber of Commerce can tell you if there are any in your town that are not on this list.
And you can often spot these emblems posted on a big sign welcoming visitors to your city or town.
Have you seen any of these? Circle the ones you recognize.
Service
Clubs in
the News
Look through
the newspaper
to find the names
of service clubs.
Why are they
in the paper?
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How many clubs are named after animals?
Circle every other letter to find
out the Rotary slogan.
Which club name has the most syllables?
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to
locate information.
Discuss with a parent what
you think this phrase means.
Defeating
a Disease
In 1988 when
Rotary’s Global Polio
Eradication effort
began, there were
350,000 case of polio
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1,000 cases a day.
To find out how many
cases there were by
2015, color the spaces
with two dots purple.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
Volunteers Make a Difference
Find volunteer opportunities in the
newspaper in your area. Identify the value,
both personally and to the community, of
doing a “good turn” in this situation.
Standards Link: Civics: Understand the importance of
volunteering as a characteristic of society.
COMMUNITY
EDUCATION
GOODWILL
SERVICE
SPECIAL
DONATE
ROTARY
GROUP
LOCAL
RAISE
TRUTH
MONEY
CLUB
FAIR
HELP
Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
C N O I
T A C U D E
L O H E L P E G O G
A C M A L C R E N O
I M R M I O I
This week’s word:
COMMUNITY
S A O
C O N V U B C I
T D
E N R P U N G A E W
The noun community means
a group of people that share
a common characteristic.
P E C L F A I R L I
The new garden was a
gift to the community.
S Y C H T U R T L L
U B S R O T A R Y L
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Try to use the word
community in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
Volunteers
Rock!
Tell about a volunteer you
would like to thank and how
they made a difference.
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