12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL DECEMBER 13, 2017
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 34, No. 1
Seeing Double
Gingerbread houses come in an endless variety of shapes
and sizes. Can you find the two gingerbread houses that
look exactly alike?
Ask a friend to come up with three
nouns (person, place or thing) and
three verbs (action words like swim
and walk). Use them to fill in the
blanks in this story. Read it aloud
to share some holiday humor!
STUFF YOU’LL NEED:
plastic zipper bags
graham crackers
powdered sugar
Ricky Reindeer wanted to get
a special gift for his friend
assorted candies
shredded coconut
milk
bread knife
Sadie Squirrel. He walked
pretzel sticks
deep into the forest, and was
INSTRUCTIONS:
surprised to find a shiny, new
______________ in the snow.
He picked it up and started to
________________ back
home. He wrapped the gift in
Put icing in zipper plastic
bag. Snip a tiny hole in a
bottom corner of the bag.
Using a gentle sawing
motion, carefully cut the
corners of two graham
crackers with a bread
knife.
Next, carefully cut a full size
ze
graham cracker in half.
_________________ and put
a nice big _______________
on top.
Squeeze a line
of icing from
bag along
edge of
graham
cracker wall.
More decorating
decor rating ideas!
ide eas!
Frost ice cream cones to
make trees. Add candy
ornaments.
Attach graham cracker
wall as shown.
gift. She was so happy, she
began to ________________
around in the snow. Ricky was
Use marshmallows,
pretzel sticks and
candies to make
snowmen.
Licorice ropes form
pathways.
Keep attaching walls and
roof panels with icing.
Sadie was thrilled with the
Frost roof and sprinkle
with coconut flakes.
while jumping for joy.
Holiday
Cards
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Make your own
holiday cards or
gift tags by
clipping out words
and pictures from
your newspaper
or printing them
from the online
edition. Paste
these onto paper
to make into a
card or gift tag.
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to
locate information.
How many candy canes can you find in this box?
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
Winter Clues
_______________ merrily
Use icing and pretzel sticks to
make a fence for your house.
How many
candy canes
are on this
page?
Look through the newspaper for ten or more
clues that it is winter in your town. Write a
paragraph describing the winter holidays
in your town. Incorporate words that
you found in the newspaper.
happy, too. So he began to
SPRINKLE
CRACKER
PRETZEL
COCONUT
GRAHAM
ZIPPER
HOUSES
DOUBLE
SAWING
IDEAS
ICING
SUGAR
CANDY
MILK
WHIP
Edith Elf wanted to measure
the snowfall at the North Pole
for one week. She started on
Sunday, and stopped the next
Saturday. It snowed every day
that week. Each day the
amount of snow in her bucket
doubled. On Saturday, the
bucket was full.
On what day of the week was
Edith’s bucket half full?
ANSWER: It snowed twice as much each day
as the day before, so that means that on Friday,
Edith’s bucket was half full. It doubled that
night and was full on Saturday.
Make icing by mixing 2 cups
powdered sugar with 3 to 4
tablespoons milk. Whip until
it is the consistency of
toothpaste.
Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
G T U N O C O C Z P
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L E Z T E R P M P H
This week’s word:
CONSISTENCY
H L K N G P A S R W
O B E C E H U A I G
U U R R A G B W N M
S O R R A R E
I K I
E D G R A D C N L L
S S A E D I
S G E K
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
One meaning of the noun
consistency is the degree
of firmness or stickiness.
The mud was the
consistency of bread dough.
Try to use the word
consistency in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
I built my
house of …
Finish this sentence and
then write five details
about your home.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Use descriptive language
that clarifies and enhances ideas.
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