4C COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL APRIL 25 , 2018
© 2018 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 34, No. 20
Q: Why are all those
little birds on you?
Q: How did you
ou g
get
e t
your name?
e?
A: Our fine feathered friends are
om
A: We get our name from
called oxpeckers. They eat
ticks and bugs crawling
around our skin, ears and
eyes. Such a relief!
ody
our most famous body
he
part — our horns. The
mes
word rhinoceros comes
from the Greek rhino
(nose) and ceros (horn).
Q: Sometimes
you charge
into trees
and
boulders.
Why?
Q: Why do you
roll around
in mud?
A: Our skin may look tough,
but it’s actually very
sensitive. We can
suffer from sunburn.
And insects like to bite us, and
that really bugs us. So, we cover
our skin in mud for protection. Plus, that cool mud
feels so good on hot days!
A: Because our
Q: How big are baby rhinos?
Q: What do rhinos eat?
A: Rhinos give birth to one calf at a time, which
A: We use our horns to dig up roots and
weighs over 100 pounds!
break branches, not for fighting. We are
eyesight is not very
good, we’ve been
seen charging at
boulders or trees
that we mistake as
attackers. This gave
us a reputation for
having a bad
temper, but we
don’t really!
START
.
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= I
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A: While our eyesight is poor, we have excellent
hearing! Our ears can move independent of
each other. When one is tilted forward, the other
can be directed backward. Or both may perk
straight up when we hear an interesting sound.
Early rhinos had thick,
___________ coats. Pictures
of rhinos have been found in
30,000-year-old cave
_________________.
One of the rhino
____________________,
called the paraceratherium,
was 25 feet (7.6 meters) long
and 18 feet (5.5 meters) high
____________ ever known.
FINISH
Q: What’s with your ears?
scientists say they have been
around for more than 50
____________ years!
at the shoulder. It is regarded
as the largest land
Use the Rhino Secret Code!
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= E
Rhinos have been around for
a very _______ time. Some
____________. Today, only
five species continue the line:
Q: Do you have two horns?
A: There are five kinds of rhinos: black, white,
Sumatran, Javan, and Indian. Javan and Indian
rhinos have only one horn. Sumatran, black
and white rhinos have two.
Count the
Noses
Look through today’s
newspaper and count
all the noses you can
see. Group the noses
into groups such as
“people noses” and
“animal noses.” Can
you come up with
other groups of noses?
Find the differences.
Over the years, close to
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Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to locate
information.
Rhinos love to munch branches.
How many can you find?
two native to Africa and three
native to Asia. And due to
over hunting, three of those
five species of rhinoceros are
now Critically Endangered.
That means they have a 50%
___________ of becoming
extinct.
The main reason they are
endangered is illegal
_______________. Some
people think rhino horns can
cure illnesses, but there is no
evidence of that.
You’ve heard of a pride of lions and a herd of cattle. But some groups of
animals have really funny names. Do the math to discover the answers.
A ____________ of sharks.
17 + 2 + 5
A ____________ of lobsters.
15 + 5 + 2
A ____________ of crows.
12 + 6 + 2
A ____________ of rhinos.
7 + 7 + 7
A ____________ of frogs.
12 + 9 + 2
22 = RISK 23 = ARMY 21 = CRASH 24 = SHIVER 20 = MURDER
Standards Link: Math: Addition. Follow simple written directions.
the words by looking up,
RHINOCEROS Find
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
SENSITIVE
SUMATRA
E S C E R O S N W S
SUNBURN
V V N A V A J E H U
HORNS
I F T R H I E P I M
WHITE
JAVAN
T H L S U K F A T A
NEPAL
I N O A R B H L E T
CEROS
S O R E C O N I H R
SOUND
N N P V R I I U R A
PERK
E O N N K M E N S T
SKIN
FIVE
S N S S O U N D O W
EARS
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
CALF
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
This week’s word:
REPUTATION
The noun reputation
means an opinion held about
someone or something.
Jack has the reputation
of being shy, but he’s
talkative around his friends.
Try to use the word
reputation in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
Fiesta Time
Play this game with a partner. One partner
picks a photo from the newspaper and
gives the other partner clues until he or she
can identify which photo was selected.
Fiesta is how you say
festival in Spanish. Pretend
you are in charge of a
festival. What will people
do? What will they eat?
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
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