COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL MAY 30, 2018
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© 2018 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 34, No. 27
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START
For Father’s Day, dad wants to have
the family pile into the car and go
on an exciting road trip to Lake
Puddleston. But he also wants to see
the following sites along the way:
Cactus Pointe Park
Giant Gumball Pyramid
Tasty Soup Factory Tour
Some cars have personalized
license plates. Can you figure out
what each one means? Write
your answers on the lines below
each plate. Then have a family
member check your work.
Cactus
Pointe
Park
Giant
Gumball
Pyramid
Gas
Find the route that uses the least
amount of fuel, while still seeing
those sites, by finding the lowest
total along the roadway. Don’t
go back over any of the road
you’ve already traveled.
Tasty Soup
Factory Tour
Gas
Biz
City
Putt-Putt
Golf
Mt. Frosty
3
Find the two identical
identi ical
minivans.
FINISH
Lake Puddleston
North American Road Trip
When people take long drives in North America,
they need to make stops for rest and food. Over
the years, businesses have come up with curious
and odd attractions to get people to stop at their
stores and restaurants. Unscramble the letters to
find out in which American state or Canadian
Province it is located.
In the 1930s, Douglas Herrick and his brothers,
put deer antlers onto a jackrabbit carcass and
called it a Jackalope. They sold it to a hotel in
A 50-foot high
slingshot is carved from a
dead poplar tree in this
Canadian province.
MOWINGY
UCQBEE
The World’s Largest Ball of Twine was started in 1953. It weighs more
that 19,000 pounds and is over 1,500
miles long. You can see it in
Nearly 10 metres tall, Mac the Moose
is made of steel and concrete weighing 9,000 kg
(nearly19,842 pounds!) in the Canadian province of
SANAKS
SAKATCHENAWS
Color
these
cars.
Cadillac Ranch is a row
of 10 cars stuck
nose-first into the
ground in the state of
STAXE
Look through the
newspaper for photos
and drawings of
people and animals.
Cut them into parts
and create a new
creature with body
parts from different
pictures.
Standards Link:
Reading Comprehension:
Follow written directions.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow written directions.
The World’s Longest Maze
In this state you can walk through a huge maze made up of
14,000 colorful, tropical plants. Unscramble the letters along the
correct path to discover the answer.
W
R
I
U
L
A
S
T
Crazy
Creatures
A
I
H
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
the words by looking up,
JACKALOPE Find
down, backwards, forwards,
LICENSE
sideways and diagonally.
FATHERS
E E S U O I R U C D
LOCATED
N P T R A D D S L T
CURIOUS
I O O R E E O I D H
ANTLERS
WEIGHT
W L P D V H C E O G
CARVED
T A S R D E T T I I
TWINE
A K A A N A E A D E
GIANT
L C T S C L N R F W
VISIT
L A E O I T I S I V
HOTEL
STOPS
P J L S R E L T N A
TALL
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
ODD
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
This week’s word:
PERSONALIZE
The verb personalize means
to mark as the property of
a particular person.
Kayla personalized her
backback by sewing on
a flower patch.
Try to use the word
personalize in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
Map It!
Find the location of a sporting event reported
in the newspaper. Use a map to figure out
how many miles from your town it is located.
What would be the best way to get there?
If there were an award for the
greatest dad, who would you
award it to and why? You
could award it to a dad, a
grandad, an uncle or a friend.
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate info.
The Summer Reading Program kicks off June 20th.
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