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12A | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL © 2019 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 35, No. 36 Each time you read 10 column inches of the newspaper, color in a planet in our solar system. When you reach Neptune, cut out the sun and wear it as a badge to let everyone know you are a star reader! Use the Kid Scoop Secret Decoder Ring to discover the name of this book by Stuart Gibbs, which is available at the library. NEPTUNE Planet Adjectives Read the newspaper for a few minutes every day and you will be on your way to success in school and life! Kid Scoop is fun to read once a week, but what can you do on the other days of the week? MARS The Romans named Mars after their god of war, because its color reminded them of blood. This week, use Kid Scoop all week long. We have created a fun newspaper reading game for each day of the week! Hold on to your hats! Neptune is storms, storms and more storms! Read the short description of each of the eight planets, plus the dwarf planet, Pluto. Each day, look through the newspaper for adjectives that describe three planets. Glue the adjectives near the planet they describe. This is a thriller starring a group of kids trapped inside a moon base. When one of the top scientists turns up dead, Dash jumps into action to find the killer. This chapter book is a fast paced/murder mystery/science fiction read and the first in a series of space thrillers. Standards Link: Grammar: Identify adjectives. I’m a VENUS Covered with a poisonous acid, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. The planet’s thick clouds let the heat in, but not out! This is called the greenhouse effect. MERCURY JUPITER Farthest from the sun, Pluto is colder than all the other planets and dark all the time, even during the day. Jupiter is the largest and heaviest planet. If it was hollow, more than 1,000 Earths could fit inside. : K L P O T U H H F O P K T Y P K T 1 P V L C P Y H H E SATURN EARTH Saturn is nearly as big as its neighbor, Jupiter, but it is not so heavy. Scientists say that if you could find an ocean big enough, Saturn would float. Not too hot and not too cold, it is the only planet where we know there is life. URANUS Uranus has rings just like Saturn, but the rings go around the planet up and down like a ferris wheel. Through a telescope, this icy planet looks greenish-blue. How heavy is the asteroid? Asteroids are space rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter. They come in all shapes and sizes. Look through the newspaper for a number to put into each of the boxes on the asteroids. Do the math and find out what each asteroid weighs! The moon is a satellite. A satellite is a smaller object that orbits around a larger one. Some satellites, like moons, are natural. Others are man-made. People have launched man-made satellites into orbit around the Earth to take pictures of clouds and land forms, and to study space. Natural or Man-Made? Look through the newspaper and find five things that are natural. Then find five things that are man-made. Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know that the Moon orbits the Earth; some objects moving in the sky are natural and some are man-made. Find words in the newspaper that begin with the first letter of each of the eight planets in our solar system. Use the words to write a sentence that will help you remember the order of the planets. (For example: My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos.) Standards Link: Vocabulary: Recognize beginning sounds. Pretend you are sending a package into space that, if life exists on other planets, will tell about life on Earth. Look through today’s newspaper to find pictures and articles that you would put into your package. Tell why you selected each one. Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know that Earth has distinct characteristics. Standards Link: Number Sense: Compute sums and differences. Satellite Story Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know that each planet has unique characteristics. PLANETS JUPITER PLUTO MERCURY URANUS SATELLITE VENUS EARTH MARS SATURN NEPTUNE SPACE ORBIT STAR Find the words in the puzzle. How many of them can you find on this page? Reasons to love your library: • Going to a library regularly will result in you reading more. • Owning a library card teaches you the responsibility of looking after it and the responsibility of looking after the books you take home and returning them on time. • The wealth of choice in books, movies and tapes allows you access to more information that you otherwise would ever be able to reach. • Children’s librarians are a great resource steering you to more books and topics than you might otherwise have considered. • Children’s libraries everywhere have programs that encourage reading, researching and exploring mind-expanding information. R I O Y R U C R E M N R U T A S D T O S N H G R U S I E R T U T R S E L C N B E This week’s word: O R R V L T P U I N The adjective hollow means having a space inside. U A A E D T I T T A M E T N E C A P S L T A S U U H E E U P S M O S O S N N S J Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. HOLLOW The bird made its nest in the hollow of a tree. Try to use the word hollow in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family. Exaggerate! ANSWER: With a laser blade. Closest to the sun, Mercury’s days are a whopping 800° F and at night the temperature drops to 300° F BELOW zero! DWARF PLANET PLUTO To discover the name of this book, find the letter on the outer ring, then replace it with the letter below it on the inner ring. The 2019 Summer Reading Series Is proudly brought to you by these sponsors I can race as fast as a rocket to Mars! Make up your own exaggerations.
