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12A | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL © 2019 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 35, No. 49 Follow these four easy steps to learn how to draw a jellyfish. True or False? Some of the words in this article are tangled in the jellyfish tentacles. Can you replace the missing words? (1*/$1'²¬/L]]LH'DO\LVDVFXED _________, wildlife biologist and a reporter. Last summer, she and photographer, Dan Abbott, went on a diving trip to ___________ waters around the United Kingdom. Little did they know the excitement that lay ahead. We checked this story out to make sure it was true. To do that, we checked three separate sources. When they dove off the ____________ of Cornwall, England, something very large suddenly appeared. It was a barrel jellyfish. It was as _______ as Lizzie is tall. Dan Abbott got a ___________________ and a video of Lizzie swimming with the huge jellyfish. Once it was posted online, it went viral—shared thousands of times on ________ media. Lizzy and Dan spent an hour _____________ with the jellyfish. Neither had ever seen a jellyfish this large before. Largest Jellyfish The barrel jellyfish Lizzie and Dan saw is larger than usual. Most barrel jellyfish are about 3 feet (1 meter) long. But it is not the largest jellyfish in the world. Circle every other letter below to learn the name of the world’s largest jellyfish. Why do you think it’s called this? When we at Kid Scoop come across stories such as this one about a jellyfish as large as a person, we wonder if it’s true or not. Today, even photographs can be changed. Sources for this report are Snopes.com (a fact-checking website), LiveScience.com and Smithsonian.com. All are respected sites that confirmed the story is true. Anytime you read something that seems too wild to be true, check at least three respected sources to see if they are reporting the same information. Does the barrel jelly really eat with its arms? The barrel jellyfish has many tiny mouths on the poofy cauliflower-like parts of its arms. ALBITOMNJSTMVAWNK EBJZEPLQLGYOFNIESIH How big is it? They don’t eat fish. They eat very small zooplankton (tiny animal plankton) that they catch on these arms. Like all jellies, the pulsing of their bells helps to swirl plankton into their arms where they will sting their prey and eat it through the tiny mouths. The barrel jellyfish and lion’s mane jellyfish on today’s page got their names They do sting their tiny prey. But, because their prey because of the way is so tiny, their sting is not very strong. A person who they look. Explore touches their arms would get a mild sting. The sting the newspaper for of the barrel jellyfish is not normally harmful to adjectives that can humans. If you find any jellyfish on a beach, it’s best be used to describe not to handle it as they can still sting when dead. jellyfish. Can you come up with some A special thank you to the new jellyfish names? Monterey Bay Aquarium for Standards Link: Reading their help with this page! Comprehension: Identify Do barrel jellyfish sting? From the tips of its bell to the end of its tentacles, it can be over _____________ feet long. 25 + 25 + 50 The largest one found to date was __________ feet long. 50 + 50 + 20 How many jellyfish can you find on this page? Our new Kid Scoop drawing book is here! Learn to draw a wide variety of animals in our brand new how-to-draw book published by Happy Fox Books. Order from your local bookstore or at BarnesandNoble.com, Target.com and Amazon.com adjectives. Jellyfish is a compound word²¬DZRUGPDGHE\FRPELQLQJWZR smaller words (jelly + fish). Draw a line between the words below to create compound words. Find the words in the puzzle. JELLYFISH How many of them can you TENTACLES find on this page? LARGEST V S S L J L T I S N BARREL I E L A E D G I M Y SUMMER DIVER D L A R L E I N R E SCUBA E C R I L A G V A R COAST O A G V Y D G B E P BEACH B T E J F N U E L R STING L N S Y I C O A S T VIRAL VIDEO F E T T S U M M E R DEAD I T S S H C A E B H ARMS Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical PREY words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. Fact and Opinion VIRAL One meaning of the noun viral means an image, video or advertisement that is circulated rapidly on the internet. The video of the piano playing cat went viral online last week. Try to use the word viral in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family. Jellyfish Facts Facts can be measured, “The barrel jellyfish was 5 feet long.” Opinions can differ from one person to another, for example, “The barrel jellyfish is beautiful.” Can you find three of each in the newspaper? ANSWER: Its jelly-button! Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information. This week’s word: Research a kind of jellyfish and write three or more facts about it. Don’t forget to include the name of your jellyfish. Thank you to our Newspaper in Education sponsors, do you want to be a Newspaper in Education sponsor? Contact us today! 541-942-3325
