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?
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_________, 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.
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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?
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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.
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