Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1909-current, October 07, 2021, THURSDAY EDITION, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text12A | OCTOBER 7, 2021 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Next to each shape, write in the fraction of the shaded area. © 2021 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 37, No. 45 Carvings The Pacific Northwest coastal region of North America has many tall, straight trees. First Nations peoples carved trees, especially the red cedar, to create monuments that document a family history or events, legends and identity. These carved trees are called totem poles. The creatures carved in a sequence on the poles and the colors they are painted, each have meaning in a story, legend or myth. Whale Standards Link: Social Science: Students understand the customs of the First Nations Peoples. Look at the totem pole on the right. Three of the six animals on the pole are mammals, or animals with fur. What fraction describes the part of the totem pole that is carved with mammals? Frog Can you find the log that’s different on today’s page? What fraction describes the number of animals with beaks on the totem pole? Bear Cut out the totem pole carvings along the solid lines and fold along the dotted line to hide the name. Arrange them on the blank totem pole to show the following different totem poles: • 1/3 animals with beaks and 4/6 animals that swim • 2/6 animals with fur and 2/6 animals that swim and 1/3 animals that fly Beaver • 1/2 animals with fur and 1/3 animals that swim and 1/6 animals that fly Now use the carvings to make your own totem pole. Make up a story about the animals on your totem pole. Use the News for Art Use newspaper classified ads to create a beautiful totem pole picture. Cut out a column of ads. Color each ad a different color with markers or water colors. Use a black felt tip pen to draw a creature on each of the “blocks” of color. Glue this on a piece of black construction paper. Thunderbird Killer Whale Dog Fish Hawk Eagle Wolf Raven Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Students understand that fractions refer to part of a whole or part of a group; solve problems involving equivalent fractions. Long ago, the people of a village on the Nass River had no ________. All day long they heard a wolf crying in the woods. One ________ man finally went to see why the wolf was crying. He found the wolf in great pain and he offered ____________ words and help. The wolf opened his mouth. Inside, the kind man found a ______ stuck in the wolf’s throat. He removed it and the wolf ran off. Later, the man heard the wolf cry again. Once again he went to him. The _________ wolf greeted the man with joy and led him to a deer carcass. This happened every day and soon the village had lots of food. Find the missing words. SOOTHING BONE FOOD BRAVE HAPPY (Adapted from Totem Poles, Bellerophon Press, Santa Barbara.) Standards Link: Launguage Arts/ Literary Analysis: Students comprehend the basic plot of legends. CARVINGS TOTEM POLE WOLF MOUTH MAMMALS STORY HUMANS BEAKS FROG FISH EAGLE FRACTION CREATE RAVEN Standards Link: Visual Art: Students use a variety of media to represent concepts. N C R E A T E B T I W E L G A E G E C F M O U T H O A A S R This week’s word: P I L V R A R K L A The noun sequence means the order in which things are connected. N Y M F T V E S A C E R R I I O C A M T V O N N S S T T M I A T G O T E H E A O R S N A M U H M M N Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. Totem News The story followed a sequence of events as he got older. Try to use the word sequence in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family. Kids Care Create a totem pole that represents a news story or an event in your community. To do this, cut out and glue pictures from the newspaper onto a strip of construction paper. Write down why you selected each picture. ANSWER: Henry the 1/8th. Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write narratives that relate ideas or observations. SEQUENCE Tell about a time you helped another person. It could be something you did as an individual or as part of a group. Thank you to our Newspaper in Education sponsors, do you want to be a Newspaper in Education sponsor? Contact us today! 541-942-3325 THE OO MIN