The BulleTin • Monday, June 7, 2021 A9
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Jeff f Schinkel, Graphics Vol.
ol. 37, No. 28
Are you a careful reader?
Read the article below and see
if you can circle all seven
errors. Then, rewrite the article
correctly on the blank lines.
Replace the missing words.
hile quite small, the
beautiful _________
and black monarch
butterfly makes one of the longest
migrations in the animal ________.
How many butterflies
can you find on this
page?
Monarch butterflies live in Canada
and Northern United States in the
spring and summer. Every fall, when
the weather turns _____, millions of
monarch butterflies begin flying
________ to Southern California
and Central Mexico.
In the fall, thousands of monarch butterflies
clinging to trees blend in perfectly with
autumn leaves, keeping them safe from
predators.
The butterflies ________ to the same forests each
year, and some even find the same tree where their
parents and grandparents wintered.
Scientists aren’t sure how the monarchs know where to go
each year, since they each only make the trip ______.
No one knows for sure why
we call the insects butterflies,
since the wurd has been in the
english language for centuries
(the word was buterfleoge in
Old English, which means
butterfly in our English
tomorrow).
Because it is such an old word,
we don't really know who or
when someone said, “That thing
over there is a butterfly.” One
stories is that they was named
so because it was thought that
witches took on the shape of
butterflies and then stealed milk
and butter.
larvae
egg
The butterflies mate in the winter. The male then dies
and the female heads back north, laying eggs on
milkweed ________ along the way. The females
all die before the next fall migration begins.
caterpillar
Some peoples think it comes
from someone hearing “butter-
fly” when someone else said,
“flutter-by.” In other languages,
the fluttery bugg is not called
anything like “butter” and “fly.”
Draw and color this
monarch’s other wing.
adult butterfly
There is only one thing the larvae of a monarch butterfly
will eat. To find out what it is, circle every third letter.
pupa
Butterfly is one word
made from two
words (butter + fly).
This is called a
compound word.
Look through the
newspaper for words
that can be combined
to make a new word.
Standards Link: Research: Use
the newspaper to locate information.
The monarch butterfly is poisonous and birds recognize their
orange and black wings and avoid
them. The viceroy butterfly is a tasty
snack for birds. It protects
itself by looking
almost exactly like
a monarch butterfly.
It mimics the monarch.
Look at the monarch and the viceroy
butterflies. Can you tell which is which?
Label each butterfly
with the proper name.
MIGRATION
MILKWEED
MONARCH
VICEROY
MIMICS
WINTER
LARVAE
BLACK
AVOID
NORTH
SOUTH
YEAR
PUPA
COPY
A M A W I N T E R Z
I N O I T A R G I M
N S C I M I M Y L I
B G R E D I O V A L
P L N A G R N H R K
U Y A O E N A T V W
P M P C R Y R U A E
A O I O K T C O E E
N V A R C C H S H D
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
This week’s word:
MIMIC
The verb mimic means to
imitate or copy something.
The parrot could mimic
the sound of his owner.
Try to use the word mimic
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family.
Natural
News
Find and read a newspaper article about the
environment. Write a short summary of the
article. Be sure to indicate the who, what,
where, when, why and how of the article.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write summaries of expository text.
What things really bother
or “bug” you? How do you
deal with these things?