THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021 A9 © 2021 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 37, No. 29 Rudyard Kipling made up bedtime stories for his children. He wrote them down in 1902 and called them Just So Stories. Using a lot of imagination, these tales were fun ways to explain things like how the elephant got his trunk, the leopard his spots and the camel his hump. Come out and trot! Camel! You have given extra work to the other animals. You can live on your humph! Come fetch and carry things! Come plow! Grrrrrrr! But how can I with this humph on my back? HEY! W-w-what’s happening to my back??? Other animals asked Camel to help with their work ... hen the world was new and the animals were just beginning to work for Man, Camel lived out in the middle of the desert because he didn’t want to work. Whenever anybody spoke to him, Camel just said . . . That Humph-thing in the desert won’t work, so you must work double-time to make up for it! After three days, the Man spoke to Horse, Dog and Ox. The Djinn warned Camel to stop saying “HUMPH.” But Camel said it again and again. So the Djinn cast a spell on Camel. This made the three animals very angry, so they asked a Djinn (also called a genie) to help make Camel do some work, too. You have missed three days of work. Now you’ll work without stopping or eating for three days! nd since then, Camel always wears a lolloping humph (we call it a hump now to not hurt his feelings). But he never caught up with the three days of work he missed at the beginning of the world. And he has never learned how to behave! Why are they called Just So Stories? Put these sentences in order to discover the answer. Persons, Places and Things Look through the newspaper and find five of each of the kinds of nouns: Persons Places Things Cut them out and glue them to a piece of paper by category. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Identify and categorize nouns. Rudyard Kipling wrote 12 Just So Stories. Do the math to complete the titles. How the _______ Got His Throat The Beginning of the _________ How the ______ Got His Hump How the First ______ was Written 9 + 9 + 9 + 2 8 + 7 9 + 9 9 + 9 + 3 How the __________ Got His Skin How the __________ was Made 8 + 8 + 8 3 + 3 + 3 + 5 How the ________ Got His Spots The _____ That Played with the Sea 12 - 4 22 - 5 The Elephant’s ________ The _____ That Walked by Himself 6 + 3 + 3 32 - 9 The Sing-Song of Old Man _______ The __________ That Stamped 4 + 9 18 = ARMADILLOS 15 = CAMEL 17 = CRAB 11 = BUTTERFLY 24 = RHINOCEROS 12 = CHILD 23 = CAT 21 = LETTER 16 - 5 14 = ALPHABET 29 = WHALE 8 = LEOPARD 13 = KANGAROO Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Flow simple written directions. LOLLOPING ALPHABET CHAPTERS BEDTIME LEOPARD KIPLING DESERT BEHAVE PLOW CAMEL DJINN HORSE TROT DOG I T P L O W G H I G C B D R G D J I N N H E E T O R T I H I A H S D D U L S O P P A E J T P D C R O T V R U I I S A S L E E T K T S M M E L R O D R A P O E L O S T E B A H P L A L Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. Just for Phun! Standards Link: Language Arts: Identify digraphs. This week’s word: LOLLOPING The verb lolloping means to move in an awkward way. The clumsy puppy came lolloping towards Billy. Try to use the word lolloping in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members. Favorite Author ANSWER: Camel-flage! When a P and an H are together in a word, they are pronounced with the F-sound (alphabet, dolphin, nephew and phone). Can you find 5 or more words in today’s newspaper that are spelled with PH? The PH can be in the beginning, middle, or end of the word. Children are born curious. From their earliest days, sensory exploration brings delight and wonder. New discoveries expand their minds. When they unlock the joy of reading, their world widens further. Magic happens. Kid Scoop opens the doors of discovery for elementary school children by providing interactive, engaging and relevant age-appropriate materials designed to awaken the magic of reading at school, at home, and throughout their lives. For more information about our literacy non-profit, visit kidscoopnews.org Who is your favorite author? Write down three significant or surprising facts about that person.