A12 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2021
© 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.
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Who is your favorite
author? Write down three
significant or surprising
facts about that person.