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Page 4 - The Goldthwaite Eagle - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Camp Kid Scoop
Simin Fun in the Summertime
This Week: Crickets
o 2008 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 24 No. 31
YSPECK FLYER
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Night Music
By Nellie Fly EHUATER
WORLD’S SMALLEST REPORTER
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for nature’s night music. Some
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hio more than one-inch in length.
It is the cricket.
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CRICKE
X FEMALE CRICKET
How a Cricket "Sings"
The male cricket has bumpy veins on
his front wings. He rubs his wings
together to “sing.’
Where is
a cricket’s
ear?
Other crickets can
hear a male’s
song with
this part of their
bodies. To find out what
it is, write down the letters
along the correct path
through the maze.
Male or Female?
Only male crickets sing. You can tell a female cricket from a male because
the lemale has a long spike on its tail end. This is used to lay eggs.
Find and circle the female crickets on this page.
Standards Link: Life Science: Understand that animals have structures that aid in reproduction.
Kid Scoop Hands-On Experiment Lab
How far can a cricket jump?
Work with a friend and give this investigation a try!
Please return
us to the spot
where you
found us.
Thank you!
3. Set down your 4. After it jumps,. A A
cricket and gently mark the spot whereS
tickle its tail end (it landed. Measure the -
with a soft cotton distance between the two spots,
swab to make it
jump.
Kid Scoop Together:
Missing Words
Read the article below and see
if you can figure out where each
of the missing words belong.
Mole Crickets
Mole crickets are thick-bodied
insects about 3-5 cm (1-2 inches)
long, with
front
burrow
Mole crickets are
-like
that help them
feeding on larvae, worms, roots
and grasses. Common predators
of mole crickets include birds,
, skunks, armadillos,
raccoons and foxes.
Mole crickets are
1. Catch a cricket.
Look at it and try
to guess how far
it can jump;
2. Using chalk or
a rock, mark a
starting point on
the ground, such
as aplayground.
5. Make a record of your cricket’s
jump in a notebook. Try this with
several crickets and compare the
distances they jump. Calculate
the average of the distances.
__•___
Standards Link: Investigation: Conduct simple
experiments and record results.
Thermometer Crickets J
The warmer the weather, the faster crickets chirp. They .
usually don’t chirp if the temperature is above 100° F •
(38° C) or below 55° F (13° C). The snowy tree cricket •
is called the “thermometer cricket” because if you add 40 .
to the number of chirps it makes in fifteen seconds, you a
get the actual temperature in degrees Fahrenheit! A •
N rniNumberof chirpsoisiye
Amoifi in 15 seconds some Temperature s
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Find the cricket that is different.
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42
48
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Standards Link: Life Science: Understand that animals have structures that aid in survival.
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Mills County State Bank Lobby
located at 1017 Parker Street
in Goldthwaite
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Cricket Poems
Look through the newspaper
and select ten or more words
that describe crickets. Write a poem or story
using these words.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write a variety of genres
including poetry.
Bug Hunt
Hunt through the
newspaper for
"buggy" things:
Try to find:
• a picture of a bug
• the name of a bug
• a verb that s .
describesdes
something a
bug does
• something a bug..
likes to eat
• something that
gats bugs
Standards Link:
Life Science: Know a variety
of animals, their habitats and
characteristics
Doull Epouble Word Search
CRICKET
FAHRENHEIT
ANTENNAE
CHESTER
SPIKE
WINGS
CHIRP
POEMS
SNOWY
VEINS
SING
JUMP
INCH
ROCK
Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week’s Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
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EUICSGEMKS
MNIHSSUTTH
SENACJTENT
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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and spend nearly all their lives
underground in tunnels. Because
of this, they are rarely seen. They
can be found in every ♦
_______________, with the
exception of Antarctica, and are
commonly considered pests. In
East Asia, they are sometimes
_________and eaten.
OMNIVORES
UNDERGROUND
FRIED
SHOVEL
NOCTURNAL
RATS
LEGS
CONTINENT
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension:
Understand the meaning of words from
context clues.
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. Complete the grid by using all the letters
in the word CHIRP in each vertical and
horizontal, row. Each letter should only
be used once in each row. Some spaces
have been filled in for you.
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This week’s word:
NOCTURNAL
The adjective nocturnal
means happening at night.
Many insects are nocturnal
and hide during the daytime.
Try to use the word nocturnal
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family members.
Trite On! —0
Cricket
Chatter
Make up a conversation
between two or more crickets.
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Bridges, Steven W. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 30, 2008, newspaper, July 30, 2008; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1660054/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.