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Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Read the paragraphs below and circle the seven errors you find. Then rewrite the paragraphs correctly on the lines below or a separate sheet of paper.

Last saturday, I was raking up the leafs in my backyard. Two squirrels were chasing each other from branch two branch in our tree. They raced around the trunk of the tree and onto the lawn. My dog Jethro started running across the lawn toward the tree and barking lowdly. The too squirrels scrambled up to the highest branch of the tree. As I went back to raking leafs, an acorn bonked poor Jethro on the head. Did the squirrels throw that acorn? I’ll never no, but they sure seemed to be giggling!

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a squirrel???

ow do some squirrels fly? They don’t have wings like birds. The flying squirrel has a flap of skin that stretches from its front legs to its hind legs. When it stretches out its legs, these skin flaps form “wings.” The squirrel uses these to glide from tree to tree.

Flying squirrels use their tails to change direction and even move up and down. They turn and dive like stunt pilots and even turn somersaults! Using their tails as brakes, they land

feet first and sink their sharp claws into the bark of a tree. After landing in a tree, they climb up higher in the tree and look around for the next landing.

Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.

Standards Link: Life Science: Adaptations in physical structure improve an animal’s chance for survival.

Use the code to learn some amazing facts about the flying squirrel. Flying squirrels can glide as far as feet ( meters). Flying squirrels live in the forests of Asia, Europe and North America. Most of them grow to be to inches long ( - centimeters). Some Asian flying squirrels grow to be more than feet long ( meter)!

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Standards Link: Word Analysis/Phonemic Awareness: Distinguish sounds in words.

How many leaves can you count on this page?

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ne day, when a ________ squirrel came back to the cozy hole in the oak tree where her little babies were _______, she saw a frightening sight. A lumberjack was in the tree, __________ a limb off. In horror, she watched him pull

her four hairless babies from the nest. She knew she would have to act fast! Not ________ a moment, she climbed the tree, then up the man’s pant leg and grasped one of her babies in her mouth.

She then __________ higher and sailed with her baby 86 feet across the river. She ___________ the baby up to a hole in another tree. She did this again and again until all of her babies were safe.

Standards Link: Measurement: Use standard and non-standard units to measure. paper. Measure your newspaper strips and line them up to show the number of feet (or meters) a flying squirrel can glide. Use the columns in the newspaper as guides to cut out long strips of

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Find where each word belongs in this story.

Standards Link: Life Science: Describe similarities and differences in the behavior of animals.

FLYING TREE EAT

Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.

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I G N I Z A M A E

K R S W A

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AMAZING GRASPED SAILED CLIMB DIVE CLAWS HORROR SINK RIVER COUNT SKIN ACT

The flying squirrels are having a feast, but which foods will they eat? Start with the letter in the square and read every other letter in the border to find out what foods flying squirrels like to munch. Then circle those foods.

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The verb glide means to move smoothly or fly without effort. GLIDE I watched the squirrel glide from tree to tree in my backyard. Use the word glide in a sentence today when talking with your friends, and family members. This week’s word: Up in the Air Up in the air, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s … Finish this story about something flying through the air.

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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Cut out pictures from the newspaper and paste them on paper. Write words for the people, animals or objects in the pictures to say. Draw “talking bubbles” around the words to create comics. Talking Pictures Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Answer questions about information found in the text.