Kid Scoop News—April 2025

April 2025

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Use all your powers of observation to nd interesting things to see, hear, feel, and do. Our fun scavenger hunt will give you some ideas! Enjoy hands-on craft ideas for making Christmas snowmen as well as some holiday fun puzzles and games. CRAFTS HOLIDAYS

REINDEER For years, Finnish reindeer herders had problems with cars hitting their herds. Discover their ingenious solution to this problem.

MIGHTY OAK TREES Oak trees provide shade on a hot summer day. They were also an essential source of food for the rst Americans. MAGNIFICENT MONEY MAZE Can you make your way through?

BABY BIRDS The chirping of baby birds heralds the arrival of spring. What should you do if you nd a baby bird? Kid Scoop News has the answer. Scan Now to Track Your Reading Progress!

How many owers can you nd in this picture?

Solve the puzzle of the Mysterious Egg. Find a buddy and do the page together! If the page looks easy, nd “somebunny”younger to be your buddy. If it looks harder get “somebunny”older to help. BUNNY BUDDIES ARE BACK

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REINDEER For years, Finnish reindeer herders had problems with cars hitting their herds. Discover their ingenious solution to this problem. MAGNIFICENT MONEY MAZE Can you make your way through?

Wangari Maathai was a champion for trees and understood the importance of planting trees to help the environment. My pals the Bunny Buddies are here to celebrate Easter. There’s lots of fun activities on page 16 to do with a buddy and a mysterious egg that can talk! Read on! Happy Spring reading!

We celebrate April with longer and lighter days. Do you see the signs of spring where you live? It’s the time when birds nest and you might be lucky enough to see the young peeking over the top of a nest. There’s some good advice here on page 6 and 7 about what to do if you find a baby bird. Arbor Day is April 25 and we feature trees in our Spotlight pages on the Scan Now to Track Your Reading Progress!

News ..................................... Mighty Oak Tree .................... Baby Birds ............................. A Walk in the Woods .............. Wangari Maathai ................... Puzzles .................................. Activity Calendar ................... Gravity Racers ....................... The Mysterious Egg ............... Tax Time ................................ Parent Scoop ......................... How to Draw ......................... Answers ................................ 3

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Mighty Oak. And you can have some fun with the nature scavenger hunt on page 8 that will take you on a Walk in the Woods. You can do the hunt on the page or take it with you on a walk and see if you can find the items in the open air!

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Inside the hard shell of a kernel of popcorn there is a little bit of . When the kernel gets really , the water inside turns into . The pressure from the steam causes the kernel to explode and … You get a fluffy white popped kernel! Use yellow to color all the popcorn pieces that have words that rhyme with Use red to color all the pieces with words that rhyme with .

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Store popcorn kernels in a tightly sealed jar so that they will not dry out.

Art/Production Madeline Miletello Asarel Smith

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Publisher and Editor Vicki Whiting

Art Director/Illustration Je Schinkel

Graphic Designer Eli Smith

Standards Link: Word Analysis: Recognize rhyming words. Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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EARTH DAY IS APRIL 22

thebookworm, Canada

Bluetiger, United States

earthkid109 United States

Sparkle1 Canada

kholland, United States

dholland, United States

Can you come up with at least four more tips to protect the planet? Ask a family member for ideas too.

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In winter, many kinds of oak trees, being deciduous , lose

their leaves. During that time when

Oak trees make good shade trees because they grow tall and wide enough to create a big canopy that you can sit under on a hot, sunny day.

sunlight is especially precious for warmth, the oak tree’s leafless branches let the sun shine through.

Oak trees provided more than shade for the first Americans. Their fruit, known as acorns , were an essential source of food for Native Americans from coast to coast. The acorns were ground into a meal that was used to make mush or pounded with meat, fat, and berries to make pemmican , a paste that dries into chewy, nutritious strips.

A canopy is a covering,

either natural or man-made.

Standards Links: History: Students understand the daily life and values of Native American cultures.

Standards Links: Science: Students know that living things in an ecosystem are interdependent for survival.

Read the steps that Native Americans followed to remove tannins from acorns. Then number the pictures in the correct order. 1.

Shell the acorns by splitting the outer shell and removing the light-colored inner nut. Grind the shelled acorns into a fine meal. Scoop the pounded meal into a basket. Rinse the acorn meal with hot water to wash away the tannins. The meal must be rinsed at least ten times, or more if cold water is used. Add water to the leached meal and stir with a hot rock lodged into a looped stick. Add berries, seeds, or dried meat for flavor.

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How many acorns can you nd on this page?

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Nutshell is a compound word. Draw a line from each acorn cap to a nut to form compound words.

DECIDUOUS PEMMICAN SUNLIGHT POUNDED TANNINS NATIVE CANOPY

Match each acorn to the kind of oak tree it comes from. Do the math to check your answers.

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

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ACORN COAST SHELL SHADE PASTE MEAT MUSH OAK

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

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Spring is here! Birds are one of the most common signs of spring’s arrival. In early spring they begin building nests, laying eggs, and hatching the next generation.

The simple answer is NO . As much _________ as it would be to raise a baby bird of your own, it’s best to let the young bird’s parents ________ the little peeper. In fact, it’s actually ___________ for you to do so, and you could get a fine from your local wildlife management agency! Since you can’t raise a baby bird on your own, what should you do? Here are a few ideas: Call a local wildlife ___________ to help. They may take the bird and raise it properly. With your parent’s ________ , put the bird back in its nest. (The old belief that mother birds won’t accept a baby covered with a human’s scent is false!) If the bird is in an exposed area, coax it to move someplace that offers ___________, such as under a bush. Some birds, including killdeer and some waterfowl, actually lay their eggs on the ground, so don’t ___________ about them!

he main goal of every baby bird is to eat, eat, and eat some more. Since they are growing, they need lots of protein to build new muscles and grow flight feathers. Some parent birds are known to bring food hundreds of times each day to the nest— something you definitely don’t have time to do. That’s why you need to leave feeding baby birds to their parents!

Bald Eagle

Hummingbird

American Goldnch

11 + 5 = seeds 11 + 7 = seeds, insects, berries 29 - 10 = sh, small animals 31 - 11 = earthworms 21 - 4 = ower nectar, insects, spiders

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple, written directions.

Northern Cardinal

American Robin

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Which hungry baby bird will catch the worm?

Draw what comes next in each row to continue the spring pattern.

GENERATION WILDLIFE HATCHING EXPOSED

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

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

Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

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A Walk in the Woods A forest is filled with some interesting things to see, hear, feel, and do. But it isn’t always possible to get to the woods. Kid Scoop News takes you on an adventure in the woods. Animal Groups What do you call a group of these woodland animals? Circle every other letter under each animal to discover the answer!

Woods Watcher Look closely at this picture of the woods. Can you nd each of the following? mushroom bird’s nest animal track two caterpillars moss ve butteries acorn six ladybugs spider web bird feather

PORCUPINES RASPDRNI RCZKTLME SQUIRRELS DALSMCOU YRKRTY SKUNKS JAFSMUWR PFYEUIVT

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Find the two identical camp scenes.

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Put Out that Campre! There’s nothing like a cozy campfire after a long day of hiking in the woods. But some campers didn’t make sure this campfire was all the way out. Get the bucket of water to the campfire to put it out!

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Match each animal to its footprint. Do the math to check your answers. Who is walking in the woods?

ADVENTURE PORCUPINE MUSHROOM FEATHER

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

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squirrel 23 - 7

bear 21 - 6

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TREE BIRD NEST DEER WEB

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

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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The roots of the trees held the rich topsoil, preventing it from washing away into creeks and rivers. The rich soil helped the women raise food to eat and to sell. The trees were an important part of the health of the community.

n 2004, a woman from Kenya, Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH-ree mah-DHEYE) was the first environmentalist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

When Wangari was a little girl, her native land of Kenya was covered with forests. Women in her village didn’t have to walk far to find firewood.

Wangari did not set out to win the Nobel Prize for Peace, or any of the other many awards she has received over the years. She simply worked to replant trees that had been torn down for development. Today, through her efforts, more than 50 million trees have been planted in more than 30 countries.

As Wangari grew up, she watched as more and more forests were removed to make way for buildings and roads. This deforestation forced women to walk further to find wood to make cooking fires.

Because the rich topsoil was being washed away in rainstorms, their gardens were not growing well. Without the trees, many rural communities were driven into poverty.

Wangari realized that by bringing back trees, she could also bring back better health and prosperity for her people.

Wangari was the first woman from Central or Eastern Africa to receive a Ph.D. or doctorate , the highest educational degree that a person can earn.

Standards Link: Civics: Students understand why civic responsibility is important and know examples (e.g., protecting the environment; working for the good of all).

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Wangari studied hard in school and received a scholarship to go to college in the United States. She came to the United States in the 1960s, when the environmental movement was starting. Like many other young scholars, she read a book by environmentalist Rachel Carson and saw the importance of protecting the Earth. E G I = = = L N P = = = R S T = = = A B C = = = Use the code to discover the name of the book.

Read each nonsense sentence. Replace each word with a word that rhymes from the word list. You should be able to create two sentences about how to plant a tree.

WANGARI MAATHAI AFRICA SCHOLARS TREES TOPSOIL FIREWOOD DOCTORATE EARTH FIRST RURAL REPLANT LAND NOBEL PART

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

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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You Need: Each player needs 8 markers. Buttons, pebbles, or even small squares of paper make good markers. Goal: Be the first person to get to the sum of 23. How to Play: 1. The first player puts one marker on a number and says the number aloud. 2. The second player places a marker on another number, adds that number to the previous number, and says the total aloud. 3. Play continues until one player reaches exactly 23. Buzz’s Eggs-tra Challenge: Change the numbers in each egg above, using the numbers 5 through 8. Beeper’s Eggs-tra-ordinary Challenge: Begin with 23 and subtract the amounts to reach zero. Standards Link: Mathematics: Subtract single digits from single and double digits.

The secret code to crack the answer to this riddle is hidden in this egg border. is the letter A . . The alphabet follows in order by going clockwise around the border. Each egg stands for one letter of the alphabet. To find out what letter each egg stands for, find Standards Links: Decoding: Recognize letters of the alphabet. Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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APRIL 2025

Tick the box on each day when you have completed 20 minutes of reading. Children who develop a love of reading will become better students and build a better future.

Look up at the sky for 15 minutes tonight. How many aircrafts can you spot in that amount of time?

Can you do a cartwheel? If so, teach a friend how to do one. If not, work with a friend that knows how. Do something nice for a brother or sister today. Maybe they will do something nice for you! How long can you go without watching TV? How many books could you read if you gave up TV for a few days? Turn Off TV and Read Month

Find some of your favorite books and read them to a younger child.

How many foods starting with the letter B have you eaten this week?

Do something to improve your health today. Go for a long walk, make a nutritious meal, and get a good night’s sleep.

Do you have books you’ve outgrown? Contact your library and see if you can donate them.

Have you or your friend mastered the cartwheel yet? Don’t give up! Practice is great exercise. Beverley Cleary was born on this day in 1916. Can you find the names of the books she has written?

Who were the first people to reach the North Pole on this day in 1898?

Create a comic strip. Use two characters to tell knock-knock jokes or riddles. and sit completely still. Be calm and meditate for five minutes today. Discuss the meaning of the word meditate . Close your eyes

Learn all the words to one of your parents’ favorite songs. Have a family sing along tonight!

This day is the anniversary of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

The Titanic sank on this day in 1912. What caused the disaster?

Learn about the Nature Explorers club to gain a better appreciation of nature.

Plan a visit to a tree nursery.

Have fun counting eggs today!

Explore different career choices today. Learn a little of what it takes to achieve these careers.

Put on gloves and go for a walk and pick up trash in your neighborhood or join a park clean-up project.

Arbor Day

Calling all poets! Write down ten pairs of words that rhyme. Now write down a poem using those words. National Poetry Month

Flowers are blooming on this page. Can you nd the

With a friend, create a secret code. Write messages to each other using the code. Then see if other friends can “break” the code and figure out what you wrote.

On this day, you can ask a question and the person answering must give an honest answer.

Watch a movie made before 1950. Then talk about things you noticed that are different from modern movies.

one that is dierent?

What happens when you put a car on a ramp? It will roll down to the ground. An invisible force is pulling it down: gravity .

Susan and Taylor each made a gravity-powered car. Gravity has the same amount of pull on all of the cars in a race down a ramp. Each kid is using science to make his or her car go faster.

Susan is using weight . She has glued some pennies to her car to make it heavier. But its boxy shape has drag which slows it down.

“Racers start your engines!” is something you normally hear at an automobile race like NASCAR or the Indy 500.

But, what if a car had no engine? How would it move? Could it still be a race car?

Taylor has engineered his car to have less drag . When a car moves through the air, it causes friction . Friction causes drag, a force that slows a

he E in STEM is for engineering . Engineers are changing the world all of the time. They dream up creative, practical solutions and work with other smart, inspiring people to invent, design, and create things that matter. Be an engineer and create your own Gravity Racer! Here are instructions to get you started.

moving object. Streamlined and smooth objects have less drag than jagged or flat ones.

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Tape the angled hood onto the larger rectangle.

Cut a 6" x 9" rectangle out of a cardboard cereal box.

Cut another rectangle, 6" x 4" and fold as shown.

Hot glue a bamboo skewer to the inside center of a plastic bottle cap.

Insert skewer through straw to create an axle. Hot glue bottle cap to other end of skewer.

Tape straw axles to bottom of car body. Make sure the wheels spin freely.

Roll your gravity racer down a ramp. Measure how far it rolls. What happens if you add weight to your racer, such as taping pennies to it? What else can you do to make it roll farther?

Decorate your Gravity Racer.

See how many new words can you make using the letters in the words:

CHALLENGE CREATIVE GRAVITY SKEWERS

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

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1-5 words: Language Lightweight 6-12 words: Rising Reader 13 or more words: Gravitational Greatness

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

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Find a buddy and do this page together! If the page looks easy, find “somebunny” younger to be your buddy. If the page looks hard, find “somebunny” older to help you.

YIKES! Th-that egg can TALK!

Of course I can! My name is Egg-bert. Where is my mommy?

Wow! The Easter Bunny left us a pretty big egg, Beeper!

Hello? Are you my mommy?

Buzz, let’s go ask Mother Hen if this is one of her eggs.

That’s an eggs-ellent idea, Beeper!

Are you my mother?

No dear, all my eggs have hatched.

Perhaps you belong to Mrs. Duck?

No, that isn’t one of my eggs. But don’t look so sad. Chickens and ducks aren’t the ONLY animals that lay eggs, you know!

Look for the names of these animals in my word search puzzle. Each of these animals lay eggs.

Egg-bert is hatching! What kind of animal do you think is inside? Draw a picture of it.

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Alligator Fish

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Standards Link: Life Science: Students know organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind; life cycles are different for different animals.

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Buzz and Beeper are having a birthday party for Egg-bert. Can you find at least 10 things wrong in this picture?

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

ANIMAL BIRTHDAY BUDDIES BUNNY DESCRIBE DUCKS EASTER HATCHING MOTHER NOUN PAPER PARTY SILLY SYLLABLE

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

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

Standards Link: Visual Discrimination: Find similarities and differences in common objects.

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What are taxes? What do they do? Why are they needed?

When you buy certain things, the store adds a percentage of money called a sales tax . Sales tax money goes to the state and sometimes to the city or county in which the store is located. The next time you want to buy something, do the following: 1. Add the tax to the price. 2. Check to see if you still have enough money. NOTE: Not every state collects sales tax.

A tax is money that is collected by the government to pay for such services as public schools, roads, fire and police departments, courts, parks, libraries, and more.

The government collects taxes in several ways.

About 300 years ago, Russian ruler Peter the Great made sweeping changes to make Russia a more modern, powerful country. It was a very expensive task and to pay for it, he found unusual ways to tax the Russian people. Among the goods he taxed were hats, boots, chimneys, stamps, basements, and beehives. He taxed things like mustaches and beards. He even taxed birth, marriage, and burial!

Everyone who earns money by working pays a percentage of his earnings to the government in what is called an income tax .

You’ve probably seen a penny many times. Only one of these images of a penny is correct. Which one do you think is it? Compare to a real penny to see if you are right.

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Most of this tax is taken out of a person’s paycheck a little at a time throughout the year. But, once a year, people have to list both the money they have earned and their expenses to see if they paid the right amount of taxes. Income taxes for 2024 are due by April 15, 2025. If, when preparing your taxes, you find out you have not paid enough taxes, you need to pay the government what you owe for the previous year. If you discover that you have paid too much in taxes, the government will send you a refund.

Each county collects taxes on the land, buildings, and homes people own. The taxes collected from property owners pays for government services. Standards Link: Social Studies: Students demonstrate an understanding of the economy.

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Follow your tax dollar through the maze to see the kinds of government services your tax dollar buys.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple, written directions.

GOVERNMENT PROPERTY POLICE EARNINGS PRICE PARKS DOLLAR SENSE COURTS STORE COLLECTS ROADS SNOW OWE ENOUGH

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

How many ways can you make a dollar with these coins? Complete the chart to show the number of coins you will need for each group.

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

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Question of the Month: “How do I get my child to do more reading?”

EASTER CRAFT: Marbled Eggs with Shaving Cream

Good question! Research shows that the more kids read, the better they read. So it is a great idea to look for ways to get your child reading more. Here are a few ideas:

1. Write short notes for your child to read. Write down a weekly chore list, put a note in a lunch bag, or on the bathroom mirror. 2. Enjoy doing activities that require reading. Reading a recipe to cook something together or reading instructions to make a craft project are great ways to inspire your kids to read with you.

3. Establish a reading time at home. Even if it’s only 10 minutes each day, set aside a reading time for both you and your children. Enjoy the quiet time together. Make sure there is a good reading light. 4. I read, you read. Take turns reading a book with you reading one page and your child reading the next.

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EDITOR’S PICK by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News

By BK Fulton The Adventures of Little BK: Book 1 A uthor BK Fulton has had many adventures and earned a lot of awards as a lmmaker, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

Spray the shaving cream in your dish making sure to cover the entire surface to a depth of about one inch.

Using two or three colors, put drops of food coloring randomly on the shaving cream.

everyday challenges a child can face. This series of books is written to be uplifting and entertaining.

Use a toothpick to drag the colors together to make swirls. Don’t mix too much.

“Little BK’s experiences show that it’s okay to be in your own skin, and it’s okay to choose your own style. His stories encourage children to be true to who they really are,”explained Fulton.

Now he is the author of a seven-book series of children’s books based on his life experiences. The rst book tells about his rst day at a new school in the third grade and how he got the name BK. Read this book with your child to talk about the kinds of

Gently roll your egg through the colored shaving cream—you might want to wear kitchen gloves or use a stick or spoon here to avoid getting food coloring on your hands. When you’ve coated your egg, pick it up and place it carefully on a paper plate. Allow to dry for about 10 minutes.

You can order this book online at soulidifly.com/mrbusiness

Using paper towels, gently rub o the shaving cream.

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Page 11 Use the code to discover the name of the book. Silent Spring Puzzler The best time to plant trees is in spring. Start seeds in paper cups in a sunny spot.

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Golden Oak: 17 - 11 = 6 Tanbark Oak: 15 - 8 = 7 Black Oak: 21 - 12 = 9

Page 8 Animal Groups Porcupines: A Prickle Squirrels: A Scurry Skunks: A Surfeit Foxes: A Leash

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Who is walking in the woods? deer: 18 - 4 = 14

Page 12 What’s the greatest use of chicken feathers in the world? To cover chickens

raccoon: 19 - 6 = 13 squirrel: 23 - 7 = 16 bear: 21 - 6 = 15 rabbit: 17 - 7 = 10

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