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A6 ursday, February 28, 2019 Thank you, sponsors! If your business would like to sponsor a classroom, please contact Diane Goold NIE Coordinator, (816) 271-8624, diane.goold@newspressnow.com75106190 Jim Ingle Construction 2019 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 35, No. 12 Snapping Up a Meal Number the pictures in order. How many ies can you nd on this page? Sweet nectar around the edges of the Venus open leaves attract insects. As a bug moves across the surface drinking up this treat, it touches small, sensitive bristles on the Venus ytrap.

These trigger hairs tell the plant when a possible meal has arrived. Then the close very quickly, trapping the insect inside. The long cilia, hairs along the leaf edges, act like prison bars, preventing the insect from escaping. Several days later, after the insect has been digested, the leaves open and left of the insect body blows away. Venus flytraps have little spikes around the leaves.

But they are not teeth. They chew. The plant uses digestive juices, much like those in your stomach, to eat insects. Digestion of eal food takes five to 1 2 days, after which the tra reopens. The insect's xoskeleton blows away in the wind or is washed awa by rain.

If something not edible falls into a Venus flytrap, it will close up and try to digest it. But after about 12 hours, it will open its leaves and let the fake food fall out. Venus flytraps get much of their nutrition from the bugs they eat, but they also need water, sun and soil to survive. Venus ytraps dangerous to people, but people are endangering them. Venus ytraps are only found growing wild in one small area of the planet in the grassy wetlands, or bogs, around Cape Fear, North Carolina.

This area has just the right climate, amount of water and soil conditions. Today the plant is threatened in the wild. The draining of bogs for farming and the building of shopping centers and houses has reduced the habitat and numbers. Less than of the plants are left. Beautiful but Hungry Jaws of Doom True or False Quiz Dangers? Standards Link: Research: Students predict likely outcomes.

Look at a photograph in the newspaper. What do you think happened before the photo was taken? What do you think happened afterwards? Before After The Venus ytrap is a meat-eating, or carnivorous, plant. It is also quite lovely. That is why its name includes Venus. That is the name of the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

But worry a Venus ytrap eat you. Mostly they eat bugs. They especially love mosquitoes and ies. Make a guess about which of these statements are true and which are false. Then read the notes about the Venus ytrap to check your answers.

Venus ytraps have teeth.1. nectar cilia trigger hairs Venus ytraps only need bugs to survive. 2. Venus ytraps help keep bugs out of your house. 4.

Its shuts in under one second. 5. Venus ytraps eat anything that falls into their mouth-like leaves. 3. Quick! Help this escape the Venus grip! Cause and Effect When something happens, there is usually something that caused it to happen.

The cause comes rst, the eect second. Here are some examples: When the hairs on the inside of a Venus leaves are touched, the plant snaps shut. Cause: touch the hairs Eect: plant snaps leaves closed If a little rock is put inside the mouth-like leaves of a Venus ytrap, the leaves will snap shut. After about 12 hours, the leaves will open so the rock can drop out because it is something the plant eat. Which part of the above is the Which part is the Look through the newspaper for an article that interests you.

Can you nd one eect and what caused it? Cause: Eect: One day I planted a magic Finish this story. Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Find the words in the puzzle. How many of them can you find on this page? FLYTRAP CLIMATE STOMACH SURVIVE BEAUTY SPIKES EDIBLE DIGEST JUICES VENUS LOVE BOGS FEAR WILD A A I I A I I A A A A I A I I Newsy Timeline Standards Link: Reading: Extract information from text. Select an article that interests you in the newspaper. Read the article and then make a timeline to show the events in the order they happened. Share your timeline with a parent or other family member.

Standards Link: Follow simple written directions. Flytrap is a compound word, made by combining two smaller words: and trap. Look at the pictures below. Draw a line between two pictures to make a compound word. Then write the word.

CHAPTER SIX Rails Across the River Becky said. did you do after the Mr. Eads swept his arm toward the bridgework behind them. the fighting ended, it became clear that railroads were the key to moving beyond communities hugging riverbanks. The city of Chicago has always been a rival to St.

Louis in their race to regional importance. Chicago gained an early head-start in bridging the Mississippi by rail to connect to the West and its emerging your bridge be the first one to cross the honor will not be mine. They drove the golden spike to mark the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad from coast to coast four years ago, and the first bridge crossed the Mississippi River in 1856. But this St. Louis and Illinois bridge will be the first connecting St.

Louis to the East. The railroad is the future of America, and I want our fair city to be left in the Eads created an innovative design to compete for the right to build the Laura said. I had little Eads chuckled. steamship companies lobbied for such dire restrictions that one could only overcome them with new and superior kind of Becky asked. see.

It be made of wood; the lowest part of the superstructure had to be at least fifty feet above the water; it be a drawbridge or a suspension bridge; it had to carry both rail and vehicular traffic and had to have one span of at least 500 feet or two spans of at least 250 you met all of those them, dear girl. This bridge will have three spans, each one longer than 500 feet. We are eighty-eight feet above the water, and the superstructure is comprised mainly of steel. Each of these are firsts in history; and when compete, it shall be the longest arch bridge in the It sounds as if your wonderful ideas have made this project Becky said. Mr.

Eads scoffed. should think not. I have undergone vile criticism from so-called experts, predicting that the bridge would fall down, that the technology was unworkable. Fools, all of there a protest recently from the steamship industry that almost stopped the Laura asked. yes, Eads huffed.

claimed that the bridge was a menace to navigation and insisted that we build a canal on the Illinois side so they could avoid the bridge completely. Ridiculous, as they intended it to be, but they got the Army Corps of Engineers to agree with did you Becky asked. reached out to my friend Ulysses S. Grant, the former general who benefited so much from my ironclads during the war. Grant is now President of these United States.

He simply ordered the Corps to drop their support of the canal and let the bridge construction move Newspaper Connections: By MATT Associated Press The operator of a video-sharing app popular with teenagers agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle federal allegations it illegally collected personal information from children. The Federal Trade Commission said the Wednes- day penalty against lip-syncing app Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, is the largest ever obtained in a privacy case. The FTC said the app violated the federal Chil- Online Privacy Protection Act, which re- quires kid-oriented websites to get con- sent before collecting personal information from children under 13. The app changed its practices in 2017 to cially ban kids under 13 from joining, but it hard to nd children as young as 8 or 9 sharing short videos of themselves on the platform. because you say intended for over-13 mean that it said Andrew Smith, direc- tor of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a conference call Wednesday.

Musical.ly, founded in 2014, grew rapidly and operated out of ces in Shanghai and San Fran- cisco. The FTC said been downloaded by more than 200 million people worldwide, and 65 million in the U.S. It built a devoted community of self-described who regularly shared lip-syncing, danc- ing, gymnastics or comedy videos. But the app also raised concerns among many parents, espe- cially after news reports of adult predators using the app to contact children. Smith said that along with failing to adequately seek permission, the operators of Musi- cal.ly honor requests for personal information to be deleted.

Smith said the company deleted some under-age accounts but delete their videos and le information from its own servers. le information often included email ad- dresses as well as a name, age, school and picture. Until October 2016, one of the fea- ture allowed users to nd nearby users within a 50-mile radius. Teen video app Musical.ly agrees to FTC ne.