The Cricket in Times Square
Chapters 1 - 2
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The Cricket in Times Square Chapters 1 - 2 |
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Vocabulary Words of the Day - scrounging & quality
scrounging - scrounge 'skraunj
- to get as needed by or as if by foraging,
scavenging, or borrowing - to search about and turn up something needed from whatever
source is available.
Page 1 - And when he wasn't collecting, "scrounging" as he called it, or sleeping, he liked to sit at the opening of the drain pipe and watch the world go by - at least as much of the world as hurried through the Times Square subway station.
quality kwŏl'ĭ-tē - high grade; superiority; excellence
page 15 Papa was very proud that his newsstand carried all of what he called the "quality magazines".
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Internet Workshop Activity - What is beneath a city sidewalk? http://www.sfreading.com/4/u2_cricket/
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In Chapter 2 Mario tries to convince Mama to keep the cricket by telling her how crickets can tell the temperature. Try an experiment on you own to see if this works. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/orthoptera/Cricket.shtml |
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Make a cricket from a clothes pin. We used a green pipe cleaner for legs and antennae, tissue paper for wings, and wiggle eyes. |
