{"id":1253,"date":"2017-11-01T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/?page_id=1253"},"modified":"2019-08-01T19:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:20:59","slug":"sand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Dwellers: From Desert to Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our new words are camouflage, hibernation, nocturnal, and flipper. The words come from a book about creatures that dwell and hide in the sand. Look below for a video showing some sand-dwelling creatures. \u00a0Explain the words to your child.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XGp3NMuyJLs&app=desktop<\/a><\/p>\n

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A camouflaged fish<\/p><\/div>\n

Camouflage<\/strong> is\u00a0a way of hiding something by covering or coloring it so that it looks like its surroundings.<\/p>\n

Ask your child how fish, crabs, or other animals can camouflage themselves.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bear in a den hibernating<\/p><\/div>\n

Some animals hibernate<\/strong> and rest or sleep most of the winter.<\/p>\n

Ask your child to pretend to hibernate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Flipper<\/p><\/div>\n

A flipper<\/strong> is a type of limb on animals used to go through the water. This sea turtle has a large flipper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ask your child why some sea animals have flippers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for helping your child learn new words!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our new words are camouflage, hibernation, nocturnal, and flipper. The words come from a book about creatures that dwell and hide in the sand. Look below for a video showing some sand-dwelling creatures. \u00a0Explain the words to your child. Camouflage is\u00a0a way of hiding something by covering or coloring it so that it looks like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4452,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/texttotalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}