Kid Scoop News—January 2026

January 2026

AIR PRESSURE It can be hard to explain the concept of air pressure. But our simple experiment shows you how to measure air pressure by making a barometer.

BEWARE THE KRAKEN Was this legendary sea monster for real?

SNOWMAN STRETCHES Stay t at home with silly snowman stretches.

See how many words you can make

using the letters in OWL FAMILY !

Health ocials say something is hurting the health of America’s children; childhood obesity. Eating right helps you feel better and do better in school. Discover how “eating a rainbow”can make eating healthy foods a lot of fun!

“What is your favorite part of Kid Scoop News ?”

News ..................................... Rainbow Nutrition ................. Cuttlesh ............................... Family Tree ............................ Air Pressure ........................... Puzzles .................................. Activity Calendar ................... Rainbow Power ..................... The Kraken ............................ Saving Money ....................... Fit & Fun ................................ Parent Scoop ......................... Early Learners ........................ Answers ................................ 3

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HELLO and WELCOME 2026! What are you looking forward to in the New Year? ME? I want to read more, learn more, eat better, discover new things, save more, explore, and have fun. What about you? The good news is, we can start reaching our new year goals by reading Kid Scoop News! This month, I will learn about The Kraken, whom sailors of long ago used to fear. They thought a Kraken could sink their ships! The theme of RAINBOWS keeps popping up in this issue of Kid Scoop News. Just like a real rainbow.

How many pages in this month’s issue have the word RAINBOW? How many times can you find the word RAINBOW? Another of my new year goals is to stay active and be fit. The Fit & Fun page in this month’s issue shows you some silly snowman stretching and wiggling that you can do indoors or outdoors! So start your year out right with Kid Scoop News. Read, play, move, and discover! Happy New Year!

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3 January is a wonderful time to learn something new, stay curious, and explore the world around you. This month, we’re talking about colorful foods, amazing animals, big science ideas, and even a legendary sea creature! With every new year comes new resolutions, let’s try to keep our bodies strong by “eating the rainbow.” Let’s choose fruits and veggies of every color: red strawberries, orange carrots, green kiwis, and purple grapes! And when you're done experimenting with food, try a new science experiment! Let's make a simple barometer to learn about air pressure. All you need is a jar, a balloon stretched across the top, and a straw taped like a tiny pointer. When the balloon moves, the straw does too, helping you see changes in the air around you! I hope these fun topics inspire you to explore, imagine, and learn all month long. Keep shining bright, Louisiana kids! 6

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Standards Link: Number Sense: Read numerals and calculate sums to 100.

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inter days can be cold and dreary. But between storms, you just might see a RAINBOW! Rainbows make people happy! There are people that see rainbows as art in the sky. Others see a rainbow as a sign of hope. Help your friends and neighbors find rainbows by making and displaying one! If the weather doesn’t cooperate and no rainbows appear in the sky, you can still bring joy and hope to your neighborhood by displaying a homemade rainbow in a window where others can see it! You can make your own rainbow with items found around your house. This is good for the environment because you are re-using materials. Re-using paper helps to save trees!

“After a passing storm, rainbows are a reminder that bright days lie ahead. Seeing a rainbow is my reminder to enjoy the passing days. Creating this rainbow out of scrap felt from one of my many craft boxes and hanging it in my window for all my neighbors to see was the reminder I needed that we shouldn’t stop working towards our vision for a brighter future.” – Arielle

Colorful Idea

Drake is from San Leandro, California. He made a rainbow out of an old calendar by reusing it. He said he felt awesome that he was using old paper because he was saving trees. He learned in Ms. Dodd’s class at Roosevelt Elementary School that trees give us food and air. He is not only showing Mother Earth he cares, he is also showing his community he cares. His cousin in Hawaii, Xinmei, said she can feel his rainbow from California.

Drake made a rainbow by using paper from an old calendar.

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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions. Cut out these fruits and vegetables. Then paste them on the plate to create a clown face using the different foods as eyes, mouth, nose, hair, etc.

Total the number of fruits and vegetables you will eat, by color, today. Can you eat at least one in each of the five color groups?

Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables that are brightly colored is an easy way to get the mix of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that you need from your food. Pick foods that are brightly colored inside and out. Here are some examples of foods that make up the food rainbow!

Tomatoes Watermelon Cherries Red grapes Cranberries Strawberries Red cabbage Raspberries

Oranges Apricots Cantaloupe Carrots Lemons Pineapples Sweet corn Mangos

Lettuce Kiwi Green grapes Avocados Artichokes Spinach Celery Cucumbers

Garlic Onions Bananas Turnips Pears Potatoes Jicama Cauliower

Blueberries Blackberries Plums Raisins Eggplant Purple grapes Prunes Elderberries

Make a chart like the one on the right. Then fill in which fruits and vegetables you eat, by color, each day. Can you eat at least one in each of the five colors every day? Standards Link: Health: Make healthy food choices; group food choices in many different ways.

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STUFF YOU’LL NEED:

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4 cups frozen banana slices (about two bananas)

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2-4 tablespoons unsweetened almond or another kind of milk

With an adult’s help, you can make this frozen, healthy treat!

MAKE IT!

Place frozen banana slices and 2 tablespoons of unsweetened milk into a food processor or blender.

Blend on high for 1 to 2 minutes.

If blender is having a hard time blending, add a little more milk a little at a time.

Once well mixed, your banana NICE cream will be like a soft serve ice cream. Enjoy it that way or put into a bread pan and freeze for 1 to 2 hours.

RAINBOW RAISINS COLORS FRUIT MOUTH CHERRIES CUCUMBERS FACE

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

Who switched these names on the fruit trucks? Draw lines to show where each label belongs. Then color the picture!

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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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Cuttlefish are sea creatures. They are related to squids and octopuses. Cuttlefish have some amazing skills! Things like bones that float, color- changing skin, and loads of arms. Read on and learn!

Can You Cuddle a Cuttlesh? Perhaps. They have eight arms and

Cuttlesh Are Smart! Cuttlefish have passed a test that many toddlers can’t pass. Scientists discovered that cuttlefish will not eat one treat if they know they’ll get a better treat later if they wait. Could you do that?

two other tentacles for grabbing food. That makes for

a lot of arms to cuddle with!

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I’m Not a Fish! Even though they’re called “cuttlefish,” they are not fish. They’re in the same family as clams and snails. Use the code to discover the name of this family of animals.

Cuttlefish have a special shell inside their bodies which helps them to float. The name of this special shell can be found along the correct path through the maze.

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Find each pair of cuttlesh twins.

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Cuttlesh Cousins Odd Facts

Octopuses and cuttlefishes are in the same family and have a lot in common. Read the list of ways these animals are the same. Some of these are true. Some are not. Do the math to get to the truth. The statements next to a math problem with an even answer are false. Those that add up to an odd number are true. These are truly some odd facts!

CUTTLEFISH

They both have blue blood.

They can both walk for miles on land. 17 + 3 =

They both have three hearts. 16 - 7 =

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They both have eight arms. 11 - 6 =

They both can change the color and texture of their skin. 14 - 9 =

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They both are in the same family as oysters. 10 + 11 =

They both chirp like birds. 15 - 7 =

Standards Link: Math: Calculate sums and differences to 30.

Cuttlefish can change their skin color and patterns on their bodies in a blink! They use this to hide from predators, talk to other cuttlefish, or sneak up on prey like crabs and fish.

ARMS BLOOD CLAMS COLOR CUTTLEFISH EAT FAMILY FLOAT

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Color each cuttlefish to match each background.

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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions. Visual Arts: Create images using a variety of media.

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

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GRUFFLE’S GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

GRUFFLE’S GRANDPARENTS

THIS IS GRUFFLE

A family tree is not a real tree. Think of it as a

Your parents’ parents are your grandparents . Your grandparents’ parents are your great-grandparents . The people who came even before that are your ancestors . Genealogy is the study of family histories.

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picture of a tree that shows the members of your family and how they’re related to each other. The people that came before you in your

family are the branches of your tree. Your mom and dad are your parents, of course.

This Monster Family Tree helps Grue trace her family back to her great-grandparents.

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Learn more about your family by interviewing your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other family members. Most people like to talk about their lives. Enjoy learning about the history of your family. You might discover some surprising things! Standards Link: Social Science: Interpret data using graphic elements.

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AUNTS BRANCHES COUSINS DAD FAMILY GRANDMA GRANDPA LEARN LIVES MOM PARENTS TALK TRACE TREE YOU

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What did kids wear 100 years ago? On the right is Jason in 2025. On the left is Jason’s great-grandfather Evan in 1925.

Can you nd at least 5 dierences between the two pictures? Can you nd at least 5 things that are similar?

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

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Changing air pressure causes the weather to change. Warm air is lighter than cold air, so it rises. When warm air rises, it leaves behind

an area of low pressure. As air rises, it becomes cooler and starts to sink. This makes an area of high pressure.

You can measure high and low pressure!

The tool scientists use to measure air pressure is called a barometer . You can make one with things found around your house. Here’s how:

1 balloon 1 drinking straw 1 wide-necked glass jar glue scissors string

Low pressure often brings cloudy, unsettled weather.

High pressure usually brings fair weather.

Stretch the balloon over the top of the jar. Secure it with a string.

Glue the end of the straw onto the center of the balloon.

You can use your barometer

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Where is the straw on the air pressure scale (barometer)?

Actual weather outside

and this chart to see if this is true!

Cut off the neck of the balloon.

Cut out the pressure scale below.

Tape the scale on a wall behind the jar so that when the straw is straight, it rests halfway between the high pressure and low pressure marks.

Standards Link: Investigation: Students know how to make a systematic observation.

Standards Link: Physical Science: Students know that states of matter depend on molecular motion. move faster and farther away from each other. This causes warm air to be lighter than cold air, so it rises. This is why hot air balloons float up into the sky. Heaters blow hot air into the balloon and it fills and rises. When balloonists want to land, they turn off the heat and float downward. Air is made of molecules. When molecules heat up, they

Over the next few days, watch the straw move up and down as the air pressure changes.

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Find the two identical balloons.

WEATHER PRESSURE BAROMETER BALLOONS MOLECULES FIREMAN HEAT SECRET

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

Look at the clouds below. Can you see any pictures hidden in the clouds? Outline what you see.

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

Standards Link: Investigation: Find similarities and differences in common objects.

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Find each group of the dots below on the large grid. Circle them when you nd them.

Compound words are two words that are joined together to make a new word. Can you draw a line combining each snowball below with another one to create compound words? How many compound words can you nd?

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JANUARY 2026

Write down three trivia questions and quiz your parents or friends. Then have them ask you three trivia questions. Trivia Day Why is milk important? Discuss the different ways you consume milk. What is your favorite milk product? Save up for something special! Start a jar or a piggy bank and put in change whenever you can. How many different “opposites” can you think of today? Make a list and add to it throughout the day. Opposite Day 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.

It is said that no two snowakes are exactly alike, but on this page, all the snowakes are the same except for one. Can you nd it?

Choose something new to make or do this month. Start collecting the materials you’ll need for a new hobby. National Hobby Month Which is the most cluttered part of your room? Get containers together and organize the clutter, label the containers, and throw away or recycle unwanted pieces. Discuss frost today in class. What does it look like and feel like? How does it form? Or make a fruity frost treat at home by mixing different fruit juices and freezing them. What did you do this month to stay healthy? What will you carry forward to stay healthy next month? National Staying Healthy Month description of your favorite pie, what is in it, and why it is your favorite. National Pie Day Write a one paragraph

Chart how many hours of sleep you get per night. Between 10 and 11 should be your target. Festival of Sleep Day 30 minutes of walking can boost your brainpower. Start walking with some friends daily.

Write out your list of 10 long-term goals for the New Year. New Year’s Day Fill five or six glasses with different amounts of water. Make a tune tapping them lightly with a wooden spoon.

Today would be a good day to write thank you letters for all your Christmas gifts.

Put together a family calendar for the entire year. Mark everyone’s birthday, school holidays, anniversaries, and special days.

This is a day off school when you can serve your community. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Find a chore to do at home or ask a parent to allocate a chore. Give it an extra effort and see if you can accomplish something today. Work Harder Day Wrap up warm and go for a walk today. See how many different kinds of birds you can spot. National Bird Day

National Thank You Month

Look through a page in the newspaper and find a word you do not understand. Look up the meaning in a dictionary.

Ben Franklin was born on this day in 1706. Discuss his accomplishments and inventions. Why are these important to us all today?

Make a map today of your home and yard, as if you are looking down on it from above. Use color to show different elements. For tonight’s movie, rent a movie with a winter theme. Make a big bowl of popcorn and enjoy the show. Family Movie Night

Sprint from one end of a basketball court to the other. How many times can you go back and forth in 10 minutes?

Help a parent make a big bowl of soup for dinner tonight.

Find a puzzle in Kid Scoop News and work with a friend to find the solution. National Puzzle Day Make a January scrapbook. Include photos of all the family and memorabilia from special events and excursions this month.

Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919. He was a great all-around sportsman. Participate in a sport today in honor of Jackie Robinson. Try to say as many nice things to people as possible today. National Compliment Day

National Soup Month

Lewis Carroll was born on this day in 1832. Make a drawing of one of the characters from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

Get a group together. Choose a tune you all enjoy and play your kazoos together.

Invite some friends over or gather the family together for Family Game Night.

Kazoo Day

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ainbows are beautiful to look at because they are made of many different colors. They have the power to make us feel happy, just by looking at them. Martin Luther King, Jr. saw that there were many different colors of people in the world. He believed that these differences could make the world a better place to live. He spent his life helping people live together in peace and equality. Each year on the third Monday in January, we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday because of his great work and his important message: that all people are precious and that our differences, like a rainbow, can make the world a better place.

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INDIGO (dark blue) VIOLET

Color the one above with the real colors of a rainbow. Color each child in the rainbow below a different color of people.

Standards Link: History: Students identify the people honored in commemorative holidays including the human struggles

that were the basis for the events.

“Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a rainbow —red, yellow, brown, black, and white.”

– Jesse Jackson

What could be at the end of a rainbow of people? A pot of gold—or something better? Unscramble the letters on the coins to spell something you might find if all people appreciated each others differences.

Standards Link: Social Science: Students recognize the forms of diversity in their community and the benefits of a diverse population.

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Look through the newspaper and find an article and/or picture that shows people of different races working together. Glue the picture or the article in the first box. In the second box, write what you think Martin Luther King, Jr. would have said about these people.

Standards Link: Social Science: Students recognize the ways in which they are all part of the same community, sharing principles, goals, and traditions despite their varied ancestry; understand ways in which groups interact with one another to try to resolve problems.

Help the rainbow friends meet at the center of the maze.

RAINBOW PEACE EQUALITY

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: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written instructions.

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Replace the missing words.

Long ago, heading out to sea was an adventure into the unknown. People believed that the earth was _______. They thought if you sailed too far away from land, you would sail right o the ______ of the planet! It took great _________ to head across _______ of a ship, they imagined strange and scary ____________ swimming there. One of the scariest stories told and retold through generations of __________ was the legend of the terrible, mighty Kraken! the ocean in a small ship. When sailors looked into the deep, dark sea from the

ike many legends, stories about the Kraken probably started with something real. It may have been based on sightings of a real species of squid called the colossal squid .

Hold this page up to a mirror and use your peepers to read this paragraph:

For a giant sperm whale, a giant squid is a nice, lling meal. How do they avoid whales? Squids have large eyes – its eyes are the largest of any animal! They are as big as dinner plates,

up to 27cm (11in) across. These giant peepers are thought to have evolved to spot the whales from far away, giving the squid time to get away.

In some stories about the Kraken, it was said that it could oat on top of the water and look like a group of islands.

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A lot of people do. When a sailor told stories of their adventures, they liked to entertain and even scare their listeners. Each time a sailor retold a story about a giant squid, it most likely became exaggerated and more exciting. And when a sailor came home telling about an encounter with a giant, scary sea creature, it also made the sailor seem very brave. With a family member, write what you think each sailor’s story might be. Start the story with seeing a large octopus. The next sailor can exaggerate a frightening encounter with the Kraken.

Find the two identical scared sailors.

CREATURES ENCOUNTER COLOSSAL FAMILIAR

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.

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This does not mean your pocket is on fire. It’s an idiom that means that you have some money you are eager to spend. We all enjoy spending money when we get it. But have you ever wanted to buy something, but had no money because you already had spent everything you had?

When we spend money quickly, we lose a chance to save for something we want or need in the future. Another important idiom is “A penny saved is a penny earned.” This means that we shouldn’t carelessly spend or waste money, but try to save it. That’s because “Money doesn’t grow on trees!”

Imagine that you save the amount of money shown each month. How much will you have saved at the end of one year?

Putting money away in a piggy bank is a great way to start saving. But putting money into a savings account at a bank or credit union really pays off. That is because a bank pays you interest on your money. That means you can earn money by letting your cash sit in your savings account.

Now imagine you saved that same amount money every year for 10 years. How much money would you have saved?

An idiom is a common phrase which means something different from what the actual words say. Look at the common idioms below. Then, match each idiom with it’s meaning by writing the correct number next to that idiom’s definition at right.

1. That will happen when pigs y.

2. Get your ducks in a row.

3. He’s getting cold feet.

4. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.

5. She’s been feeling under the weather.

6. I felt like a sh out of water.

Standards Link: Language Arts: Understand the meaning of common idioms and their uses.

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19 Kid Scoop News believes that being active, preventing childhood obesity, and eating healthy are all objectives we want to promote. Our Fit & Fun page will help you do just that. Join in and enjoy getting t and having fun!

The wind sent you rolling downhill. Do as many somersaults as you can. The Big Tumble

With your feet together, lean as far as you can to one side for as long as you can. Whoa! Windstorm!

Imagine you are a snowman. Shake your big round tummy from side to side. Snowman Shake

Stand up straight and tall. Then s-l-o-w-l-y let yourself melt into a puddle on the ground. Meltdown

Standards Links: Physical Education: Demonstrate a sense of balance and endurance.

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Winter Citrus Salad

Cooking with your children is a great way to establish healthy eating habits, practice math skills like

This simple recipe is fun to make, fun to eat and adds needed vitamins to your diet in the cold and u season.

Grow Vocabulary with Kid Scoop News

measuring, and spend time with your child.

Give it a try with your kids!

Add chopped slices of orange, tangerine, and grapefruit.

Make dressing by blending equal parts oil, vinegar, and grapefruit.

This salad is a wintertime treat and refreshing in the summer, too!

Top the tossed salad with the zesty dressing, and sliced almonds.

With an adult, chop 5 cups of salad greens.

EDITOR’S PICK by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News

BigFoot Goes on Great Adventures

By D.L. Miller

Reading vocabulary refers to words used to communicate eectively. Beginning readers must know the meaning of words before they can understand what they are reading. Kid Scoop News helps develop vocabulary indirectly when students engage in a discussion about information on each page and directly when parents explain the meaning of individual words on each edition’s theme. The word search and other puzzles introduce new vocabulary words each month, providing additional practice in reading and spelling. Reading Kid Scoop News with your children each month will introduce and provide practice using vocabulary that he or she will encounter in their school studies.

S hy and reclusive, BigFoot spends most of his time in the deep dark woods, rarely spotted by humankind. But every now and then he leaves his

Scenes include the Amazon Rain- forest, Himalayas, Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, Madagascar, and more •

remote retreat and goes searching for adventure!

Your task is not only to nd BigFoot and his legendary footprint, but also more than 500 other unusual and sometimes unexpected personalities and objects.

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Sharpen your search and nd skills by locating the elusive BigFoot in his favorite cities 10 big visual puzzle panoramas oer teeming activity and an impressive level of detail

Fun facts and pictures accompany each scene to help kids learn more about the world's historic and cultural treasures.

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Y is for Yellow y is for yellow

In each row, circle the yellow fruit that should come next to continue the pattern.

Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter Y . Say the letter as you trace it. How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the Y sound like the word yellow ?

How many

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A tisket, a tasket, A green and yellow basket; I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it.

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Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the questions. Touch and count to find the answers.

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Wad up a sheet of newspaper and cover it in masking tape to make a little ball. Toss the ball to your child saying a word that starts with the letter Y . Have your child toss the ball back when he/she thinks of another word that starts with Y . Y-Toss

With your child, look through the newspaper to find pictures of things that start with the same sound as the letter Y in the word yellow . Letter Identification

Point to the number 10 in the newspaper. Have your child say the number and, if it’s large enough, have your child trace the number. Math Play

My Yellow Look through the newspaper for pictures of things that are yellow. Cut out all of the yellow things and glue them onto a piece of paper. Make a book of colors by repeating this activity with other colors.

Look at pictures of food and objects in the newspaper. Have your child point to things he/she likes and say, “Yummy!” Point to things he/she does not like and say, “Yucky!” Reinforce that the words start with the letter Y . Yucky and Yummy

With your child, find the letters that spell the word yellow on one page of the newspaper. Circle each letter with a yellow crayon or marker. Connect the circled letters like a dot- to-dot picture and color it in with your yellow crayon or marker. Yellow Dot-to-Dot

On one sheet of newspaper, draw a big yellow sun. With your child, hunt for all the letter Y s inside your sun. Sunshine News

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2026: $90.75, 2027: $181.50, 2028: $272.25, 2029: $363, 2030: $453.75, 2031: $544.50, 2032: $635.25, 2033: $726, 2034: $826.75, 2035: $907.50 Idioms Are Funny Phrases 3 Nervous or Reluctant 6 In an unfamiliar place 2 Be organized 4 Don’t be too sure 1 Something that’s impossible 5 Sick or unwell

I’m Not a Fish! Mollusk Cuttlesh Combos A & E, B & H, C & G, D & F

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