Kid Scoop News—July 2024

July 2024

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EXCALIBUR This legendary sword once belonged to King Arthur, who became King of Britain when he was able to pull a magical sword out of a stone.

Did you know that as well as having a birthday, you also have a birthSTONE? YOU’RE A GEM

How many words can you make out of the letters in MINIATURE GOLF?

Dear Readers,

News ..................................... Excalibur ............................... You’re a Gem ......................... Burrowing Bugs .................... A Trip to the Museum ............ Puzzles .................................. Activity Calendar ................... Blooming Creative ................. Independence Day ................. Wants and Needs .................. Optical Illusions ..................... How to Draw ......................... Parent Scoop ......................... Answers ................................ 3

Museum and instructions of how to grow a potato-vine on the Blooming Creative page. Then there’s all the fun of Fourth of July. Is there a parade in your town? We bring the barbeque and picnic to you with some fun and games on pages 16-17. We hope you enjoy reading this month’s Kid Scoop News as much as we enjoyed creating it! Have a Fabulous July!

There are so many wonderful things to do in the summer! Reading should be on your list, too! This month, read about the legend of the sword Excalibur. The story goes that King Arthur was given the sword by the Lady of the Lake —read on page 4. Check out the Gems of your birth month on pages 6 and 7. Get the scoop on something fun to do each and every day in July in our July Fun Calendar on page 13! We’ve got summer activities covered, too, with a Trip to the

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Each year, bright lights, crowds, and painfully loud noises cause cats and dogs to become frightened, lost, or even sick. Some run away and hide, some cry and strain on leashes.This year, keep your pet in a quiet room during the festivities of the Fourth. Very nervous pets may need help from your vet.

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How many things can you nd wrong with this picture?

Graphic Designer Eli Smith

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2,500 People Live in Australia’s Underground Town

You may find the Australian town of Coober Pedy on the map, but it is hard to see when you get there. Why? The entire town with 2,500 plus residents live underground.

In 1915, when opal was discov- ered there, people came from across the country and the world to mine the precious stone. Soon they found out that while working under the ground was easy, living above it was not, thanks to the extreme temperatures. The miners adapted to the harsh environment by converting old mines into homes and establishing the world’s first, and most likely

The view from above ground at Coober Pedy.

only, underground town. As years have gone by, the homes have become bigger and more modern. There are now also several hotels and inns for the tourists that flock in from all over the world to see this unusual town. The insides of the homes have walls that showcase the beautiful under- ground red-rock colors. They have walk-in closets, modern kitchens, and televisions. And if that is not enough, the town also has gift shops selling opal jewelry, a couple of museums, and a church. One part of the town is above ground—its golf course. Golfers carry a small piece of turf from hole to hole. On days when its too hot, golfers play at night using “glow in the dark” golf balls.

Cave sweet cave!

An underground gift shop.

There’s even an underground church at Coober Pedy.

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In legends about King Arthur, he has a magical sword called Excalibur . What was its magic? Legends describe Excalibur as a sword with a magic, unbreakable blade, fashioned by an elf

swordsmith. It has a scabbard that would protect the person wearing it from all harm.

According to the legend, Arthur became king when he was able to pull a sword from a stone when no one else could, even older and stronger knights. This was Arthur’s first sword, but it was not Excalibur.

Because Excalibur is a sword of legend, it can look any way you wish. Decorate and color this big sword to look the way you think Excalibur could look.

Replace the missing words.

The sword from the stone was broken in a battle Arthur had with a knight named Pellinore. Arthur’s friend, the magician Merlin, took him to a magical lake where the mysterious

To be a knight at King Arthur’s Round Table was the greatest ________ and it wasn’t easy to earn. The knights had to vow to live pure ________, to speak the __________, to fight for the right, and to be _____________ to the King. Many knights came to serve King Arthur and they all wanted to be __________ at the “head” of the table. King Arthur had a ________ table built for his knights to stop their quarreling.

Lady of the Lake, Vivian, gave Excalibur to Arthur.

Can you nd the two identical swords?

How many crowns can you nd on these pages?

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The wind took Merlin’s hat! Can you help?

EXCALIBUR SCABBARD KNIGHTS ARTHUR LEGEND MERLIN

The tales of King Arthur’s kingdom have been told through the centuries. Many books, movies, and even musicals have been written about the adventures of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Use the code to discover the name King Arthur gave to his castle. A Legendary Kingdom

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: Follow simple written directions.

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You know you have a birthDAY. Did you know you also have a birthSTONE? A special gem stone has been selected to be the birthstone for each month of the year.

1. Find the month you were born in the box below. 2. Next to your birthday month, there are two symbols. The first symbol shows you which horizontal line to follow on the Intergalactic Gem Stone Locator

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Pearl

Grid. The second symbol tells you which vertical line to follow. 3. The gem at the point where the two lines meet is your personal birthstone!

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Standards Link: Math: Measure time using calendars. Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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Garnet – purplish red Amethyst – purple Aquamarine – greenish blue

Ruby – red Peridot – light green Sapphire – blue Opal – blue and green and white Topaz – orangish yellow Turquoise – light blue

Diamond – white Emerald – green Pearl – white

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow written directions; matching.

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Good thinking Contentment Married happiness Dependability Sincerity Hope Courage Innocence Love Loyalty Health Success

Each birthstone has a special meaning. To find out, do each math problem, put your answer on the line next to each gem and then find the answer in the list on the right.

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Standards Link: Health: Connect personal characteristics that contribute to positive self-esteem. Math: Calculate sums and differences.

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: Locate information through interview and investigation.

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These two bugs have come up with clever ways to use digging, or burrowing, skills to survive. The trapdoor spider digs into the ground to create a nest that is also a trap. A wasp drills into trees to find safe, food-filled havens for its eggs.

This trapdoor spider snagged some of the words out of Nellie’s article. Can you draw a line to where each word belongs?

The trapdoor spider sits under the trapdoor with its legs sticking out. When an insect comes near, the trapdoor spider senses the vibrations it makes on the

ground with special sensitive leg hairs. It pounces! In a rapid pounce, the spider snatches the insect, injects it with poison, and pulls it down into the burrow to be eaten.

It takes some kinds of trapdoor spiders just 0.03 (that’s three hundredths) of a second to grab a victim. That is faster than the blink of an eye!

Draw the rest of this trapdoor spider.

Standards Link: Life Science: Know that the behavior of individual organisms is influenced by internal and external cues.

Another bug that uses special digging skills is the ichneumon (ik-new-man) wasp. This wasp lives in the pine forests of North America, Europe, and New Zealand. When it is time to lay her eggs, the female ichneumon wasp finds a pine tree. She lands on a trunk or branch and gently taps the wood with her antennae. She is listening for a hollow sound that tells her there is grub inside.

With the sharp tip of her ovipositor, she pierces through the bark and drills until she finds the grub. She lays a single egg in the grub’s body. In a few days, the tiny ichneumon young hatches and feasts on the grub’s fat body. When it is big enough, it tunnels out of the tree and flies. Adult ichneumon wasps drink the nectar of flowers.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Know the sequence of events.

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Fact and Opinion

In order for a news article to be fair and accurate, a reporter must separate fact from opinion . Facts are pieces of information that can be measured, proven, or seen. Opinions describe how someone feels about a thing or event. They can vary from person to person. Read the Burrowing Bugs page. List three facts you found on the page: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________

Write an opinion you found on the page: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Read a letter to the editor in today’s newspaper. With a partner, underline the facts in green and the opinions in red. Name: _______________________________________________ Partner’s name: ________________________________________

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Identify the difference between fact and opinion.

TRAPDOOR SPIDERS BURROWS POUNCE SILK

After eating constantly at the fast food restaurant known as Gussy’s, 10-year-old Roscoe finds himself turning into a giant bug. Hold this page up to a mirror to see the title of this book. Then check it out at your local library!

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 directions.

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Take a Trip to the Museum!

There are many different kinds of museums: art museums, history museums, nature museums, and more. It can be fun to go to a museum, but sometimes that is just not possible. This week, Kid Scoop News takes you on a pretend visit to a few different kinds of museums. Grab your imagination and let’s go!

Find these hidden things in the picture:

Look Closely! A museum has lots of things to look at. Draw squares on the picture above to show where each of these photos was taken.

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There are many museums devoted to food! In Vermont, there is a maple syrup museum. In California, there is a banana museum. Museum Maze

Nature Museums

Nature museums are full of amazing things to observe. Test your observation skills by seeing how many squirrels you can find here:

In Wisconsin, there is a museum dedicated to this food product. Take a guess, then gather the letters along the correct path of the maze to spell the name of the food.

Long before there were cameras, people had paintings made of their family members. How many differences can you find in these portraits? Family Memories

TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORT CHILDRENS

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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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Which dinosaur is lifting the heaviest rock? Find and cut out 10 numbers from today’s newspaper. Glue the numbers at random on each rock. Add the numbers. The rock with the largest total is the heaviest. Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Calculate sums to 1,000.

Look through the newspaper for a word that begins with each letter in the word DINOSAUR .

Adjectives describe nouns. For example, dinosaur is a noun and extinct is a word that describes the noun dinosaur . Look at each of the drawings of dinosaurs. Then, look through the newspaper and select two or more adjectives to describe each dinosaur. Glue or write the adjectives in the boxes below each dinosaur.

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JULY 2024 Get ready for Fourth of July celebrations today. Make costumes and decorate bikes with red, white, and blue. Can you eat red, white and blue healthy food today?

Make a macaroni necklace today. You can change their color by soaking them in food coloring. Allow them to dry on a paper towel and then thread them on a string. Try jumping rope with some friends. It takes some practice, but it's great exercise. 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.

On this day, in 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion. Draw the maple leaf flag.

Grab a friend and practice throwing and catching a ball. If you’re right-handed, try catching with your left hand. If you’re left-handed, try catching with your right hand. Get a paper lunch bag and turn it into a puppet. Draw a face on the bottom using markers or crayons. Paper

Start a Summer Book Club with your friends. Choose a book together then pick a meeting day to discuss it. Celebrate cows today. Think about all the things you get from a cow. Cow Appreciation Day

Draw a postcard and send it to a friend. Remember to write the full address on one side and add a stamp.

Independence Day

Canada Day

Take a walk with a family member. Observe your surroundings and see if you spot birds and flowers along the way.

Make a pitcher of ice-cold lemonade and give it to a neighbor as a sweet

Put all your soft toys out in a circle and give them a Teddy Bear Picnic.

When is the last time your family visited a museum? Plan a visit today.

summer surprise!

Bag Day

Teddy Bear Picnic Day

Make a smoothie with lots of fruits. Add a quarter cup of chopped fresh spinach or another green vegetable.

Make a lemonade stand today and sell your refreshing drinks to passersby.

Create a secret code. Share the code with a friend and write coded notes to each other. Find a recipe or buy a mix and make blueberry muffins for breakfast today. National Blueberry Month

Pack a lunch and take a long bike ride with a group of friends. Tell a parent your planned route.

Write a movie review for a film you have seen this summer. Tell what you liked or disliked about it. Mail it to a friend or family member.

Make ice cream sundaes for your family. Include as many fruits as possible. Create a comic strip. Use two characters to tell riddles or knock-knock jokes. Draw a week’s worth of strips.

Make some paper airplanes today and fly them with a friend. Measure whose plane goes farthest. Amelia Earhart Day Find out as much as you can about honey bees. How might you be able to attract them to your garden? Research

Collect toys and books you no longer use and give them to an organization that will distribute them.

Find a shady spot and have a nice family picnic today.

Pretend your bed is a space ship and you are on the way to the moon. What can you see around you and what does it feel like?

Have a parent hide a “treasure” and write down clues for you to follow. Have a fun treasure hunt with your friends.

National Picnic Month

Find a creative way to cool off. Make a shower with a garden hose or run through the sprinklers.

Look up events in your local newspaper or newspaper’s website and plan for the entire week. Local News

Make a hat with a large brim out of construction paper.

You will need:

Amazingly large fruits and vegetables are somehow grown every year. Their weights and sizes are reported to the Guinness World Records . This book, full of astonishing information, can be found at your local library.

Pierce the sweet potato with three evenly spaced toothpicks to hold it up in a jar.

Put the potato, small end down, into the jar as shown.

Fill the jar with enough water to keep the bottom of the sweet potato wet.

Unscramble the letters to discover which fruits and vegetables check in at these weights:

Put the jar in a dark place. In a few weeks, the potato will grow roots. Change the water every couple of days.

Once roots are growing, move the jar to a sunny window. In a week or so, the potato will sprout leaves from the top.

Once a vine has grown to about six inches long, you can pinch it off and plant it in your yard. Sweet potatoes grow in about four months.

A Guinness World Record for the largest salad was set in BJJG by the people of a small agricultural community in Israel. Residents prepared a BB,FAI pound, F ounce ( AJ,BFJ kg) salad, using lettuce they had grown themselves. Servings of the salad were sold, raising over $ BE,JJJ to benefit a village for young adults suffering from severe disabilities.

Use the code to discover the numbers in this story.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Use general strategies of the reading process to comprehend expository text.

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Have a friend give you each type of word to fill in the blanks. Then read the story aloud!

My uncle’s farm is very unusual. Uncle Jim plants ____________ and ____________ instead of seeds each year. As you can imagine, this makes harvest time rather interesting.

Last year, he grew a _________ crop of _________________. Aunt Ellen used them to make a ______________ pie, which won first prize at the county fair.

My sister and I like to ________ through the fields at the farm, looking for _______________ . Sometimes, in the evenings, we’ll sit on the ___________ of the farmhouse, watching the ___________.

Uncle Jim’s neighbors like to ____________ by the house to look at the _________________ growing on the hillside. Every so often, a tour bus filled with __________ __________ will drive past the farm, taking lots of pictures.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Understand the meaning of words from context clues.

BLOOMING CREATIVE CARROTS SALAD LUNCHBOX

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

Who was the tallest person in the world? What’s the weight of the heaviest pumpkin ever grown? What animal is the fastest eater? Pore over thousands of updated records from around the globe in this popular book. Fill in the missing vowels in the title of this book. Then, check it out at your library!

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

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Can you nd the letters L-I-B-E-R-T-Y hidden here? Parade Puzzle

Unscramble the words to discover the rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776. This famous document says that all people are created equal and with certain rights. n July 4, 1776, people living in the American Colonies declared their independence. They wanted to be independent, or free, from the rules of King George III of England. They wanted to form their own country. They wrote a document to send to King George. It was called the

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How many stars can you nd below?

Which two picnic pictures are the same?

MACARONI ENGLAND SIGNERS PARADE

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

One of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence visited Europe and fell in love with pasta. He brought back a machine to make macaroni and later, he became the first president to serve macaroni and cheese as part of an official state dinner. Which Founding Father was this? Circle every fourth letter to find out!

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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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A WANT is something you would like to have, but can live without. A music player, computer, television, and bike are wants not needs.

A NEED is something you must have in order to survive. You need shelter, clothing, food, water and sometimes medicine.

Just like people, raccoons have things they need to survive. Raccoons that live in the wild also like things they don’t need to survive. Some of these “wants” can be dangerous to a raccoon.

This raccoon needs fruit, but he wants candy, which isn’t good for him. Look at each picture next to the raccoon. Write the word NEED next to each picture that shows something a raccoon needs to survive.

Write the word WANT next to each picture that shows something a raccoon might want, but not need. Standards Link: Economics: Differentiate between wants and needs.

Shelter is a need . Raccoons prefer living in wooded areas where they make their homes or dens in the hollow parts of trees, as well as in abandoned burrows. Why do you think a raccoon would like its home to be in a hollow up high in a tree? Today, raccoons also can be found in areas where people live. They sometimes make their homes in man-made structures like attics, sewers, barns, and sheds. Raccoon Shelter

Circle every other letter to reveal another raccoon need.

Help this little raccoon nd its way home.

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Rita, I found a whole bunch of cool optical illusions! Can you solve this riddle with them?

Grab a ruler and complete the “Can you believe your eyes?” mystery questions to find the answer to the riddle. What do you need to spot an iceberg 20 miles away?

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anteater is larger? E. Top F. Bottom G. Same

2. Which rainbow is longer? M.The one on top. N. The one on bottom. O. They are the same length.

5. Which square is larger? R. A is larger. S. B is larger. T. They are the same size.

4. Which dot is in the center of the circle?

Be sure to check your answers with a ruler!

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Stu you’ll need: Harness Sun Power to Cook Up a Tasty Treat

EDITOR’S PICK by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News A Mario and the Aliens By Carolina Zanotti Illustrated by Thai My Phuong book to get kids reading and then headed outdoors! Mario and the Aliens is about three aliens who visit the tech-obsessed Mario and ask to learn what Earth children do for fun. When Mario shows o

paper and foil mun liners

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Line half of your muffin cups with paper liners and the other half with foil liners. Put a marshmallow in each cup and top with a square of chocolate. Place the pan in direct sunlight and observe (watch). Record your observations on the Scientist’s Log at right. Once the chocolate melts, place the marshmallow and chocolate between two graham crackers and enjoy!

SCIENTISTS’S LOG

What happens after one minute?

What happens after two minutes?

his computer, the aliens are unimpressed since they already have tons of technology back home. The aliens are more interested in learning about OUTDOOR play. So Mario

Which chocolate squares melt faster, those in the paper cups, or the ones in the foil lined cups? Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple-step written directions. paper foil

quickly learns to play outside alongside his new alien friends, enjoying real toys like balls, bikes and dolls. As a result, Mario is left with a newfound love of outdoor play and three new friends! There are several life lessons to be gleaned from this children's book, including: • Helping children understand the concept of unplugging • Learning the joys of outdoor play • The magic of friendship and playing together

SUNNY WORDS FOR JULY Ask your child: How many words can you come up with that contain the word “sun” inside? Get started with these:

• Sunbelt - Any of the southern and southwestern states of the United States • Sunbonnet - A bonnet for ladies with a wide brim framing the face and a rue at the back of the neck to protect from the sun • Sunder - To break or tear apart • Sundial - An instrument used to show what time of day it is by the shadow on a horizontal surface

Can you nd the meaning of these sunny words? Use the dictionary to nd more!

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Page 14 Colossal Carrots and Behemoth Broccoli PAPLE: Apple TAROCR: Carrot CLIRBOCO: Broccoli World’s Largest Salad BJJG: 2007 BB,FAI: 22,619 F: 6 AJ,BFG kg: 10,260 $BE,JJJ: 25,000

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Page 8 Tricky Trapdoor experts fangs burrows nests lid trap silk time

Page 15 Get Creative @ Your Library Guiness World Records

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Founding Father Favorite Food Thomas Jeerson

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