Kid Scoop News—June 2024

June 2024

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Chill Out Here’s a good excuse to splash around in water. Find out how many drops of water you can put on a penny. The results might surprise you.

A crazy water slide maze sets the scene for a cool summer vacation day. WATER PARK FUN

Can you nd the things I took photos of on this page?

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Just Plain Weird ..................... Hurricanes ............................. Chill Out ................................ Mammoth Ice Cube ............... Amusement Park ................... Puzzles .................................. Activity Calendar ................... Water Park Fun ...................... Mosquito Alert ...................... Cucumbers ............................ Mini Golf Math ...................... How to Draw ......................... Parent Scoop ......................... Answers ................................ 3

Summer is hurricane season. We hope you never have to experience one, but on the other hand, it is fascinating to know how they form, how they develop, and the names chosen by the Meteorological Office for the year. Don’t forget to pick up a book and read this summer. Don’t become part of the summer slide that might set you back when school starts again. Just find something to read that’s fun— like Kid Scoop News! Happy Summer!

Very soon now it will be time for Summer Vacation—Yeah!—and we’re all thinking about the fun activities ahead. If you can’t get to the Amusement Park, we’re bringing it to you with some puzzles set in the midway. And as the temperatures rise, what could be better than a trip to the water park. Our crazy water slide maze will get you ready to swim, and then the Chill Out page will have you experimenting with drops of water. Not everything about

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summer is fun. Mosquitoes are out in the millions looking for their favorite food—your blood! Good luck in avoiding those itchy bites this summer.

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Are you looking for a special way to say Happy Father’s Day? Make your dad a flag all his own! It’s simple!

Editorial

Amanda Miller Madison Voorhies

Austria Cohn Victoria Mikota

Make a list of words that describe your dad. Choose the three best words from your list. Find or draw pictures that represent the words you have chosen. Cut out the pictures and arrange them on a letter-sized piece of paper to look like a flag.

Art/Production Madison Graham

ISSN 2768-2382

Publisher and Editor Vicki Whiting

Art Director/Illustration Je Schinkel

Graphic Designer Eli Smith

Standards Link: Design: Use a variety of media to create a design.

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Boars Ruining Stinky Cheese M

unster cheese is a soft cheese famous for its strong (some say terrible) smell. The cheese is traditionally made by rubbing it in a brine (salty liquid) which helps grow bacteria. This process prevents mold but also provides the powerful aroma and flavor. The wheels of cheese are washed and brushed daily, and allowed to mature. In the olden days, the cheese was matured in damp cellars. Experts say that the

The longest lasting light bulb in existence is now estimated to be 123 years old. It’s not quite glowing strong, but this hand-blown, carbon-lament, 60-watt bulb emits a continuous dim light. After all these years it has earned a place in The Guinness Book of World Records . It’s known as“The Centennial Bulb”and it has been moved a few times but is now looked after by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department in California. In 2013, it was reported that the light had gone out, but an electrician diagnosed a faulty power supply, xed the problem, and the light came back on. Believe it or not, you can check on the current status of the light bulb by watching it in real time at the Light Bulb Cam: centennialbulb.org .

best Munster cheese is made from pastures in the Vosges Mountains in eastern France that have been mowed for midsummer hay. Strict rules apply to the making of Munster

dug up about 60% of these pastures on 43 farms. The Munster cheese production is threat- ened because the damage to pasture land means grass cannot grow and is often contaminated by wild boar droppings. The quality of the cow’s milk in the area has

cheese. The ingredients must come from local farms in the area, but local boars have a different idea. Wild boars forage for acorns, under- ground grubs and roots. And they have

suffered so much that the local farmers are asking for hunters to come and help to reduce the wild boar population.

World’s Biggest Bee Rediscovered

The world’s biggest bee disappeared from sight almost 40 years ago. It was thought to be lost forever, as is the case of so many insects becoming extinct in recent years. But in January 2019, an expedition into the forests of Indonesia, discovered a specimen of Wallace’s giant bee. Natural history photographer, Clay Bolt, was part of a team that discovered the bee. Its nest was carved into an active termite mound in a tree on

one of the North Molucca islands. Bolt describes the bee as“breathtaking,”with a length of about one-and-a-half inches, (the size of a thumb) and a wingspan of approximately two-and-a-half inches. It has immense jaws like a stag beetle, which it uses to help build its nest and make it waterproof to keep out termites. The discovery is encouraging for scientists, who thought Wallace’s giant bee to be a lost species.

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he sun disappears behind a giant wall of clouds. Powerful winds bend trees and batter homes. Waves pound the shoreline and flood the streets. They’re the most powerful weather force on earth. They’re …

In the summer and early fall, the air over the oceans heats up and then rises. Then it cools, and the moisture in the air forms storms over the ocean. When bands of these thunderstorms begin to swirl in a circular fashion, the system is called a tropical depression . If the swirling winds reach 40 miles per hour, the system is called a tropical storm . If the winds reach 74 miles per hour, its name is changed to a hurricane . Hurricanes weaken when they move over cooler water or land. Some die out over the Atlantic Ocean before they ever hit land. Read each step. Then, number the pictures in order.

A strange thing about hurricanes is that in the center of the fast moving, dangerous winds is a calm area called the eye . The eye of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast in fall of 2005, was 25 miles across.

Hurricanes form where the water of the seas is above 80° F (27° C). The Earth’s seas are the warmest near the equator because of the way the Earth is tilted. The equator is always getting direct sunlight, keeping the waters warm.

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with the letter A , the next starts with the letter B , and so on. The letters Q , U , X , Y and Z , however, are not used. Often when an unusually destructive hurricane hits, that hurricane’s name is retired and never used again. Since 1954, 96 names have been retired.

Hurricane names are chosen from lists compiled by the World Meteorological Organization. The Atlantic is assigned six lists of names, with one list used each year. Every seventh year, the first list begins again. Each name on the list starts with a different letter. For example, the name of the very first hurricane of the season starts

Here is a list of names for the year 2024. Number them from 1 to 21 in alphabetical order. __ Ernesto

__ Rafael __ Oscar __ William

__ Francine __ Milton __ Kirk

__ Chris __ Debby __ Alberto

__ Gordon __ Patty __ Helene

__ Nadine __ Isaac __ Valerie

__ Sara __ Tony __ Joyce

__ Leslie __ Beryl

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A hurricane is on the way! How many differences can you find in these two pictures?

HURRICANE EQUATOR TROPICAL CIRCULAR KAREN POLE

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

In North America, we call a storm that results from these conditions a hurricane. In other parts of the world, a hurricane is known by other names. Do the math to find out what hurricanes are called in other parts of the world.

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

Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Compute sums and differences.

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Would you like to splash around in some water on these hot summer days? Try this activity and tell your mom you are doing a science experiment!

As drops are added, they gradually mound into a dome instead of just flowing off the penny. Each drop raises the surface of the dome, until it gets too big and breaks.

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a penny an eyedropper liquid detergent tap water paper towel a place to work that your parents won’t mind getting wet!

The dome shape is caused by surface tension .

Surface

tension is caused by the grouping of molecules. Under the surface of the water, each water molecule attracts and is attracted to molecules on all sides of it.

Wash your penny. Rinse it and dry it well.

Place the penny on a flat surface that’s okay to get wet.

Fill the eyedropper with water and slowly drop water onto the penny, one drop at a time. Count how many drops you can add.

The surface molecules are attracted to the molecules below and to the sides, but there is nothing above the surface molecules to pull upward. The surface molecules pull together and act like a “skin” on the surface of the water.

Molecules pull together on the surface

Water molecules attracting from all sides

Standards Link: Physical Science: Students know that matter has different states (i.e., solid, liquid, gas) and that each state has distinct physical properties.

What shape does the water take? Repeat three times and find the average number of drops the penny can hold.

Repeat this experiment with cold water and then with hot water. Does the temperature of the water change the number of drops that fit on the penny?

Add a drop of soap to the water. Does this change the number of drops that fit on the penny?

The largest hailstone ever recovered in the United States, a seven-inch (17.8- centimeter) wide chunk of ice almost as large as a soccer ball, was found in Aurora, Nebraska.

Try this same activity with dierent liquids such as cooking oil, rubbing alcohol, liquid detergent, salad dressing, etc. Compare how many drops of each liquid t on the top of a penny. Standards Link: Nature of Science: Students understand the nature of scientific inquiry (using tools, making observations, recording notes).

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Jacob wants to earn $38 to buy a house for his dog, Jacob Junior. He is willing to work, but wants to do jobs that keep him wet and cool on hot summer days. He only did the jobs on the list at right that included water in the work. Check off the jobs he did. Did he raise his $38? HINT: Underline each word that gives a clue that the job included water. Standards Link:

Number sense: Calculate sums using money.

Washed Mr. Thompson’s car...... $12 Watered Mrs. Toya’s houseplants..$3 Rinsed Grandma’s porch off with the hose.......................................$5 Walked Aunt Jenny’s dog............. $6 Washed Aunt Barbara’s dog ......... $8 Returned mom’s books to the library.......................................... $3 Washed Uncle Bill’s new car......$10

Look closely and find:

apple envelope watch sunglasses

toothbrush paper airplane baseball strawberry

Solve this chilly puzzler before it melts away! Fill in the blank blocks of ice to make the sum of each side and each diagonal add up to 15.

MOLECULES TENSION SURFACE

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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Tusk Trip

Read the scientists’ notebook to see how to get a mammoth out of the ground. Number the pictures in the correct order.

One day, a man was out hunting in Siberia, when suddenly he tripped! Looking down, he saw that he had tripped over a tusk! A mammoth tusk! Scientists came to study the tusk and found that it was attached to an entire frozen prehistoric mammoth. Trying to dig up the mammoth proved difficult. The frozen ground, or permafrost, was as hard as cement!

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Identify the elements of a story by retelling the order in which they occurred.

In October, 1999, the 24-ton block of ice with the mammoth’s body inside was taken by helicopter to a frozen cave some 200 miles away in Khatanga. Help the helicopter get to the cave. Standards Link: Eye-hand coordination.

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Do the math to nd out some extraordinary facts about the woolly mammoth.

Mammoths were the largest land mammals that ever existed. They lived throughout the Northern Hemisphere for about 85,000 + 15,000 = ____________ years.

The word “mammoth” is used to describe something incredibly large—and that is what these animals were. They weighed around 9 - 3 = _______ tons.

From the size of its molars, scientists determined that the frozen mammoth was (5 x 9) + 2= _____ years old when it died.

It took more than a year to thaw the mammoth using 5 + 7= _____ hair dryers.

Standards Link: Math; compute sums using +, -, x and order of operations.

Dick Mol, one of the scientists studying the mammoth discovered that science can be smelly. While helping thaw the frozen mammoth, he noticed that it smelled like the elephant exhibit at the zoo!

The scientists thawed the mammoth very slowly and used a sieve to filter out all ancient insects and plant material that was stuck in the fur.

HELICOPTER MAMMOTH CAVE

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

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F O S E L O P

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Standards Link: Reading Readiness: Visual discrimination: Identifying common objects.

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

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Can’t make it to a real amusement park this summer? Kid Scoop News brings the amusement park to YOU.

Amusing Photos Luna de Loop has enjoyed herself at the amusement park and has taken lots of photos! Look at each photo below. Can you draw a square on the big picture at right where each photo was taken?

What is a Dyrehavsbakken? This is the name of the world’s first and oldest operating amusement park. It opened in 1583 in Denmark. But just what does Dyrehavsbakken mean? Hold this page up to a mirror to discover the answer.

Find your way to the ticket booth.

How many tickets can you nd on these pages in two minutes?

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Amusing Food

$1.75 Lemonade

$2.50 Nachos

Part of the fun of a trip to an amusement park is to get some amusing food! The Froyo family ordered their treats. Each person got two or three treats and paid with the exact change. Look at each person’s total. What did they each buy?

$3.00 Caramel Apple

Fred Froyo spent $6.00 NACHOS CARAMEL APPLE CORN DOG COTTON CANDY POPCORN FRUIT SKEWER LEMONADE ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏

Flora Froyo spent $7.75

Fran Froyo spent $8.50

$3.50 Corn Dog

NACHOS CARAMEL APPLE CORN DOG COTTON CANDY POPCORN FRUIT SKEWER LEMONADE

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$4.00 Fruit Skewer

$2.75 Cotton Candy

$2.00 Popcorn

Standards Link: Math: Compute money sums.

AMUSEMENT MIRRORS DENMARK COASTER TREATS ARCADE TOTAL WORLD

Stacy and her friends took some pictures in the amusement park’s photo booth. How many dierences can you nd between these pictures?

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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Step right up! Work with a friend to calculate the fewest numbers of balloons to pop to reach 100.

Each of these bumper cars has an exact duplicate—except one. Can you nd it? Standards Link: Visual Discrimination: Find similarities and differences in common objects.

Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Calculate sums to 100.

Circle every other letter to reveal the punchline.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow written directions.

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JUNE 2024

Make a plan to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables every day this month. National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month

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.

One of the beach balls on this page is dierent from all the others. Can you nd it?

This day is the anniversary of the first U.S. spacewalk by Ed White in 1965. Write a paragraph about what it must be like to walk in space. Plan a visit to a zoo or an aquarium today and help make a difference for wildlife. Zoo and Aquarium Month Offer to help cook dinner tonight, set the table or clean up after- wards and include in your meal your favorite vegetable. Eat Your Vegetables Day Take three bean bags or balls and see if you can learn to juggle today.

Make a list of things you would like to do during your summer vacation.

Do you know what it means to “walk the dog” and “shoot the moon”?

The United Nations designated this as World Environment Day. This year’s day is focusing on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience. Discuss why Anne Frank was special. How old would she be if she were alive today? Anne Frank’s Birthday Juneteenth is the celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

Ask your parents what happened on the day you were born. Then ask them if they know what happened on the day they were born. that described right and wrong behavior. Read one of Aesop’s Fables today. Aesop was a famed storyteller who lived in ancient Greece. He wrote fables— stories and characters Find a local activity that is happening in your neighborhood and volunteer to help.

Design the house you would like. Today is the birthday of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Take your kites out on a hillside, park or beach. Have a friend run with the kite as you hold the string. Take turns flying your kite. Fly a Kite Day

Tune to music radio and dance along for some fun exercise. Radio was patented on this day in 1896. Find a flock of ducks. Bread is bad for ducks. Feed them grapes cut in half, birdseed, rice, oats, or lettuce. Donald Duck’s Birthday Write a poem on the topic of “Wishes for My Dad.” Make the day special for a man in your life. Father’s Day

National Yo-Yo Day

Make this a Fitness Friday. Do as many jumping jacks, squats, and touch toes as you can.

Make this a day without using the car. Walk to school if you can or ride a bike.

On this day of the year, the sun is farthest north. Have everyone put an idea in a hat of how to celebrate the day. Choose one.

Combine chocolate syrup, milk, carbon- ated water, ice cream, and whipped cream to make an old-fashioned ice

Have a family sleepover, watch movies, eat pizza, and sleep on the floor.

cream soda. Ice Cream Soda Day

First Day of Summer

Time to clean and tune up your bicycle and helmet for the summer months.

Close your eyes and listen carefully and in silence for at least 3 minutes. Then discuss what you could hear. Helen Keller’s Birthday

Write or tell a tall tale today about someone you invented who is “larger than life.” Paul Bunyan Day

LEON Day— that’s NOEL spelled backwards. It’s 6 months from this day until Christmas. Write down 3 goals to achieve before Christmas.

Take a field trip to a museum with a family member today.

Find a way to stay cool without air conditioning. Make a fan or a gentle water spray.

Try something you have never done before or explore somewhere you have never visited.

Bicycle patented in 1819

Can you gure out where each water slide begins and ends? Write the correct letter at the end of each slide. Wild Water Slides

Protect Your Skin! painful burn and even increase your chances of skin cancer. Water parks are great fun in the summertime. Thrilling, twisty water slides, relaxing lazy rivers and spraying fountains that drench you in cool water make for the perfect place to spend a summer vacation day. But you need to be careful so you don’t get too much sun! Too much sun can cause a Replace the missing vowels to discover how to protect your skin from burning at a water park.

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If you can’t make it to a water park, try making your own water playground in your backyard or at a local park. Here are some ideas!

Juggle or toss water balloons.

Make a water blob. Use two thick sheets of plastic sheeting and a roll of duck tape to make a giant sack to fill with water. Roll around and slide on your water blob!

Play baseball and/or basketball with water balloons instead of balls!

Always remember to collect broken water balloons at the end of your game and put them in the trash. throws the balloon and the other one tries to catch it in the bowl. Lots of splashes guaranteed! Play a water balloon head catch game by taping a plastic mixing bowl to the top of a bike or batting helmet. One person

Create a squirt gun shower. Squirt water out of the gun and over your head and see if you can turn around two times before the water hits the ground.

WISCONSIN GALLONS CAPITAL SLIDES SPLASH RIVERS LAGOON

How many pool noodles do you see?

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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Mosquitoes can spread dangerous diseases to animals and humans. The Mosquito Abatement Team works to kill mosquitoes before they become a problem. How do they do this? Do they send out mosquito swatter teams? Do they spray poison all over? None of the above. They take a much more scientific and safe approach. Mosquito abatement specialists study the life cycle of a mosquito and then try to kill them before they become flying adults.

Watch out! Summertime is also mosquito time. Millions of mosquitoes are out looking for their favorite food—

The best time to battle the bug is at the larva stage. Mosquito abatement teams often put mosquito-larvae-eating fish in the ponds and puddles where female mosquitoes have laid eggs.

Female mosquitoes lay about 200 eggs on the surface of water. The eggs stick together and make a tiny raft.

Leave your spider friends in peace. We like to eat mosquitoes before they eat you!

After just one warm day, larvae hatch from each egg. They look like tiny, wiggling worms.

Which mosquitoes are males and which are females? It is important to know because only one sex drinks blood. Look closely at the head. Between the eyes are the antennae. They can sense sounds and odors. Male antennae are feathery. The female mosquito has long thread-like antennae. Do you see a tiny, straw-like tube sticking out between the antennae? That is the proboscis, or mouth. The female uses this to drink blood. Male mosquitoes feed on plant juices and flower nectar.

After a larva is grown, it changes shape and becomes a pupa. The pupa breathes air through a tube that it holds above the water’s surface while tumbling around in the water.

It takes only one warm day for a pupa to become an adult, flying mosquito.

Standards Link: Life Science: The sequential stages of life cycles change for different animals.

Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have structures that serve different functions in survivial.

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Circle every other letter to reveal why cucumbers are a great after-school snack that will give you an energy boost. TWHVETYGAFRHEMACGB OJOPDNSHOVUMRLCYEM OJFWBGVTIDTRAWMQIDN KSPAFNCDBCNAGRTBKOT HGYSDGRYAPTWERS.

• The cucumber is a , not a vegetable. • Cucumbers are mostly . • Cucumbers are members of the family. • Historians believe cucumbers originated in .

You can also top the cucumber slice with hummus and a tomato slice. Or try spreading some peanut butter on a cucumber!

Have you heard the expression, “As cool as a cucumber?" It’s used to describe someone who is really cool, like kids who read Kid Scoop News . The phrase actually comes from the fact that cucumbers are 96% water, making them feel cool inside. In fact, the inside of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside!

Carefully cut a cucumber into slices about 1/4 inch thick.

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Place a slice on top of a cracker.

Sprinkle cucumber slice with chili powder.

Cucumber Chili power Whole wheat crackers

Make this cucumber look super cool!

Hold this page up to a mirror to discover an amazing pickle fact!

What’s in a pickle? It’s a cucumber soaked in vinegar and spices.

Cucumbers are believed to be one of the oldest plants cultivated. That

means planted and tended by people. They are thought to have come from India around 3,000 years ago. The fruit then spread to Greece and Italy, where it

became an important part of the Roman diet. The Romans took them to other parts of Europe. It is believed Christopher Columbus brought cucumbers to North America.

Pickle Puzzle How many pounds of pickles does an average American eat in a year? To find out, add the number of pickles in jar A and jar B. Subtract the number of pickles in jar C. Multiply by the number of pickles in jar D. Add the number of pickles in jar E.

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Are your math skills “up to par”? Find out by completing the nine holes of fun at Laughing Links Mini Golf Course!

Complete the math problem next to each name. The correct answer is an even number.

The 18-hole putting green built for the Ladies’ Putting Club in St. Andrews,

Scotland is considered to be the world’s oldest miniature golf course.

To find out each golfer’s score, estimate the answer to the math problem next to that player. In golf, players want to get the lowest score possible. Circle the golfer with the lowest score.

Number of holes in a standard golf course + number of eggs in a dozen. Number of ounces in a pound + number of cups in a quart.

2 1/2" + 1 3/4" =

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56 59 62 65 68 71 74 77

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To sink the golf ball, follow the path with numbers that count by 3s. Make a hole in one by getting it right the first try!

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Add up the scores to see who won. NAME 123456789SCORE

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Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Solve problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; Mathematical Reasoning: Understand the basic logic of language in mathematical situations.

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Word Problem

With a parent or learning buddy at home, look at the newspaper sports section. Find and circle 10 or more numbers. Calculate the sum and the average of these numbers. With your buddy, select one or more of the numbers and create a math word problem using your selection. For example, if you chose the score of a baseball game (10 - 7), you could write a problem like: The Tigers beat the Dodgers by 3 points. The Tigers’ score was 10. What was the Dodgers’ score? Write your word problem here:

ASTRONAUT MINIATURE ANDREWS

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

Number each of these measurements in order from smallest to largest.

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

Standards Link: Measurement: Understand the relationship between standard units of measure.

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Start your summer out with a trip to the library and get signed up for

To see a list of the products that have the Foundation’s Seal of Recommendation, you can visit: www.skincancer.org.

With kids spending more time outdoors this summer, it’s time to make sure they get lathered up with protective sunscreen. Exposure to the sun and sunburns can lead to skin cancer. Protect your kids’ skin every day. The Skin Cancer Foundation grants its Seal of Recommendation only to products that meet the Foundation’s specic criteria for eective UV sun protection.

• Children maintain their reading skills during summer vacation. • Children have access to experiences that further their sense of discovery. And while you are there, pick up some books to read yourself!

the free summer reading program.

Kids who don’t read over the summer fall behind in their reading skills, sometimes by as much as two to three months. And the benets of a summer reading program include: • Children are more motivated to read.

Make putting on sunscreen as routine as brushing teeth each day, especially in the hot summer.

EDITOR’S PICK by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds By David A. Adler Illustrated by Susanna Natti

Because watching parents read also increases a child’s reading success.

• Children develop positive attitudes

Can Cam help catch the diamond thief? Cam and her friend Eric are sitting at the

here is nothing like a mystery to get kids started reading chapter books.

mall when the jewelry store is robbed. Cam sees the thief, but the police arrest the wrong person. Now it's up to Cam to catch the real criminal! This book is perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books.

There is a reason the Cam Jansen books have been so popular for over 30 years. With the summer months upon us, look to the library for this book series, which will give your kids loads of reading pleasure. If it is a little dicult at rst, start by reading the book aloud.

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