Kid Scoop News—September 2025

September 2025

Determination is sticking with something until you reach your goal. Discover some great tips to help you create your own “I Can Do It”plan! DARE TO BE DETERMINED!

Meteors, asteroids meteorites . . . what’s the dierence? Find out in this issue of Kid Scoop News! SPACE ROCKS Your brain is an amazing computer. Explore the parts of the brain and learn more about how it works. BRAIN POWER

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News ..................................... Determination ....................... Space Rocks ........................... Febold Feboldson .................. The Brain ............................... Puzzles .................................. Activity Calendar ................... Fun with Junk ........................ Gorillas .................................. Shopping Spree ..................... Fit & Fun ................................ Parent Scoop ......................... Early Learners ........................ Answers ................................ 3

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Dear Readers,

Reading can really take you places. This month in Kid Scoop News, reading can take you from a national park in Canada to outer space! While visiting Banff National Park this summer, I discovered how rangers protect animals from being hurt by cars on the roads in the park. Read the News Page to find out about this clever solution to a big problem. Then we take off and learn about space rocks! Rocks traveling through outer space. How did they get there? What are they called? Turn the pages and find out. And that’s just a few of the interesting things you will learn by reading this month. If you want to tell me more, please write a letter and send it along with the answer to the Question of the Month.

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Dear Friends,

I hope this letter finds you excited to learn something new today! I want to talk to you about a very special word: determination. Determination means sticking with something, even when it’s hard, until you reach your goal. Imagine an astronaut aiming for a faraway planet and step by step, they stay the course until they get there. Speaking of space, have you ever wondered about meteors, meteorites, and asteroids? Asteroids are big rocks floating through space. Sometimes small pieces break off and those are meteoroids. If one comes into Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes a meteor (a “shooting star” in the night sky). And if it makes it all the way to the ground, it’s called a meteorite. Just like determination, these space travelers remind us that even tiny things can make a big impact! Here on Earth, we have something just as amazing: the human brain. It helps you think, solve problems, and remember important lessons. Your brain is like your own personal supercomputer, and the more you use it to learn, the stronger it gets. So, whether you’re gazing at the stars, learning something new, working as a team, or saving for a goal, remember: your determination is the key that can unlock amazing things.

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Publisher and Editor Vicki Whiting

Art Director/Illustration Je Schinkel

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Read the article on this page. Then answer the questions below!

What is this article about?

n Canada’s Banff National Park, many animals used to get hurt or even killed trying to cross the busy highway that runs through the park. Then, in the 1990s, people had a great idea to build special bridges and tunnels for animals to cross the road!

What did the people in this article do?

When did this happen?

The park built two kinds of crossings:

Where did this happen?

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Overpasses: These are bridges planted to look like the forest, so animals feel safe using them. Underpasses: These are tunnels that go under the road. They are quiet and dark, so animals feel safe.

It takes a while, but after some time, animals learn that these bridges and tunnels are safe. Pictures taken from special cameras show animals safely using the crossings.

Banff’s animal bridges are famous and other countries are building their own. In the United States, wildlife crossings can be found in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. Several other states are planning to add wildlife crossings to make travel safer for people and animals.

Why is this important?

Animals need to cross the road to search for food, water, or a place to sleep. Some animals travel to find a mate or take care of their young. Banff National Park’s wildlife crossing system now has six overpasses and 38 underpasses to help animals travel safely. Since the park started building these crossings, car and animal accidents have gone down by over 80%. That means fewer animals are hurt, and people are safer, too.

Photo: Sergey Dzyuba / Shutterstock

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Determination is sticking with something until you reach a goal. Look at the three faces. Circle the one that has the look of determination . Look in the mirror. Say a goal you want to reach out loud, then make a very determined look on your face. Did that make you feel more determined?

Repetition helps you to achieve your goals. Remember, a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step.

Break a big goal into smaller goals.

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My I-Can-Do-It Plan

The first steps in achieving something are to have a goal and to believe in yourself. Studies show that you are more likely to achieve a goal if you write down both the goal and the plan to achieve it. Look at Harriet’s I-Can-Do-It Plan. Then think of a goal you would like to achieve and make your own I-Can-Do-It-Plan.

NAME:

MY GOAL:

MY PLAN:

Harriet’s I-Can-Do-It-Plan

Clip and save this plan. Tape it up somewhere where you’ll see it every day.

Standards Link: Health: Identify healthy practices; create a plan.

DETERMINE PRACTICE REPETITION ACHIEVE EVERY

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

The three

Using the numbers that are already in place, figure out which numbers are needed to make the sum of the three numbers in each circle equal 12. Then do the circle to the right. Keep moving to a new circle until all of them are done. numbers within each circle need to equal 12.

T R R N G R L I P

E R E T S O P L D

D E P Y U O A E S

A S E D R N T L P

C U T R I E S T S

H L I

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E C I T C A R P I

V N O I A C D R T

E E N M T E A M E

STEP FACE TRIES PLAN

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P F A E R

GOALS WRITE RESULT LOUD TEAM POSTER

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

Standards Link: Number Sense: Calculate sums and differences.

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eteors, asteroids, meteorites … what’s the dierence? Meteors, asteroids, meteorites, and meteoroids are all names for space rocks. The rocks have different names depending on their location, whether they are hurtling through space or zooming through the atmosphere and hitting the Earth’s surface.

Our solar system is made up of planets revolving around a sun. Strangely, between the planets Mars and Jupiter, there is a gap large enough for another planet, but there is not a planet there. Instead, there are millions of asteroids— small and large rocks that scientists believe are the leftover rocks from when the solar system formed. This zone is called the asteroid belt . Solar System Leftovers

Asteroids are large rocks in space that orbit the sun. Most are found in the asteroid belt. When two asteroids collide, the particles that break off are called meteoroids . A meteoroid that enters Earth’s atmosphere begins to vaporize, becoming a meteor . If a meteor survives its flaming trip through our atmosphere and lands on Earth’s surface, it is called a meteorite . Read each description and label each item on the chart at left.

Jupiter

Mars

Earth

sun

Asteroid Belt

ASBHFOLONTVIMNYGCSJTXAGRIS Circle every other letter to discover another name for meteors.

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66 million years ago, dinosaurs had a really bad day. Scientists have a theory that a humongous asteroid hit the Earth. This event likely caused the end of dinosaurs and many other forms of life. The asteroid that might have wiped out the dinosaurs was about 6 miles wide. The crash filled Earth’s atmosphere with huge clouds of dust and debris that changed the planet’s climate. Blast from the Past

Each of these meteorites has an exact duplicate. Draw a line connecting each matching pair.

About 5,200 tons of this falls on Earth every year. Use the code to discover the answer.

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DINOSAURS HUMONGOUS

The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt is about ¼ the size of the moon. It is so large that in 2006 it was decided it should be called a dwarf planet. This asteroid rotates very fast. One day on this asteroid is only 9 hours long. It takes it about five Earth years to orbit the sun. To nd out the name of this asteroid, color the spaces with one dot red, and the spaces with two dots yellow.

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

METEORS ASTEROID HURTLING SYSTEM ROCKS

H O I P D M

U R T S I R E K S

R A S R O

T L R C R C L C M

L O K A E C E O E

I S S

N L E N

G S U N A P A G Y

D I N O S A U R S

S U O G N O M

R T A B C T

SPACE CERES SOLAR BELT STAR MARS

S S

E T E M

A R S

U H

SUN GAP

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

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Earthlings have created some amazing characters, Yott. I’m reading about a giant farmer named Febold Feboldson!

Sounds like a tall tale to me, Zott!

KID SCOOP NEWS AMERICAN LEGENDS

About 150 years ago, thousands of pioneers began heading for rich farmland in Oregon and, later, for gold in California. After crossing the Mississippi River, they came to the wide, flat prairie we now call the Great Plains. From these Great Plains have come tales of a giant Swedish farmer called Febold Feboldson.

Read the story, then number the pictures in order.

he first year Febold Feboldson settled on the Great Plains, it was hot. And it got hotter every day: hotter and drier, drier and hotter. It was so hot that iron pots melted! When the streams dried up and Febold Feboldson couldn’t go fishing, he said, “Enough!” Febold sat down and cupped his jaw in his giant hand and thought and thought—until suddenly he came up with a plan. First he splashed some water on a hot and tired frog and whispered in its ear, “It’s raining!” The happy frog croaked the news to his frog friends. Soon more frogs joined in the song. They got so loud that it sounded like thunder! Some clouds heard the noise and hurried to join the storm. Seeing there was no storm when they got to the Great Plains, the clouds went ahead and started their own, giving Febold Feboldson a rainstorm and a chance to get back to fishing.

Standards Link: Literary Analysis: Understand the basic plots of fables.

espite the weather, some pioneers settled in the plains. In the 1920s, a newspaper in Gothenburg, Nebraska, entertained readers with tales of Febold Feboldson, a giant farmer who loved the Great Plains and was determined to control the weather.

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Animals came into Febold’s huge house because it offered the only shade around the Great Plains. Soon Febold had a houseful of pets, from rattlesnakes to buffaloes. Febold had Lizzie the gopher dig tunnels under his house. Febold figured if he could trap the hot air of the summer into the tunnels, he could save it for winter when he would need the warmth. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Help Lizzie tunnel to Febold’s house.

FEBOLD FEBOLDSON

ome years, the Great Plains swarm with grasshoppers. But this was not a problem for Febold Feboldson! He brought in a prairie schooner full of flying fish. Those flying fish swooped over the plains, eating grasshoppers until there were none left!

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

PLAINS GREAT

F R E D N U H T F

S L R D E P R E G

W C N

E O H A M

D B I O L R B G A

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S E S G H N O

H O N T O P E T S

N O D N O R I R S

S E O L A

SCHOONER BUFFALOES FROGS SWEDISH FARMER THUNDER PETS

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Find the ying sh twins.

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PLAN HUGE SONG POTS

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

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

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The cerebral cortex (se-re-brell core-tex) has two parts, the left and right cerebral hemispheres (se-re-brell hem-iss-fears). Your cerebral cortex is where you think, remember, solve problems, imagine, speak, listen, dream, read, and learn.

The brain is one of the heavier organs in your body. It has three main parts.

Your cerebellum (se-re-bell-um) is in charge of your movements. Thanks to your cerebellum, you can walk upright, touch your finger to your nose, jump rope, and wink!

The brain has two halves or hemispheres . The right side of the brain controls the left side of your body, and the left side of your brain controls the body’s right side. Some people think that many of us have one hemisphere that is stronger than the other. Another way to say this is that many people have one side of the brain that is dominant . Answer these questions: Which hand do you use to brush your teeth? Which hand do you use to throw a ball? Which foot do you use to kick a soccer ball? If you use your right hand and foot, the left side of your brain may be dominant. Some people don’t have a dominant hemisphere. They use both sides equally.

Your brain stem controls your breathing and heartbeat so that you don’t have to think about them. Imagine what it would be like if you had to remember to tell your heart to beat! Thankfully, your brain stem takes care of that for you.

Doctors who study the brain are called: Circle every other letter to find the answer!

The brain of a newborn human weighs to ounces. (340–400 grams). In one year, the brain weighs to ounces (1,020–1,200 grams). By age five, the brain is nearly its adult size of pounds (1,350 grams).

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Race a friend to see who can nd the most brains on this page in 60 seconds.

Write the answer here:

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that living organisms have distinct structures that serve specific functions in growth and survival.

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Each word-picture puzzle has a meaning. Work with a parent to figure them out.

There once was an animal that was 30 feet (9m) long and weighed about two tons. Yet, it had a brain that was about the size and weight of a chicken egg. To find the name of the animal, write the letter that comes BEFORE each letter in the alphabet.

Standards Link: Problem-Solving: Use a variety of strategies to solve problems.

BRAIN CEREBELLUM CEREBRAL CORTEX ORGAN MATTER STEM

Put a box around the numbers that when added equal 10 . Put a circle around the numbers that when added equal 7 . The numbers must be next to each other or above and below each other like this:

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

I R E C U A S C E

Y R O M E M T M C

T O R U E F A A O

B R E L E T R E R

E P A L T H S R T

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I A R B H I E S X

G I G E A R X I S

A C E R E B R A L

M A B E

E E G N D E

SAUCE HEART IMAGINE DREAM MEMORY RIGHT GRAY LEFT

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

Standards Link: Number Sense: Calculate sums.

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SPACE RACE: Choose a spacecraft and race against a friend to reach the nish. On your mark, get set … GO!

To reveal the answer, circle every third letter.

See how many words you can make using the letters in OUTER SPACE. Have a friend try. Who made more words?

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SEPTEMBER 2025

Write a poem for a grandparent and draw a picture to go with it. 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.

Do you have a library card? September is the perfect time to check out your local library, get your library card, and check out a few books. “Tremendous things are in store for you!” Look up the stories of Roald Dahl. Have you seen any of the movies of his books? Roald Dahl was born on this day in 1916. Look through your local newspaper for events in your area this weekend. If you can’t find an event, plan a visit to a local museum or art gallery. Stand close to a friend and toss them a football. For each successful catch, both of you take one step backwards. How far apart will you go?

Check the batteries in your home smoke detectors today. Be sure to test them weekly.

Gather up some newspapers today and make a craft using paper mache.

Talk with your family about careers that interest you. What kind of education or training do those jobs require?

Be a super secret superstar! Do something really nice for someone without them knowing it. Keep it a secret! Gather the family for an evening of your favorite board or card games.

Discuss the services of your local library. Why are libraries important?

Tidy your bedroom today. Make your bed and leave your room as nice as possible.

Arrrrrr! Look in books and online for some great pirate phrases to get ready for “Talk Like a Pirate Day!” Think of 10 things in your life that are really good. Then think of something not-so-good and a way it could be improved. What is your birthstone? If you were born in September, your birthstone is a sapphire. Find your birthstone online.

Look for a recipe that uses citrus and ask if you can help prepare it.

Get some construction paper, scissors, and tape and cover your books for school.

Help clean up in the garden today and think about planting something now that will bloom next year.

Celebrate the signing of the Constitution by flying the flag and reciting the Preamble.

Comedy tonight! Rent a funny movie for the whole family to watch.

This is the first day of autumn. Use a crayon and a sheet of blank paper to gently do some leaf rubbings. Ask a parent to help you.

Tonight, see if you can write down all the names of the kids in your class from memory. Did you forget anyone?

Make a miniature golf course using cleaned tin cans for holes. For ideas go to scoutlife.org/ hobbies-projects/ projects/718/fore/ A kind word, a chore, a helping hand—these things make good neighbors. Can you do something today to help a neighbor?

Take a hike to search for signs of autumn.

Goals for October. Write down five things you would like to achieve in the coming month.

Count the falling leaves on this page. How many leaves are there of each color?

All you need is an old (already read) newspaper and a friend or two … or 20!

Games aren’t just about playing organized sports. They’re about making up your own. Bernie DeKoven, author of Junkyard Sports , shows us how we can make up whole new sports with an old newspaper, a little imagination, and a few good friends.

At least 2 (for two teams).

Gyms, hallways, anywhere flat, smooth

and a little slippery.

To make a polo mallet, roll several sheets of newspaper diagonally into a tube. Make the mallet head by either bending or tearing and creasing one end. Roll a sheet of newspaper into a ball. For goals, make two giant paper cones, each from one whole piece of newspaper, and place them mouth-down.

How many dierences can you spot between these two pictures?

Mallet

Goal

Ball

Knock over the other team’s paper cone, using only paper mallets to move the ball, while standing on two sheets of newspaper. Divide into two teams, and give each player a paper polo mallet. Set the big paper cones at either end of the playing area, with their points standing up. Players whack the paper ball with their mallets, trying to get the ball to hit the opponents’ cone. All the while, each player stands on two pieces of newspaper, one for each foot. Players must shuffle around, keeping their feet on their newspapers for the whole game.

This is one idea for a newspaper game. Can you invent more?

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple-step written directions.

The activities on this page are adapted from the book Junkyard Sports by Bernie DeKoven. For more ideas, visit www.junkyardsports.com

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Place a sheet of newspaper on the floor and stand next to it. Have a friend give you the following directions: 1. Place your right hand on a headline. 2. Place your left foot on a photograph. 3. Place your right knee on a noun. 4. Place your right foot on a number. Keep coming up with silly directions until you start laughing so hard that you can’t play anymore! Standards Link: Physical Education: Understand that many activities can be modified to be more health-enhancing. Newspaper Twister

Two teams of 3 to 11 players. Two plastic shopping bags, and one Bubbleball (a plastic grocery bag wrapped around a chunk of bubble wrap). Anywhere—on sand, grass, even a basketball court. Standing at opposite ends of the playing area, one player from each team becomes his team’s “basket” by holding a shopping bag open; he can move the bag around to thwart the other team, but must keep the bag open and have one foot in place at all times. The object is to get the Bubbleball into the opposing team’s basket. The game is played like basketball,

except that players dribble by repeatedly hitting the ball in the air, palm up. Players can either shoot or dunk the ball into the basket. The team with the most baskets in 30 minutes of play wins. Standards Link: Physical Education: Students know there are opportunities for physical activity outside of school.

Help Phil make a basket.

The first clock in each row shows the time the kids started playing Baggyball. Each game lasted 30 minutes. Circle the clock in each row that shows the time each game ended.

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

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

Standards Link: Measurement: Tell time to the half hour.

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When a male gorilla is fully grown, he will start to grow silvery hair on his back in the shape of a saddle. This is why we call them silverback gorillas.

Gorillas are found in Africa. They mainly live in tropical forests where there is a lot of vegetation, meaning plants to eat. The mountain gorilla lives at higher elevations in Zaire, Rwanda, and Uganda. Elevation means how high the 16 15 17 18

land is above the surface of the sea.

Adult gorillas can weigh up to 440 pounds and, when they stand on their two legs, are about five- and-a-half feet tall. How tall are you? Measure yourself, then draw yourself next to the gorilla.

Connect the dots to draw a gorilla.

Along with their families, silverback gorillas are mostly herbivorous , which means that they usually eat plants and fruits. A silverback gorilla can eat up to 45 pounds of food a day. That’s a whole lot of food! Which of these things do you think weigh around 45 pounds? Check your answers by doing the math.

19 - 8 =

28 - 19 =

8 + 4 =

7 + 9 - 4 =

12 + 24 + 9 =

Standards Link: Measurement: Understand the basic measurements of weight and height.

Standards Link: Number Sense/ Estimation: Students understand basic estimation strategies.

18 + 18 + 9 =

23 + 11 + 11 =

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If you ever meat a gorilla, be sure to use gorilla manners. Just as when yo encounter any animal, you should dew certain things to make the gorilla fool safe around you: • When you first make eye contact with the gorilla, lowered your head and look away quickly. • Stay quiet. Don’t move two quickly. Loud noises and suddenly movements scare gorillas! • “Bow” to them. Made yourself shorter than the gorilla. • Showing your teeths can be seen as a threat to a gorilla, so if you smile, make sure you don’t show your teeth! Standards Link: Writing: Edit text to check for correct spelling and grammar. Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Read the articles below and correct the nine spelling errors you find. The first one is done for you. Gorilla Manners

Gorillas like to be around other gorillas, so they live in groups (sometimes called troops ), as a big gorilla family. A troop can include more than 30 gorillas. Can you imagine having 30 people in your family? A troop is led by one or more silverback gorillas. They decide where the troop will live, and when it will wake up, eat, and go back to bed. They also make sure that no troop member hurts another. Know anyone like that?

Gorillas are like people in a lot of ways. Use the code to find out a couple of ways they are similar to humans.

GORILLAS SADDLE ELEVATION TROOP PRIMATE VEGETATION WEIGH FINGERS TOES LAND SHAPE HAIR WAKE WHOLE MALE

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

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E A

G L P R I M A

E A E A C G

T N H V I R H A S

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__ __ __ __ __ __ __ , just like us. Their __ __ __ __

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look just like ours. They even have the

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same number of __ __ __ __ __ as people—32.

W M S

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M N O

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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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Oh, Thrifty! Just LOOK at all the sparkly lights and cool stu they have in this store!

Okay, but can you carry the budget? My arms are full!

Fritter, we’re NOT going to go totally crazy shopping for birthday gifts! We need to…

Fritter, you really need a BUDGET!

WAHOOOO!!! I’m gonna get THIS, and THAT, and THOSE, and THESE, and…

A budget is a plan that helps you spend only the amount of money you can aord to spend!

Look at the things Thrifty and Fritter would like to buy for Fi’s birthday. They have $50 budgeted for their birthday shopping. Make a list of the things they could buy on their budget without overspending.

TOTAL:

DO THE MATH: How much does Thrifty have left over each week?

Talk with a parent about how they budget their money for groceries, clothing, and other household expenses. How do they stay on budget each week? How do they budget for unexpected expenses like car repairs?

TOTAL:

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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!

Cut out each Fit and Fun slip and put them all in a hat. Take turns pulling one slip out of the hat at a time. Play your favorite music as each person dances like the animal on the slip. You have to keep dancing until the song ends or someone guesses your animal. 1. 2. 3. 4. Animal Dance Party

Dance like a crab.

Dance like a tiger.

Dance like a squirrel.

Dance like a rabbit.

Dance like an elephant.

Dance like a shark.

Dance like a mouse.

Dance like a girae.

Dance like an octopus.

Dance like a snake.

Dance like a kangaroo.

Dance like a turtle.

Dance like a chicken.

Dance like a bat.

Dance like a buttery.

Dance like a deer.

Dance like a gorilla.

Dance like a seal.

Dance like a sloth.

Dance like an anteater.

Standards Link: Physical Education: Use a variety of basic and advanced movement forms.

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Play “Find the Question!” A reading game to play. Find and read an article in the newspaper in which a reporter interviews someone.

“How do I engage my child in learning?” Let your child ask YOU questions.

Read the article together. If the reading level is a challenge for your child, read it aloud. This is a game for comprehension skills. Ask your child,“What questions do you think the reporter asked the person being interviewed?”Make a list of these questions and try to match each to the part of the article that provides the answers. Ask your child to think of new questions to ask this person. Discuss how you think the person would answer. Feel free to get silly at this point. Afterall, the point of a game is to have fun!

The desire to learn starts with curiosity.

Let them ask you questions, but don’t answer the questions. Instead, act as a guide to help them nd answers. Instead of telling them what they have to learn, ask them what they are curious about. When a child pursues their own curiosity, they often read more challenging materials and their reading skills will improve as well as their understanding of the world around them.

EDITOR’S PICK by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News

Let the time of curiosity begin!

With Love By Jane Goodall T en heartwarming stories of chimpanzees in the wild told by world-renowned scientist, Jane Goodall.

“Jane Goodall’s extraordinary respect and aection for the chimps she has lived among since 1960 are conveyed resoundingly in these stories.”

In this enchanting book, world-renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall brings together stories gleaned from nearly 40 years of studying chimpanzees in the forests of Tanzania. As the stories recounted here demonstrate, chimpanzees are capable of great compassion, altruism, and love.

— Amy Finnerty, New York Times

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U is for U mbrella Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter U . Say the letter as you trace it. u is for u mbrella How many pictures can you find on this page that start with the sound that the letter U makes in the word umbrella ?

Circle in red the animal that is under the water.

Circle in green the animal that is under the ground. Circle in yellow the animal that is under the umbrella.

How many ?

There was an old woman Lived under a hill, And if she’s not gone She lives there still.

How many How many

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

Cut out different heads, legs, arms, and torsos from pictures in the newspaper. Let your child rearrange the picture parts to make new people/creatures. Pretend these are new and unusual friends. Give them names and make up stories about them. Unusual Friends

With your child, look through the newspaper to find pictures of things that have the same sound as the letter U in the word umbrella . (Examples: tummy, sun, run, fun, etc.) Letter Identification

Point to the number 4 in the newspaper. Have your child say the number and, if it’s large enough, have your child trace the number. Math Play

Play this game with your child to reinforce the concepts of over and under . Draw a line across the middle of a picture in the newspaper. Ask your child which things are under the line and which things are over the line. Under and Over

Look through the newspaper with your child to find shapes that have four corners. Point out which shapes are squares and which are rectangles . Four Corners

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Give your child a folded newspaper and play Simon Says . Say things like, “Simon Says put the newspaper under your arm,” and “Put the newspaper up in the air.” Tell your child to only follow directions that start with Simon Says. Simon Says

Draw the outline of a large umbrella on one sheet of newspaper. Cut out the umbrella shape. Decorate it by drawing a colored dot on every letter U inside the umbrella outline.

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Page 17 Gorilla Manners If you ever meat a gorilla, be sure to use gorilla manners. Just as when yo encounter any animal, you should dew certain things to make the gorilla fool safe around you: • When you rst make eye contact with the gorilla, lowered your head and look away quickly. • Stay quiet. Don’t move two quickly. Loud noises and suddenly movements scare gorillas! •“Bow”to them. Made yourself shorter than the gorilla. • Showing your teeths can be seen as a threat to a gorilla, so if you smile, make sure you don’t show your teeth! Puzzler Gorillas have TEN FINGERS and TEN TOES , just like us. Their EARS look just like ours. They even have the same number of TEETH as people—32.

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Page 12 What do you call a space magician? A ying saucerer

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Page 10 Doctors who study the brain are called: Neurologists Growing a Brain The brain of a newborn human weighs 12 to 14 ounces. (340–400 grams). In one year, the brain weighs 36 to 42 ounces (1,020–1,200 grams). By age ve, the brain is nearly its adult size of 3 pounds (1,350 grams). Page 11 Smallest Brain, Big Body Stegosaurus I See What You Mean 1. Jack in the box. 2. Ants in the pants 3. Brain drain 4. Burning the midnight oil 5. A rose between two thorns 6. Uphill and downhill

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Page 6 Circle every other letter to discover another name for meteors. Shooting stars

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Page 18 Thrifty’s Budget Income: $50 Expenses: $32 Left over: $18

Page 16 What do gorillas eat?

19 - 8 = 8 8 + 4 = 12 12 + 24 + 9 = 45 28 - 19 = 9 7 + 9 - 4 = 12 23 + 11 + 11 = 45 18 + 18 + 9 = 45

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