Kid Scoop News—SH September 2024

September 2024

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CONSTITUTION DAY September 17 is the day to celebrate the Constitution signed in 1787 by the Founding Fathers. Find out more about these important men on this Kid Scoop News page.

THE GREAT OCTOPUS ESCAPE How did a football-sized octopus escape from an aquarium in the middle of the night?

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can help save the planet by packing reusable containers. It makes so much sense! And, we also have the tale of Inky the Octopus. Did you know that octopuses are really clever creatures? This one put an escape plan into action to get back to the ocean through a drainpipe!

Welcome Back to School! September is a busy month with Labor Day on September 2 and Constitution Day on September 17. We’ve got the background story for you on both of those days. Our News page this month will burst some myths about dinosaurs with the recent discoveries of the fossil remains of a really small T-Rex relative.

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I’m ready to get back into the groove of the school year, and I hope you are, too. Happy Reading!

As we often do, we like to encourage our readers to be informed and aware of the problems of too much waste. So, we have some recommendations about your lunchtime waste and how you

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A Tiny T-Rex?

How big do you think the erce Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur was? Circle one: Little Big Really Big Really, Really, Really big It turns out not all T-Rex were big. Scientists have discovered a much smaller relative of the dinosaur.

Artwork by Andrey Atuchin

Images courtesy of Virginia Tech

What is the T-Rex Called? This much smaller T-Rex is called Suskityrannus.

How Big Was the Suskityrannus? It was about 3 feet tall and 9 feet long from nose to tail.

Suski comes from the Zuni Native American word for “coyote” and the Latin word “tyrannus,” which means king. Combined, the name would be “Coyote King.” Do you think this is a good name?

Where was this fossil found? The fossil for the Suskityrannus was found by Sterling Nesbitt when he was just 16 years old! He was on a school dig trip in the Zuni Basin of western New Mexico. That was 26 years ago. At first, scientists thought the fossil Nesbitt discovered was a velociraptor. New research has determined that is actually a cousin of the T-Rex—which is the news!

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I am: ❑ taller ❑ shorter than the Suskityrannus. The Suskityrannus weighed between 45 to 90 pounds. This is way less than the T-Rex which weighed around 9 tons!

Photo: Hazel Wolfe

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Constitution Day is celebrated on September 17 each year. This is the day some people, known as “The Founding Fathers,” signed the Constitution of the United States. It was in the year 1787.

The Preamble:

On Constitution Day, everyone in the country is asked to recite the Preamble of the Constitution at the same time.

of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The clock shows what time to read the Preamble in the Eastern Time Zone (2:00 p.m.). Can you fill in the clocks for the other zones? Ask a parent to help you.

Who were the Founding Fathers?

The Founding Fathers were a group of men who organized the American colonists’ revolution and formed an independent country—the United States of America. They knew that after they won the war with England, they would need a Constitution to create laws for the new country. The men who led the revolution, worked on the Declaration of Independence, and wrote the Constitution are known as the Founding Fathers. Seven of those men are considered key figures, and students today study their lives and writings.

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Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton James Madison

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Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence; he was not part of the Constitutional Convention, as he was the Minister to France at the time. Four years after the Constitution was written, he insisted that Ten Amendments be written up as The Bill of Rights to protect an individual’s rights as a citizen.

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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Students understand homonyms. BANK: The edge of a river or _______________________________ BAT: A small ying animal or _______________________________ LIGHT: Weighing very little or _______________________________ RING: A sound made by a bell or _______________________________ Benjamin Franklin used these words, urging his fellow signers to be of the same mind. “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” This reveals two meanings of the word “hang” — to stay together and to be killed by a rope tied around the neck . Many homonyms have at least two different meanings. Write down another meaning for each word other than the one given. Heroic Homonyms

Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Read the article below and correct the eight errors you find. The first one is done for you. Then, rewrite the article correctly.

Contrary to legend, George Washington’s false teeth were KNOT made of wood.

Washington had poor dental helth and when he was inaugurated president in 1789, he had only won real tooth. Dentures were made for him by a Noo York dentist, Dr. John Greenwood and they were actually carved from hippopotamus ivory. The false teeths were attached with gold wire springs and brass screws, leaving a whole for the existing tooth. Dr. Greenwood believed you shouldn’t never extract a tooth when there is a possibility of savings it.

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The Founding Mothers

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Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams. She would become The First Lady in 1797. In a letter to her husband in 1776, she urged him to “remember the ladies” with the warning, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to (cause) a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

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This was written long before the 19th Amendment was added to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Circle every fourth number to reveal the year the 19th Amendment was finally added to the Constitution.

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

Standards Link: Civics: Understand how a constitutional government has shaped America.

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very year, on the first Monday in September, Americans observe a holiday. Many workers get the day off from their jobs. Children get the day off from school. On Labor Day, our country honors working people and the dignity of labor. The first Labor Day was held just over 140 years ago in New York City. To labor means to work. In 1882, many kinds of workers lived in New York City. There were carpenters, bricklayers, furniture-makers, jewelers, printers, and more. hile they were proud of their work and what they made, many laborers were unhappy with their long hours, unsafe workplaces, and low pay. Many worked 6 or 7 days a week and 12 or 14 hours a day. Pay was so low that even young children had to work.

This year’s Labor Day parade is o to a strange start. Find at least 10 things wrong in this picture. Standards Link: Visual Discrimination.

In the 1880s, New York workers formed groups called craft unions. Bricklayers had their own union. The carpenters had theirs and so did the printers. After a while, these small unions formed a larger union called the Knights of Labor. The Knights of Labor fought for workers’ rights. Their “weapons” were words and votes. They fought to get children out of the factories and the mines. They fought for better pay and safer working environments. Standards Link: History/Social Science: Students understand working conditions and the rise of the labor movement. Students understand events honored in commemorative holidays. Students understand the difficulties populations have faced in American culture.

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Why do I have to get a shot, Doctor? I’m not even sick!

In order to understand how immunizations help you, you need to know a bit about your blood.

Blood carries tiny cells to all parts of your body. There are fat, disk-shaped red cells. There are white cells, too. The white cells have a special job. They fight germs and kill them. White cells keep you well. When germs get in, your white blood cells go to work. But some germs are too strong for an unprepared body. When a doctor gives you a shot, or immunization , this helps your white cells prepare for certain kinds of germs. Shots are like a fire drill. A fire drill gets you ready in case of a real fire. A shot gets you ready in case of a real attack by germs.

We give kids shots to protect them.

To understand that, you need to know a little more about how your body works.

Protect them? How?

White blood cells are larger than red blood cells, and they eat germs.

Germs can get into your body in many ways. They can enter through your mouth or through your nose, or even through a cut in your skin.

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Here’s a Greek fable by a man named Aesop about a race between a tortoise and a hare. It may surprise you who wins!

The hare ran so fast some of the words ew out of the story. Can you nd where each word belongs?

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wake up. The tortoise didn’t stop. She just kept walking her slow and steady pace. When the tortoise was nearly to the finish line, the hare woke up. Yawning and rubbing his eyes, he was shocked to see the tortoise nearing the __________ line.

The hare zipped off the starting line in a blur, leaving the

here once was a hare who always bragged that he was the _______ animal in the forest. “Not even the wind is as fast as me!” the hare would boast. The tortoise got ________ of such bragging. “We all have heard you talk and talk about how fast you are, but we have never seen you ______. I’ll race you,” said tortoise.

tortoise in a puff of dust. The tortoise coughed, __________ her eyes, and took the first of her slow, steady steps. The hare was soon way ahead, far down the road. The tortoise could hardly see the hare in the distance, but she wasn’t worried. As the hare rounded the bend in the road, he laughed and thought, “This is too _______! I’m going to rest. That tortoise is so slow that I’ll get up in time and still beat her to the finish line!”

The hare __________ to his feet and ran as fast as he could to try catching up to her to ______ the race. ut by then it was much too late. B The slow little tortoise ________ the finish line first. All of the forest animals cheered loudly for her!

The hare laughed and laughed. “There’s no way you can beat me! I am the fastest and you are the ____________!” he hare and the tortoise agreed to race the next __________. They would race to a big tree down the road and around a bend. Many other animals came out to _________. T

The hare laid down on the warm, soft grass and fell asleep! Later, when the tortoise walked right by the ____________ hare, he didn’t

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About Aesop Aesop was a storyteller. He lived about 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. His favorite story to tell was a fable. A fable is a very short story with a moral, or a lesson to teach. Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Grapes tells about a fox who tries and tries to reach grapes on a high branch. Embarassed by being unable to jump high enough to reach them, the fox walks o angrily, saying loudly that the grapes are sour and not worth the eort anyway.

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

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History of Ping-Pong

Draw yourself playing Ping-Pong.

In the 1800s, in England, the winter weather made it hard to play sports, like tennis, outside. People invented an indoor game for wintertime fun. The game was such a hit, that soon, people were playing it year-round.

What is Ping-Pong?

Ping-Pong is a tennis game played on a table with a small ball and small paddles. Use the code to find out another name for this game.

The first Ping-Pong balls were made of different materials. Sometimes they were made of rubber, string, and even old champagne corks. In 1901, the Englishman called James Gibb discovered that balls made of celluloid worked better. Today, most balls are made of a plastic that is very much like celluloid. The First Ping-Pong Balls

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The official rules of Ping-Pong state that the ball shall be: spherical, with a diameter of 1.6 inches (40 mm) and weigh 0.1 ounces (2.7 grams) and be made of celluloid or similar plastic material. Which of these items weigh about the same as a Ping-Pong ball? Light and Bouncy

Amazing Ping-Pong Records & Firsts

Do the math under each of these statements to see if they are true or false. If the answer is an even number, that statement is true. Odd numbers are false.

In 1988, table tennis was first played in the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

The official record for the fastest Ping-Pong ball hit is 72.08 miles per hour (116 kph), set by Lukasz Budner in Poland in 2016.

The first world championship table tennis games were held in London in 1926.

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The World Record for the longest Ping-Pong rally is 11 hours, 50 minutes, and 36 seconds, set in 2020 in Dubai. 15 + 9 = 18 + 4 = 23 + 5 = 25 + 7 =

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Ping-Pong paddles come in an endless assortment of colors and patterns. Look carefully at the Ping-Pong paddles below. All of them, except one, have an exact duplicate. Can you circle the unique paddle?

Standards Link: Visual descrimination.

In Ping-Pong, the first player to reach 11 points wins that game, as long as they are two points ahead of the opponent when they get 11 points. If not, the game keeps going until a player has 11 points or more and is ahead by two points. Circle the scores that are winning scores in Ping-Pong. Who Won the Ping-Pong Games?

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Which player won the most games?

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

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

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he Backyard Treehouse Club is having an evening meeting. To get in, you have to know the Secret Code Word. Fill in the missing letters in this math crossword puzzle. Then, unscramble the letters in yellow boxes to discover the Secret Code Word.

To discover the answer to this riddle, circle every other letter.

3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9.

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1. 2. 4. 5. 6. 12.

Standards Link: Reading: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition.

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SEPTEMBER 2024

Pre-heat oven to 475 °. Spread ½ cup tomato sauce on a pizza base. Top with grated mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Cook 10-12 minutes until cheese is bubbly. National Cheese Pizza 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.

Do you have a library card? September is the perfect time to visit your local library, get your library card, and check out a few books.

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

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

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

Mix blueberries in a blender with lemon juice, water, and sugar. Pour into popsicle molds or an ice tray, insert a wooden stick, and freeze. Be a super secret superstar! Do something really nice for someone without them knowing it. Keep it a secret!

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

Make your bed today. If you don’t know how, ask a parent to show you.

Pick a partner, then write out five things that make them “shine.”

Get some construction paper, scissors, and tape. Cover your books for school. September is Better Breakfast Month. Prepare a healthy breakfast. Include eggs, fruit and whole wheat toast. If you could open your own toy store, what would you call it? An elephant’s trunk is about 7 ft long. Take turns to guess that length. Then measure it accurately. Whose guess was the closest? Elephant Appreciation Day

Show your appreciation by choosing three people to thank for things they have done for you. Comedy night! Rent a funny movie for the whole family to watch.

Make Your Bed Day

Positive Thinking Day

Arrrrrr! Look in books and online for some great pirate phrases to get ready for “Talk Like a Pirate Day!” What is your birthstone? If you were born in September, your birthstone is a sapphire. Find your birthstone online.

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

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

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

Gratitude Day

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?

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

Make a miniature golf course using cleaned tin cans for holes. For ideas go to boyslife.org/ hobbies-projects/ projects/718/fore.

Take a hike to search for signs of autumn.

Everyone Cries Sometimes Crying is natural! Sometimes crying gets the sadness out, and after a good cry, we feel better. There is a good reason for this. Tears contain some special ingredients that make you feel better.

Happy Tears

When people have a lot of happy feelings inside, that can bring out the tears, too. Circle the things that sometimes make you cry happy tears.

Your eyes always have tears. There are special glands near your eyes that make tears. Most of the time, they Why do tears come out of my eyes?

make just enough to keep our eyes clean and healthy. If something gets in your eye, more tears are made that rinse your eyes and remove what shouldn’t be there.

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What’s in tears? Use the code!

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Brain to Glands! A part of your brain turns the “tear faucet” off and on. This happens when you feel strong emotions—happy and sad. Your eye glands can produce more than half a cup of tears in minutes. This is too much for the eye glands to hold, so the overflow tears fall out of your eyes. Sometimes, overflowing tears go down your nose. That’s why when you cry, your nose might run.

Circle every other letter to discover what the glands that make the tears that flow to your eyes are called. BLVANCTRWIKMPAJLSGULMAZNYDTS

Standards Link: Life Science: Understand that humans have structures that aid in survival.

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Three Types of Tears Follow the maze to learn about each.

What’s the dierence between sweat and tears?

Your body makes liquids. Some of those liquids are tears.

While they are both wet, they do dierent things. Tears keep your eyes from drying out. They can also help you feel better. Sweat comes out of your skin to keep you cool on a hot day. Sweat also cools you down when you exercise. About how many tears do our eyes produce each day?

EMOTIONAL TEARS

REFLEX TEARS

BASAL TEARS

Some are sweat.

We produce about 5-10 ounces of tears every day.

Standards Link: Language Arts: Understand the origin of idioms. noticed that sometimes crocodiles DO indeed cry when they _______, but not for emotional reasons. Crocodile Tears Long ago, a ___________ told a story about crocodiles crying to get people to come _____________. When they did, SNAP! _________ time! People started saying certain kinds of crying are “crocodile tears.” It means a person is just pretending to be ___________ to get something. Strangely, ___________ have

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

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WTBHCEOIYRVTJE SELTUHBAGRCED OSRMAVNKGLE A porcupine’s teeth keep growing every day, so they need to gnaw and gnaw on things to keep their teeth from getting too big. Circle every other letter to reveal a surprising fact about porcupine teeth. That’s the Tooth

porcupine is a peaceful and pokey animal. The word pokey has two

meanings. It can mean slow. Or it can mean something sharp that can poke or jab. Porcupines have sharp, pokey quills . These are how a porcupine protects itself from predators. They can also make a porcupine look larger and more scary.

Write down the numbers you nd along the correct path through the maze to learn how many quills there are on a porcupine. Making a Point

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Don’t Stick Around! If a porcupine is attacked, its prickly quills come out and poke into the face or body of the attacker. Porcupines do not shoot their quills like arrows. But the quills come out easily when touched.

At the end of each quill is a tiny hook, like a fishhook, which makes the quill puncture and stick into the skin of a predator.

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Standards Link: Science: Animals have distinctive adaptations to aid in survival. Porcupines have soft fur mixed with sharp quills. The quills lie flat until a porcupine is threatened.

Baby porcupines are called porcupettes . They are born covered in soft, bendable quills that harden a few days after they are born. When attacked, a porcupine rolls up into a ball. Imagine a spiky ball!

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The Tree Life

Porcupines eat leaves, twigs, and fruit. No ____________ many live in trees! They have long tails that they can ________ around branches to help them __________ up trees. But if they can’t find a good sleeping spot in a tree, they will sleep on the ground or in a ____________ log. Porcupines are _________________. This means they like to sleep during the day and stay up at night.

Read each statement to a family member. Ask them to decide if each statement is a FACT or an OPINION. Then, do the math under each statement. If the answer is an even number, it is a FACT. If it is an

odd number, it’s an OPINION. Porcupines are mammals. 18 + 2 =

Porcupines are members of the rodent family. 11 + 5 = Porcupines are scary. 14 + 7 =

Porcupines can climb trees. 12 + 12 = Porcupines are cute. 6 + 3 =

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

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These kids are facing a decision to make about spending money. What would you do? These generic sneakers cost $29 . They’re not nearly as These ZING sneakers are super popular with the kids at my

A lot of young movie stars wear the jeans at left. They are $80. The generic ones in the middle are $30. And the used pair at right is $8 at the thrift store.

school. But they cost $69 a pair!

fancy as the ZING sneakers, though.

Which pair of sneakers should Kevin choose? Give at least three reasons to explain your choice.

Which is the best deal? The small can of fruit juice or the 64 ounce size?

Which pair of jeans should Emma choose? Give at least two reasons for your choice.

BOTTLE: $3.50

The 64 ounce bottle contains 16, 4 ounce cups of juice. The 12 ounce can contains 3, 4 ounce cups of juice.

CAN: $1.25

MONEY PUZZLES

PUZZLE 4 How much money would you save using the plan in Puzzle 3 and kept increasing the savings amount by 5¢ each week for 26 weeks?

How much money would you save if you put a nickel in a jar every day for a year? PUZZLE 1

PUZZLE 2 How much money would you save in four weeks if you saved 5¢ a day the rst week, 10¢ a day the second week, 15¢ a day the third week, and 20¢ a day the fourth week?

PUZZLE 3

How much money would you save using the plan in Puzzle 2 and kept increasing the savings amount by 5¢ each week for 12 weeks?

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The aquarium staff followed his little suction cup ____________ to discover that Inky had escaped through a small gap at the top of his tank. NEW ZEALAND – One night in April, Inky the octopus slipped silently out of his ________ at New Zealand’s National Aquarium.

Once out of the tank, Inky _______ across the floor to a six-inch-wide drain. He squeezed his

football-sized body through the drain,

which took him into the Pacific Ocean. And, nobody has _______ Inky since that night!

An octopus has a ________ body and can squeeze its body into very small spaces. In the sea, they like to live ________ in small caves, spaces under rocks, or even in pottery that falls from passing __________. Inky was added to the aquarium in 2014. He had been injured when he was caught in a crayfish pot. Octopuses are very ________________ to keep in aquariums. If they get bored, they start to take things ___________. In 2009, an octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California took apart a valve and caused a flood. Another octopus took apart a little robot ___________________ that was in its tank.

An octopus has eight arms … or are they legs? Scientists think two of the limbs act as legs, and the rest act like arms. These limbs are called tentacles . Each tentacle has two rows of suckers that sense taste. If an octopus loses a tentacle, it can grow a new one! Eight Arms or Legs?

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Walking and bicycling to school enables children to incorporate the regular physical activity they need each day while also forming healthy habits that can last a lifetime. Regular physical activity helps children build strong bones, muscles and joints, and it decreases the risk of

obesity. In contrast, insucient physical activity can contribute to chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that children and adolescents get one hour or more of physical

A subscription to your local newspaper is good for your kids! Research shows that children who come from homes where people subscribe to and read the newspaper score higher on reading tests! Boost Skills and Bond! Here are some fun, newspaper activities to do with your kids! Enjoy the conversations about local news that will come up! News Scavenger Hunts Scavenger Hunts with the newspaper are fun and can be used to search for a wide variety of topics. Here are just a few ideas: ABC Hunt: Find each letter of the alphabet on one page of the newspaper (if you can!). Connect the letters from A-Z and then color in the design. Noun Time: Look through the newspaper and circle people in green, places in red, and things in blue. Numbers Describe: Look through the newspaper and circle ve numbers. Then, determine what each number describes. Is it a dollar amount, a date, an age, or something else?

activity each day. Research suggests that physically active kids are more likely to become healthy, physically active adults, underscoring the importance of developing the habit of regular physical activity early.

SOURCE: www.walkbiketoschool.org

EDITOR’S PICK by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News

Sammy’s Great Escape (Molly Mac series) By Marty Kelley

His books have been nominated for awards and reviewed by The New York Times . When he’s not busy writing and painting, Marty visits between 50 to 70 schools each year to help kids get excited about writing. Learn more at www.martykelley.com.

olly Mac’s dream of becoming a famous

animal trainer may come true! But only if her parents let her watch the class hamster for the weekend. When Molly nally brings the hamster home, he disappears! Will Molly and her best friend, Kayley, nd the hamster? Or will Molly’s dream be ruined? Marty Kelley is the author of over 20 books for children.

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