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TREE RING MUSIC
JUST PLaIn WEIRD
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Snowy Owls Go to the Beach
Snowy owls are one of the most beautiful and rare birds on the planet. They spend their time mainly in the Arctic Circle but have occasionally been seen in Canada and the 11 northern United States. But something strange 10 12 happened last fall. 13 9
ho knew that the rings of a tree could generate musical sounds? The artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has built a record player that can “play” a cross-sectional slice of a tree. It’s not really like any other record player. This device
uses a PlayStation Eye Camera and a special motor to transfer data to a computer. A program called Ableton Live can then transform the data to make a sound.
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Mushrooms grow something called mycelium. This can act as a kind of “glue” to hold together natural packaging material such as seed husks. The result is a strong material that can be formed into any shape and can be a substitute for foam
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Stretch your arms wide Squat down like you are sitting on a tree branch apart and swoop watching for mice on the around outdoors. ground. Fold your arms into wings with your thumbs in your armpits.
Hop like an owl.
Start in the perch position. Then hop to the right, hop to the left, hop forward, hop backward.
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Fly like an owl. Perch like an owl.
This product is in development but its makers believe it can be made anywhere in the world and if used extensively, would greatly reduce pollution.
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tyrofoam™ is used to pack and ship all kinds of things, from TVs to food. But it’s difficult and costly to recycle and it stays around the planet for thousands of years as waste. Eben Bayer co-invented a new biodegradable packaging material made from mushrooms called MycoBond. Unlike plastic foam packaging, over time it will break down and become part of the natural environment.
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Apparently, each different tree trunk makes a unique sound of its own.
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nowy owls were sited in Nebraska, Kentucky and even as far as Georgia. Two owls were found on a beach in Maryland. Scientists call this an “irruption” and this increase in numbers and sightings is considered to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. A huge growth in the lemming population provided a boost for owls. Lemmings are an owl’s favorite meal. The result was more egg laying and an increase in healthy owlets. When winter approached, the population spread south to find territory.
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SPOTLIGHT
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Learn some helpful tips for getting your room from a disorganized disaster to a lovable living space from Kid Scoop News!
One big messy room is really a lot of little messes to clean up. One day, clean one bookshelf, the next day a drawer. Selecting one little mess a day until the entire room is picked up makes the chore a little less scary.
Use Muerto’s code to reveal the secret way to make your room look MUCH cleaner instantly!
Put small things into small containers and large things into large containers. That way small things don’t get lost in the bottom of a box with lots of large objects. To advertise, please call Ludington Daily News
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Change Wet Into Dry
Change the word WET into the word DRY in just five steps. Change only one letter at a time. Need help? Look at how Coach Cortex changed a DOG into a CAT.
Did YOUR brain go soft over the summer?!? Keep your mind active with these mind-boggling games and puzzles! Coach Cortex says, “Grab a pencil and let the workout begin!”
Standards Link: Language Arts: Change target sounds to change words; understand that as the letters of a word change, so do the sounds.
Tangram Triathalon
A tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle that has been giving brains a real workout for centuries. Cut out the tangram pieces. Can you make each of the following shapes? • A square with 3 stars. • A square with 13 stars. • A triangle with 3 stars.
Cold Facts
Look at each math problem and the digits in each ice block. Place a digit in each empty box so that the problem equals the answer. Use each digit in each ice block only once.
• A triangle with 13 stars. • A rectangle with 6 stars. • A rectangle with 7 stars.
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A fluffy-tailed squirrel barks out a warning. Another squirrel nearby quickly stands up on its hind legs, freezes and scans the area for danger. This time there is no danger. The squirrel that barked is actually a robot squirrel named Rocky. Scientists are watching how other squirrels react to Rocky—and its noises and tail wagging— to find out what different sounds and body movements mean in “squirrel talk.”
ocky looks like a squirrel, not a robot. But it is a machine that scientists operate by remote control. Scientists can play recorded squirrel sounds through tiny speakers inside the robo-squirrel. They can also make the robo-squirrel’s tail move.
Standards Link: Investigation: Students know that scientists and engineers often work in teams to accomplish a task.
Sarah Partan, Assistant Professor of animal behavior at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, uses a robotic squirrel in order to observe squirrels in their natural environment, rather than in the artificial environment of a lab. Scientists like Professor Partan hope to learn more about how squirrels communicate.
Squirrels have teeth like their rodent COUSINS – mice, rats and hamsters. All rodents have four big teeth in the FRONT of their mouths. Two are on the top and two on the bottom. They are called incisors. These four incisor teeth keep GROWING throughout the squirrel’s lifetime. Gnawing hard objects such as nuts and ACORNS keep the teeth from getting so big that the squirrel can’t eat. A squirrel gnawed these words off of this paragraph. Where do they belong?
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Tree squirrels bury nuts and seeds and use their keen sense of smell to find the buried food at a later date. Some of the nuts and seeds never get eaten and start to grow. In this way, squirrels help new plants to grow. Ground squirrels collect and stuff nuts and grains into pouches inside their cheeks. Then they take the food back to their burrows. Climb down from the top of this tree like a squirrel.
Squirrels live on all continents of the world, except two. Antarctica is one of them. Can you guess the other? Check your guess by using the code.
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COOL COOL LINKS LINKS
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Learn the Skeletal System Put the skeleton together or label the different bones in the body. This game will help you learn about the bones in your body.
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EARLY LEARNERS W is for Wedge w is for wedge
Circle the wedge that should come next in each row.
Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter W. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the sound the letter W makes in the word wedge? How many
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Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the questions. Touch and count to find the answers.
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HEALTH
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Replace the missing words from this newspaper clipping. SPINE CURE VIRUS VACCINE AFRICA
Four organizations are working to vaccinate every child in the world.
Today, there are about 1,20 of polio a year, mostly in A0 cases Asia. But just 50 years ag frica and o, the polio virus caused about 35 children a year to become 0,000 worldwide. Nearly 1,000 paralyzed children a day!
Polio is an illness that can lead to paralysis of your arms and/o and can sometimes cause r limbs death.
There is no cure for polio. It can only be prevented with a va ccine.
Want to help kids in other parts of the world get the things like polio vaccines they need to prevent disease? Join the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign, and help save lives!
Rotary International is a global network of volunteers. Find out if you have a Rotary Club in your community. Maybe they will send someone to your class to talk about their efforts to end polio.
World Health Organization is a part of the United Nations that provides leadership on global health matters.
While Halloween is at the end of the month, now is the time to go to www.unicefusa.org and sign up! That way you will get your collection boxes and a complete Trick–or-Treat kit in time!
The group effort by these organizations, which began in 1988, has already vaccinated more than two billion children in 122 countries. Volunteers have traveled by boat, bike, jeep, helicopter and camel to reach children. By working together these four organizations plan to wipe polio from the planet in the next few years.
Only one pair of these Halloween masks are identical. Can you find them? Standards Link: Civics: Understand the importance of volunteerism.
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UNICEF is a part of the United Nations and is the largest global organization working especially for children. The name UNICEF stands for the United Nations Children’s Fund.
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LEGEND
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Gold was discovered in the Yukon Territory of Canada while young Kate Ryan was working as a nurse in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kate had little money and didn’t like living in a city. She decided to save her money and head to the Yukon to make her fortune. The year was 1898—a time when women were discouraged from going on adventures by themselves.
A true story of a courageous woman who struck it rich in the Yukon Gold Rush!
Do the Math
Kate was born in August of 1869. How old was she when she went to the Klondike gold fields in 1898?
Find the husky twins. Standards Link: Investigation: Find similarities and differences in common objects.
Draw what you think Klondike Kate might have looked like in her sled.
When Kate first heard about the gold rush on the Klondike River in northern Canada, she knew that thousands of people with “gold fever” would be heading north in the spring. She decided to travel up a frozen river in the winter to beat the crowds.
Hungry Miners
When she arrived in the tiny settlement of Glenora, she made a new _______, Jim Callbreath. Kate told Callbreath that thousands of gold ____________ would start arriving by boat as soon as the ice __________ up. When Callbreath decided to build a hotel, Kate opened a ____________ in his building. At the end of April, the river ice broke up, and boats full of prospectors started to __________. Houses and tents sprang up overnight. Kate’s restaurant was very busy, so she made plenty of _________ without ever going into the gold fields. Find where each word belongs in the above story. GOLD
SEEKERS
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The boat from Vancouver dropped Kate and hundreds of other gold seekers on a muddy beach at Wrangell Island. While looking for a ferry to the mainland, she met a troop of Northwest Mounted Police. The Mounties told her that their camp cook had left, and now their food was terrible. Kate had grown up in a large family and knew how to cook for a crowd. She offered to cook for the Mounties if they would help her and her sled dogs to get on the ferry.
Circle the items Kate might have packed on her sled. Put an X on items she would not have had in 1898 or that would have been unnecessary weight. Standards Link: History: Students know examples of specific individuals who had an impact on history.
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2014 Discuss what would make a healthy vegetarian meal.
World Vegetarian Day Honor your teacher today and thank them for all they do.
Make a checklist of all the dangers in homes that cause fires. Then list the steps you can take to prevent fires.
Using pictures cut Draw a picture of the from magazines, ship the Santa Maria make a collage of a to celebrate the day. farm and all the animals and crops you might find on a Or celebrate farm in your area. Canadian Thanksgiving today. Farmer’s Day Remember someone less fortunate than yourself today with a random act of kindness.
Look through your newspaper for local events, seasonal concerts and celebrations.
Start preparing for Halloween. Who will you be on Halloween—a pirate, a witch, a robot or a princess? Start preparing the costume you will need. Discuss with the class what can make you afraid and ways to overcome fear.
Rent a classic Make a Difference This is National Halloween movie Day is celebrated Magic week. Find a tonight. Try Casper, each year over this magic trick online Bedknobs and weekend. Volunteer that you can perform Broomsticks, or It’s to help someone or for your family. the Great Pumpkin, check out the Make Charlie Brown. a Difference Day Enjoy them with online project your family. database. To advertise, please call Ludington Daily News
Encourage a safer environment and be healthy at the same time—join students around the world and celebrate Make a map annual International showing an escape route in your home Walk to in the event of a fire. School Day Write a story about a treasure you might find hidden in a huge pile of leaves.
National Face Your Fears Day Discuss reptiles today—what might their skin feel like, how do they move, how long are their tongues?
How much do you know about farms and farming? Make a list of all the crops that are grown in your area.
Do you know what these three words mean: pragmatic, peloton, provision? Look them up in a dictionary. Dictionary Day
Start by doing 20 jumping jacks. Increase the number by 5 every day until you can do 40.
Diwali is the “festival of lights and is important to Hindus throughout the world. Find out how it is celebrated in different parts of the world. Diwali
Make sure you have something bright or reflective on your Halloween costume. Get batteries for your flashlight.
Carve a pumpkin today. Save the seeds and have a parent help you roast them. They make a tasty treat!
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Collect fall leaves and with paper and white craft glue, use them to create colorful animals. Berries, grasses and flower petals will work too.
It’s World Teacher’s Day tomorrow – make a card for your teacher thanking them for their hard work and caring.
Read a bedtime story to a parent or sibling today.
Type out the letters of the alphabet in the correct order on a computer keyboard. Can you say the letters of the alphabet in reverse order?
Write a poem in honor of a classmate or friend. List lots of words you might use to describe the friend and then put them in your poem.
Design a flag for your school or classroom? Do you have a mascot? Include your mascot in your flag design.
Use a tortilla as a base and invent your own pizza. Have a parent help you cook it. Food Day
Go on a hike, collect leaves and then identify the tree using a Tree Identification Guide.
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BOOK BOOK & & WEB WEB PICKS PICKS Coraline
Family Education
by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Dave McKean If you’re looking for scary and creepy, this is the book for you. Coraline and her parents have moved into an old house. While her parents are too busy to spend time with her, the bored Coraline is told to count everything. For some strange reason the 14th door, which was previously bricked up, now opens to reveal an alternative world where people who look like her parents have eyes made of big black buttons. The adventure begins and Coraline needs all her courage to make sure everything works out right.
Coming This Summer
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fun.familyeducation.com/halloween/holidays/33368.html Family Education has costume ideas, quizzes and activities, safety tips, party ideas and recipes, movies, crafts, puppets, pumpkin patterns, Halloween history and lots of other treats for the spooky season.
Toilet Roll Spiders
mollymoocrafts.com/halloween-crafts-for-kids/ This easy craft for kids will help them make cool Halloween spiders. All you need is cardboard tubes, paint, pipe cleaners and googly eyes. You can reinforce them if necessary with paper mache.
Edible Worms
instructables.com/id/Bowl-of-Worms-Anyone/ Make incredible, edible worms by filling an empty milk carton with straws and combining gelatin and other ingredients. Allow it all to set and then squeeze out the worms into a bowl. A parent or adult will need to help you make this Halloween treat.
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ENVIRONMENT
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round the middle of some of that sap out of the tree March, days begin to to be collected. warm up, but the nights are still frosty in the The sap is thin, barely sweet northeastern regions and as colorless as of North America. spring water. It Drilling a hole into a isn’t ready for tree to capture the sap This change in the pancakes at this is called “tapping.” weather causes stage. This does no permanent harm to the tree. Only the sap in maple about 10% of the sap is trees to start Boiling the sap collected each year. moving. causes much of the water to When the sap begins to evaporate, leaving behind move, small tubes are drilled the thick, sweet syrup enjoyed into the maple tree to redirect on pancakes. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Read expository text to locate information.
hen its stores of pinecones and nuts gathered during the summer and fall run low, the squirrel scratches the bark of sugar maple trees with its sharp teeth. This allows some of the tree sap to drain out. The sap’s water evaporates in the winter sunlight, but the sap leaves a sugary trace on the bark. The squirrel returns to lick it, and gets an energy boost in an otherwise lean time of year. It is thought that the Native Americans learned about the sweet maple sap by watching the squirrels. Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that an organism’s patterns of behavior relate to the nature of that organism’s environment.
Use the code to discover these sweet facts!
Maple sap is about Boiling approximately one gallon of syrup.
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A gallon of pure maple syrup weighs about pounds. A maple tree must be at least diameter before it is tapped.
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