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The fall weather is finally here and that means that As always, we can’t wait to see your original artwork or Halloween is just around the corner. To get you ready for poems, receive your birthdays to wish you a happy birthday Halloween, this edition is all about mysteries. You can learn in the paper, and share great articles with you each month. how to write your own mystery story, explore mysterious matter, figure out mystery emotions, and more.

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SOLVING

e use our problem-solving skills to make choices and decisions every day, and we do this often without realizing it! Examples of using our problem-solving skills without realizing are the steps that we take to prepare for school. After getting home from school, there is homework to complete, our lunch needs to be prepared or planned for the next day, and a scheduled bedtime ensures that there is enough time to get ready the next morning. Morning routines help us prepare for the day because there is enough time to brush our teeth, get dressed, and arrive at school on time.

Therefore, although we may not realize it, we use our problemsolving skills to prepare for school every day.

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On the other hand, there are many other times when we know that we are using our problem-solving skills. For example, imagine that you and your family moved to a different town and you changed schools. How do you begin to solve this problem? The first step is to identify the problem. Is it that you do not know anyone in your school? Or, is the problem that you are afraid that you will not like the school or that you will not make friends? Once you isolate what your problem is, you can move forward to step two.

The next step is to come up with at least three solutions. To address being a new student to the school, one solution could be to introduce yourself to your classmates. By talking, you and your classmates may find that you have things in common like a favorite movie, the same birthday, siblings, the same pet at home, or even participate in the same sport or organization. Another solution may be to join a club or an organization or try out for the school’s team if you play a sport. By being involved in the school, you will begin to feel that you belong there. A third solution could be to ask your classmates or teacher questions about the school and learn the differences between your former school and your new school. Learning the similarities and differences can help you see that your new school is nothing to be afraid of, because it is very similar to your old school.

The third step is to think through the solutions that you created in the second step of

the problem-solving process. Although you may feel nervous, your classmates and other students in the school will have things in common with you. They will welcome you into the club, organization, or sport, and you will make more friends. The fourth step of the problem-solving process is to try or implement your solutions. The fifth and final step is to reflect. You can reflect on how much better you feel about your new school. You can reflect on the friends that you made, the fun you have had in the club, organization, or sport, and how much you have improved your problem-solving skills.

All in all, our problem-solving skills help us every day. We use them to know how much money we need for a toy that we want to buy, what time we need to leave to make the bus or a train, how to make friends, how to solve arguments, and even how to do our homework! Being able to identify a problem and take the necessary steps to solve it is one of the best lessons that we can learn.

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Saki Monkey

and terra firme (a forest that does not flood seasonally). Of the three locations, the team found the Vanzolini Saki monkey in forests on both sides of the Rio Eiru (a river in the Amazon Did you know that one of the 21 species of saki monkeys was Rainforest in Brazil). It is not entirely known why the species was missing for so long, but many researchers expect their rediscovered last year? The rediscovery of the Vanzolini saki disappearance is related to deforestation in the Amazon Rainmonkey was significant to explorers and researchers because forest and poaching. the species had not been seen for 81 years!

Saki monkeys do not have prehensile tails, which means that The first known discovery of the Vanzolini saki monkey was they cannot grab branches or swing from tree to tree with their in 1936, and the discovery was remarkable because it looked tails.

As a result, saki monkeys rely on their strong, powerful much different than other saki species: it had gold colored hind legs to move from tree to tree. The locals call them “flying fur on its legs! In 1956, a team exploring the Amazon Rainmonkeys” due to their speed when leaping between the trees. forest found Vanzolini saki monkeys, but none of them were Saki monkeys are typically observed moving on all fours, but alive. Because no living monkeys were found during the 1956 can stand upright.

They are dinural animals which means that expedition, finding the Vanzolini saki monkey during the 2017 they are awake during the day and asleep at night. At night, expedition, 81 years after its initial discovery, was incredible! they curl up like a cat and sleep in the trees.

The team, led by Laura Marsh, started their search in 2017, Similar to other monkey species, saki monkeys live in where the Vanzolini saki monkey was first spotted. The team groups.

Male and female saki monkeys mate for life and their divided the area into three regions known as várzea (seasonally offspring stay with the family.

Female saki monkeys give birth white water-flooded), igapó (seasonally black water-flooded), to offspring one at a time, and the offspring is matured fully

There are 21 different species of Saki Monkey, that live in rain forests throughout South America.

at 3 years old. Although there are conflicting reports, most research suggests that saki monkeys live approximately 14 years in the wild. However, their life expectancy may vary by species and whether they live in the wild or in captivity. Saki monkeys are typically shy around humans, but they will defend their territory. They communicate with their family through grunts, chirps, and whistles. Their roar signals danger.

Saki monkeys have strong jaws which they use for chewing fruit, seeds, plants, and insects because they are omnivores.

The coloring of the saki monkeys’ fur varies by species and ranges from black to gray to rust. Some species have fur on their face and others do not. All species have long, bushy tails.

Saki monkeys live throughout the rainforests of Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia.

Lindsay Wanko, Teacher of the Deaf, JFK Elementary, Berlin Twp., NJ

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Mysterious Matter!

his month’s article is all about mystery and our science experiment is no exception! Get ready to make Mystery Matter!

When scientists study things in our environment, they like to classify or group them. Matter, or everything around us that takes up space and has mass, can be sorted into groups. We can put things around us into three basic categories, solids, liquids or gases.

These are known as the states of matter.

Now it’s your turn to make Mystery Matter. After you’ve made it, try to classify this silly substance into one of the three categories, a solid, liquid or a gas. Just like a scientist, make sure you observe the mystery matter and test your ideas!

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Words to know: SOLID: An object that

has a fixed shape and/or volume, (like a rock).

LIQUID: A substance

in which particles can move freely and take the shape of the container, (like water).

GAS: A substance that takes up the space of the container and has particles that are constantly moving, (like the air we breathe).

Materials:

1. Old newspapers 2. 1 large bowl 3. spoon 4. baking sheet

5. food coloring (optional) 6. about 1/2 cup water 7. 1 cup cornstarch

Procedure:

1. Cover your workspace with old newspapers to protect the area.

Things could get messy!

2. Pour 1 cup of cornstarch into your large bowl.

3. Optional: add food coloring to the cornstarch.

4. Slowly add in water to the cornstarch. As you are pouring, stir the mixture. Be sure you add a little bit of water at a time.

Once your mixture has a thick, pancake batter-like consistency,

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you can stop adding water.

5. Test your Mystery Matter to make sure you have the right consistency. Tap on the surface of the matter with your spoon, if it splashes at you, add more cornstarch. If the Mystery Matter is too powdery, add a little more water.

6. Use the baking sheet as a work space for your Mystery Matter.

This will make it easy to pick it up when it lands on your table.

7. Stick your hands in your Mystery Matter and play with it! Pick up a handful and squeeze it. Observe what happens. Pick up another handful of the matter and let it rest in the palm of your hand.

Again, observe what happens.

Try placing toys in the mysterious matter, do they sink or rest on the surface? Can you make a ball out of it?

8. You Decide! Is Mystery Matter a solid, liquid or a gas?

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11 Experiments That Failed

By Jenny Offill Attention all young scientists-to-be... you’ll love this book of experiments that were such complete failures that they never need to be tested again. You will be laughing so hard as you easily predict what happened, and why. Here are some to get you interested: Can a live beaver be ordered through the mail? What is the best way to speed up a boring car ride? Will a piece of bologna fly like a Frisbee? Can a washing machine wash dishes?

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A Wizard from the Start: The Incredible Boyhood and Amazing Inventions of Thomas Edison

If You Decide To Go To The Moon

By Faith McNulty "If you decide to go to the moon in your own

By Don Brown rocket ship, read this book This picture book biography is before you start." This filled with all of the highlights of is a story about a little Edison's life, his adventures, and boy who blasts off in a experiments. Read stories about rocket ship and heads for Tom and a friend fooling around the moon. Weightless, he with acids and chemicals in the basement, what happened swims through the cabin, after his chemistry experiment in the baggage car caused sleeps tied down, and watches the sparkling stars in a fire on a train, how he saved a three-year-old boy from every direction. After two and a half days, he lands, the path of an oncoming freight train, and how he wrote takes a moonwalk in his spacesuit, looks out over the and printed his own newspaper at the age of fourteengray sand and stone into the blackness of space, and years-old for train passengers commuting to work. heads back to Earth.

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Can you guess what each person is feeling? Answers below.

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By: Heather Wawrzyniak, Curriculum and Instruction Coordinator for Riverside Township School District

Have you ever heard of an IQ? IQ stands for intelligence quotient.

It measures your brain’s memory, thinking and capacity to learn. The same way you can measure your brain power using IQ, you can measure your “heart” power, or ability to understand emotions, using an emotional quotient (EQ).

Empathy is typically associated with EQ because it is one’s ability to connect their personal experiences with the experiences and feelings of others. Test your EQ. Can you identify what each person is feeling below by their expressions? Think about how they may be feeling inside.

6 questions to develop your self-awareness What am I feeling and what else?

What’s happening physically (e.g. tight muscles) that can give me clues about my feelings?

ANSWERS:

Am I thinking of this emotion as an enemy or a friend?

Is this emotion trying to help me... What is it telling me?

What is Your Dog Trying to Tell You?! like sniffing the ground or scratching or grooming herself. These are natural behaviors but are notable because they occur at odd, unexpected times.

And, lastly, one of the most misunderstood gestures in dog body language is the “tap out”, which looks a little like a rollover or belly rub request but is instead a dog’s way of trying to avoid some type of handling that is making

By Laura Garber her uncomfortable, like grabbing her collar, putting on a harness, or being brushed.

If these low level signals are ignored, it can force your dog to ogs are not verbal; they are body language intensify her behavior in order to be “heard”, and this can mean readers! This means that dogs give a world of inprogressing to growling, showing teeth, even snapping or biting. formation in their posture and movement and it If your dog is giving some body language that you don’t underis only for the most obvious messages that they will bark stand or is behaving in a way that confuses you, you should ask or growl. So if we become fluent readers of our dogs’ an adult... because the thing about dog body language is that, body language, we can avoid doing things that make the more of it you watch, the better you get at interpreting it, so a them uncomfortable or that they find threatening, and dog-knowledgeable adult can help translate your dog’s messages to everyone will be the safer and happier for it! you. After all, the most important thing in any great relationship is In the wild, a canid (the genus of canine species that good communication! includes dogs and wolves) wants to avoid fights whenever possible in order to avoid injury and conserve A behavior specialist and trainer living in southern NJ, Laura Garber, CPDT-KA, CC, FFCP, led behavior departvaluable energy. So, much of a dog’s behavior is about ments in animal shelters for over a decade. Her company, conflict avoidance. She will give signals to let others WoofGang, LLC (www.myWoofGang.com), is committed to know when she feels uncomfortable or threatened while deepening the bonds between dogs and their people through also trying to indicate that she herself means no harm. positive training and behavior modification techniques, and it is these same topOr she may do what are called displacement behaviors, ics that inspire her writing. You can contact her at laura@myWoofGang.com.

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What happened... and what happened before that?

If someone were totally honest with me, how often would they say I react like that?

A. Happy B. Sad C. Excited D. Scared/Nervous E. Angry F. Lonely

Mystery Emotions

Maybe you’ve seen your dog do some of the following: • tuck her tail between her back legs or up under her belly, • lower or turn her head away • cower, make her body smaller, or turn away • move away, duck, or back away in avoidance • raise a front paw • pin her ears back against her head • do quick tongue flicks to her lips or nose • yawn when she’s not tired, often in an exaggerated manner • avoid eye contact or give whale eye, showing lots of eyewhites • stiffen or tense her body Go to https://www.doggiedrawings.net/freeposters for some great posters on dog body language.

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Mixed-up Math

Solve for the shapes

Question: What does this mean?

1 end 3 end 5 end 7 end

Question: What hefty 7 letter word can you take away 2 letters and it makes eight?

Question: What number can you take half of and leave nothing?

Question: A farmer has seventeen sheep.

All but nine of them die. How many sheep does he have left?

Question: If it takes six men one hour to dig six holes, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole?

Answer these brain teasers QUESTION: What does this say?

GIVE GIVE GIVE GIVE

QUESTION: What does this say?

H DINNER S DINNER A DINNER W DINNER

QUESTION: In the dark they are found without being fetched, in the light they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

QUESTION: What has four legs and a back, but can’t walk?

QUESTION: What does this say: T RN? QUESTION: What does this say?

TOKEEPUCH

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QUESTION: I travel around the world but never leave the corner. What am I?

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QUESTION: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. You eat the outside and throw away the inside.

What did you eat?

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Solutions and More!

Answer these brain teasers

Mixed-up Math Question:

Question:

What does this mean?

1 end 3 end 5 end 7 end

A farmer has seventeen sheep.

All but nine of them die. How many sheep does he have left?

Answer: Odds and Ends.

Question:

Answer: Nine.

Answer: Weighty! Take away the W and the Y and you have the word eight.

If it takes six men one hour to dig six holes, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole?

What hefty 7 letter word can you take away 2 letters and it makes eight?

Question:

What number can you take half of and leave nothing?

Answer: 8 -> o

Solve for the shapes

QUESTION: What does this say?

GIVE GIVE GIVE GIVE ANSWER: Forgive.

QUESTION: What does this say?

H DINNER S DINNER A DINNER W DINNER ANSWER: Wash up for dinner.

QUESTION: In the dark they are found without being fetched, in the light they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

ANSWER: Stars.

QUESTION: What has four legs and a back, but can’t walk?

ANSWER: A chair.

QUESTION: What does this say: T RN? ANSWER: No U turn

Question:

QUESTION: What does this say? TOKEEPUCH ANSWER: Keep in touch.

Answer: There is no such thing as half a hole.

QUESTION: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Y ou eat the outside and throw away the inside.

What did you eat?

ANSWER: Corn on the cob.

QUESTION: I travel around the world but never leave the corner. What am I? ANSWER: A stamp.

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Freeze for 1 hour, and enjoy! Serves 4

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By: Jennifer Downing, 5th Grade Teacher, Fountain Woods Elementary School, Burlington Township, N.J.

Mystery Vocabulary Alibi: An excuse that an accused person uses to show that he or she was not at the scene of the crime Breakthrough: A discovery that helps solve the crime

Characters

Other Characters

Where does the story take place?

Setting

of the best sellers for your grade level. You can find short ones to read and a list of the top 10 on Kids.MysteryNet.com. Here are a few favorite series that my students chose: 39 Clues, Secret Series Collection, Nancy Drew, Clubhouse Mysteries, and Encyclopedia Brown. After you read each story, use the graphic organizers that you chose and complete them by finding all the elements, like Clues, Distractions, and Evidence. You are now ready to create your own Mystery!

Choose your favorite Graphic Organizer to use to plan out your story. Use your creativity to complete it, and then write the Mystery using this! Have fun & Good Luck!

Suspects

What is the mystery that needs to be solved?

Mystery

Mysteries are one of my favorite book Genres. Good Mysteries keep the reader guessing who the criminal is or how the crime happened. The best way to write an exciting Mystery is to first read the Scholastic’s Key Vocabulary Terms, so you can get familiar with words that are associated with this Genre. For example, a Red Herring is a false clue that will throw the detective and reader off. Next, research some Mystery Graphic Organizers.

Scholastic.com is a great place to find these.

Lastly, Read, Read, Read!

If you haven’t read many Mysteries, then get familiar with this Genre. Choose a few

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Clues

“WhoDunIt?”

Detectives

Clues (in order)

Who discovered it?

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Clue: A fact or object that gives information that helps the detective solve the crime Crime: An action that breaks the law Deduction: Drawing a conclusion or making a judgment about something based on information you have Detective: An investigator who looks for and gathers clues Evidence: An object or statement that helps prove who committed the crime Hunch: A guess or feeling that is not based on facts Motive: A reason that a person does something — motives may be anger, hatred, jealousy, or greed Mystery: Something that is unknown; oftentimes something is missing or stolen Red herring: A false clue that throws the investigator off track Sleuth: An investigator or detective Suspect: Person who has a motive to have committed a crime Witness: Person who has seen something or has knowledge about a crime that might help solve it

CCSS.ELA Literacy-W5.3A: Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

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