Kids Konnect May/June 2021

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Pigeons played a pivotal role in history!

Bird Jokes

What do you call fifty penguins at the North Pole?

Really lost, because penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere!

Where does a penguin keep its money?

In a snow bank!

What do you get if you cross a cat with a parrot?

A carrot!

Why Don’t Birds Get Electrocuted on Power Lines?

Knock, Knock!

Who’s there?

Who. Who who?

Are you an owl?

What do you call it when it rains chickens and ducks?

Foul weather!

Do birds have magic feet? Nope!

Birds can sit on power lines and not get electric shocks because the electricity is always looking for a way to get to the ground.The birds are not touching the ground or anything in contact with the ground, so the electricity stays in the power line.

But people aren’t birds! If you are close enough to touch a power line, chances are it has fallen down due to a storm, high winds, or broken tree branch.

Stay away! Power lines can electrocute you.

Never touch a downed power line!

•Call us at 507-451-2480 if you see a downed power line.

• Always assume a downed power line is energized.

• Stay 10 feet away.

• Don’t drive or ride your bike over it.

• If a power line falls on a car you are in, stay inside the vehicle, warn people to not touch the car, and call 911.

• Never climb a tree that has power lines running through it.

Our Safety Lesson:

What does a duck like to eat with soup?

Quackers!

What does a mixed-up hen lay?

Scrambled eggs!

What does an evil hen lay?

Deviled eggs!

Why did the turkey cross the road twice?

To prove he wasn’t chicken!

What did the 500 pound canary say?

Here Kitty, Kitty!

Daughter: Mum, can I have a canary for Christmas?

Mom: NO! You’ll have turkey like everyone else.

Where does a peacock go when it loses its tail?

A re-tail store!

What’s noisier than a whooping crane?

A trumpeting swan!

What kind of bird can carry the most weight?

The crane!

You can watch the birds on power lines, but you need to stay safe and stay away!

Why do hummingbirds hum?

Because they forgot the words!

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What do you give a sick bird?

Tweetment!

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K i ds konnect G R O W • P L AY • L E A R N

Volume 2, Issue 3 May/June 2021 PUBLISHER Steve Fisher

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konnect CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: G R O W • P L AY • L E A R N Jessica Abrahams Sarah Brooks Melanie Busch Brenda Donahe-Stevens Mary Hawkins MaryAnne Higgins Jean Krause Darla K. Lager Thomas Meagher, PhD Sarah Reichert Maegen Storm, nurse practitioner Mary Urch COVER/PAGE DESIGN Kate McGillen ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Tom Kelling ADVERTISING SALES Amber Casterton Crystal Hobart Britney Marr Tim Mart For editorial or advertising inquiries, contact us at 507-444-2389

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Pigeons played a pivotal role in history!

During WWI and WWII, carrier pigeons were used to transport messages to the home coop located behind the lines. The pigeons were especially useful tool of communication in military operations during these wars as telephone and telegraph were not always reliable. It is estimated that during WWI, 100,000 carrier pigeons were used by the German, French, American and British armies in this conflict. The messages were written on a small piece of paper and attached to the leg of pigeon while flying from location to location. Each branch of service used pigeons as they could fly a mile a minute! When the pigeons landed, wires in the coop would sound a bell notifying the Signal Corp a message had arrived.

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Pigeons are considered to be extremely intelligent and understand concepts of space and time. Pigeons can remember a face and will stay out of your way the next time you meet.

The next closest bird to a pigeon is a parrot. Pigeons will bond with their owner especially if they are fed.

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One famous bird was named “President Wilson”, he was a part of the tank corp. He was credited with drawing attention of the German soldiers who fired a wall of lead to block his path after injuring his leg. He survived his wounds and retired to be used in the breeding program at U.S. Army Signal Corp and died in 1929.

Feeding Ducks at the Park:

Skip the Bread!

Many of you may have fed ducks before at a local park. Morehouse Park in Owatonna is a popular park for feeding ducks. The park has a group of ducks that stick around all year and are used to being around and fed by people. Feeding the ducks at Morehouse Park is a fun way to spend a couple hours! Before you head down to the park with your leftover bread, however; take a minute to learn why feeding them your leftover bread is not good for them.

the water quality and native aquatic plants of the river or lake.

What Should you Feed Ducks?

Ducks like all kinds of foods that are also good for them. Ducks like lettuce, corn, frozen peas, seeds, oats, and rice. There are some foods that are toxic to ducks and you should avoid feeding these foods to them. These toxic foods include avocados, onions, citrus, nuts, chocolate and popcorn.

The following sign, which you will see at Morehouse Park in Owatonna, is a good reminder of what you can feed the ducks. The sign also tells you where you can find healthy foods to feed to the ducks. Gather up some of these healthy foods, head down to Morehouse Park and have fun feeding the ducks!

Why Bread is Bad for Ducks It’s hard to believe that bread is back for ducks; they love to eat it and will snatch it up when you throw pieces to them. While they do love to eat it, bread does not offer nutritional value to ducks. This is somewhat easy for us to understand, it’s kind of like how you probably like eating candy which does not provide our bodies any nutritional value. Another danger with feeding ducks bread is that they will fill up with it instead of other foods that could be more beneficial to them. Feeding ducks bread can be bad for the environment too, the bread can grow mold which can make ducks sick. It can also contribute to algae growth in the water, which can kill animals and spread disease.

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Bird Books for Kids What kind of bird is that?

Check out these books to find out.

National Audubon Society First Field Guide to Birds

by Scott Weidensaul (Scholastic)

Birds in our Backyard: Say Hello to Minnesota’s Feathered Friends

By Bill Marchel

(Minnesota Historical Society Press)

Backyard Birds (Field Guides for Young Naturalists)

by Karen Stray Nolting (Houghton Mifflin Co.)

What’s that Bird?

By DK Publishing (DK)

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Funny books about Bird

By Mo Willems

(Hyperion Books)

• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! • Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! • Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!

• Pigeon Wants a Puppy!

• Pigeon Needs a Bath!

• Pigeon Has to Go to School!

• There is a Bird on Your Head!

(Elephant and Piggie)

Other bird books you may enjoy: Nerdy Birdy by Aaron Reynolds (Roaring Brook Press) Nope! By Drew Sheneman (Viking) Hooray for Birds! By Lucy Cousins (Candlewick Press) Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward (Beach Lane Books) Nest by Jorey Hurley (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Origami Birds and Butterflies by Lisa Miles (Gareth Stevens Publishing)

By Andrew McDonald

(Random House Books for Young Readers)

• Real Pigeons Fight Crime • Real Pigeons Eat Danger • Real Pigeons Nest Hard

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8 activities to keep kids entertained (Metro) What parent hasn’t heard their child utter the familiar phrase “I’m bored” at some point? Despite a seemingly vast array of toys, electronics and other items at their disposal, children can be quick to sulk and say there’s nothing to do. Parents can counter “I’m bored” with these eight boredom-busting activities that are certain to help pass the time in entertaining and sometimes educational ways.

1. Craft time: Pick a theme and gather the materials for the project.

For example, kids can evoke a trip to the ocean by creating handmade sea creatures. Paint a paper plate and hang brightly colored yarn underneath it to create the “tentacles” of a jellyfish. Kids can use salt dough clay to fashion seashells, sea snails or crustaceans.

3. Build a birdhouse: Birdhouses or bird feeders can be made from scraps of material found around the house. Scavenge for spare lumber or other supplies in the shed or garage.

An adult or older sibling can help cut the wood into pieces. Young children may enjoy painting the house. Wood adhesive or screws can be used to assemble the project.

2. Painting: Shaving cream is a great sensory material that is relatively easy to clean up. Kids can whip up a batch of shaving cream paint and use it to finger paint on a table or even in the bathtub. Simply mix shaving cream with food coloring in a bowl, or use a muffin tin to separate the colors.

4. Plan a garden: Kids can help to design a garden the entire family will maintain and even be responsible for a special parcel that’s all their own.

Gardens can grow food, flowers and more. Add a touch of whimsy with figurines for a fairy garden or even small superhero figures for a spot for boys to tend.

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5. Box makeovers: Tissue boxes or cereal boxes can be made into many different creations with paint or construction paper. Use a few craft supplies like pom-poms or wiggly eyes to turn boxes into “monsters.”

6. Boat races: Fill up a long, shallow container and take turns racing the boats by blowing on the sails.

7. Leaf art: Gather leaves and twigs from around the yard and then combine pieces to make them look like various animals.

8. Spray park: Create an at-home spray park with a garden hose and a pool noodle. Poke several small holes into the pool noodle on all sides. Stick a garden hose into the end of the pool noodle and hot-glue a wine cork into the hole at the other end. Turn on the water and let kids run through.

Head off kids’ boredom by having plenty of ideas at the ready

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Birds are some of the most amazing creatures in the world and Minnesota is the home of over 300 species of them. In this issue let’s take a look at the wonderful biology of birds, how we’ve used them as models for technology, investigate what allows them to fly, the beauty they use to find mates and how scientists track birds by their movement and calls they make.

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Birding is one of the most popular pastimes that American do all over the country. There is even competitive birding where children, teens and adults will compete with others to see the most species or the fastest to find a rare bird or quickest to identify a bird song!

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Most people keep a Life List, this is a record of the bird species you’ve identified living in the wild.

When you’re out hiking, camping, boating, or birding, record what species you identify using a bird species identification book, poster or diagram like the one above. You can start by easily identifying birds

you see right in your backyard, the diagram here shows you many of the birds that are commonly found near feeders or parks here in southern Minnesota.

Let’s create a Bird watching Checklist for the birds we might see nearby. It’s important to record what birds we see and when so we can keep a record of how often these birds are around in the wild. Scientists study how the populations of different bird species change over the years, we can help by being Citizen Scientists and recording our observations at Project FeederWatch and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Ornithology is the study of birds): https://feederwatch.org/

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What technologies do we use that are modeled after birds? (Besides airplanes) How can we figure out where birds go when they migrate? How do birds learn to sing their own species songs? What’s it really like to fly like a bird?

To answer these questions and many more there are exciting new technologies that people can use to help answer questions like these.

For example, tracking migrating birds used to rely on attaching leg bands to birds and hoping someone will catch them again in a different location that can then be mapped.

New technologies allow researchers to attach radio tracking devices that are so small that birds can easily fly while wearing the trackers. The radio signals the bands send out allow the researchers to track the birds using their own computers, instead of hoping someone catches the bird!

Some scientists, called ornithologists, use special microphones to record birds, these are parabolic microphones. They put a large plastic dish around a microphone.

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Birds sing to find other members of their own species and especially to find mates in spring. But since most birds are only one year old when mating seasons comes around, how do they know what song to sing? New technology in studying bird calls allows scientists to figure out what birds do to learn the songs of their species. You can do this with an app on a cell phone!

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But what is it like to “fly like a bird”? Some researchers are using goggles with cameras attached to a bird to record what it’s like to fly, as we see in this example of a parrot with “flight goggles” BionicSwif t by Fesco

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People are also competing to build a robot that most closely flies like a real bird. Some of the new robots for sale are MetaBird, PigeonBot and Bionic Swift. These are not the first mechanical birds however, Leonardo DiVinci designed a flying mechanical bird and when engineers built the little bird he designed with lightweight materials like plastic and rubber band motor, it took off!

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Example toy made from Leonardo DiVinci’s drawings from the 1600s. This model is called an Ornithopter, why do you think they’re called this? Find plans on building your own ornithopter here: https://www.ornithopter.org/archive/freebird.pdf achine

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Engineers in Japan were exploring new ideas on how to create a faster train that would speed across the land but with reduced air friction.

The Kingfisher is well adapted to flying at high speed but its beak is used for spearing fish. The engineers of Japan’s “bullet train”, called the Shinkasen, designed the new trains based on the Kingfisher’s beak. The new engines travel at speeds of 320 Km/hr or 200 mph!

Hummingbirds are the only bird capable of flying backwards, and this is due to the shape of its wings.

Every other species of bird relies on

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flying forward, so their wings are shaped to lift off into wind.

Hummingbirds can fly in any direction, so engineers copied this idea into designing the flight patterns and propellers of new drones.

Hummingbirds wings move in a “figure 8” pattern that allows them to swim through the air just

like the way we can tread water when swimming. New airplanes are being designed that copy the shape of bird bones. This allows the planes to be of lighter more flexible materials that can reduce the amount of fuel needed and the ability to react more quickly during bad weather.

Bird bones aren’t solid like mammal bones, but are hollow with lots of cross beams for support. Engineers are using this adaptation as a model to design a hollow plane that uses a lot of light weight cross beams to support the structure, but still allow people to ride inside!

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How can origami be a way to create flying birds?

Origami is an ancient Japanese art of folding paper into amazing 3D objects. There are many different ways of folding paper to look like birds, the story of the 1,000 Cranes by Sadako Sasaki. However we can also fold paper into bird like shapes that can fly!

• Fold paper in half length-wise, then unfold.

• Fold Corners to meet at center line.

• Fold the peak down to create a square.

• Fold top two corners to center line, one inch above downward facing point, to make a triangle on top and a diamond on bottom.

• Fold point up to secure the flaps.

• Fold the plane in half away from you.

• Fold the edges down to create the wide wings

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Birds by the number, how many birds are there in Minnesota, in North America, in the world?

Ornithologists (People who study birds) at Cornell University Lab of Ornithology have been trying to figure this mathematical problem out for many years. We can help by

Here in the United States researchers estimate we may have lost almost 29% of the total wild bird population since 1970, which means over 3 Billion, that’s 3,000,000,000, have disappeared across our country. Some species have had a worse drop in population than others, such as the Bobolink has lost more than 60% of its population since 1970.

The biggest problem has been a loss of habitat for birds, land has changed into either agricultural land or cities & suburbs. We can help by landscaping our yards to help provide food, water and shelter for birds however we also need to remove predators.

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participating in citizen science project like Project FeederWatch, Great Backyard Bird Count, or eBird (digital recording of bird spotting).

House cats are the number one predator of birds in urban areas where almost 2 billion, that’s 2,000,000,000, birds are killed by our own pets!

Keeping cats away from birds by having them indoors or staying within yards can help reduce the loss of wild birds.

We can do our part to help protect birds by learning about them, finding where they live, helping scientists estimate bird populations and providing food, water, space and shelter for all the wild birds in our community.

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Practical ways to raise confident kids

By Maegen Storm, nurse practitioner, Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health System, Faribault, Minnesota.

It’s only natural that as parents you want to instill confidence in your kids. Confident children believe in themselves and can face new challenges without fear — essential factors for a happy and fulfilling life.

Children’s confidence depends on hearing certain messages, and parents are in the best position to send them. Confident children know they are worthy of being loved and belonging with their friends and family. Parents communicate this selfworth to their children through verbal and nonverbal messages every day.

There are many ways to send these messages, but parents interested in increasing their children’s self-worth can use these five messages as a starting point: 1. I delight in being your parent.

Spend one-on-one time with your children doing what they love to do ― and let them lead ― for no other reason but to enjoy being with them.

Give your children lots of physical affection in a sincere, natural and ageappropriate way.

2. Your self-worth does not depend on what you do, but on who you are.

Praise your children for character traits rather than talents or achievements.

Point out what is genuinely good and likeable about who they are.

When they misbehave, focus on the specific problem behavior instead of communicating that they are bad.

Praise character traits and discipline behavior.

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3. You deserve to be treated well, and when you are not, you are strong.

When children are hurt and it’s not their fault, they need three things: emotional validation, the right interpretation of what happened and to know they can do something about it. When children are hurt, do not feel sorry for them. Rather, work with them on practical ways they can stand up for themselves, such as using their words to stand up to a bully. If children know they deserve to be treated with respect and kindness, their self-worth

will not be affected when someone is mean to them.

4. Your feelings are worth being known.

Children who can be their true selves will grow in self-confidence. Always encourage your children to show how they are really feeling. When children are upset, they can work through it if their feelings are validated. So be a listener rather than a teacher. Try to see things from their perspective and then let them know that you see how they are feeling.

5. You can use your strength to meet challenges.

Let kids take age-appropriate risks to do what they’re excited about, even if they might get hurt. If you don’t, what they might hear is that you don’t think they are strong enough to do it. Teach your children that they can make their own decisions. Giving them simple choices when they are young teaches them to be confident decision-makers.

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Chicken Tortilla Pinwheels Try this delicious pinwheel for lunch or snack!

Ingredients 8 oz reduced-fat cream cheese 10 oz Rotel tomatoes, drained 1/2 tsp seasoning salt 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1 jalapeno pepper, de-seeded and diced 5 whole wheat tortillas

Instructions

1. Combine cream cheese, sour cream, Rotel, garlic and seasonings.

2. Stir until well blended.

3 Tbsp nonfat plain Greek yogurt 1/2 tsp minced garlic 1/2 tsp black pepper 5 green onions, sliced 2 cup cooked, shredded chicken

5. Roll up tightly. Wrap tortillas in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or until ready to serve.

6. Remove from plastic wrap and slice into 3. Add cheese, green onions, jalapeno and 2-inch pieces. chicken.

4. Divide mixture between tortillas and spread evenly, leaving about ½-inch border around the outside.

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SUPPLIES small paper plates various colors of acrylic paint paint brush scissors stapler (optional) school glue colored construction paper black construction paper markers (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Start by painting three small paper plates one color. Let them dry completely.

2. After your paper plates are dry, use a different color to paint a pattern on one of the paper plates to use as the body for the owl.

3. After the pattern is dry that you painted, take another one of the painted paper plates and cut it in half to use as the wings. Use a stapler to attach them to the body. You could also use a generous amount of school glue.

4. Next, use a generous amount of school glue to attach the last paper plate to the body as the head of the owl.

Source: https://iheartcraftythings.com/colorful-patterned-owls.html

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5. Cut out eyes, black pupils and a nose out of construction paper and glue them on to the face.

6. Lastly cut a slit out of the top of the owls head to finish your owl. Look at how awesome your owl looks!

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Are there more black fish or more white fish swimming below the ice?

Have a friend give you each type of word to fill in the blanks.

Then read the story aloud!

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Here are a few popular fish ice fishermen catch.

Do the math to discover the name of each species.

ice fishing on Lake __________ last weekend. The strange thing about this lake is that you are more likely to catch __________ than fish.

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                  a device          that signals when a           fish hits your line.              something          that attracts fish to      With a partner, select an article in today’s bite your hook.           newspaper.

One of you inks out all the vowels            

in the article and then gives it to the other person to read. Can that person read it without the vowels?

s right on the ice to keep out the wind me of these even have heaters, satellite wns form

The annual catch in Wisconsin is 88 million fish. If winter fishing makes up 1/4 of the annual catch, about how many fish are caught in that state each winter?

It was windy as the three of them

Look at the housesfor-sale ads in the print or online edition of the newspaper. Using these as examples, write a classified ad to sell a dream ice shanty.

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Grandpa Ed had constructed an

       _____________  and it was quite   comfortable inside the structure.             ice  house of _______________

Using a __________ , Ed showed

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    

Nathan and Emily how to cut a 

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hole in the ice. Emily put some

    

 __________ _________ on her

    

line and lowered it into the

            tied a small ______________ to       the  end of his line.  ______________ water. Nathan

Grandpa Ed caught several _______________ , Emily had caught many _______________ ___________ , and Nathan had caught a lot of ____________ .   

                         This week’s word:

SHANTY

The noun shanty means a crude shelter, shack or hut.          in    I cut a hole the ice ona frozen     lake and to my surprise, I saw... 

Complete this story.

Sue built  a shanty shelter   to herself from the wind on the   lake while ice fishing.

Try to use the word shanty in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

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Los Pájaros han sido mascotas populares durante miles de años. Los Antiguos Griegos tenían loros, mientras que hace mucho tiempo en China, la gente rica tenía faisanes como mascotas.

Lee sobre cada clase de pájaros domésticos populares. Luego haz When you finish this page, los cálculos para desMillones cut out this Pet Patch to add to your Camp Kid cubrir el nombre de de pájaros Scoop progress chart. cada uno de estos se adoptan comopájaros.

Estos deliciosos pequeños mascotas pájaros fueron mascotas hoy en día. Hay de lujo hace unos 500 sinsontes, canarios, años. Estos pájaros pinzones, cockatiels, también se usaban para periquitos, loritos, loros detectar gases venenosos grises africanos, loros en minas bajo tierra. amazónicos, cacatúas y guacamayos. Excepto los canarios y los pinzones, todos los demás son miembros de laEste pájaro ha sido considerado sagrado en India durante más de familia de los loros.

2.000 años. En los días de banquetes, los Se puede La pájarosmayoría eran llevados __________ a los en bueyes por lasloros calles. miembros de la de los familia de los loros tienen larga por sus picos. ________. Un loro amazónico puede vivir hasta La mayoría de los 80 años.

En losCuando días deescoges los uno como miembros de la pioneros, un estudiante mascota, prepárate para de familia de los loros ________________ la vida de los pájaros a tu loro hace pareja con americanos, durante muchos,Alexander muchos años. Los otro pájaro durante sinsontes Wilson, tenía este pueden vivirpequeño 18 años. todo el ________. pájaro como compañero.

El pájaro viajaba en su bolsillo durante las largas jornadas en las que Wilson exploró a caballo el Oeste.

El pequeño, En los años 1600 cantante canario era popular que una es también una dama saludara a la mascota gentelacon un En la Antigua Roma, gente popular. canario teníaUn estos pájaros en la en su canario macho entrada de sus casas para que está muy les alertaran que había1 2 1 6 contento solo y¡Un pájaro visitantes. campana! cantará igual si D= 1 G= 3 N= 5 tú estás o no E = 2 I = 4 O= 6 estás.

familia de los loros por sus picos.

PARAKEETS En el acertijo, encuentra estas palabras en inglés, luego encuentra la traducción BEAKS al español de estas palabras en la página de Kid Scoop de hoy.

LOVEBIRD

MINES M C S A I D N I S D CANARY T E S R I O A B O K CHINA I N S C H I N A W ECONURES R I E A A B F U E LMACAWS MAGPIES W V N E K R B S M I INDIA S O D A A L E R T P OWLS S R G P O R S R A RFEAST A L A R A O T T Y DLADY O L M R I B E VALERT P D La mayoría RODE de los loros

tienen larga ________. Un loro amazónico puede vivir hasta La mayoría de los 80 años. Cuando escoges uno como miembros de la mascota, prepárate para familia de los loros ________________ a tu loro hace pareja con durante muchos, muchos años. Los otro pájaro durante sinsontes pueden vivir 18 años.

Quièn nombraría a sus mascotas, todo el ________.

“Weeps” y “Wol”?

Así es cómo Billy llamó a los búhos que rescató y agregó a su colección que incluía cuervos, ardillas El pequeño, En los cotorras, años 1600 ycanario un perro. Los búhos son muy cantante era popular que una Recorta diez pequeños, estossaludara dos causaron una pero dama a la palabras del es también una gran conmoción.

Si te gusta reír, gente con un periódico de hoy. mascota¡éste es el libro para ti!

Inventa una historiapopular. Un usando una de las canario macho palabras recortadasestá muy en cada oración. contento solo y ¡Léele tu historia a cantará igual si tú estás o no un amigo! estás.

de alegría. Aún Los periquitos forman diminutos grupos llenos de alegría. Aún de los loros. cuando son pequeños, tiene toda la personalidad de los loros. e que los Mucha gente cree que los tenerse en periquitos deben tenerse en erdad, Un parejas. No es verdad, Un mejor como periquito solo es mejor como se vincula con mascota porque se vincula con mejor que si su dueño más y mejor que si quito. Si tienes hubiera otro periquito. Si tienes mucho tiempo plan de de pasar mucho tiempo ¡Todos los periquitos se el escaparon la tienda , si piensas con tu pájaro, puedesAyuda tenerlo solo. Sin embargo, si piensas de mascotas. a recapturarlos dibujando periquito, es que no tienes mucho tiempo con tu periquito, es una línea que pase por para todosjugar los periquitos, sin recomendable tener dos. levantar tu lápiz y sin pasar sobre el mismo trazo dos veces!

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PARAKEETS BEAKS Los Pájaros han sido mascotas populares durante miles de años. LosLOVEBIRD Antiguos Griegos tenían loros, mientras que MINES hace mucho tiempo en China, la gente rica tenía faisanes como mascotas.

CANARY CHINA CONURES Millones de pájaros MACAWS se adoptan MAGPIES como mascotas hoy en día.INDIA Hay sinsontes, canarios, pinzones, cockatiels, periquitos, OWLS loritos, loros grises africanos, loros FEAST amazónicos, cacatúas y guacamayos. Excepto los canarios y los pinzones, todos LADY los demás son miembros de la familia de los loros.

ALERT Se puede __________ a los RODE miembros de la

canario en su

Decodifica el título de 1 premiado.

2 1 6 este libro ¡Luego verifica en tu biblioteca local¡ D= 1 G = 3 N= 5

E = 2 I = 4 O= 6

Recorta diez palabras del periódico de hoy.

Inventa una historia usando una de las palabras recortadas en cada oración. ¡Léele tu historia a un amigo!

¡Por fin tus padres te han dicho que puedes tener una nueva mascota! Después de estudiar los clasificados, escribe un anuncio para la ¡Todos los periquitos se escaparon de la tienda mascota perfecta. ¿Qué clase de de mascotas. Ayuda a recapturarlos dibujando características según tusin idea una línea que son pase importantes por todos los periquitos, tu lápiz perfecta? y sin pasar sobre el mismo trazo delevantar una mascota dos veces!

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Quièn nombraría a sus mascotas, “Weeps” y “Wol”?

Palabra de la semana:

COMPAÑERO

es cómocompañero Billy llamó a los búhos El Así sustantivo que rescató agregó su colección significa: aquélyque pasaasu que incluía tiempo concuervos, otros. cotorras, ardilla y un perro. Los búhos son muy

pero estos dos causaron Unapequeños, mascota puede ser una una gran conmoción. Si te gusta reír gran compañera, pero ¡éste es el libro para ti! necesitan mucho amor, tiempo y cuidado.

Decodifica el título de este libro premiado.

Trata de usar¡Luego la palabra verifica en tu compañero en biblioteca una oración local¡ hoy cuando hables con tus amigos y familiares.

¿Cuál es tu pájaro favorito?

Di tres ¡Por fin tus padres te han d hechos y tres mascota! tener una nueva opiniones sobre esteescribe un los clasificados, pájaro. mascota perfecta. ¿Qué cl características son importa de una mascota perfecta?

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Creative Birds Our 2 day, 3 day and 4 day preschool classes spent a week learning about the rainforest. There were several hands-on learning activities, including making Toucan pictures. The students were very creative and made sure the birds had colorful beaks.

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1st grade students like to do direct draw art projects. This format provides structure to the idea while allowing to apply their own creative touch. As the students focus on spring they created bird pictures to illustrate how our season is changing.

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Virtual Learning Option for Fall 2021!

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If you said yes to either of these questions, Owatonna Online might be right for you. Owatonna Online is a state-approved K-12 online public school open to all Minnesota students free of charge.

Some of the benefits: • A computer/device provided to all students - and internet access for those who need it • Combination of live and independent learning opportunities • Online courses that meet all the Minnesota educational requirements • Support from licensed Owatonna Public Schools staff • Whole class and small group live sessions • Playlist of activities to complete independently • Learning Coach support to ensure success at home • Regular one-on-one check-ins with the classroom teacher Learn more by visiting www.owatonnaonline.org!

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Even Superheroes Brush Their Teeth