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February is here and that means lots of things to look forward to. Groundhog Day is when Punxsutawney Phil decides if spring is coming or if we’re stuck with winter for 6 more weeks. Did you watch him come out to make his weather prediction? We also celebrate Valentine’s Day where we can tell those important in our lives how much we appreciate them. There are some great, easy and fun recipes in this edition that you can make to share with family and friends. Our Brain Buzz page has puzzles that remind us of Valentine’s Day and Groundhog Day…be sure to check them out. February is also an important month as we celebrate President’s Day and Black History Month, where we remember our great Presidents as well as the accomplishments of African Americans throughout our history. This edition also focuses on Art that is everywhere. Read about how to appreciate all that is around us by using your five senses, learn about using your senses to write great descriptive stories,
build your own pendulum for a fun painting science experiment, read some great books featured on the bookshelf all about art and drawing, and even learn about the senses that dogs have that make them different from humans. It is a fun month to explore, research, remember, be artistic, celebrate, learn and have fun. Enjoy those around you this month, and every month.
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FIVE SENSES I f you’re asked to describe a trip that you have taken to a park, how would you tell the story of what happened? If you described where you went, what you ate, what the park looked like, what you heard there, and how the park made you feel, then you are describing with your five senses! The five senses are sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch. In a park, with our sense of sight, we may see green grass and leaves on the trees, colorful flowers, patterns on picnic blankets, details on park maps, and much more! Our sense of smell may detect the scent of flowers, cut grass, food, or even sunscreen. Through our sense of sound, we may hear people talking, lawnmowers running, birds chirping, or dogs barking. If we have a picnic in the park, then our sense of taste will detect salty, sweet, sour, or even bitter flavors in foods and drinks. Our sense of touch would help us determine if we’re walking on grass or pavement or touching leaves or flowers. Through this example, we can understand the important role that our senses play in expressing our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Because the five senses are unique, we can experience one thing in five different ways! An example of experiencing the same thing five different ways is a favorite, everyday treat – popcorn! We see the shape and color, we can smell the butter, we hear it pop and crunch, we can taste the butter and the salt, and we can feel the warmth of the popcorn and the butter on the popcorn.
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Eyes
Do you know how our senses work? We see with our eyes and they are made up of cones, rods, a lens and a retina. The lens enables our eye to focus images onto the retina, which is in the back of our eye. Cones and rods are the names for the two light sensitive cells in our eyes. We can see color because of the cones and the rods help us see at night and give us peripheral vision. The information that the lens, retina, cones, and rods collect goes to our brain through the optic nerve.
Ears
There are two parts to our ears: the outer ear and the inner ear. Our ears are made up of cartilage and skin. Sound travels to our inner ear, which is called the cochlea. The cochlea translates vibrations into sound. The sound sends a message to our brain from the auditory nerve.
knows that Nose weEveryone smell with our noses,
but do you know how? Our noses have two nostrils which have a wall called a septum and are made up of bones and cartilage. Beyond that, there are membranes with smell receptors that are connected to the olfactory nerve. A signal is sent from the olfactory nerve to the olfactory bulb, which helps us recognize smells!
Taste
The taste buds on our tongue are called papillae. They allow us to taste salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. Did you know that these are the only flavors we can taste? Everything else that we taste is a combination of those four flavors! Our tongue also knows the texture and temperature of our food too.
Touch
Our sense of touch is enabled by the nerve endings in our skin that send information to our brain. We can identify cold, heat, contact, and pain.
Because we experience everything through our senses, it’s easy for us to take everyday things for granted. The next time that you go for a walk or play outside, take a moment to think about everything that you can see, smell, hear, taste, and feel. You might even find that you can describe things in more detail now.
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The Blue Crab
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an you guess how the blue crab got its name? It is named for the sapphire-tint on its claws! The crabs are also called Chesapeake blue crabs and Atlantic blue crabs. Blue crabs live in bays and rivers from Canada to South America. Because there are large populations of blue crab in the Chesapeake River and the Hudson Bay, it’s likely that the crabs we come across are blue crabs! Male blue crabs primarily stay in fresh water while female blue crabs stay in salt water. Female blue crabs lay eggs two or three times in their life and lay between 700,000 and 2,000,000 eggs at a time! Male and female crabs can be identified by the shape on their apron (abdomen). Male crabs’ abdomen are in the shape of a “T,” whereas female crabs’ abdomen are triangular. As with many other species, male crabs are larger than female crabs. On average, blue crabs live between 1 to 3 years. Blue crab molt (shed) their shells
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throughout their lives. Young blue crab molt every few days whereas adult blue crabs molt every 20 to 30 days. Blue crabs are invertebrates, which means that they do not have a backbone. Instead, blue crabs rely on their exoskeleton (shell) for protection from predators and support for their body. Therefore, when they molt, crabs are vulnerable to predators. A few of the blue crabs’ predators are Atlantic striped bass, trout, eels, sharks, rays, and humans. The blue crabs’ diet consists of mussels, snails, fish, plants, and even smaller blue crab! Blue crabs have four pairs of legs for feeding and defense, one pair of claws, three pairs of sharp, pointed walking legs, and one pair of swimming legs. Their swimming legs are paddle shaped which makes them great swimmers. Even though crabs can walk forward and diagonally, they typically walk sideways.
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Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus
Did you know these crab facts? ❂ The blue crab is the Maryland state crustacean! ❂ The largest blue crab caught in the Chesapeake was 10.72 inches wide and weighed 1.1 pounds!
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By: Jennifer Downing, 5th Grade Teacher, Fountain Woods Elementary School, Burlington Township, N.J.
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inter is upon us so it is a great time of year to write using sensory details! You can use your five senses; hearing, smelling, touching, tasting and seeing to write more descriptive details. You might write a short story about your snow day that you spent sledding or having a snowball fight! Winter break should give you many story ideas like holiday fun times, times with friends or a vacation you
might have taken! Choose one of these events as a story idea and start making a list of things you heard, smelled, touched, tasted and saw. You can start a sensory writing idea bank by taking a few minutes every day to jot down a description of what you did that day using your five senses. Incorporate figurative language into your sensory details. For example, use a simile, metaphor or personification!
Sense The Season! Here is short example of a story about playing in the snow with friends. Can you pick out the sensory details and figurative language? “RRRRiiiiiinnggg”, my phone was jumping off the table. “Hello”, I said. “There will be no school today due to the snow storm,” the recording blurted out. “Yaaaaaaaay,” I screamed.
I grabbed my thermals, coat, gloves and hat and threw them on as fast as lightning. All of my layers of clothing made me feel like a mummy wrapped up too tight! The rush of cool air slapped me in my face as I ran out the door. SLAAAMMMMM! “Hurry up, run! Tommy is throwing a snowball at us,” screamed Sara. I was getting so cold out in the snow that my teeth chattered like a group of kids at recess! To be continued…
Here is an example of a Sensory Detail Graphic Organizer you can also use. Be sure to include as many sensory details in your writing. Have fun & stay warm!
Use Your Senses
NJSLSA.W3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
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By: Heather Wawrzyniak, Curriculum and Instruction Coordinator for Riverside Township School District
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o you know the difference between a fact and an opinion? A fact is something that can be proven to be true. An opinion is how someone (or a group of people) think or feel. For example, a fact would be that Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 14th. An opinion would be that Valentine’s Day is the best holiday. You can check the calendar to prove the fact is true, but there is no way to qualify that it is the best holiday. Other people may like many other holidays better. Everyone is entitled to their own feelings and opinions, but many times, when someone expresses an opinion, it can cause a conflict with
someone that does not have the same thoughts. This can happen to friends over favorite movies, favorite colors, or even favorite sports teams. Watching sports is fun (that’s an opinion). It is exciting to have team spirit and talk about the big plays of the game. But sometimes fans can let their emotions take control of their manners. They can say mean things to the other team’s fans and even cause physical harm or damage. That takes the fun right out of it! How would you feel if you were cheering for your team and someone was rude and mean to you? When you feel spirited about something that
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cience and Art collide for this experiment - but you can ditch the paintbrush! Instead, you’ll bring color to your canvas with a homemade pendulum. A pendulum is a weight hung from a string. The weight and string get attached to a fixed point so it can swing back and forth when force is applied to it. A wrecking ball used for demolition is an example of a pendulum. For this experiment, the weight of the pendulum will be the cup filled with paint.
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Paper or foam cups Scissors String Tape
• Paint (add water to the paint to thin it out) • Large paper (like brown craft paper)
• Plastic tablecloth (drop cloth for the floor) • 2 chairs • 1 broom/mop handle
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sure the cup and string are in the middle 1. This activity can get messy, so first be of the chairs and drop cloth space. The sure to cover the floor with your plastic cup should not touch the floor. tablecloth or a drop cloth. 5. Test out your pendulum: pour some 2. Place the 2 chairs on the drop cloth about water into the cup and gently push your 3 feet away from each other. Rest the cup around. Observe where the water splashes. This will help you decide if your broom handle horizontally across the workspace is properly protected. Adjust two chairs. or add more drop cloth if necessary. 3. Poke a hole in the bottom of your cup. 6. When you are ready, roll a large piece Poke 2 holes on each side of the cup, of paper under the pendulum. Place underneath the rim. a piece of tape over the hole on the 4. Tie a piece of string through the two holes bottom of the cup. Fill the cup with a on the sides of the cup. Tie the string to mixture of paint and water. the middle of the broom handle. Make
7. Remove the tape and swing the cup. Do not continue to push the cup, allow it to move on its own. Observe the patterns the pendulum makes on the paper.
Experiment Variations: Can you make different patterns if you release the cup in different directions? Try different lengths of the string or raising/lowering the cups. Does that make different designs? Try to explore with a variety of colors of paints.
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e experience the world through our senses, and this is true also for our dogs. But the ways in which dogs’ senses perceive the world are very different from ours.
Dog Sense What the Nose Knows Enriching Games for our Dogs Knowing what we do about a dog’s sense of sight and smell, how can we use this information to create games and activities that will enrich our dogs’ lives? At least now you can understand why dogs enjoy playing games of fetch, as these games tap the specific strengths of their eyesight and their innate drive to chase prey. How can we engage their noses, which will provide their brains with some mental gymnastics as well? Well, there is a sport called Nose Work that can be great fun for our dogs! In Nose Work, a treat is hidden in a cardboard box which is itself planted among other cardboard boxes. As the dog learns the object of the game, this target box can be hidden with increasing levels of difficulty among the other boxes. If you’d like to teach your pooch a fun game called “Go find it!”, in which he sniffs out a hidden treat, go to http://www.mywoofgang.com/ archive_VTC_gamesToPlay.php. As always, though, include your parents when first teaching this new skill to your dog.
Sight
In both dogs and people, the retinas of our eyes have two types of photoreceptors: rods and cones. Rods detect movement and provide the ability to see at night. Cones detect color and detail. Because dogs are hunters, their eyes have evolved to have more rods than our eyes do in order to enable them to see the movement of prey and to see at night. However, they do not have as many cones in their eyes as we do, so they cannot see with the detail or the range of colors that we can. Have you ever noticed that, when a yellow ball is motionless in the green grass, your dog might not see it? That’s because it’s not moving and the hues of those colors look similar to your dog. As soon as you throw that ball, even at night, he goes right after it!
Smell
What dogs’ eyes may lack in acuity their noses more than make up for. They have 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, making their sense of smell 10,000 to 100,000 more sensitive than ours. This means that a dog could potentially smell one rotten apple in two million barrels! But their superpower sense of smell doesn’t stop there. When a dog inhales, he can split the airflow into two different paths, one for olfaction, or smelling, and the other for respiration, or breathing. In addition, the portion of his brain used for analyzing smell is, proportionally speaking, 40 times greater than that
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of the human brain. And finally, when a dog exhales, the exiting air leaves through the slits in the side of the nose, thus not interrupting the new odors coming in on his next breath. So you can see that a dog’s nose is highly evolved to suit his needs, because not only could he track his prey by their odor trails, but he could also smell the presence of dangerous predators.
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Full of Heart
Fruit Hearts Ingredients: • Watermelon slices • Cantaloupe slices • Pineapple slices • Wooden sticks • Heart cookie cutter (small)
As we look forward to celebrating Valentine’s Day, here are some great and easy recipes that you can share with family and friends.
Fruit Flower Bouquet Ingredients: • Green grapes • Handful of Blueberries (or Craisins) • Watermelon slices • Cantaloupe slices
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Pineapple slices Flower or Heart Cookie Cutter Wooden sticks Clear vase
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Fill vase halfway with green grapes. Cut fruit with flower or heart shape. Make small circle in center and place blueberry or Craisin in center. Set aside. Take 1 wooden stick and thread ¾ of stick with green grapes. Next, thread flower at the top and place in vase. Repeat for all flowers until vase is filled.
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Pretzel Hearts
Ingredients: • Mini pretzel twists • Milk Chocolate and/or White Chocolate (can use chips or melting chocolate)
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Melt chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl for 15-30 seconds at a time (stirring to make sure it is just melted). * Be sure to have an adult help, as the bowl of chocolate will be hot. Arrange pretzels on tray or cookie sheet lined with waxed paper. Place small amount of chocolate in the center of each pretzel so that it looks like a filled heart. Immediately place a candy heart into the center of each chocolate pretzel and let harden on counter or in refrigerator.
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Cut hearts out of center of each fruit slice. Thread hearts onto wooden sticks and serve. Insert heart cut-outs into fruit slices and serve.
White Chocolate (can use chips or melting chocolate) Pint of Strawberries Waxed paper (or parchment paper)
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Melt chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl for 15-30 seconds at a time (stirring to make sure it is just melted). * Be sure to have an adult help, as the bowl of chocolate will be hot. Wash and cut tops off strawberries. Dip whole strawberry in chocolate and let cool on tray covered with waxed paper in the refrigerator. * Note: place top of strawberry facing the same direction to make it easy to cut once cooled. When almost hardened, cut dipped strawberries in half.
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Check out Buzzer’s picks this month... they are all about art and drawing activities that are fun.
STEM Starters For Kids Art Activity Book: Packed with activities and Art facts By Jenny Jacoby
This book, aimed at encouraging children to learn about Art through subjects like Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, contains mazes, spot the difference, drawing puzzles, pattern identifying, testing quizzes, and more. The many activities introduce children to the beautiful world of art and may even encourage them to create a masterpiece of their own.
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How to Draw Cool Things, Optical Illusions, 3D Letters, Cartoons and Stuff: A Cool Drawing Guide for Older Kids, Teens, Teachers, and Students By Rachel A Goldstein
Kids will love learning how to draw cool stuff with the easy-tofollow step-by-step illustrations and tutorials. The simple steps in this drawing book will describe how to draw optical illusions, 3-dimensional letters that pop out of the page, 3D cartooning effects, and cool things that will blow your mind. Each easy art lesson starts with easy geometric shapes that will help build the basic structure of your drawing.
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Can You Find It? By Judith Cressy
Readers will examine each work of art to find at least eight items hidden somewhere within the painting. This book invites young readers to look into shadows and reflections, through windows and in the branches of trees. The nineteen paintings in Can You Find It? are all from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and show readers a wonderful new way to look at art.
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