Kid Scoop News - October 2021

EXPLORE A HAUNTED HOUSE

This haunted house required Math Explorers to decode secrets, investigate and decipher brain-bending puzzles!

SAFETY SIZZLES

October is Fire Prevention Month.

Does your family have a safety plan?

How many words can you make using the letters in

HAUNTED HOUSE?

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Scary or not? ......................... 3 Haunted House ...................... 4-5 Baseball ................................ 6-7 Safety Sizzles! ....................... 8-9 Kangaroos ............................. 10-11 Puzzles .................................. 12 Activity Calendar ................... 13 Yikes! Lice! ............................. 14 Freedom of Speech ................ 15 Halloween at Home ............... 16-17 What is a debit card? ............. 18 Kiwi ....................................... 19 How to Draw ......................... 20 Parent Scoop ......................... 21 Early Learners ........................ 22 Answers ................................ 23 Kid Scoop News® is published in Baton Rouge by

11831 Wentling Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 (225) 292-0032 • www.brparents.com

Dear Readers,

Oooooooo spooky, eerie, chills, and thrills.

Bring your own broom. Happy Halloween!

Scary or not? All these critters on Page 3 might scare you, but some are quite friendly.

Then get your math skills practice if you want to enter the Haunted House and find the hidden treasure. Why didn’t the skeleton go to the Halloween party? Because he had no body to go with!

Fires are scary in a different way, and there are so many of them. Make a plan — that’s the way to be prepared in case of fire. The Safety Sizzles! Page has lots of good advice.

clever, and I love how a pouch can keep those little joeys free from harm. There are directions for you to draw a kangaroo, too.

Free speech and freedom of the press is a part of the American Constitution. This freedom makes it possible for all Americans to have their voices heard. Free Speech Week starts October 18 — that is the time to celebrate that freedom.

Freedom of speech gives me the right to wish you all a super spooky Halloween and a monstrously, enormously fun October.

This creature can swim, hop, and even box. Kangaroos are pretty

Publisher Brandon Foreman Associate Publisher Amy L. Foreman Editorial Amanda Miller

Social Media Coordinator Victoria Cotejar

Art/Production Melody Tauzin

Business Operations Teri Hodges Jenny Ziglin

Community Outreach Roxane Voorhies

Advertising/Marketing Laurie Acosta

Marketing Specialist Emily Mancuso

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Publisher and Editor Art Director/Illustration Vicki Whiting Jeff Schinkel Operations Director Graphic Designer Vivien Whittington Eli Smith © 2021 Vicki Whiting

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–Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome

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–Quentina Timoll, Chief of Staff, Louisiana Department of Education

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3 As Halloween approaches, we see pictures of creatures that are supposed to scare us. Spiders, snakes and even cute little bats are shown as critters to fear.

Yet, in real life, many of these animals are enormously helpful.

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It is healthy to have a fear of animals that can hurt you. This fear helps you to be careful and keep yourself safe from harm.

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Help Gunther & Gordon, the Math Explorers, discover the secret code!

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Hurry! Gunther is caught in the web! Add up the numbers on each strand to free him. Then draw each symbol where it belongs on the Secret Code.

Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Calculate sums to 10.

How many pieces of candy corn can you find on these two pages in one minute?

Find the missing code symbols by completing activities on these two pages!

Draw the symbol that comes next in each row below to complete the pattern. Then draw each symbol where it belongs on the Secret Code.

Standards Link: Math/Probability: Identify, describe and extend simple patterns.

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Find the two portraits of Uncle McCreaky that are identical.

Add the numbers of those two portraits to discover this symbol:

How to Play

Player B’s Home This is what the egg carton will look like after one turn.

Player A’s Home

1. Put 5 beans in each empty egg cup in an egg carton.

2. Each player picks one cup at one end of the egg carton to be home.

3. Taking turns, players pick up all of the beans in one cup (never from the “home” cups, though). Put one bean in each space, moving counter-clockwise around the carton. If you pass either home cup, drop a bean in there.

4. The game is over when all of the beans are in the players’ homes.

The player with the most beans wins.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple-step directions.

HALLOWEEN HAUNTED MANSION SECRET BEANS MCCREAKY MONEY LOCK SYMBOL WEB CHEST CLUES MATH TRIP TRAIL

Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.

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M N E E W O L L A H N D T E D S N A E B

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

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ANGLED FOR DISTANCE he center fielder can scoop up a ball hit deep into center field

and throw it more than 200 feet to get a runner out at second base.

I hope everyone understands the gravity of this situation!

Throwing that far is no accident — it’s math and physics!

The force of the throw gives a ball forward motion. But, as the ball travels, gravity pulls it downward.

(Gravity is such a downer!)

The ball must be thrown upwards and outwards at an angle so that it can travel the farthest before gravity pulls it to the ground.

Let’s Talk Stats

Baseball fans use a lot of math when talking about their favorite players. Here’s the scoop on how to calculate these key player statistics. Learn this and you’ll sound like a big leaguer!

B AT T ING AVER AG E

E A R NED RU N AV E R A GE ( E R A )

This number gives you an idea of how well a batter hits. To figure out a person’s batting average, divide the number of hits by the number of “at bats.”

This math formula is used to find out how many runs a pitcher allows in nine innings of pitching. Pitchers want to keep this number as low as possible.

Josh hit the ball 3 times in 6 at bats.

You can write it as a fraction: That fraction can be reduced to which is also Josh hits the ball half of the time he is at bat, so he has a .500 batting average.

Sean allowed 7 runs in 34 innings pitched.

To calculate his ERA, multiply the number of earned runs X 9 Divide that number by the number of innings pitched: Sean has an ERA of 1.85, which means he allows under 2 runs every 9 innings.

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7 How many differences can you find between these two pictures? Look carefully, then have a friend or parent try it.

Step up to the plate for some baseball-themed brain teasers with Kid Scoop News!

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2. The ground adjacent to first and third base bordering the field is called 2 foul ________________ .

3. Making it all the way around the bases on a hit.

3 6. The area a pitch has to be inside for the batter to hit.

8. Color of stitching on a baseball.

6 9. Number of feet bases are apart.

11. This happens if there are four balls pitched.

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DOWN 11 1. Name of player positioned between second and third base.

4. The number of players on a baseball team.

5. Which team bats at the “bottom” of an inning.

6. Batter is called this if he reaches the base before the ball.

7. Part of the field closest to the bases.

10. If a runner in between bases is touched by a ball or a glove with the ball in it, it is called this.

The names of nine Major League teams are hidden in the grid. The letters in each word connect but not in a straight line. Can you find them all?

Boston Red Los Angeles Cincinnati Tampa Bay Atlanta Texas Houston Kansas City

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8 I’ve checked the batteries in my smoke detector.

Have you?

With your family, draw a map of your home. Plan escape routes for every member of the family should a fire happen in the middle of the night. DO THIS TODAY! • Get out of the house!

Of course, the hope is that you will never be in a building that catches on fire. But just in case, it is important to plan an escape route and practice it often.

• If you come to a closed door, feel the door to see if it is hot. If it is hot to touch, don’t open it. Turn around and look for a window to climb out of.

Take a look at the plan Mario drew for his home.

Using a GREEN crayon, draw a path to escape for each member of the family.

• Whatever you do, DON’T HIDE! Get out of the building any way you can. Sometimes when things get scary, it is tempting to hide, but this is not the time to hide.

If you ever find yourself in a burning building, crawl to an exit on your hands and knees. Smoke rises, so the safest place is close to the floor. If possible, cover your mouth with a damp cloth. This will filter out any harmful gases in the smoky air.

Fill in the missing vowels.

• Never pl_y with • If something c_tch_s on m_tch_s or l_ght_rs. fire, get adult h_lp, or c_ll 9-1-1 or “O” for • Always be c_r_f_l operator. around a st_v_, h_ _t_r or open fire.

• On an _m_rg_ncy call, don’t h_ng up until you • Don’t c_ _k without an are t_ld to do so; listen _d_lt present. for _nstr_ct_ _ns.

• STAY LOW! If there is smoke, crawl instead of walk.

• Once outside the building, call 9-1-1! Get a neighbor to call if you don’t have a phone.

• Whatever you do, DON’T GO BACK INSIDE! Even if your very favorite teddy bear is still in there, don’t re-enter the building. You can get a new teddy, but not a new you!

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A smoke alarm makes a VERY loud beeping noise to warn you that a fire has started.

If your house caught on fire at night, you might not see fire, smell smoke or wake up in time to get out safely. Smoke alarms can help. Smoke alarms are tools that can tell if there is smoke in the air.

They work even if you can’t smell smoke!!

When you hear the loud noise, follow your home escape plan and get out fast!

Standards Link: Health and Safety: Students understand and practice safe behaviors to avoid injury by fire.

If there is a fire, NEVER hide under the bed or in a closet. If you can’t get out of the room, scream for help or use what’s hidden in the picture below. Color each shape with one dot RED, and each space with two dots BLUE to see what it is.

If you are trapped in a room, close the door. Stuff the cracks with towels or clothing to keep the smoke out until help comes.

Standards Link: Health: Students recognize and practice safe behaviors.

SAFETY ESCAPE CRAYON PLANS DETECTORS SMOKE WHISTLE CRAWL CLOTH DRILLS SMART KNEES FIRE SIGNS AIR

Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.

K S S L L I R D G E A L N W A W Y S S L B Y G A I R A C E T

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R A M L A S F O E W C S G C S E E N K O S R O T C E T E D H

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

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10 What has a head like a deer but can hop like a rabbit? It can stand upright, swim and even box.

Where can kangaroos be found?

Solve each math problem to label the map.

Draw a line from each question to the answer that makes the most sense.

Kangaroos are marsupials, which means they are mammals that have an external pouch or pocket.

Marsupials are different from most mammals because they give birth to very underdeveloped young. Joeys are born hairless and tiny, about the size of a bean and must climb their way up into their mother’s pouch. They remain there to feed and sleep and grow—in six months they grow to be 2,000 times the size they were at birth.

Standards Link: Life Science: Know that animals progress through life cycles of birth, growth, development, reproduction and death.

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The musky rat-kangaroo is less than a pound (.5 kg).

More tha 60 specie n s.

The red kangaroo is around 175 lbs (80kg).

A kangaroo, or roo, has __________ back legs, small front legs and a head shaped like that of a deer. Its well-developed ____________ include excellent scanning eyesight and sharp ___________ provided by large rabbit-like ears that can turn frontward or back. In a larger roo, the tail acts as a _________ for sitting, but also helps the animal _________ when hopping. Powerful back legs propel larger roos to speeds of up to 40 mph.

Use the Kangaroo Code to find these answers.

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Standards Link: Life Science: Students understand the diversity of life.

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11 A kangaroo uses its strong back legs to launch itself into the air.. And their tails help them balance, as they hop great distances.

When they hop, kangaroos use only their hind legs, which move together, much like those of a rabbit.

Stand in one spot with your feet together. Now make a giant hop. How far did you hop? Mark that distance on the above grid.

Look how far a gray roo, a red roo and a rabbit can hop. How do you compare?

Standards Link: Measurement: Understand the basic measures of length.

In the sample below, multiplying the first two numbers in each row gives the answer in the third row. This works both horizontally and vertically.

Now fill in the missing numbers in each multiplication box at right.

Standards Link: Number Sense: Solve problems using multiplication.

AUSTRALIA EXTERNAL MAMMALS BALANCE HOPPING PROPEL POUCH JOEYS SHARP CLIMB TINY GROW EARS BEAN KANGAROOS

Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.

K H O P P I N G M O L A B S R A E B S O

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

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12 Find a path through these Jack-o-lanterns starting at the upper left corner and ending on the bottom right corner. You can move UP or DOWN, LEFT or RIGHT, moving from Jack-o-lanterns with a HAPPY face. You cannot move diagonally.

Pumpkins with a SAD face are a DEAD END! In this two-player game, Player A uses a PURPLE crayon, Player B uses a GREEN crayon. Take turns drawing a horizontal or vertical line between two dots. The player who draws the line that completes each square gets 1 POINT. If there is candy corn in that square, the player earns 3 BONUS POINTS.

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OCTOBER 2021 Tick the box on each day when you have completed 20 minutes of reading. Children who develop a love of reading will become better students and build a better future.

Collect fall leaves and with paper. With white craft glue, use them to create colorful animals.

Berries, grasses, and flower petals will work, too.

Read a bedtime story to a parent or sibling today.

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.

The oldest and largest drug prevention campaign takes place this year from Oct. 23-31

Red Ribbon Week

Discuss what would make a healthy vegetarian meal.

World Vegetarian Day It’s World Teacher’s Day tomorrow—make a card for your teacher thanking them for their hard work.

Honor your teacher today and thank them for all they do.

Draw a picture of the Type out the letters ship the Santa Maria of the alphabet in to celebrate the day. the correct order on a computer keyboard. Can you Or celebrate say the letters of Canadian the alphabet in Thanksgiving today. reverse order?

Remember someone Design a flag for less fortunate than your school or yourself today with classroom. Do you a random act of have a mascot? kindness.

Include your mascot in your flag design.

Go on a hike, collect leaves, and then identify the tree using a Tree Identification Guide.

Use a tortilla as a base and invent your own pizza.

Have a parent help you cook it.

Make a checklist of all the dangers in homes that cause fires. Then list the steps you can take to prevent fires.

Start preparing Draw a self-portrait for Halloween. today with colored Who will you be pencils or markers. on Halloween— Look at Picasso’s a pirate, a witch, a portraits and see if Make a map robot, or a princess? you can make your showing an escape Start preparing the portrait follow his route in your home costume you will style. in the event of a fire. need.

Roller Skating Month

Discuss what can make you afraid and ways to overcome fear.

National Face Your Fears Day

Look through your newspaper for local events, seasonal concerts, and celebrations.

Discuss reptiles today—what might their skin feel like, how do they move, how long are their tongues?

Get your helmet, elbow, and knee pads on today to celebrate

How much do you know about farms and farming? Make a list of all the crops that are grown in your area.

This is National Rent a classic Magic week. Find a Halloween movie magic trick online tonight. Try Casper, that you can perform Bedknobs and for your family.

Broomsticks, or It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Enjoy them with your family.

Write a story about a treasure you might find hidden in a huge pile of leaves.

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.

Make a Difference Day is celebrated each year over this weekend. Volunteer to help someone or check out the Make a Difference Day online project database.

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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Lice do not jump, hop, or fly. But they do get around!

Here’s how the kids in Room 12 got lice.

Zack’s head itched, but he didn’t know he had lice. He grabbed his new hat and ran out the door to catch the school bus ...

But Zack didn’t know some lice had crawled onto his hat for a look around.

A tiny gray-white egg that the adult louse “glues” to a strand of hair close to the scalp.

A baby louse freshly hatched from the nit. It feeds on a person’s blood.

The lice on the hat crawled onto Eric’s head and Ashley’s, too. Soon all of his friends wanted to try on Zack’s hat.

A few days later ...

Brian wore Zack’s hat at recess one day.

Lives about 30 days. Females can lay up to 100 nits.

They can’t fly, jump or hop, but they can crawl.

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know there are sequential stages of life-cycles for different animals.

Ashley shared her brush with Amy and Abby.

Eric and Andrew, head to head, waited for a lizard to crawl out from under a rock.

After just a few days, how many kids in Room 12 could have lice? What could the children have done to protect themselves from getting lice?

Ask a school nurse, teacher, parent or adult friend to look for lice and nits in your hair. If they don’t see any the first time and your head continues to itch, have your hair looked at again.

If you do have lice, your school nurse or family doctor can help find the best way to get rid of them.

Don’t share hats, helmets, combs, pillows or anything that has touched your head.

Don’t panic. You can get rid of lice.

Standards Link: Health: Students understand responsibility of their role in the prevention and treatment of personal health problems.

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U.S. Constitution Protects Free Speech “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech”

This year, Kid Scoop News celebrates Constitution Day with a look at the reasons why freedom of speech is one of the freedoms the Founding Fathers protected in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Imagine you could ask your school librarian to set up a display of books on free speech and the free press. Use the space here to design a poster to display in your school library!

Jason has written a Kyle is about to give an letter, on the right, important speech at his to the editor of school. But he got so nervous, his newspaper, he dropped some pages. but something is Can you find all 12 pages of wrong. The his speech on this page? words are out of order. Can you put them back into the right order? Rewrite his letter on another sheet of paper.

Standards Link: Revision: Revise drafts to improve logical progression of ideas.

Lively Discussions

The topic of free speech always sparks a lively discussion. Some say there should be limits on free speech. Others say people should be allowed to express whatever they want, even if it hurts or offends someone else.

What do YOU think?

Should students be allowed to wear t-shirts to school that say rude things?

Write a sentence in favor of allowing any kind of t-shirt in one of the speech bubbles at left. Then write why it shouldn’t be allowed in the other bubble.

Standards Link: Civics: Understand freedoms guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.

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16 How many pieces of candy corn can you find on this page?

It’s a rainy, stormy Halloween night. But Drusilla and her brother Darius are still going to have some spooky fun at home!

Darius made a string of Halloween decorations. Cross out the item that breaks the pattern.

Cross out each letter that appears three times. Unscramble the remaining letters to spell the name of Drusilla’s cat.

Drusilla and Darius settled in to watch some spooky movies, but they got way too scared. What did they do instead? Use the code to find out!

1=A 8=K 2 = C 9 = O 13 6 4 14 11 4 1 3 3 = D 10 = P 13 6 4 7 11 4 = E 11 = R 5 = G 12 = S 6 = H 13 = T 8 7 3 12 2 9 9 10 7 = I 14 = Y 10 1 5 4

Can you find all three of the groups at left on the larger grid below?

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GROUP 2

How many pumpkins do you see?

GROUP 3

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Circle the rows of numbers on this ghastly tombstone that add up to 12. Look up, down, sideways and diagonally.

Standards Link: Mathematics: Add sums to 12.

HALLOWEEN MONSTER PUMPKINS POPCORN STORMY GHASTLY FUN SPOOKY CAT MOVIES RAINY CANDY HOME POEM BIG

Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.

N E E W O L L A H W S O J S E I V O M Y P U M P K I N S O L

O O F D H F C Y N T O Y P U P O M A S S

K D O C N R M V T A Y N E Y O H B E E H C A M T Y R S I R G B C S R A I N Y G N Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

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18 You’ve probably seen a parent using a card to pay for groceries, gas or other items.

A debit card is one of the ways to spend money you’ve saved.

A debit card takes money directly from your bank account now. What you buy is paid for right away.

A credit card allows you to buy something now, and pay for it later.

You also can be charged interest— a fee added to the purchase price by the credit card company.

Many people find it more convenient to use a debit card to buy items rather than carrying a lot of cash. But it’s important to remember that with a debit card, you are spending real money.

You can’t spend more than you have in your bank account.

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When you use a debit card, you also enter your secret code, called a PIN. Cross out the word PIN every time you see it below. The leftover letters tell you what PIN stands for.

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If you had $100 to spend, how many of these sweaters could you buy?

Standards Links: Number Sense: Calculate sums using money.

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The first known kiwi fruits were found in the Yangtze River valley area in China, where it was called “Yang Tao.” It is the National Fruit of China.

• The kiwi is more than • There are more than varieties worldwide.

• Kiwi vines can reach up to

years old. different feet high.

Seeds were brought to New Zealand by missionaries in the early 20th Century, who called the fruit “Chinese Gooseberry.” When it was brought to North America in the early 1960s, it was named kiwi or kiwifruit because it came from New Zealand and resembled their national bird – round, brown and fuzzy.

Connect the dots to draw a kiwi bird.

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• 3 kiwis, peeled and chopped • 1/2 cup orange juice • 1/2 banana • 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries • small paper cups • popsicle sticks

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This _____-shaped fruit is actually a berry and is one of the most nutrient-rich of all fruits. It has twice as much vitamin C as an __________.

The kiwi has the same level of potassium as a banana and is good for your ______ and helps maintain blood pressure

Ready to eat? levels. Eating kiwis will strengthen your immune system and helps fight off stress, inflammation and attacks from bacteria and _________. All of the kiwi ______ is edible, including the tiny black ______ and the skin is high in fiber. Kiwi helps with digestion and tastes great, too.

Press gently on a kiwi. If you can press into it a little bit, it is ripe and ready to eat.

If it’s hard, place it in a _______ bag with an apple or banana and it will ripen. Eat soon after cutting, before the flesh turns ___________.

Content on this page adapted from Network for a Healthy California Harvest of the Month program and www.usapears.com

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The Gift of Time is a Treat ften for children, the biggest treat is to spend time with their parents.

To have the undivided attention of a parent or grandparent is all too often a rare treat in these busy times.

After a night of trick-or-treating on Halloween, let your goblins, ghosts, witches and what-evers dump their candy on the floor and do some counting and sorting. If you are up for the late-night challenge, make a graph of the different kinds of candy they have collected.

Kid Scoop News can make it easier for you to come up with fun things to do together. Just take a look each month at the Kid Scoop Activity Calendar. (See page 18) The calendar has a fun activity for every day of the month. Together, pick one activity a month to do one-on-one with each of the children in your family.

EDITOR’S PICK

by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!

By Lucille Colandro Illustrated by Jared Lee

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n a Halloween-themed twist on the classic “Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,” the old lady manages to swallow a bat, owl, cat, ghost, goblin, and even a wizard.

If you enjoy this book, ask your local librarian to help you find and read the book that orginally inspired it.

Be sure to test your smoke detector every month! Let your kids in on the fun, test it with them. This helps to build a habit they will take into their adulthood. It’s also important to hold family fire drills often. Review pages 8 and 9 with your child, and talk about fire safety around the home and outdoors.

I read it to my students when I was teaching and to my own kids at home.

We would read the “Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” over and over until we could recite the entire book by heart. We would take turns reading about the different animals she swallowed and in chorus recite, “I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. I guess she’ll die.”

Author Lucille Colandro and illustrator Jared Lee created several takes on this classic book. Kids will beg to hear them over and over again!

This book and countless others are waiting for you at your local public library.

Build a lifelong love of reading in your child with frequent family trips to the library! © Vicki Whiting October 2021

22 G is for Goose g is for goose

Look at the pictures in the boxes.

Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter G. Say the letter as you trace it.

Find those animals in the picture of the farm.

Write the numeral that tells how many of each animal is in the picture.

How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the G sound like the word goose?

How many I had a goose and the goose pleased me; I fed my goose by yonder tree.

Goose goes swishy, swashy, Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Letter Identification

With your child, look through the newspaper to find pictures of things that start with the same sound as the letter G in the word goose.

Math Play

Point to the number 3 in the newspaper.

Have your child say the number and, if it’s large enough, have your child trace the number.

Big G, Little g

With your child, look at one page of the newspaper. Say, “The big G, called uppercase G, is looking for his little brother (sister) called lowercase g. Let’s see how many big G, little g matches we can find.”

Four legs or two?

With your child, look through the newspaper and find pictures of animals. Circle animals with four legs in green.

Draw a red ring around animals with two legs.

Picture Stories

With your child look at a picture in the newspaper.

Ask your child to tell you what is happening in the picture. Ask questions like, “Who is in the picture?” “Where are they?” Write your child’s story on a piece of paper and read it together.

How many

What does the animal say?

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Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the questions. Touch and count to find the answers.

Sorting

Look through the newspaper for pictures of animals. Make the sound that animal makes with your child. Cut out the pictures to make a farm picture and call it your child’s farm.

Cut out pictures of animals, people and things from the newspaper. Have your child sort these into the three groups.

© Vicki Whiting October 2021

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Fire Safety Rules • Never play with matches or lighters.

• Always be careful around a stove, heater or open fire.

• Don’t cook without an adult present.

• If something catches on fire, get adult help, or call 9-1-1 or “O” for operator.

• On an emergency call, don’t hang up until you are told to do so; listen for instructions.

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K H O P P I N G M O L A B S R A E B S O

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Puzzling Portraits 4+5=9

P T G G C L H A O L

O A I L A R T S U A

R R I N G R O W C M

K S S L L I R D G E

S E M P S C L Y O C

A L N W A W Y S S L B Y G A I R A C E T

Y M A T H E K C O L

M T I H L E A R R S

B A S E E T A R B E

E F E O E F M Y S H

M R E E Y A C H T U

A E S T K P I A C I

O T N R H U I E E S

R A M L A S F O E W

M C U T I L I A R T

S R O T C E T E D H

L O C S N P H A W T

M N E E W O L L A H N D T E D S N A E B

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Across 2. Territory 3. Homerun 6. Strikezone 8. Red 9. Ninety 11. Walk

Down 1. Shortstop 4. Nine 5. Hometeam 6. Safe 7. Infield 10. Tag

Name Game Boston Red Sox Los Angeles Dodgers Cincinnati Reds Tampa Bay Rays Atlanta Braves Texas Rangers Houston Astros Kansas City Royals

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P M C O Y O O S H M

B E A N S Y E O J A

L A N R E T X E S M

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More than 60 species .

New Guinea

New Zealand

Indonesia

Australia

What is the name for a group of kangaroos? Mobs What do you call a kangaroo that weighs less than 45 lbs (25kg)? Wallaby What do you call a baby kangaroo? Joey

P U M P K I N S O L

O O F D H F C Y N T O Y P U P O M A S S

K D O C N R M V T A Y N E Y O H B E E H B C S R A I N Y G N

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Shopping with a Debit Card A. $37.75 B. $44.05 C. $18.95 D. $34.25 E. $23.00 F. $24.15

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The red kangaroo is around 175 lbs (80kg).

S O J S E I V O M Y

C A M T Y R S I R G

C S G C S E E N K O

The musky rat-kangaroo is less than a pound (.5 kg).

N E E W O L L A H W

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Dear Editor, I like to read Kid Scoop News! Thank you for putting it in your paper.

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Name of Drusilla’s cat Midnight How many pumpkins do you see?

25 Scary Movie Marathon They read their Kid Scoop page

How many of these sweaters could you buy?

3 Can you keep a secret?

Personal Identification Number

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Did you know …

The kiwi is more than 700 years old.

There are more than 400 different varieties worldwide.

Kiwi vines can reach up to 30 feet high. © Vicki Whiting October 2021

SPOOKY STORIES WITH MIKE ANDERSON AT THE LIBRARY

In celebration of the haunting holiday season, Mike Anderson will be at EBR Libraries in October to share his spooky stories. Though the stories will be fit for older elementary-aged children, all those brave children without fear may join the spooky fun.

Registration is required.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, BLUEBONNET REGIONAL BRANCH, 4 P.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, RIVER CENTER BRANCH, 10 A.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, DELMONT GARDENS BRANCH, 4 P.M. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, CARVER BRANCH, 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, FAIRWOOD BRANCH, 4 P.M. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, MAIN LIBRARY AT GOODWOOD, 6:30 P.M. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, SCOTLANDVILLE BRANCH, 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, PRIDE-CHANEYVILLE BRANCH, 10 A.M. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, ZACHARY BRANCH, NOON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, JONES CREEK REGIONAL BRANCH, 2:30 P.M.

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