Earth Day reminds us that taking care of the planet is everyone’s responsibility. Earth Savers Club for Kids shares childrens’ ideas for making our world a cleaner, healthier place!
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Find a fund that saves a type of animal and get the address for that fund. I found one for a tiger fund. Send money to that fund saying it’s to help with research. - Bluetiger, United States
You could raise money for animal shelters, take shorter showers, recycle, tell kids at school that Earth is our only planet. We should create clubs and ask permission to hang up recycled paper posters in our schools. - earthkid109, United States
Make a composter! When you’re done composting you can use what you made with it for a garden that you can grow. That can help save the earth.
Can you reuse three things in one week? Take a re-usable bag to the grocery store. Pack your lunch sandwich in a re-usable plastic container. Check out a book from the library. What else could you reuse?
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Can you come up with at least four more tips to protect the planet? Ask a family member for ideas, too.
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4 Beeper has made some bugs out of construction paper. Help her Beeper hasbug made some bugs out oflines. construction paper. Help her label each using only straight
label each bug using only straight lines.
Find a buddy and do this page together! If the page looks easy, Findsomebunny a buddy and do thistopage find younger be together! If the page looks easy, your buddy. If the page looks hard, find somebunny somebunny older younger to beyou. find to help
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Buzz and Beeper hid their Easter basket deep underground. But they did such a good job hiding it, even THEY can’t find ithid now! you? Buzz and Beeper theirCan Easter
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Buzz wants to make a bouquet of flowers for his mom that looks like this picture. Circle the set of flowers on the grid that matches this one:
Buzz wants to make a bouquet of flowers for his mom that looks like this picture. Circle the set of flowers on the grid that matches this one:
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Who took Buzz’s carrot?
One of of the the Bad Bad Bunny Bunny Brothers Brothers gobbled gobbled up up Buzz’s Buzz’s carrot carrot that that he he was was One planning to have for lunch. Use the clues to figure out who did it. planning to have for lunch. Use the clues to figure out who did it.
The The thief thief has has stripes stripes on on his his shirt, shirt, but but not not horizontal horizontal ones. ones. He He is is looking looking at at another another bunny. He is not missing a front tooth. bunny. He is not missing a front tooth.
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Replace the missing words to read a myth about the creation of the Philippines.
he _________ was once made up of the Sky (on top), the Sea (at the bottom), and a large Bird which flew constantly between the first two. The Bird grew ________ of flying since he didn’t have any place to ________, so he started an _________ between those two best of friends, the Sky and the Sea. The Bird told the Sky that the Sea wanted to ________ him with her mighty waves. Then the Standards Link: Language Arts: Students use reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of literary passages (e.g., myths, folk tails, legends).
Bird told the Sea that the Sky wanted to hit her with _________ . The Sea reacted by throwing _________ of water towards the Sky. The Sky moved even higher, but when he saw the Sea’s waves _________ some more, he then threw soil towards the Sea. The soil quieted the Sea and also made the Sky lighter. The soil turned into 7,000 ___________ and that is how the Philippines came to be.
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Children in some villages in the Philippines ride to school in a three-wheeled vehicle instead of a school bus. Use the code to find out what these are called.
People in the Philippines use every part of the coconut palm. Unscramble the answers to find out what each part is used for: LEAVES: dashe COCONUT SHELLS: doofriwe
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FLOWER NECTAR: a sweet nikrd TRUNK: brumel
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Do the math to learn how to count to 10 in the Philippines.
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Snails hatch from eggs as teeny, tiny snails. As they grow, the shell grows, too.
Snails don’t live just in gardens. They can also be found in ponds and even in the ocean. They are related to oysters, clams and even octopuses. They are part of the group of animals with soft bodies known as mollusks.
A snail’s eyes are at the end of its long tentacles. The short tentacles are for smelling.
Snails slide along the flat part of their body, called the “foot.” Snails make a trail of silvery slime. This helps them to slide up walls and even crawl upside down. You can make a comfy motel and invite some snails for a visit. Look for snail visitors under rocks and leaves. 1. Partially fill a large jar with moist soil. 2. Add a piece of chalk, some leaves, grass, and chunks of bark. 3. Give the snails lettuce and cabbage leaves to eat. 4. Keep the jar covered with a piece of nylon stocking or window screen. 5. Keep the Snail Motel in a shady place. 6. Twice a week replace the old soil and food. Standards Links: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple-step written directions
Snails breathe through a hole near their shell.
How many snails can you find on this page?
If the weather turns very cold or very dry, a snail pulls into its shell and waits for the cool, damp weather it loves. It fills up the opening of its shell with a mucus-like slime, that hardens into a snug door.
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10 Nutritious and delicious, bananas are one of the best-loved foods on earth by people of all ages. Let’s learn more about this tasty treat!
here is no such thing as a banana tree. Banana plants are actually very tall herbs. There is no woody trunk. The stem is formed from tightly wrapped leaves. New leaves grow out of old leaves. Some banana plants grow amazingly fast. One plant spurts up 20.5 centimeters or about 8 inches every day. If you watch very carefully, you can see this plant grow!
Bananas grow in clusters called hands. There can be 15 - 30 bananas on each hand. Each banana is called a finger. The word banan is Arabic for finger.
When a banana plant is ready to fruit, it shoots out a long stalk from which the fruit will grow. Which way do you think the bananas will grow? Draw what you think on Picture 1. Then use the code to find out how bananas grow. Draw this on Picture 2.
Bananas are the only fruit that contain all the major vitamins: A, B1, B2, B6 and C.
11 Number the bananas 1 to 8. But wait! Numbers that come before or after each other notwait! be placed nextthat to one Number the bananas 1 tomay 8. But Numbers come another in any direction. before or after each other may not be placed next to one
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Hint: Cut out eight slips of paper, number them 1 to 8, and try arranging the numbers different ways.
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2015 Find some of your favorite books and read them to a younger child.
How long can you go without watching TV? How many books could you read if you gave up TV for a few days? Turn Off TV and Read Month
Have fun counting eggs today!
Beverley Cleary was born on this day in 1916. Can you find the names of the books she has written? Have you or your friend mastered the cartwheel yet? Don’t give up! Practice is great exercise.
Who were the first people to reach the North Pole on this day in 1898?
Learn all the words to one of your parents’ favorite songs. Have a family sing along tonight!
Do something to improve your health today. Go for a long walk, make a nutritious meal and get a good night’s sleep.
Do you have books you’ve outgrown? Contact your library and see if you can donate them.
The Titanic sank on this day in 1912. What caused the disaster?
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With a friend, Calling all poets! Learn about the create a secret code. Write down ten Nature Explore club Write messages to pairs of words that to gain a better Watch a movie made rhyme. Now write each other using the appreciation of before 1950. Then code. Then see if down a poem nature. talk about things you using those words. other friends can noticed that are “break” the code different from National Poetry and figure out what modern movies. Month you wrote.
Do something nice for a brother or sister today. Maybe they will do something nice for you!
Look up at the sky for 15 minutes tonight. How many aircraft can you spot in that amount of time?
How many foods starting with the letter B have you eaten this week?
Discuss the meaning of the word meditate. Close your eyes and sit completely still. Be calm and meditate for five minutes today.
Can you do a cartwheel? If so, teach a friend how to do one. If not, work with a friend that knows how.
This day is the anniversary of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Explore different career choices today. Learn a little of what it takes to achieve these careers.
Plan a visit to a tree nursery
Create a comic strip. Use two characters to tell knock-knock jokes or riddles.
Arbor Day On this day, you can ask a question and the person answering must give an honest answer.
14 A tangram begins as a square. The square is cut into seven pieces. Each piece is called a tan. Tangrams are used to make pictures. All seven pieces must be used. They must touch, but none may overlap.
Standards Link: Math/Geometry: Identify common geometric figures.
Can you make each of these tangram animals? Cut out the tans on this page and give it a try! (The tans are too large to fit into these pictures. Try to copy the shape, not the size.)
Which of these tangram people does NOT have a match?
What kinds of objects can you create on your own with the tans? Can you design a tangram spaceship or a tangram sailboat? Can you make letters and numbers? Be creative! Standards Link: Math/Geometry: Identify common geometric figures.
15 While no one knows for sure how _________ were invented, many legends have been told about their beginnings. Here is one: Long ago, in ancient _______, the emperor asked his servant to bring him a piece of jade. While carrying the ________ piece of jade to the emperor, the servant tripped, and the jade _______ into seven pieces. “Doomed! Oh, I am doomed!” wailed the servant. He tried and tried to put the pieces of ________ back together in between his cries of dismay.
The emperor went to see what all of the noise was about and saw the broken square of jade. “What a lovely jade puzzle!” said the emperor. He sat down and ________ on reassembling the jade. He had so much fun, he decided to see if he could make different __________. Soon the emperor was telling everyone else about it, and a new ________ had begun.
he earliest known Chinese book with a tangram puzzle in it is dated 1813, but the puzzle was very old by then. One reason for this could be that in China at the time, the tangram puzzle was considered a game for women and children. This would have made it unworthy of “serious” study and unlikely to be written about. In the 19th century, when Europe and the United States started trading with China, sailors brought home this new-found game. “The Chinese Puzzle” spawned a flood of books and picture card sets.
Oops! The tangram rooster has taken some of the words out of the legend. Draw a line from each word to where it belongs in the legend. Standards Links: Vocabulary: Use context to find the meaning of words.
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17 Icy Art Can you redraw the pattern a skater left on the ice without crossing over any lines or removing your pencil from the page?
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C is for Crown c is for crown Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter C. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the sound the letter C makes in the word crown?
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by Marilyn Burns, illustrated by Gordon Silveria The bored triangle wants more out of life and visits at shape shifter to add another angle and so change his shape. Then he just keeps adding angles until be is completely transformed. Geometric shapes are all around and this book will help students make the connections.
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pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/tanagram-game/ Match the shape by moving the seven pieces provided into place by clicking and dragging. Enjoy this geometric workout for your brain.
Tangram Channel
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Legend and History of the Tangram
tangram-channel.com/legend-of-the-tangram/ Here’s the ancient Chinese story of tangrams and how they originated in the long journey of the sage and a broken piece of glass.
A Sage’s Journey
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22 Encourage reading at home with Kid Scoop News and this family involvement activity! Find an adult to help you today with these geometry questions. How many geometric shapes can you name? Look around you to see the geometric shapes you can spot. Write a short description of each one A ______has _______ sides. A _____looks like a ____. Review the page on Tangrams in this issue. Cut out the shapes in the tangram or trace them and cut them out of a piece of construction paper. Name the geometric shapes in a tangram. Create a triangle using 2 shapes Create a square using 2 shapes Create a square using 4 shapes Create a rectangle using 3 shapes Now see how many different objects you can make with the shapes.
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Descriptive Phrases
As hard as a
As fast as a
as slow as a snail
As strong as a
As stubborn as a
As happy as a
As sly as a
As neat as a
As white as a
As proud as a
As right as
As clear as a
As blind as a
As flat as a
As light as
As old as
As snug as
An adjective (slow) is a word that describes a noun (snail). Draw a line from the phrase to the noun it describes to make a vivid descriptive phrase.
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Beeper’s Bug Collection
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Which way will the bananas grow? Each banana will point up
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The Amazing Snail Race
Nuts About Coconuts! LEAVES: Shade COCONUTS: Food COCONUT SHELLS: Firewood FLOWER NECTAR: Drink TRUNK: Lumber
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