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Welcome Back To School! What is your favorite school activity? What subjects do you like best? Now that the school year has begun, what can you do to make your school year better than ever? If you were a teacher, how would you teach your students? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Isn’t it great to be back at school? After a busy summer, it’s great to settle in and learn more, see friends, read books and get back into a routine. Education is a privilage we all share in this country. Let’s take advantage of it! One way to take advantage is to be better organized. Here’s a few ideas: • If you have homework, do it when you get home from school. If you have a test on Friday, study for it each night so you don’t have to cram at the last minute. If you have a report due in a couple of weeks, do a part of it every day. That way, you’re never overwhelmed. • If you’re having trouble with a subject, ask for help. • Get plenty of sleep at night. Allow yourself plenty of time to get ready in the morning. • Eat a good breakfast. • Pack your lunch the night before and refrigerate. You won’t be so rushed in the morning by doing this. • Lay out your clothes the night before. School days are great days! Once again, Kids’ World News will be published every month for your enjoyment. Please thank our wonderful sponsors you see in this paper for supporting Kids’ World News. Watch next month for the 9th Annual Kids’ World News Coloring Contest entry! Get ready to join the fun!
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The Cool Caterpillar: What a Kid!
Step 1 - Starting with a half sheet of paper (approximate size 4 1/4” x 11”), fold in half the long way creating a piece of paper with a folded edge and a cut edge. Step 2 - Fold once again the long way. Step 3 - Open the paper completely and lay flat. You should have a center crease line and a crease line on each side of the center crease line. Step 4 - At one end of the rectangle, fold the short way a fold about 1” wide. Leave folded under. The folded end has created the head. Step 5 - On the head section, draw an eye on each side of the center crease line as shown. Add a smile too. Step 6 - It is time to decorate. Using markers, crayons, or colored pencils, make colorful and interesting patterns, shapes and stripes.
Step 7 - When the caterpillar is decorated, re-fold in half at the center fold line. Step 8 - Begin cutting through the fold up to the crease line. Be careful not to go past or Step 9 - Unfold. Re-crease the side crease lines short of crease line. Leave the head uncut. to fold inward. Glue open flaps one over the other. You will create a triangle shape.
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Step 10 - Add 3 pairs of legs.
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Has anyone ever asked you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” You might have to think about it for a while, or maybe you already have an idea. If you were to ask that question to a caterpillar they would answer, “A butterfly! “ Did you know that a caterpillar is not a baby or an adult? It is a kid like you, still growing and learning each day. The caterpillar is a really interesting, cool kid! They are called "eating machines" because they eat as many leaves and plants as they can each day. They eat so much in fact, that they shed their skin four or five times before creating a chrysalis. Aren’t you glad you just have to buy new clothes when you grow out of your old ones? Caterpillars don’t have noses like we do. They breathe through small pores on their sides. Caterpillars have a head, eyes, and 13 sections to their bodies. Some caterpillars have furry hair while some have no hair with just a few thick bristles. A caterpillar has three pairs of walking legs and five pairs of legs with hooks for grabbing. A caterpillar also has 4,000 muscles while we only have around 650. Wow, now that is a really strong kid! The next time you see a caterpillar, watch it carefully. Notice what it eats, how fast it walks, and what it looks like. If you are lucky, you may find a chrysalis to watch this summer. Being able to see a caterpillar kid emerge as a grown up butterfly is really incredible. Without a doubt, the caterpillar is a pretty special kid, just like you! Contributed by Rebecca Nechuta
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Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She was the oldest of the two sisters in her family, and often loved to play with her younger sister Grace Murial or “Pidge”. Amelia loved to read, and grew up to write several books of her own including “20 hrs. 40 min.”, “The Fun of It”, and “The Last Flight”. She is known as the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, and she left behind a great mystery when she disappeared. She set many records, stood for the equal rights amendment, and inspired many girls as a rolemodel. In December of 1920, Amelia and her father visited Frank Hawks, who was an air racing pilot. After taking a short flight, she knew flying was perfect for her and she was determined to learn how. She worked many different jobs and saved up enough to go to a flight school in 1921. Her first airplane was a secondhand yellow Kinner Airster biplane, which she fondly called “the Canary”. Amelia set her first record in that plane in 1922, as the first woman to reach an altitude of 14,000 feet. The next year she became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot’s license. Eventually she sold “the Canary” and another yellow Kinner, settling for a two passenger automobile called a Kissel “Speedster” so she could take her mother on a transcontinental trip with stops in Boston and throughout the West. She stayed in Boston tem-
porarily to continue at Columbia University for a few months and then found work as a teacher and then as a social worker in 1925. She became a local celebrity in Medford, Massachusetts after writing about aviation in the local newspaper. Amelia Earhart first flew across the Atlantic as a passenger to Wilmer Stultz, and in the project she met her eventual second husband George Putnam. After she returned to the U.S., she went on lecture tours and was dubbed the name of “Lady Lindy” as she looked like the solo flyer Charles Lindburgh. Her fame grew as she earned the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress when she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, along with solo flights from Hawaii to California and an attempt at circumnavigating the globe. This last voyage was her final flight en route from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island, her plane mysteriously disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. The United States government spent $4 million looking for Earhart, which made it the most costly and intensive air and sea search in history at that time.
Did You Know? • Earhart refused to don typical flying gear—she wore a suit or dress instead of the "high-bread aviation togs," a close-fitting hat instead of a helmet, didn't put on her goggles until she taxied to the end of the field, and removed them immediately upon landing. • She developed a friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, who wanted to learn how to fly. Earhart had planned to teach her, for which the First Lady even got her student permit. • Earhart met Orville Wright at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1937, the same year she disappeared.
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Math Puzzle Fun!
These puzzles are fun to do! Going across the puzzle, you will either add or subtract 1 in sequence. Going down you add or subtract 10 in sequence. We give you one number to start and you take it from there!
Example:
6 16
46
26
90
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36 46 54 55 56 57 58
49
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Use The Colors By Number To Color The Picture!
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Domestic Cats Many people have a pet cat or know someone who does! This special pet comes in all sorts of breeds and colors. Some are longhaired and some are short-haired, and some have no hair at all! Their fur can be different colors or just one, but it usually depends on the breed. The most common breed in America is the American Shorthair. Cats normally weigh between 7-15 pounds, and the heaviest cat ever recorded was named Himmy and weighed 46 pounds! Overweight cats often have a variety of health proplems, so it is very important to feed cats a proper diet. Indoor cats typically eat cat food, which is a blend of nutrients that cats need. Outdoor and ferral cats hunt small animals like birds, mice, rats, and even small rabbits! Cats love to play! Playing with small toys and string resembles hunting, and they love to practice and improve on their hunting skills. They also will play by fighting with both humans and other cats. Kittens are especially known to love playfighting with each other and with 4-7 kittens born in a litter, they have plenty of playmates! Domestic cats have been around for a long time. While it was comm o n l y known that
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cats were domesticated by Egyptians, recent discoveries actually point to cats domesticated for more than 10,000 years! Cats have some amazing senses! Their hearing is much better than a humans, and they can even rotate their ears 180 degrees! They also can see in much darker places. This “night vision” allows them to see at light levels six times lower than what a human needs in order to see.
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• Abraham Lincoln had four cats in the White House while he was president! • On average, housecats live between 12 and 15 years. • Average cats can sleep 16-18 hours a day! • To greet each other, cats touch noses.
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I Love To Play The Piano! The piano is a very important part of music. Many musical notes do not seem possible without it and many notes sound better on the piano. The piano can play all types of music from classical to rock and roll. It can also be played solo or with other instruments, so it is very versatile. There is some disagreement on when the first modern style piano was built. Most say the modern style piano (or piano et forte, meaning soft and loud) was probably built by the Italian, Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1709. It was described as a harpsichord with both soft and loud! The difference between the harpsichord (that came before) and the piano, was the way the strings were sounded.
Inside the piano the strings are tightened into tune. A grand piano, for instance, looks like a harp when on it’s side. Modern style pianos use hammers to pluck the string. So when you touch the keyboard, the hammer hits the string which affects the sound of the note. If you stroke the key gently, the sound will be soft. If you use a heavy touch on the key, the sound will be much louder! PIANO FACTS: • The average medium sized piano has about 230 strings. Each string has about 165 pounds of tension. With the combined pull of all the strings, that equals approximately eighteen tons! • There are over 10 million pianos in American homes, businesses and institutions. • Yamaha, established in 1887, was the first piano manufacturer in Japan. • The world’s largest piano is a Challen Concert Grand Piano. This piano is eleven feet long and has a total string tension of over 30 tons. This piano weighs more than a ton! • The working section of the piano is called the action. There are about 7500 parts in there. They all play a role in sending the hammers against the strings when the keys are struck.
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Enjoy The Benefits Of Martial Arts! The benefits that come from practicing a martial art is that you have a healthier, fit body and mind. You gain agility, balance, coordination and reflexes. Those gains can translate into better performance in sports and in every day life. The true armor that martial arts gives to a student is the strength of self esteem. Strong values make a stronger person. In martial arts, respect for others is emphasized plus you learn to avoid dangerous situations and feel confident in the ability to defend oneself if needed. It helps you build your confidence. Let’s talk about self esteem. Self esteem is the way we feel and think about ourselves. Healthy self esteem can affect everything we do in our lives. It promotes a positive COLOR “yes I can” attitude. It ME! also enables us with the tools to have the
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best chance at being a happy and successful adult. An important part of self esteem is respect. In martial arts training, the student learns to have respect for the instructor and fellow students in the class. The martial arts instructor communicates with you about what is expected and informs you of your progress in learning. The classroom is also a great environment to meet new friends with similar interests. Discipline is an important ingredient when practicing martial arts. It takes discipline to consistently focus on improving skills, going to practice and concentrating on the work involved in growing. In addition, as you gain ranking in the martial arts studio, other students will look to you for guidance. You learn to feel confident in your abilities, communicate what you know to others and make new friends. As you move up in rank, you gain a different color belt that shows others how much effort you have put in. It is the philosophy of martial arts that both the body and the mind must be disciplined in order to overcome obstacles that hinder growth. Another benefit that comes from this disciplined approach is the ability to concentrate on achieving a goal. This can carry on to other areas of your life, including school work. It can also be an important factor as you grow up and face new challenges in your lives.
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