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Snowy weather, jingle bells, twinkling lights and candy canes are all signs that December has arrived! It’s the last month of the year and there is certainly a feeling of anticipation in the air. People are busy making plans with family and friends, plus preparing for the holiday season.

Kids and teachers are especially excited about having some time off from school. What are you going to do over your break? Read a good book? With enough snow, you can DOZD\V ¿QG D KLOO WR JR VOHGGLQJ ZLWK \RXU IULHQGV Kids’ World News wishes you the happiest of holidays this December and a wonderful time sharing the joy of the season with your family and friends.

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Backyard Snow Activities Are Great Exercise!

Did you know that you exercise everyday and not even know it? Being active counts as exercise! So this winter, as the snow is falling, don’t just sit in front of the television or computer, bundle up WARM and go outside!

Make sure you wear gloves or mittens, coats, warm socks, snowpants, boots and whatever else keeps you dry and warm. In all outside activities, make sure you take breaks and come in to warm up and have something to drink.

BUILD AN IGLOO! You can make your own playhouse with snow! Get an old shoebox or plastic box shaped like one. Fill it with packing snow, pat it down and turn it upside down where you want it to be! When the snow comes out, it will look like a building brick. Keep adding them and stacking until you have the shape you want. You can even make snow furniture this way!

MAKE A SNOW ANGEL! You can do this by laying down on your back in the snow and moving your legs and arms in and out. Then stand up and take a look at the snow! You’ve made a snow angel!

BUILD A SNOWMAN! Building a snowman is a great way to use your muscles and help build your body strength as well as be creative! There are many ways to build a snowman. Some kids build their snowman by making a big mound of snow and shaping it. A favorite way is to make it out of balls! Let’s talk about that way...

When there are a few inches of snow on the ground, test the snow and see it it’s packing snow.

What that means is - see if the snow will clump together. The

snow has to pack to make the snowman. If it packs, make a ball out of the snow and place it on the ground in front of you. Start rolling it away from you and pack it occasionally with your hands. Keep doing this until it is the size you want for the bottom of the snowman’s body. The bottom should be the largest ball of snow. Do this for the mid-section of the snowman and it’s head. Pack some extra snow in between the balls so the snowman will stick together. Each section should get smaller. You can also build your snowman with two sections - one for the body and one for the head!

After your snowman is assembled, it’s time to get creative! The snowman needs a face! You can use coal, rocks, buttons or anything dark and round for the eyes. A stick would make a good mouth and a carrot would make a fine nose. Cover its head with an old knit hat or any old hat. You can spruce him up with a scarf or sunglasses.

If you decide you want your snowman to have arms - use sticks. Push the sticks into the side of the middle section and you can even hang old mittens on the ends for the hands!

THE BIGGEST SNOWBALL GAME Here’s a fun game - split your friends up into two teams or more. See which team can roll the biggest snowball. The game ends when the teams can no longer push the snowballs and roll them any further.

FOOTPRINT TAG Play tag as you normally would, but stepping only in other’s footprints!

SNOWMAN HAT TRICK Build a plump snowman in the yard. Make a game of taking turns trying to land a hat on his head by throwing it Frisbee style from 10 feet away! First person to land three wins!

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Decorate With Snowflakes!

How does a snowflake form? Snow crystals form in clouds when the temperature is below the freezing point. They are created when water droplets freeze on tiny ice particles. When an ice crystal drops through a cloud, it bumps and hits other crystals which causes each snowflake to form into a unique complex design. There are no two snowflakes that are exactly alike. Decorating with snowflakes is a fun way to make the winter season and holiday times special.

Follow the step by step directions to create your very own snowflakes. Try making several to hang and a few to share with your family and friends.

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Dramatic Discus Discus are 3 species in the largerr group called Cichlids (pronounced sick-lid). Discus are from the Amazon River in South America.

Discus Disco Discus make great fish forr yourr aquarium. They like to be in groups and with many colors and styles out there to choose from you can find just the right discus forr you!

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Discus are unique because off they way they take care off theirr babies. Like a lot off cichlids, the discus carefully take care off theirr eggs and larvae. The small fry (the name forr baby fish) hang out with mom orr dad when they are tiny. And the parents actually have a special slime that the fry will eat forr the first week.

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Republic of Peru Peru is a country located in South America. It is best known for its old Incan ruins in the Andes mountains that surround the country. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is divided into twenty-five regions and the capital is Lima. The government is a Presidential Representative Democratic Republic, meaning they have a president and congress.

The official language is Spanish due to its being under Spanish control until they declared independence in 1821.

The Andes Mountains run along Peru, contributing to their national parks. The different elevations also promote diverse plant life, resulting in many different types of cuisine, or food. Chinese, African, Arab, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish influences are seen strongly in Peruvian cuisine.

Interesting Facts About Peru • Peru is home to Machu Pichu, a temple built by the Incan civilization, and is one of the wonders of the world.

• The Nazca lines are also located in Peru. These lines or trenches in the ground don’t look like much from the ground, but take the form of animals or pictures that can only be see from the sky. Theories of the meaning of the lines vary from aliens to early irrigation systems.

• You can find 1701 species of birds in Peru - that’s the most of any country!

• The Amazon river (the second longest river in the world) starts in Peru.

• There’s 28 different climates in Peru!

• Public education in primary and secondary schools is free.

• Lima isn’t just the capital, it’s also the largest city.

• Peru’s literacy rate is 92.9% • Peru’s main exports are fish meal, gold, copper, zinc and textiles.

• It is the third largest country in South America and the nineteenth largest in the world.

• The currency is the Nuevo Sol. • Peru is known for its coffee. In a recent coffee taste-testing held in Paris, Peruvian coffee was the best tasting out of 33 coffee brands tested.

•The highest point in Peru is formed by Nevado Huascaran, at 22,205 feet.

• The majority of the people in Peru are Roman Catholics.

• Peru’s city Caral is believed to have been built between 2627 BC and 2000 BC, making it the oldest city in the Americas, as well as one of the oldest cities in the world!

• Peru was the last Spanish colony in South America to gain independence.

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I Should Not Bite My Nails!

Have you ever thought about your nails and the job they do? The hard surface of your nails helps to protect your fingers and your toes plus, your fingernails make it easy to scratch an itch or pick something up. You had fingernails and toenails before you were even born.

Where do nails come from? Nails start in the nail root that’s hidden under the cuticle. When the cells at the root of the nail grow, the new nail cells push out the old nail cells. These old cells flatten and harden. The newly formed nail then slides along the nail bed, (the flat surface under your nails). The nail bed sits on top of tiny blood vessels that feed it and give your nails their pink color. They also grow slowly - about one tenth of an inch each month, so it takes about three to six months to completely replace a nail!

Where the nail meets your skin is the cuticle.

Cuticles help to protect your new nail as it grows

out from the nail root. The lunula (the Latin word for “moon” is the pale half circle just above the cuticle.

Most kids need an adult to help you trim your fingernails and toenails. For this you use a nail clipper or a pair of nail scissors.

To smooth the jagged edges, you use a nail file or emery board that works like sandpaper.

Fingernails need to be trimmed straight across and slightly rounded at the top. Well trimmed nails can keep you from biting or picking at them.

Do you bite your nails? That is not a healthy habit. A lot of kids do it because they are anxious or nervous. By biting the nails, you are breaking the skin and possibly bringing germs into these openings in your skin. In fact, some people bite their nails and cuticles down so far - they bleed!

That can definitely lead to an infection.

There are also germs under your fingernails. When you bite them, these germs can go into your mouth.

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ing your nails, hooray!! You may not even realize that you are biting them! Ask your family or friends to tell you if they notice you biting your nails. If you are strong willed and can stop just by concentrating on not doing it - you are a lucky one. If you find that you can’t stop this habit, ask your parent to buy a special colorless nail polish that makes your nails taste awful! That way you will quit biting them when they taste badly. It may also help you to polish your nails and keep them looking good as an incentive to quit.

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Snowflakes Don’t you love to watch the snow fall during the winter months?

Have you ever stuck out your tongue and let a snowflake drop on it?

Most kids have done this while playing out of doors.

What is a snowflake? A snowflake starts out with a tiny speck of dust or dirt that is carried up into the atmosphere by the wind. The ice collects around this speck and a snow crystal is formed. As the tiny snow crystals grow, they become heavy which causes them to fall towards the Earth. The snow crystals then bump into each other and combine to form snowflakes. Every snowflake is made up of many different snow crystals that have joined together as they go through the clouds. Snowflakes usually have six sides. It has been said that no two snowflakes are identical. But - each snowflake is made up from two to two hundred snow crystals!

The shape that a snow crystal will take depends on the temperature in the clouds at the time it is formed. The cloud temperature must be below the freezing point. As the temperature and humidity varies, so do the shapes of the snow crystals. As they tumble towards Earth, they spin like a top so, it makes them symmetrical. If they fall sideways, they may end up lopsided. There are billions of snowflakes that fall with every snow storm!

Common Types of Snow Crystals • Stellar Plates - These are thin, plate like crystals with six arms that form a star-like shape.

• Stellar Dendrites - Plate like crystals that have tree like branches and side branches.

• Needles - These snow crystals are slender and column like.

• Rimed - Rime, which are frozen water drops in clouds sometimes collect on the snowflakes. When they cover heavily, the snowflakes can look like a tiny snowball!

• Fern-like Stellar Dendrites - These crystals are similar to the Stellar Dendrites, but they have so many branches they look like a fern plant!

These are usually the larger snowflakes.’

Snowflake Facts • The world’s largest snowflake to date found was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. This snowflake occurred at Fort Keogh, Montana on January 28, 1887.

• The average snowflake falls at a speed of 3.1 miles per hour.

• When combined, windblown dirt and snow make what is called snirt.

• Stampede Pass, Washington averages 430 inches of snow per year.

No wonder it’s known as the snow capital of the United States!

Grow A Snowflake In A Jar!

Do NOT do this experiment without the aid of a parent or responsible adult.

You will need: • String • Wide mouth pint jar • White pipe Cleaners • Pencil • Blue Food Coloring • Boiling Water (with adult help only) • Borax (at grocery stores in the laundry soap section as 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster. Do NOT use Boraxo soap) Cut a white pipe cleaner into 3 equal sections. Twist the sections together in the center so that you have an even “six-sided” star shape.

Attach string along the outer edges of the pipe cleaners to form a snowflake pattern. Attach a piece of string to the top of one of the pipe cleaners and tie the other end to a pencil (this is to hang it from).

Fill a wide-mouthed jar with boiling water. Mix Borax into the water one tablespoon at a time. Use 3 tablespoons of Borax per cup of water. Stir until dissolved. Don’t worry if there is a little powder settling on the bottom of the jar. Add a little blue food coloring now to give the snowflake a blue color. Insert your pipe cleaner snowflake into the jar so that the pencil is resting on the lip of the jar and the snowflake is freely suspended in the Borax solution. Wait over-night and by morning the snowflake will be covered with shiny crystals. You can hang it in the window as a suncatcher or use it as a decoration!

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It was included in orchestras and ensembles.

Famous composers such as Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach featured the recorder in their music.

It is written that the earliest documented presence of the recorder in North America was in 1633. Today, the recorder still maintains an enormous following.

Recorders of the past were mainly constructed from wood or ivory, but today many are made of plastic.

In fact, manufacturers produce approximately 3.5 million recorders per year!

Recorders are members of the woodwind family.

Like the flute, recorders don't have a reed.

The recorder has seven finger-holes in front, a thumbhole behind, and a beak-shaped mouthpiece. There are six members in the recorder family starting from the highest in pitch (smallest in size) to the lowest (largest in size). They are the Sopranino, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass and Contra-bass.

The player holds the recorder in front of him or her vertically, blows into the mouthpiece and opens/ closes the finger holes to produce the notes.

The recorder emerged during the 14th century.

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Practice Your Skills!

Write A plus (+) or a minus (-) sign in the circle to make the number sentence true.

О 36 = 123 49 О 93 = 142 22 О 20 = 2 96 О 58 = 154 75 О 71 = 4 36 О 31 = 5 83 О 39 = 122 51 О 9 = 42 60 О 14 = 46 37 О 84 = 121 56 О 15 = 41 36 О 20 = 16 65 О 24 = 89 54 О 4 = 50 59 О 7= 66 21 О 21 = 42 38 О 9 = 29 50 О 48 = 2 75 О 11 = 64 13 О 2 = 11

Subtract down and across. Then subtract the totals you calculated.

The answer across should equal the answer down.

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Add down and across.

Then subtract the totals you calculated. The answer across should equal the answer down.

70

75

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