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NEWS
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By Jamie McCaughey n February 17, 2015, a wonderful speaker came to Meadow School in Petaluma, Calif. to speak about bullying. He gave a speech about how you should prevent bullying. His name was Michael Pritchard.
actor (for Star Wars and Sesame Street), stand-up comedian, motivational speaker, and probation officer.
Pritchard has had several different occupations, like a medic with the Air Force National Guard, voice
“Readers are leaders; leaders are readers. Leadership, a good ship to sail on,” said Pritchard.
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Pritchard shared a lot of wisdom during his speech.
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By Kenzie Marks and Alice Williams Michael Pritchard has been working with others for 46 years. He still has fun playing, telling jokes, and goofing off as an adult. There is a saying that he shares and it goes like this: “You don’t stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.” To advertise, please call Ludington Daily News
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Replace the missing vowels to reveal some of Michael’s favorite sayings.
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SPOTLIGHT
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By Nellie Fly
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rainforest When an ant finds a large piece of food, it returns to the nest and enlists other worker ants to help carry the food. On the way back to the nest, the ant leaves a trail of odors as landmarks, so that it can find its way back to the food.
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Leafcutter ants live in the and collect leaves by first them into small pieces using their sharp, pointed jaws. They carry the back to their nest, holding them high above their heads. Surprisingly, they eat the leaves. Instead, they use them to food! Back at the , smaller worker ants the leaves clean and cut them into tiny pieces. These are then chewed up and made into miniature heaps to grow the fungus on which they . Standards Link: Life Science: Living organisms have distinct structures and body systems that serve special functions in growth, survival and reproduction.
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BUG CAREERS By Nellie Fly
Do you love bugs? How would you like to have a job where you got to be with bugs everyday? You might
When a movie scene needs bugs, who gets a call? Entomologists study how insects behave, they know how to get them to do things movie directors want them to do. Bug directing entomologists have made bees swarm a beekeeper for a fried chicken commercial and made a cockroach run across a floor then flip over!
want to study entomology. Entomology is the study of insects and an entomologist is a bug scientist. There are lots of careers for entomologists!
5 Make a flipbook! Paste each of these pictures on heavy paper (an old deck of cards works great). Flip the cards to see this bug flip out!
Find the two identical movie bugs.
Many zoos have bug exhibits with live bugs and they need entomologists to take care of the bugs. Entomologists create special terrariums that imitate each bug’s natural habitat. Entomologists also know what kind of food to feed their bugs and how much heat and light they like.
Which label goes with which symbol? Unscramble the letters on each label and then draw a line from the label to its corresponding exhibit symbol.
Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-level appropriate words correctly.
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PUZZLE PAGE
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Phillip Beakerton was very nervous before his speech to the Super Science Club. He dropped his notes and needs your help numbering them in the correct order.
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big mess in the lab. So our first order o f business should be making sure all students keep the lab cle an and usic member of the M you Club. Science, as ol and a know, is very co offers lot of fun. It also f the possibility o In closing, I’d like to thank you for join ing Super Science Clu b and I will now answer your questions.
filled with soda and mints, which created a giant fountain of foam. That’s when I knew science was ready for stu d day. I remem ents every be experi ment, r my first and th kit con e lab t bottles ained clean which I then
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Match each riddle with its punch line.
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If you love National Parks and the great outdoors, this is the site for you. Find activities, solve mysteries and puzzles, make your own Ranger Station and play online games.
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EARLY LEARNERS E is for Elephant e is for elephant
Help Eddie Elephant find his mom!
Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter E. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can you find on this page that begin with the sound the letter E makes at the beginning of the word elephant?
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Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the questions. Touch and count to find the answers.
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national parks
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ur nearly 400 national parks include canyons, monuments, battlefields, lakeshores, seashores, recreation areas, scenic rivers, trails and historic sites. These parks are owned and managed by the American government—the government of the people by the people. That means that the parks belong to every American!
Mt. Rainier Yellowstone Mount Rushmore
Indiana Dunes Nat’l Lakeshore
Crater Lake Redwoods Nat’l Park Grand Canyon
Great Sand Dunes
Standards Links: Social Studies: Students know the location of places using map skills.
White House and President’s Park
Carlsbad Caverns
Denali Nat’l Park & Preserve
Hawai’i Volcanoes Nat’l Park
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Everglades National Park
Great Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park
Draw a star on the map to show approximately where you live. How many national parks are in your state?
3. Just one U.S. state has no national parks. Which one is it? ________________________________ (10 + 16 + 5 + 6) 1. Which state is home to 26 national parks–more than any other state? ________________________________ (9 + 13 + 7 + 6) 2. What is the name of America’s first national park? ________________________________ (15 + 15 + 4 + 4) To advertise, please call Ludington Daily News
4. Which state has the largest national park (Wrangell-St. Elias Nat’l Park and Preserve, 13.2 million acres)? ________________________________ (7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7) 5. Which state is home to the smallest national park (Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, 0.02 acres)? ________________________________ (7 + 6 + 7 + 6 + 7) www.kidscoop.com
6. The Grand Canyon National Park is also an UNESCO World Heritage Site. In which state can it be found? ________________________________ (4 + 8 + 6 + 9 + 3)
42 = Alaska 30 = Arizona 37 = Delaware
35 = California 33 = Pennsylvania 38 = Yellowstone
Standards Links: History: Know that national landmarks are associated with history.
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CALENDAR
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2015 Make a plan to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables this month. National Fresh Fruit and Tune to music radio Vegetable Month and dance along for some fun exercise. Radio was patented on this day in 1896. Find a local activity that is happening in your neighborhood and volunteer to help.
Fly the flag today and learn more about its history and creators.
Flag Day Write a poem on the topic of “Wishes for My Dad.” Make the day special for a man in your life. Father’s Day Write or tell a tall tale today about someone you invented who is “larger than life.” Paul Bunyan Day To advertise, please call Ludington Daily News
Design the house you would like. Today is the birthday of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Take your kites out on a hillside, park or beach. Have a friend run with the kite as you hold the string. Take turns flying your kite. Fly a Kite Day
Have a family sleepover, watch movies, eat pizza and sleep on the floor. Find a way to stay cool without air conditioning. Make a fan or a gentle water spray.
Can you find a pond or lake somewhere, take a parent and feed the ducks.
Donald Duck’s Birthday
This day is the Aesop was a famed anniversary of the storyteller who lived first U.S. Space walk by Ed White in ancient Greece. He wrote fables—stories in 1965. Write a and characters that paragraph about right and what it must be like described wrong behavior. to walk in space. Read one of Aesop’s Fables today.
Aesop’s Birthday Do you know what it means to “walk the dog” and “shoot the moon”? National Yo-Yo Day
Make a list of things you would like The United Nations to do during your designated this as Summer Vacation. World Environment Day. This year’s theme is about wasted food. Discuss how food is wasted with your class.
Ask your parents what happened on the day you were born. Then ask them if they know what happened on the day they were born.
Plan a visit to a zoo or an aquarium today and help make a difference for wildlife. Zoo and Aquarium Month
Make this a day without using the car. Walk to school if you can or ride a bike.
Find a baseball game happening in your community and cheer on a local team.
Offer to help cook dinner tonight, set the table or clean up afterwards and include in your meal your favorite vegetable. Eat Your Vegetables Day
Plan a summer picnic today. Who will you invite? What food will you need? Where will you hold your picnic? International Picnic Day
Juneteenth is the celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
Combine chocolate syrup, milk, carbonated water, ice cream and whipped cream to make an old-fashioned ice cream soda. Ice Cream Soda Day
Take a field trip to a museum with a family member today. First plan your day, your lunch and which exhibits you particularly would like to see.
Take three bean bags or balls and see if you can learn to juggle today.
LEON Day— that’s NOEL spelled backwards. It’s 6 months from this day until Christmas. Write down 3 goals to achieve before Christmas.
Time to clean and tune up your bicycle and helmet for the summer months.
Close your eyes and listen carefully and in silence for at least 3 minutes. Then discuss what you could hear.
Try something you have never done before or explore somewhere you have never visited before.
Bicycle patented in 1819
Helen Keller’s birthday
One of the beachballs on this page is different from all the others. Can you find it?
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CAMOUFLAGE
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If a bug can’t be seen, it won’t get eaten. Cicadas sing loudly, but they are very hard to see because their bodies match the tree trunks on which they sit.
ugs have it rough! Insects are, for the most part, tiny and defenseless. Insects are a major food source for millions of different kinds of animals. Imagine being in
danger of being eaten every day of your life! Luckily, we bugs have come up with some clever ways to protect ourselves from being eaten by predators.
Rain forest treehoppers or thornbugs look like thorns on a twig. These bugs feed together and face the same direction to look even more like real thorns. Phasmids or stick insects resemble leaves or sticks. They can grow up to 20 inches long and are the longest insects in the world.
The planthopper looks more like a leaf than a bug.
How many planthoppers can you find hiding in the leaves at left? Standards Link: Life Science: Understand insect relationships with their physical environment.
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beehives and descriptions of beetles, butterflies, ants, bees, dragonflies and some spiders.
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All About Insects
insects.org This site aims to help the viewer see insects for the miniature marvels they are and to understand how intertwined our culture has become with these creatures.
by Claire Llewellyn
Beautiful illustrations reveal a caterpillar’s metamorphosis, a dragonfly nymph, various spider’s webs as well as the habitats and diversity of insects and spiders in close-up detail. There are cutaways of ant colonies and beehives and descriptions of beetles, butterflies, ants, bees, dragonflies and some spiders.
Bugfinder
insectidentification.org The Bugfinder box allows you to search their database by colors, number of legs and territory in order to identify specific bugs.
Resources
kathimitchell.com/insects.html A huge collection of links to sites on insects including sites on specific bugs, lesson plans, facts, insects in the classroom, insects as food—a great resource for kids and teachers.
Bug Club
amentsoc.org/bug-club/fun/experiment-eyespy.html This activity shows you how to make your own Eyed Hawkmoth and how to startle potential predators.
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insects.org This site aims to help the viewer see insects for the miniature marvels they are and to understand how intertwined our culture has become with these creatures.
Offering youths aged 9-13 a hands-on chance to explore arts, sciences, Bugfinder and recreation in a fun day-camp atmosphere on the West Shore insectidentification.org The Bugfinder boxCollege allows you to search their database by Community Campus. colors, number of legs and territory in order to identify specific bugs.
Resources
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amentsoc.org/bug-club/fun/experiment-eyespy.html This activity shows you how to make your own Eyed Hawkmoth and how to startle potential predators.
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COWBOY COOL
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Watching cattle on the hot plains of Texas and the Midwest is hot work. The sun bakes the open fields where the cows graze and there are few trees for shade. How do cowpokes beat the heat? They create their OWN shade!
The first cowboys worked on Spanish ranches. They were called vaqueros. This comes from the word vaca, the Spanish word for cow.
Find at least five differences between these two cowboys. Standards Link: Visual discrimination: Find similarities and differences in common objects.
When Americans moved into Texas and started driving cattle across the American West, they needed hats with wide brims for shade. But most American-made hats only had floppy brims. Then came John B. Stetson. He was from New Jersey, but
moved to the West for his health. He was a skilled hat maker. When he saw cowboys looking for hats with wider brims, he invented a hat just for them. He called it the Stetson ten-gallon hat, but later it became known simply as the Stetson.
Vaqueros wore hats with large brims called sombreros, which means “shader.” Sombra is the Spanish word for shade. The wide-brimmed sombrero shaded the vaquero’s face, head and neck from the sun’s heat and glare. It also kept the rain out of the eyes! lish ord to the Eng w h is n a p S thing. Match each ans the same word that me
Standards Link: History: Describe the ways in which local producers used resources to produce goods in the past.
Do ten-gallon hats hold ten gallons of water?
No. The name comes from the Spanish word galón, which means braid. A ten-gallon hat is a hat with braid around the brim.
Unscramble these letters to find out how much water a ten-gallon hat holds.
Standards Link: Vocabulary: Recognize the origins and meanings of foreign words used in English.
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Find at least 10 things wrong in this sizzling scene.
Standards Link: Visual discrimination: Follow simple written directions.
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