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A kid invented the trampoline. Tent cloth gave Levi Strauss the idea for jeans and a pie tin inspired the invention of the Frisbee. Get the story about more incredible inventions!
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NEWS
here are ways we can try to avoid catching a cold and the flu, like washing our hands and getting vaccinated. But, there are a couple of things we can’t help but catch. What are they? Yawning and laughing! Give it a try! Start yawning and watch to see if people around you start to yawn with you.
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“Yawning is extraordinarily contagious,” says Robert Provine, a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Even reading about yawning can cause a person to yawn. Are you yawning yet?
Have you ever caught a case of the giggles with a friend? Then you know how contagious laughter can be. “We really can’t help ourselves from doing it: When we’re around laughing people we laugh,” says Provine. “You start to do it and you can’t stop. And the harder you try, the worse it gets.” While laughing can bring people together, it can also push people apart. That is called jeering or ridicule. Laughing at a person in a way that hurts them is a kind of bullying.
Describe a time that you were with a group of people laughing together in a good way.
Describe a time that you saw people hurt someone by laughing.
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SPOTLIGHT
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Color this window poster. Display it on Memorial Day.
On Memorial Day weekend each year, people enjoy barbecues, sporting events, camping, weekend getaways, theme parks and concerts. But Memorial Day is really about remembering those who gave their lives defending America and other free nations in wartime. No matter where you live, at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, May 25, you
can participate in the National Moment of Remembrance. For one minute, Americans are asked to pause and think about the service men and women who died defending the freedoms we enjoy today. These brave men and women served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard.
Standards Link: Civics: Students know how various American holidays reflect the shared values, principles and beliefs of Americans.
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On Memorial Day, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts often place small flags or candles beside headstones in military cemeteries across the nation. 4.
Look closely at these flags. Only two of them are correct depictions of today’s American flag. Can you find them? ANSWER: 3 and 5.
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Standards Link: Investigation: Find similarities and differences in common objects.
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PICKLES
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Ten days at the end of May is the time to honor the “world’s most humorous vegetable”—the pickle! There is something silly about the word pickle. Perhaps it is the combination of the p sound and the k sound. Words like pickle and Pluto are fun to say.
About 50 years ago, the prosperous owner of a pickle-packing plant complained that people made fun of his job. Someone wisely told him to join the fun, lead the laughter and entertain people with pickle gags. That was in 1950, and the pickle plutocrat took the idea to the International Pickle Packers Association. They too joined the fun, and since then the pickle has become America’s number-one vegetable. Find your way to the pickle-packing plant. Standards Link: Follow simple directions; eye-hand coordination.
Most pickles are made by preserving cucumbers with vinegar, salt and spices. Standards Link: History: Connecting the past to the present.
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PUZZLE PAGE
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Wow! The story below is a giant run-on sentence! Fix it by adding punctuation and capital letters where needed.
Match each pair of shoes. Can you find the single shoe that has no match?
Roger loves to go for a run every morning he wakes up before the sun rises he always stretches his muscles first and then he heads for his favorite trail that is next to a creek as Roger runs he enjoys seeing the frogs birds and butterflies busily beginning their day on weekends Roger runs with his friend Stacy who lives down the street from Roger they both signed up for the Midtown Park 5K Fun Run it is being held next Saturday afternoon at 1:00.
What do runners do when they forget something? Circle every third letter to reveal the answer.
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COOL COOL LINKS LINKS
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Cyberchase Inventors’ Workshop
This game lets you create all sorts of cool inventions and solve crazy courses.
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EARLY LEARNERS D is for Dime d is for dime
One dime is the same amount of money as 10 pennies. Color 10 pennies to show how many equal one dime.
Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter D. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the D sound like the word dime?
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Two nickels equals one dime. Color 2 nickels to show how many equal one dime. Who has time To find my dime? Found your dime Under the lime! To advertise, please call Ludington Daily News
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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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ANIMAL
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ats have been pets for people for thousands of years. They were taken in to help keep mice and snakes out of homes, farms and businesses. \
Cats also appear in all kinds of stories, from fairy tales to legends to comic strips.
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Just like fingerprints, this part of a cat’s body has a pattern of ridges that is unique to that cat.
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CALENDAR
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2015 Celebrated around the world, this day marks a celebration of spring and the coming of summer.
How many flowers can you count on this page? Have a friend try. Who found more? Do something nice for your pet today. Take a dog for a walk. Brush a cat. Clean a cage or a feed bowl.
Observe the weather today and give your family a weather report as if you were on the TV news.
National Pet Week
National Weather Observers’ Day
Make a special homemade gift for your mom or another special lady. Draw her portrait and give her this perfect gift. Mother’s Day Go for a hike today in the countryside. Wear good, sturdy shoes and make sure to take some water. Put on some music and get everyone dancing. Dancing is great exercise so keep it up for 20 minutes at least.
Make a pledge that you will always say NO to smoking. No Tobacco Day
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Clean your bicycle today and make sure it is in good condition. Check your helmet, too. Bike Month Museums are important places. Gather your family and visit a museum today. International Museum Day This is the day to remember those who gave their lives for freedom and country. Memorial Day
Make red, white and green paper chains and decorate your room.
Cinco de Mayo Compose a limerick today. Five lines, the last words of the 1st, 2nd and 5th lines rhyme, and the 3rd and 4th are a separate rhyme.
Draw a long straight line with a piece of chalk. Now walk along the line as if it were a tight rope. Circus Day
For tonight’s movie, let mom choose one of her favorite films.
Having a “calm down” routine before you go to bed can help you get to sleep. What’s your routine?
May Day
Better Sleep Month
There are so many beautiful stamps. Why not start collecting today. Ask your relatives and friends to put special stamps on one side for you and see how your collection grows.
Write a poem about lost socks. Where do they go? How will they ever find their way back to their match? Lost Sock Memorial Day
The first newspaper cartoon was published on this day in 1754. See if you can make a copy of a newspaper cartoon character.
Can you draw a cross section of a tulip? Label the different parts of a tulip. Tulip Day
Put your thumbs in your armpits and “flap your wings.”
Take a jump rope outside and skip as fast as you can for ten minutes and then slowly for another ten minutes.
On this day in 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew alone across the Atlantic to Paris. Find out the name of his plane and quiz a friend.
The American Red Cross was founded on this day in 1881. Check your first aid supplies and make sure they are up to date.
Take time today to honor your teacher and show how much you appreciate all their hard work. National Teachers Day
Play a musical instrument today. If you don’t own one, Start to collect loose invent change today in a your own. jar. It’s amazing how much you’ll save if you add a little each day.
Ask your parents if Start a science Invent a dessert you can take over a experiment today using fresh fruit and section of the garden. such as growing a a little ice cream or Dig it over and plant crystal. Follow the frozen yoghurt. some flowers, scientific method: Share it with your vegetables or seeds. question, hypothesis, family at dinner method, data, tonight. observation and conclusion. www.kidscoop.com
Using a black marker, draw an alien. Now exchange your drawing with a friend to color in the drawing.
Get a large sheet of paper and a crayon and make a rubbing today – from a coin, or any indented surface you can find. © Vicki Whiting May 2015
HEALTH
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ugary drinks are drinks that contain added sugars or sweeteners. Sugary drinks include soda and other carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, juice drinks, sweetened tea and coffee drinks, and sweetened milk or milk alternatives. The added sugar in these drinks adds calories but little or no nutrients.
Do the math to find out the amount of calories each drink contains and how many minutes of walking it would take to burn off the drink.
You wouldn’t eat 22 packs of sugar. Why are you drinking them? Drinking even one sugary drink a day may lead to obesity and diabetes.
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Carry a water bottle with you and refill it throughout the day.
Drink unsweetened tap, bottled, or sparkling water, unsweetened low-fat milk or tea, or 100% fruit juice in limited amounts*. *Depending on age, children can drink ½ to 1 cup, and adults up to 1 cup of 100% fruit juice.
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But when Atticus moves in with Inspector Cheddar and his family, he starts to wonder if a life of crime is really for him ...
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This title is the winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award, 2014. When Atticus receives a mysterious message asking him to a meeting in a sleepy coastal town, he packs his bags and sets off. The world’s greatest cat burglar likes a good mystery. The writer of the message wants Atticus to steal all the jewels in town and leave the humans baffled. And what could be more straightforward? But when Atticus moves in with Inspector Cheddar and his family, he starts to wonder if a life of crime is really for him ...
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STEM
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Some inventions started out as something else! The students at Yale University loved Joseph Frisbee’s pies. They even loved his pie tins! Tossing empty pie tins became a favorite way to pass time between classes. With a firm flick of the wrist, the tin would sort of float through the air.
When 11-year-old George Nissen went to see the circus, he had a brainstorm. An invention brainstorm!
But the metal pie tins hurt when they hit someone. As a safety measure, students started yelling “Frisbee!” to alert others that they were tossing a tin to a pal.
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In the 1940s, a man named Walter Morrison remembered the fun he had throwing Frisbee® pie tins while a student at Yale. He invented a way to make a similar throwing toy out of plastic. He called it a Frisbee® disc in memory of the pie tins turned into toys.
Draw the other half of each bouncing kid.
Help the student catch the pie tin.
The idea literally bounced into his head. He loved watching the trapeze artists and tightrope walkers drop into the safety net and then bounce up and down doing twists, spins and somersaults. That’s what gave him the idea of a “bouncing table” that could be used in a backyard or gym. He worked on his idea for more than 12 years, but finally he came up with a contraption that worked. He called it trampoline, from the Spanish word trampolin, meaning “springboard.” Standards Link: Vocabulary Development: Students recognize the origins and meanings of foreign words used in English.
Standards Link: Social Science: Students explore the stories of actual people who have made a difference in their everyday lives and whose contributions have touched them, directly or indirectly.
Look through the newspaper for two items that don’t seem to go together. Think of ways the two things could be combined to invent something new. Example: A camera and sunglasses. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension. Follow simple written directions.
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cloth. He had found his fortune.
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Standards Link: Social Science: Students understand the role and interdependence of buyers and sellers of goods.
evi Strauss came to California during the Gold Rush to find his fortune. He planned to sell canvas cloth to the miners for tents and wagon covers. But the gold miners needed something else … pants.
Find the matching jeans.
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His canvas pants sold as quickly as they were made. Levi gave up the idea of gold mining and ordered more cloth. He had found his fortune.
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Standards Link: Social Science: Students understand the role and interdependence of buyers and sellers of goods.
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