Toronto Kids July 2016

July 2016

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Looking for some big laughs?

Invite some friends or family members over for an evening of imaginative storytelling. You can tell the stories around a campfire or in the backyard using our zany Silly Summer Story Time kit. Give it a try tonight!

features writers TASHA ZANIN

1. Cut out the Character, location and plot coupons below. Place each set in a cup or bowl.

2. Place all the character coupons in one cup, the location coupons in another and all the plot coupons in a third cup.

3. Take turns being the story teller by pulling one coupon from each cup, without looking, to invent a story that includes the character, location and plot.

cover design TASHA ZANIN

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Tick the box on each day when you have completed 15 minutes of reading. Children who develop a love of reading will become better students and build a better future.

Ahoy mateys!

On this day in 1867, Celebrate the long Canada became a weekend aboard tall self-governing ships, plus food, dominion. Draw the music, arts, maple leaf flag. shopping and more!

Canada Day

Redpath Waterfront Festival

Enjoy a day Celebrate Check out the of fishing in the Make a macaroni Celebrate cows summer on the Grab a friend and largest free African peaceful Canadian practice throwing island with free face necklace today. You today. Think about Music Festival in outdoors. July can change their all the things you and catching a ball. If painting, colouring North America!

2-10 anyone colour by soaking get from a cow. contests, games, you’re right-handed, Start a Summer Performance and without a fishing live animal visits, a in food colouring. Cow Appreciation try catching with Book Club with drums stages, licence can give your friends. Choose Allow them to dry magic show, and your left hand. If marketplace, and a Day it a try. on a paper towel much more. you’re left-handed, a book together then children’s village.

Ontario Family and then thread try catching with pick a meeting day Kids Fest Afrofest Fishing Events them on a string. your right hand. to discuss it. @ Centre Island @ Woodbine Park Make a pitcher of ice-cold lemonade and give it to a Put all your soft toys neighbour out in a circle and as a give them a Teddy sweet Bear’s Picnic. summer Teddy Bear’s surprise!

Picnic Day

Get a paper lunch bag and turn it into a puppet. Draw a face on the bottom using markers or crayons.

When is the last time your family visited a museum?

Plan a visit today.

Try jumping rope with some friends.

It takes some practice, but it's great exercise.

Take a walk with a family member. Observe your surroundings and see if you spot birds and flowers along the way.

Starting with a parade down Yonge Street today the party continues on Centre Island all weekend with music, dance and drama shows, a bazaar, exhibits, a kids’ area & yoga meltdown!

Festival of India

Inspired by Princess Bella, flight and the skies, Practice your Reorganize part of Pack a lunch and the porcelain doll Write a movie enjoy hand-on breaststroke, your room—a take a long bike ride comes to life through closet, a bookshelf activities and music review for a film backstroke and with a group of all weekend. Create you have seen this friends. Tell a parent treading water. or a toy chest.

Create a comic strip. juggling, dance and magic.

Two shows at summer.

Tell what paper planes and Collect toys and your planned route. Make sure to only Use two characters The Papermill you liked or kites, and enjoy swim with an adult books you no longer to tell riddles or Theatre. stories about flying! disliked about it. present. use and give them to knock-knock jokes.

Chris Westfall Mail it to a friend or an organization that Draw a week’s National Drowning Festival of Flight Magic & the family member. will distribute them. worth of strips.

Prevention Week @ Aga Khan Museum Porelain Princess Create a secret code. Share the code with a friend and write coded Harry notes.

Potter’s Birthday

Have a parent hide a “treasure” and write down clues for you to follow. Have a fun treasure hunt with your friends.

Check out what local events are happening in your area this weekend. Look through the local newspaper or the newspaper’s website.

Make ice cream sundaes for your family. Include as many fruits as possible.

Find a creative way to cool off. Make a shower with a garden hose or run through the sprinklers.

Make a smoothie with lots of fruits.

Add a quarter cup of chopped fresh spinach or another green vegetable.

National Picnic Month Find a shady spot and have a nice family picnic today.

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A firefly is an insect, but it is not a fly.

It is a beetle.

Fireflies need four things to glow. Three of those are chemicals it has in its body. Circle every third letter to discover the fourth thing it needs to glow.

Beetles have two pairs of wings. The front pair is stiff and protects the soft back wings, which are used for flying.

An adult firefly can make its light blink on and off. Each species or kind of firefly has its own blinking pattern. Males and females use their flashes to find mates from the same species.

People use their lungs to get oxygen from the air. A firefly has small holes on its abdomen that let in oxygen.

Some species flash short, quick flashes.

Others stay lit longer. Others have longer dark times between flashes.

The male flies around flashing his light. The female stays near the ground and flashes “answers” to the male’s flashing messages as he flies above her.

Fireflies also use their flashing lights to scare off predators and to warn other fireflies of danger.

Use a light stick, often found with sporting goods, to demonstrate how chemicals can mix together to create light without giving off any heat. © 2016 Vicki Whiting / KidScoop.com

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book nook

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne The screenplay from the stage production that takes place 19 years after the last book. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a Ages 12+ family legacy.

On July 31 everyone’s favourite wizard turns 36! To celebrate harry potter’s birthday - and j. k. rowling’s latest story “harry potter and the cursed child” we’re returning to hogwarts for this month’s book nook.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J.K. Rowling The story that started it all... When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse Ages when Harry was just 9-12 a baby, and which he somehow survived.

Fantastic Beasts and Wear to Find Them J.K. Rowling Read the textbook Harry, Ron and Hermione and learn about some of the creatures you have already met in the books. This companion book is written by Newt Scamander - the hero of the upcoming movie Ages 9-12 of the same name.

Caring & Enlightening

The Tales of Beedle the Bard J.K. Rowling The Tales of Beedle the Bard played a crucial role in assisting Harry, wRon and Hermione, to finally defeat Lord Voldemort. Fans will be thrilled to have this opportunity to read the Ages 9-12 five fairytales in full.

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ANSWERS: Flip this page upside down to check your answers for this issue’s activities!

Circle the firefly that will complete the pattern.

Oxygen How does a firefly glow?

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