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ALLIGATORS AND
CROCODILES
Our handy guide tells you the difference between
an alligator and a crocodile. But don’t get close,
these creatures can move faster than you
might imagine.
SUNBURNS!
Summertime is no fun if you have a sunburn.
Discover what happens when you burn your
skin and what you must do to avoid it.
How many moths
can you find
flying around in
this swamp?
AMUSEMENT PARK VACATION
In anticipation of a fun summer vacation, our feature is packed with “amusing”
games and puzzles.
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people during stressful times. When people call
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If you need to hear kids laughing
with delight, press 4.
positive advice, or just
listen to children For encouragement in
laughing! Spanish, press 5.
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Jessica Martin, the
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• The world is a better place with
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hopeful thoughts.
Friendly Fliers • Try it again.
• Feeling mad? You can always go
Photos: Jessica Martin/West Side School
“Children and adults alike are feeling a lot of stress to your bedroom, punch your
these days,” said Martin. “Everyone is feeling a lot of pillow or cry on it and just go
grief from the last few years.” moments when someone needs a little “pep talk.” scream outside.
• If you are mad or frustrated you
Martin and Weiss wanted to give children a chance can do what you want to do best
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You Can Help:
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Did you know that it takes more muscles to frown that it does to smile?
So, smile and the whole world smiles with you!
These jokes are from all over
Doctors even tell us that laughter can help sick people the world and the answer to
heal more quickly. All in all, a smile is very powerful. each joke is the same thing.
Can you guess what it is?
What is a small,
white chest that all
know how to open
and nobody knows
how to close?
Cut out the word balloons below and paste them in the
correct order on the comic strip above.
What is more useful when
it is broken?
In a pot there are
Standards Link: Health: Identify activities and actions that promote or enhance emotional health.
two kinds of food. What is an entire little
What is it? house without a door?
I have built my house In a bowl of china fixed,
There are jokes from all over the world. What can you learn
without any door. two liquids with colors
about people by reading their jokes? Draw your own comic
What is it? unmixed. What is it?
strip using this joke from Martinique.
Have you figured out the answer? If not, color all
the boxes with odd numbers. Read the letters that
are left and you will know the answer.
2 7 9 6 5 8 4 3 2
A H T N W E G P G
Standards Link: Social Science:
Compare life in different places
and recognize that some aspects
of cultures are similar.
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spotlight
SPOTLIGHT 5
How many smiles can you
find on these pages?
How many silly
things can you
circle in this
picture?
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
Why does a crane raise one leg when he OPEN Find the words by looking up,
stands in the water? down, backwards, forwards,
CRANE sideways and diagonally.
Put the words in the right order to discover SMILE
the answer to this joke from Poland. W O D O O F E R A W
LAUGHTER
Y C P T V L D A C V
FOOD
JOKES L O Q E I A O E R N
WORLD K R M M N U Y L A R
QUICKLY C D S P S G L P N A
GUESS I E A S Z H L O E E
ORDER U R E W C T I E N L
PEOPLE Q U J O K E S P U U
SILLY
G B F D L R O W F Q
FUN
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions. LEARN Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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6 sTeM
sTeM
hen making a Oh, man! I glued the
gravity-powered But the car doesn’t move! wheels to the side of my
car that will roll What happened? car and they can’t move.
quickly down An axle will solve this
a ramp, you problem!
usually add
wheels to
the vehicle.
Gerry built his
gravity-powered
racecar, added
wheels and put
it on the top of
the ramp.
n axle is a long cylinder, or rod, that runs through the
car to connect the wheels.
skewer Gerry used tape to attach the
axle to the underside of the car.
tape
straw
t simplifies
h e e l: a ro und tool tha need an
Gerry uses a straw and a skewer to make an axle for his W ting. They
work by rota efficiently.
gravity-powered racecar! axle to work
runs
or bar that
The inside of the straw has low friction, so the skewer Axle: a rod ole in a wheel.
can spin easily as gravity pulls the car downward and through a h
the tires spin.
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sTeM
sTeM 7
Long ago, people marveled at a light in the sky that was different
from the others. It glowed reddish orange. The ancient Romans
named this light Mars, their god of war. Amaze your friends! Stump your teachers!
Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know there are planets that orbit the sun.
Use the code to find out amazing facts
about Mars!
The time it takes a planet to orbit the sun
is called a year. The Earth takes 365 days How Big Is Mars? Why Is
to orbit the sun, making our year 365 If Earth was the size of Mars Red?
days long. a baseball, Mars would It is covered
be about the size of a with reddish
Mars is farther away from the sun and it 4873 2977. 1 56 and
takes longer to orbit. A Martian year is rock.
687 days long.
Here’s how to figure out how 9 =A 3=F 8=O =U
old you would be on Mars: 2 =B 4=G 5=S =V
Multiply your age in years 1 =D 7=L 6=T =Z
by 365. This will tell you
how many days old you are.
Divide that number by 687
days. That will tell you how
many Martian years old you The largest volcano in the solar system is on Mars.
are! It is called Olympus Mons. It rises 17 miles (27 km)
Standards Link: Number Sense: Students solve
above the surrounding land—that’s three times higher
problems involving mulitplication and division of than Mt. Everest, Earth’s tallest mountain. If Olympus
whole numbers.
Mons was on Earth, its base would cover the entire
state of Washington and nearly half of Oregon.
An enormous canyon near Mars’ equator stretches one
quarter of the way around the planet. Some people call it
the Grand Canyon of Mars, after Earth’s famous canyon
in Arizona. Its real name is Valles Marineris. If Valles
Marineris started in Los Angeles, California, where would
it end? To find out, follow the maze!
Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know there
are similarities and differences among the planets.
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8 sPORT
OUCH! Hot fun in the summertime can be painful!
Too much fun in the sun can burn your skin.
How does the sun burn skin?
Normal Cells that get too much This turns the skin red
skin cells. sunlight swell and fill and makes it hurt.
with blood.
Find: • banana • watermelon • moon • dolphin • car
• bat • bowling ball • crocodile • ice cream • octopus
To burn or not to burn?
Everybody has tiny grains of color called
melanin in their skin.
Melanin grains are like a screen. They Andy
protect the body from the burning rays Melody
of sunlight. Everybody’s skin makes Tanya
melanin. Melanin grains are brown.
When your skin is exposed to the sun,
it makes more melanin. That is why
your skin gets darker when you play
in the sunshine.
Different skin types
Tanya has a lot of melanin
in her skin. Andy and
Melody have a little. Amy
has very little. Some parts of Amy’s
body make more melanin than others.
These dark spots are called freckles.
Lifesaver Letters
What should you look for Amy
when you are getting too
Everybody needs to protect their much sun? Cross out every
skin from the sun. Even people letter that is printed twice on
with lots of melanin will burn. the innertube. The five
Their skin won’t burn as fast letters left spell your answer!
as Amy’s, but it will burn. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow
simple directions; identify common sight words.
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PUZZLES 9
Lupé DeLoops is flying her plane
through this cloud. Can you help
her find her way without
making yourself dizzy?
Draw lines to connect pairs of
blimps to form compound words. Circle every third letter. Then write the circled letters on
(We did one for you.) these spaces to reveal the punchline to this riddle.
Grab a red crayon and give a blue
crayon to a friend. Take turns drawing
a line between two dots. If you draw
the line that encloses a box, you get
ONE POINT. If there’s a star in the
box, you get THREE POINTS.
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10 AnIMAL
lligators and crocodiles
look a lot alike. They
are both reptiles They’re potentially dangerous animals to
from the order humans. And they’re carnivores so they
of animals will catch and eat almost any creature.
named They don’t chew and swallow, they just
Crocodylia. tear off chunks and swallow whole.
But there
are ways But humans are also dangerous to these
to tell creatures.
them Habitat
apart— destruction
from a and over-
safe distance, hunting have
of course! made these
The top row of ancient
teeth on alligators reptiles
are visible when endangered
their mouths are On crocodiles, species.
closed. some of the
bottom teeth stick
up when their
mouths are closed, Crocodiles
as shown here. swallow stones
From above, an A crocodile’s to help them
alligator’s snout is snout is digest their
U-shaped. V-shaped. food.
Don’t bother That rocks!
trying to outrun
a crocodile or
an alligator.
They have a
swimming
speed of 20
miles per hour How do alligators and
and a running
speed of 11 crocodiles sweat?
miles per hour
for short T S H N E RYP S D W M E J Circle every
other letter
distances. A DT H T V H F R G O H U S for the
GQHPTSHBEMIKRS surprising
M TO P U LT W H V S C answer!
Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have different features that help them survive in different environments.
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Use the secret code!
The largest recorded alligator:
feet long.
The largest recorded crocodile: feet long.
Alligators have to teeth. They grow new
ones to replace broken teeth. One alligator can have as many
as teeth in a lifetime!
Crocs can stay underwater for to
minutes. They close their nostrils when they
swim underwater.
SECRET CODE
= 0 = 4 = 7
Standards Link: Life Science: Animals
= 1 = 5 = 8 have different features that help them
survive in different environments. An investigator!
= 2 = 6 = 9 ANSWER:
Have YOU filled out CROCODILE
ALLIGATOR
Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
the FAFSA yet?
The American alligator is the largest reptile in North America
and has been here since the time of the dinosaurs—over 80
million years ago and it still looks the same.
NOSTRILS
SWALLOW
ANCIENT
S L
W A C R O C
I R T S O N D R
S E O T
Unscramble the letters to reveal the names of the two U.S. states
where most American alligators live. DIGEST A E F O T E E T H S
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words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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The picture book One Hen: How One It is the story of a boy named Kojo, The first week, Kojo’s hen lays five eggs.
Small Loan Made a Big Difference, who lives in Ghana, Africa. Kojo is very Kojo and his mother eat two and sell the
written by Kate Smith Milway, tells the poor and cannot afford to go to school. other three.
story of how a very small loan, called a One day he gets a micro-loan of just a Kojo saves his egg money and pays back the
micro-loan, helped a few coins, enough to buy loan after two months. In four months he has
young boy work his one hen. enough to buy another hen. In six months he
way out of poverty. buys a third hen.
How many eggs can Kojo eat or sell with
more hens?
B
Color the number of
eggs Kojo and his
A mother can eat in
yellow. Color the ones
he can sell green.
For more about this topic,
visit onehen.org
F
C E
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Find the two
identical hens.
I
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Standards Link:
G Economics: Students
understand characteristics
of different economic J
systems and incentives.
Kojo learns that chicken manure helps his Eventually he creates jobs for other
family’s garden grow more vegetables. people in his village and the entire
community becomes richer.
Kojo saves his money until he is able to
afford to go to school. He goes on to
college and studies how to run a This is based upon a true story. Today,
chicken business. Kojo loans money to other people so
they can start businesses and the cycle
After college he gets a larger loan and of economic growth continues. ONE TWO THREE FOUR TEN
expands his chicken business. HEN HENS HENS HENS HENS
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= 2 = 6 = 9 ANSWER:
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CROCODILE Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
ALLIGATOR sideways and diagonally.
The American alligator is the largest reptile in North America NOSTRILS
and has been here since the time of the dinosaurs—over 80 S L I R T S O N D R
million years ago and it still looks the same. SWALLOW
ANCIENT W A C R O C S E O T
Unscramble the letters to reveal the names of the two U.S. states
where most American alligators live. DIGEST A E F O T E E T H S
REVEAL L V D E M P A A W E
RHYMES L E I Y S G I E L G
SWEAT
O R H E I K H W S I
ROCKS
SPEED W R R L U C C S O D
HAIKU C E L I D O C O R C
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words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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biography 15
Written in 1876, this book about a young boy growing up along the
Mississippi River if full of adventure, mischief, wit and wisdom.
In the book, Tom fa
lls for the new
girl in town, Becky
Thatcher. He
talks her into getti
ng
him. At first she lik “engaged” to
es
agrees. But then, so the idea and
mething
happens to change
her mind.
Replace the missi
find out why Beckng vowels to
y en
“engagement” to ded her
Tom is full of fun, adventure Tom.
and imagination. Sometimes these
___________ are useful
T_m h_s b_ _n
Whoops! Tom’s friends
and sometimes they get him “_ng_g_d” t_ _n
whitewashed over
some of the words. in _____________. _th_r
Find where each One day, he plays hooky from
g_rl n_m_d Amy.
word belongs. school and gets his clothes dirty in
a __________. As punishment, Unscramble th
Tom has to whitewash a fence. discover what To e letters to
m ga
Tom soon ____________ out how as an engagemen ve Becky
t gift.
to trick his friends into
whitewashing the fence for him by
making the ____________ job
seem like a lot of fun!
Design a priate flag
for Tom Sawyer.
Schoolmaster Dobbins challenged
Tom to spell every state in the union.
What was Tom’s answer?
To find out, write the letter of the alphabet
that comes before each letter below.
F W F S Z T U B U F
J O U I F Tom and his friend Huck and Joe run
away to an island to become pirates. They
stay away so long that the townspeople
V O J P O think they have drowned in the river.
Imagine the surprise and joy when the
boys show up at their own funerals!
Standards Link: Visual Arts: Know how subject matter,
symbols and ideas are used to communicate meaning.
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biography
Tom and Becky
go on a picnic to McDougal’s
Cave with their classmates. Tom
and Becky get lost in the cave.
They run out of food and candles
and, if that is not bad enough, they
run into a murderer who is using
the cave as a hideout.
Can you escape
from the cave?
Tom witnesses a horrible crime one night in Find the words by looking up,
a graveyard. Read The Adventures of Tom
ADVENTURES
down, backwards, forwards,
Sawyer to find out what he saw. THATCHER sideways and diagonally.
ENGAGED
S E S S E N T I W H
WHITEWASH
HOOKY E R E A E M I R C S
PIRATE S E R U T N E V D A
A B C
ESCAPE C Y N O D H E S O W
Find each D
CRIME
tombstone’s twin. A K M G C T C K B E
WITNESSES
P O T T A H A I B T
F
CAVE
BECKY E O A R I G V P I I
H TOM S H I Y K C E B N H
G DOBBINS T P N O I N U D S W
E UNION
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SKIP Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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M AY 2022
Celebrated Tell your sibling Take time today Make red, white
around the world, how much you care to honor your and green paper
this day marks a for them. If you don’t teacher and show chains and decorate
have a brother or how much you Children’s Book your room. Clean your bicycle
celebration of today and make Visit a pet shelter
spring and the sister, choose some- appreciate all Week Celebrate
one who could be their hard work. the joy of reading. sure it is in good this week and spread
coming of condition. Check a little kindness.
summer. your pretend sibling.
Brothers and National Children’s Book your helmet, too. Be Kind to
May Day Sisters Day Teachers Day Week Cinco de Mayo Bike Month Animals Week
Write a poem Compose a Can you draw a cross
Make a special about lost socks. The first Put your thumbs
homemade gift Thank your limerick today. section of a tulip?
Where do they newspaper Label the different in your armpits
for your mom or cartoon was school nurse Five lines, the last and “flap your
go? How will today and give words of the 1st, parts of a tulip.
another special they ever find published in wings.”
lady. Draw her 1754. See if you her a token of 2nd and 5th lines Tulip Day
their way back your gratitude. rhyme, and the 3rd
portrait and give to their match? can make a copy
her this perfect gift. of a newspaper and 4th are a
Lost Sock cartoon character. National School separate rhyme.
Mother’s Day Memorial Day Nurse Day
Take a jump
Go for a hike today Using a black rope outside and Museums are On this day in The American
in the countryside. marker, draw skip as fast as you important 1927, Charles Red Cross was
Wear good, sturdy an alien. Now can for ten minutes places. Gather Lindbergh flew founded on this
shoes and make sure and then slowly for Celebrate by finding
exchange your family a good photograph alone across the day in 1881.
to take some water. your drawing another ten minutes. and visit a Atlantic to Paris. Check your first
and describe why
with a friend museum today. you chose it. Find out the name aid supplies and
to color in the of his plane and make sure they
drawing. International National Photo quiz a friend. are up to date.
Museum Day Month
Play a musical Ask your parents if Start a science
instrument today. Start to collect Invent a code Put on some List three reasons you can take over a experiment today
If you don’t loose change and use it for the music and get why a good nights section of the garden. such as growing a
own one, today in a jar. answer to a joke. everyone dancing. sleep is important. Dig it over and plant crystal. Follow the
invent It’s amazing how Give your code Dancing is great some flowers, scientific method:
much you’ll save to a friend to see exercise so keep it Better Sleep
your own. Month vegetables or seeds. question, hypothesis,
if you add a little if they can figure up for 20 minutes method, data,
each day. it out. at least. observation and
conclusion.
Tick the box
Invent a dessert Get a large
on each day
using fresh fruit and This is the day sheet of paper
when you
a little ice cream or have completed
to remember those and a crayon and 20 minutes of
frozen yoghurt. who gave their make a rubbing reading. Children How many flowers can
Share it with your lives for freedom today—from a who develop a you count on this page?
family at dinner and country. coin, or any love of reading Have a friend try.
tonight. indented surface will become better Who found more?
you can find. students and build
Memorial Day a better future.
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Amusing Photos
Luna de Loop has enjoyed herself
at the amusement park and has
taken lots of photos! Look at each
photo below. Can you draw a
square on the big picture at right
where each photo was taken?
What is a
Dyrehavsbakken?
This is the name of the world’s first
and oldest operating amusement
park. It opened in 1583 in
Denmark. But just what does Find your way to the ticket booth. How many tickets
Dyrehavsbakken mean? can you find on
Hold this page up to a mirror these pages in
to discover the answer. two minutes?Celebrate Memorial Day
Memorial Day is about remembering those who gave their lives defending
democracy, America, and other free nations in wartime.
Create A Sign of Respect
Grow a Citizen
Make a large sign saying, “WE ARE THANKFUL” and display it in a window facing the street
where passersby will see it.
Perhaps some of those people who pass by and see the sign will be people who have served
5 Ways to Teach Your Child in the Armed Forces and fought to protect democracy.
About Democracy Let them know you appreciate their service and dedication to keep our way of life safe and secure.
A democracy is a government run by the
people. Each citizen has a say (or vote) in how
monarchy or dictatorship where one person
(the king or dictator) has all the power.
Start early talking to your children about
democracy and the importance of
participating!
1. Take your child with you when you vote
and talk about why you’ve chosen to vote
for particular candidates.
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What Can a Citizen Do?
2. As a family, write a letter to an elected
cares about and let your elected
representative know. Explain that elected By Dave Eggers Illustrated by Shawn Harris
represent the people.
3. Explain to your child what it means to be
elected.
W ith beautiful illustrations and
rhyming text, this is
a book about what
“[This] charming book provides examples
and sends the message
that citizens aren’t born
citizenship — good but are made by actions
citizenship — means. taken to help others and
4. Encourage children to ask questions and Across the course of the world they live in.”
share their views even when they might several seemingly —The Washington Post
disagree with yours. unrelated but ultimately
connected actions by “Obligatory reading for
future informed citizens.”
5. Talk about examples of democracy in watch how kids turn a —The New York Times
action. lonely island into a
community — and watch
6. Read and discuss books about voting, a journey from what the
world should be to what
democracy, freedom of speech and the world could be.
citizenship.You can also read
