Kids World News, Kent County, Nov. 2015

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Count your Blessings. Maybe you’ve heard that saying before? It means to re-member and be thankful for the all the good things in your life. Luckily, we will get a chance to do that soon, because every year in November, on the fourth Thursday of the month, we celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s the holiday which is all about “giving

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A HungryDinosaur

The dinosaur known as the Brontosaurus is now calledthe Apatosaurus. It was one of the largest land animalsthat has ever existed. This dinosaur lived in what isknown as the Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago.

The Apatosaurus, hatched from enormous foot longeggs and may have lived long enough to celebrate100birthdays! This huge dinosaur was an herbivore whichmeans it ate only plants. The hungry Apatosaurus musthave spent his entire day munching and crunching onplants to maintain his massive body.

This gigantic plant-eater measured about 80 feet longor close to the length of two school buses. It stood about30 feet tall or the height of a 4 story building. It weighedroughly 30 tons; the weight of 10 cars! Apatosaurus hada very tiny brain in a small head which was less than 2feet long. The Apatosaurus had a long neck and a longtail. It had four massive column-like legs with the backlegs being longer than the front legs. We know all thisbecause people have found fossilized remains of theApatosaurus in the Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, andWyoming and Canada.

If you would like to look for dinosaurs bones when yougrow up, you can become a scientist called a “Paleon-tologist”. In the meantime, one way to enjoy and learnabout dinosaurs is to create them. Use the followingsample to create your own Apatosaurus!

Celebrate all things “saurus”! Contributed by Rebecca Nechuta

Let’s Make AndDecorate A Dinosaur!

Procedure: Draw a line to divide a paper plate in half.On half of the circle, draw a tail, front leg, back leg,

and the neck and head as shown.Using scissors, cut out the dinosaur pieces.

Color the dinosaur using crayon, paint or markers.Decorate with shapes, patterns and bright colors.

Attach the pieces with tape or glue.To create a moving dinosaur, attach with paper fasteners!


Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Mas-

sachusetts. She was raised in a Quaker family with lots of activisttraditions. She had very strong morals and spent alot of her lifeworking on social issues. Her family moved to a farm in 1840where they became involved in the fight to end slavery. This wasalso known as the Abolitionists Movement. The farm started toserve as a meeting place for abolitionists like Frederick Douglass.Anthony later on became the head of a girls department at Cana-

joharie Academy. However, she was only there for two years. Afterleaving the Academy, she decided to devote her time to social is-sues. She also got involved in the Temperance Movement, whichaimed at slowing down or completely stopping the production ofalcohol. She realized while at a temperance meeting in 1851 thatshe was never given the opportunity to speak because of the factthat she was a woman. She then realized that women were nottaken seriously in politics because they did not have the right tovote.

Anthony and another activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, estab-lished the Womens Temperance Society in 1852. Before long, theystarted to fight for women’s rights. She started to make petitions forwomen to have the right to own property and the right to vote. Afterthe Civil War, Anthony focused even more on women’s rights. Shehelped to establish the American Equal Rights association in 1866,

calling for the same rights to be grantedfor everyone no matter their race or gen-der. Anthony and Stanton produced andcreated a weekly publication called TheRevolution. The newspaper’s motto was"Men their rights, and nothing more;women their rights, and nothing less.”

Anthony proceeded to move forward insupporting women’s rights. In 1905, shemet with president Theodore Roosevelt inWashington D.C. for an amendmentgranting women the right to vote. Anthonydied in the following year on March 13,

1906 at an age of 86. To this day she is honored by many for thework she has done for women’s rights and the positive impact shehas made on the future.

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1. If one turkey can feed eight people, how many turkeysare needed to feed one hundred sixty people?

2. A non-profit organization for the homeless is askingpeople to donate $3.57 to feed and care for one person.If the non-profit wants to raise enough money to feed andcare for seventy people on Thanksgiving, how muchmoney will they need to raise?

3. The Indians and Pilgrims brought a total of nineturkeys to cook. If the Indians brought four turkeys, howmany did the Pilgrims bring?

4. Fourteen Indians and seven Pilgrims were going tohave dinner together. Each person brought one piece offruit or vegetable to the feast. How many food items didthey have in all?

5. A restaurant spent $345 on food to feed sixty-ninepeople. How much was the food cost for each person?

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PlatypusThe platypus is an unlikely animal in nature. The animal is often

described as a mix of a beaver (tail), duck (bill and webbed feet),and an otter (body and fur). Males are also venomous. They havesharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them todeliver a strong toxic blow.

The platypus is a mammal. They hunt underwater. They havewebbed front feet and steer with their back feet and beaver like tailthat helps them move in the water. Folds of their skin cover theireyes and ears to prevent the water from entering. Their nostrilsclose with a watertight seal also. They scoop up insects, worms,shellfish, and larvae with their bill. They also pick up some graveland mud from the bottom of the water. They do not have teeth, sothe bits of gravel help them to chew their meal.

However, they can’t move quite as well on land. The webbing attheir front feet retracts to reveal individual nails that helps them torun. They can use these nails to dig and construct burrows at wateredges.

Females will use these burrows to lay their eggs. A mother usu-ally will have 1-2 eggs. To keep them warm she will put the eggs be-tween her body and tail. After about 10 days a platypus infant is

born. At first the infants are the size of only a jelly bean and com-pletely helpless. The mother will only nurse the infant for about 3-4 months until the platypus is capable of swimming on its own.

Did You Know?• The platypus can use their cheeks to hold things like food.• The platypus can sleep up to 14 hours in a day!• In the 1900s the platypus was hunted by many for their fur.• When a platypus swims, their eyes, ears, and mouth shut• Platypus is one of only two mammals (the echidna is the other)that lays eggs.

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The bassoon is the low-est sounding and thelargest of the woodwindinstruments. They aremade of maple woodand also of ebonite. Stu-dent sized bassoons aremade of plastic resin tomake the instrumentmore affordable. Mostbassoon players needto have big hands somany students learnanother instrumentfirst. It has a doublereed that is attachedto the bocal which is acurved tube.

Early bassoonswere called Dulcians or Curtals.The main difference from thoseto modern day bassoons, is thatthe old instruments were carvedfrom a single piece of wood anddidn’t have any keys! In Franceduring the 17th century, instru-ment builders made the firstbassoon with separate jointsand by the mid 19th century, the17 key bassoon was developed.

The bassoon is held diagonally in front of the player andcannot be supported by the player’s hands alone. Additionalsupport is required as it is heavy. The extra support is ei-ther a neck strap or a seat strap which is attached to thebassoon and laid across the chair seat before sitting down tohold it in place. To make a sound, the bassoonist blows airthrough a double reed causing it to vibrate. To play notesand vary the sound, the bassoonist must cover differentcombinations of tone holes with fingers or keys.

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In December of1891, basketball wasinvented by a Cana-dian who was a cler-gyman, educator, andphysician. His namewas James Naismith.He introduced thisgame when he was inSpringfield, Massa-chusetts at the YoungMen’s Christian Asso-ciation TrainingSchool (now Spring-field College). His su-perior asked him toorganized a vigorousrecreation that wassuitable for winter in-door play. At thattime, the teams had 9players. The firstballed used were soc-cer balls and thegoals were woodenpeach baskets thatwere attached to thewalls.

In 1897-1898, teams of five became the standard. The game also spreadnationwide, to Canada and other parts of the world. It was played by bothmen and women. U.S. servicemen in World War II, made the sport popularin many other countries as they played it for recreation.

In 1934, the first college games were played in New York City’s MadisonSquare Gardens. By the 1950’s, basketball had become a major collegesport. One of the first and greatest pro teams was the Original Celtics, or-ganized about 1915 in New York City. They played as many as 150 games aseason and dominated basketball until 1936. The Harlem Globetrotters,founded in 1927, was and still is a notable exhibition team who specializes inamusing court antics and expert ball handling.

In 1949 two professional leagues, the National Basketball League and theBasketball Association of America merged to create the National BasketballAssociation (NBA). By the 1960s, pro teams from coast to coast played be-

fore crowds of many millions annually. The women’sbasketball league (WNBA) was established in 1997. Youcan visit the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mas-sachusetts. Check out all the names of great players,coaches, referees, and people who have contributed sig-nificantly to the development of this popular game.

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8. QUISHALLE NLEAO

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9. AADIN AUTSARI

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Answers: 1. LeBron James, 2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 3. Magic Johnson, 4. Lisa Leslie, 5.Michael Jordan, 6. Kobe Bryant, 7. candace Parker, 8. Shaquille O’Neal, 9. Diana Taurasi,10. Larry Bird

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