Kidscoop march 2014

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Maya Angelou is one of the most honored women in the world, recognized as a poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker and civil rights activist.

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Games, Puzzles and JokesMarch Calendar of ActivitiesSmart Ideas for Teachers

Woodword’s kite has stripes. His kite has a tail, but not a short one. Woodword doesn’t like polka dots

on kites. His kite doesn’t look like a rainbow.

It’s hard to spot a leprechaun but we

found one to answer questions about these

mysterious little people.

Read about cars that run on batteries instead of gas.

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Pasadena, Calif. – The Annual BCS National Championship was played for the final time on Monday, January 6, 2014, at the Rose Bowl Stadium. The number one ranked Florida State Seminoles played number two ranked Auburn Tigers. The Seminoles were victorious with a final score of 34 to 31. Even though the game was only won in the final seconds, each team played a tremendous game.

Read Jadon’s detailed coverage at www.KidScoopNews.com,

including:

Jadon interviews Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Inductee Coach Lloyd Carr.

Lynn Swann Orlando Pace

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Jadon with one of his role models, Tim Tebow

Heisman Trophy WinnerDesmond Howard

NFL great Clinton Portis

Auburn Head CoachGus Malzahn

FSU linebacker Christian Jones

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Pasadena, Calif. – This year’s Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honored Coach Lloyd Carr, left tackle Orlando Pace and wide receiver Lynn Swann.

On December 30, the perfect weather reflected the overall atmosphere of the day. Miniature souvenir footballs were passed out to the guests. Friends and family were present for these three amazing football legends to be inducted to the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.

Coach Carr was introduced by one of his quarterbacks, Brain Gresie. Gresie said that Carr had coached eleven Rose Bowls and won four of them. I asked Carr what advice he would give kids pursuing their dream of playing football/coaching. He said that kids

should play Pop Warner football throughout their childhood, then play high school football while coaching Pop Warner, and if possible go on to play college football.

Orlando Pace was introduced by his eighth grade son, Justin. The former Ohio State and St. Louis Rams player is predicted to become a Pro Football Hall of Famer in 2014.

Pittsburg Steelers Hall of Fame wide receiver, Lynn Swann, was introduced by former inductee, Sam “The Bam” Cunningham. Cunningham, Swann’s roommate in college, said he did not know why good receivers (like Swann) came to USC because the team did not throw the ball, they ran it. Swann made a key catch in Super Bowl X against the Cowboys. Lynn Swann was inducted intothe Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001.

It was a special day for all who attended.

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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTHWOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Look at the list of art forms. Circle the ones with even numbers. These are art forms that helped Maya become famous.

As a young woman, Maya was San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor.

She worked hard to support herself and her son.

Find the two

identical cable cars.

aya Angelou was born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Today she is one of the most honored women in the world, recognized as a poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker and civil rights activist. She has won three Grammys for her spoken-word albums, and in 2011, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom for inspiring young people with her words.

Maya’s life didn’t have an easy start. After her parents’ divorce,

she was moved from home to home for many years, living in turn with her mother, her grandmother and her father. For a while she was homeless.

But she didn’t let the poverty, pain or suffering of her childhood destroy her. In response, she created works of art.

Standards Links: History: Students understand that specific individuals can have a great impact on history.

Maya loved to perform. She started singing and dancing in nightclubs and changed her name to Maya Angelou. Maya came from her brother’s nickname for her, “my-a-sister.” Angelou came from her first husband’s name, Angelos.

After Maya was cast in the opera Porgy and Bess, she traveled throughout Europe performing in the show. While on tour, she learned the languages of the countries she visited. Follow the maze to see which launguages she learned.

SPANISH, ITALIAN, ARABIC, FANTI*FRENCH

GERMAN, RUSSIAN, ARABIC, FANTI*GREEK

* A West African languageStandards Links: Behavioral Studies: Understand that people learn about each other in different ways.

To date, Maya has published more than 30 bestselling books. She wrote a series of books about her life. To discover the name of her first book, hold this page up to a mirror.

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STEMSTEM

The sound of a gasoline engine roaring to life may eventually be a thing

of the past. The soft whirring sound of electric cars may replace it.

Electric cars are quiet, clean, battery-powered vehicles that, like giant power tools, can be charged by plugging into a wall outlet.

One problem for electric cars is that there aren’t a lot of places to recharge them. But that’s changing. More and more parking lots near office buildings, shopping malls and other public places are setting up stations for plugging in a car.

General Motors (GM) makes an electric car called Volt.

Though it runs on electricity, it also has a gas engine.

an electric caran airline pilota music teachera cheerleadera farmera doctora golfera movie directora zookeeper

Can you decide which license plate belongs

to which driver?

Tesla Motors is producing the first EV (electric

vehicle) sports car called Model S. The company is named after Nikola Tesla, the man who invented the

modern system of distributing electricity.

Nissan makes an all-electric car called Leaf, which gets

an average of 100 miles on a single charge.

Automakers are selling full-sized cars that run on batteries, not gas. An electric car’s motor is run by its battery. That battery needs to be powerful and hold its charge long enough to take drivers where they need to go.

Can you find at least three

differences between each car and its

reflection?Cars take people where they want to go, when they want to go. It’s hard to imagine life without them.

Unfortunately, cars also create problems. With the high price of gas, they’re expensive to run. And they pollute the atmosphere.

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We found a leprechaun to answer questions about these mysterious little people! He wouldn’t really show himself to us. Mostly what we saw during the interview were his lips, oversized sunglasses and his hat.

Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade appropriate words correctly in context.

Standards Link: Measurement: Use standard measurement. Reading Comprehension: Read grade-level appropriate materials.

A: Wee folk are we. Three feet tall at most.

A: It isn’t easy. If you should see a leprechaun, get as close as you can without him seeing you.

Quickly take him in your grasp and don’t take your eyes off of him. Then ask where his pot of gold is hidden.

He will try to talk you into looking away. If you do look the other way, he will be gone when you look back.

Can you read inches of the newspaper columns that are equal to 3 feet?

A: We play tricks on people who don’t believe in us. We especially like to bother teachers who try to tell children that we don’t exist.

Standards Link: Investigation: Find similarities and differences in common objects; identify matching attributes.

A: We make shoes for the fairies. Silly fairies wear out their shoes quickly because they dance all night. We are always busy making new shoes for them. They pay us with gold. Lots of gold!

Leprechaun’s shoe shelf has toppled. Can you match the pairs of fairy shoes?

One fine morning, I went for a walk in the woods. I tripped on a . When I looked down, I saw a little with a green .

“ ,” he said. “My name is .I’m a leprechaun. If you want my of , you’ll have to me first!”

I tried to him, but he was too for me.

He just laughed and called out to me, “ St. Patrick’s Day!”Standards Link: Grammar: Identify and use nouns, verbs and adjectives in writing.

adjective

adjective

adjective

noun

noun noun

noun noun

noun

verb

verb

greeting

ST. PATRICK’S DAY ST. PATRICK’S DAY

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EARLY LEARNERS EARLY LEARNERS

Peggy had a pet pink pigWho played in puddles, small and big.When piggy rolled in purple paint,We thought Peggy might just faint!

P is for Pencilp is for pencilLearning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter P. Say the letter as you trace it.

Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the

questions. Touch and count to find the answers.

How many ?

How many ?

penguins

parachutes

How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the P sound like the word pencil?

Can you help Polly get through the Pencil Maze? Grab a pencil and show her the way!

FREE ONLINE GAMESFREE ONLINE GAMESWhooping Crane CamWatch this streaming video from the release of the endangered Whooping cranes at the White River Marsh in Wisconsin. Ultralight aircraft act as surrogate parents guiding the birds along a safe path on the southern migration.

Tell Us WhatYou ThinkDo you have a free online game you like to play?Send your reviews and recommendations to [email protected]. operationmigration.org/crane-cam.html

ST. PATRICK’S DAY ST. PATRICK’S DAY

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The desert Food Pyramid shows how the animals and plants in the desert all need each other to survive. It shows how it takes many, many plants to feed the herbivores. The carnivores eat the herbivores.

• Plants are called producers because they make their own food using the energy from the sun.

• Herbivores eat plants.• Carnivores eat the animals

that eat the plants.

What would happen if people removed the plants on several desert acres and built a large shopping mall there?

Standards Link: Number Sense: Solve problems involving numeric equations.

The numbers on each “arm” of the cacti equal the number on the center trunk. Use the math sign on the base of each cactus to figure out the missing number on each cactus.

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know the organization of simple food chains and food webs.

ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT

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ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT

Packrat nests are like desert museums. Generations of packrats live in the same nest sites. These animals spend their lives collecting seeds, rocks, bones, bottle caps – almost anything – and storing them in their underground dens. Some nests have piled up for thousands of years!

By studying packrat nests, scientists have learned how the plant and animal life of an area has changed over the years.

The word desert comes from the Latin word “abandoned.” If you visit the desert in the daytime, you might think it is abandoned. Actually, the desert is full of life.

1 Owl Shelter: Food: Water:

2 BatShelter: Food: Water:

Draw a line from each animal to its food, water and shelter. Fill in the answers in the boxes below.

1 hole in a saguaro cactus

1 rodents

1 small spring

OWL

KANGAROO RATTARANTULA

BAT

2 cave

2 dew drops

2 flying insects

3 seeds

3 burrow

3 in the seeds

4 under rocks

4 grasshoppers4 in its food

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that an organism’s behavior is related to the availability of resources in the environment.

3 Kangaroo RatShelter: Food: Water:

4 Tarantuala Shelter: Food: Water:

Standards Link: Life Science: Understand relationships among organisms and their physical environments.

Animals in the desert escape the daytime heat by hiding under rocks or staying underground in

burrows and dens. They come out at night to hunt and explore.

Kangaroo rats never drink water. They get the water they need from the moisture inside the seeds they eat. Other animals also find water in the plants and animals they eat. Some drink from small desert springs.

The rare desert storm causes plants to burst into life. They quickly bloom and make their seeds before the heat dries

them up. The seeds will stay on the dry desert ground waiting to sprout in the next rainstorm.

Desert Historians

Standards Link: Life Science: Understand relationships among organisms and their physical environments.

What has the packrat hidden?

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CALENDARCALENDAR

Go for a walk to

find signs of

spring, like new buds

on trees or birds building nests.

2014

Read Across America celebrates

the birthday of Dr. Seuss.

Write a poem to

honor Dr. Seuss.

Get someaerobicexercisetoday.

Write a letter to a relative that lives far away.

Oh, say, do you know all the

words to The Star Spangled Banner? Congress made it

our national anthem in 1931.

National AnthemDay

Celebratetoday with lots of

apples—fresh apples for lunch, applesauce

or apple pie.

Johnny AppleseedDay

What does it mean when someone says “Use your

noodle!”

National NoodleMonth

First Day of Spring

Everyone who hates his or her name can be called “Joe”

today.

March is said to be a windy month. Go to the park or the beach to fly a

kite today.Do some spring cleaning. Clean out your closets, dust your dresser and donate your

outgrown clothes.National

“Joe” DayNational BubbleMonth

This is the middle of the month and a festive day in the Roman calendar.

The day was dedicated to the

Roman god, Mars.

Ides of March

The famous cliff swallows of Mission San Juan Capistrano are returning from

their winter vacation in Argentina.

Randolf Caldicott was born on this day in 1846. The

Caldicott Medal is awarded to

children’s books with superior

illustrations. Have you read any?

47 days before Easter is Fat

Tuesday and the beginning of Mardi Gras.

Make a list of the women who have made a difference

in the world.NationalWomen’sHistoryMonth

Luther Burbank was born on this

day in 1849. Learn about this great botanist, scientist and

inventor.

Cut a whole peanut shell in half.

Remove the nut. Add hair and a hat

to make your peanut puppet.

National PeanutMonth

The Iditarod sled dog race begins today in Alaska.

Meet the mushers at: www.iditarod.com

A walk in

the park can be

calming and re-energizing.

Celebrate the birthday

of César Chávez

Today is the anniversary of the first walk in space in 1965. Can you

find out something about space explo-

ration today?

The flower for the month of March is a

daffodil.Draw your favorite flower today.

The Girl Scouts were founded on this day in 1912. Find out if there’s a troop you could join in your area.

Gather some old magazines and make a collage

today. Be creative.

When you brush your teeth today, make sure your

brushing lasts for two minutes.

Can you find the four-leaf clover on this page?

Did you remember to move your

clocks forward?

Pour bubble solution in a large, shallow pan. Dip a

new fly swatter into the liquid and make hundreds of

tiny bubbles.

Butterfly Day

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CALENDARCALENDAR BOOK & WEB PICKSBOOK & WEB PICKS

The Night Before St Patrick’s Dayby Natasha Wing, illustrated by Amy Wummer

Natasha Wing puts an Irish twist on a Christmas classic. It’s the night before St. Patrick’s Day, and Tim and Maureen are wide awake setting traps to catch a leprechaun! When they wake the next morning to the sound of their dad playing the bagpipes and the smell of their mom cooking green eggs, they’re shocked to find that they’ve actually caught a leprechaun. But will they be able to find his pot of gold?

A Game of Deceptioneducation.com/worksheet/article/blarney/Think St. Patrick’s Day isn’t fun? That’s a load of blarney! Have some fun and use a little deception and trickery just like a leprechaun with this fun St. Patrick’s Day card game.

St. Patrick’s Dayspoonful.com/st-patricks-day/history-of-st-patricks-dayWhy do we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and wear green and hold parades on March 17th? Spoonful has the answers with links to St. Patrick’s Day games, food and crafts.

Luck o’ the Irishfun.familyeducation.com/st.-patricks-day/holidays/32935.htmlWhether you are Irish or not, this site has activities, puzzles, quizzes as well as information about famous Irishmen, Irish Luck, Irish Language, Leprechauns and Legends.

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To discover the answer to this silly riddle, fill in the missing letters below by reading the clues. The answer will

appear in the yellow boxes.

Liam hid gold at each end of a rainbow. He’ll share it with anyone who finds it. Race a friend to see who can get to

their pile of gold first.

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.

10.11.12.13.14.15.

A kind of clock to wake you up.Another word for flavor.The opposite of over.You sweep with this.The sound of a sneeze.What ice does in warm weather.Another name for killer whales.A place in the desert with water.A train travels on this.Something that weighs a lot.Tinker Bell uses this kind of dust.Upstairs storage space in a house.You cover spaghetti with it.You study before taking these.The opposite of friend.

CLUES:

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PUZZLE PAGEPUZZLE PAGE ANIMALSANIMALS

In order to save the whooping crane from extinction, scientists had to hatch and raise chicks in captivity and then introduce them to the wild. A challenge in raising whooping cranes is that they are migratory birds. That means they travel from northern nesting grounds to warmer lands in the south each winter.

n the 1940s, whooping cranes nearly disappeared from the planet. Habitat destruction and over-hunting had left only 15 birds alive. But before they disappeared altogether, people stepped up and found ways to save

them from extinction. Today there are more than 520 whooping cranes in the wild and in captivity. An organization called Operation Migration has played a major role in the return of these magnificent birds.

Chicks hatched in captivity are raised by people who wear big, baggy clothes designed to disguise the human form. The caretakers don’t talk to the chicks, and they feed them with a puppet that looks like the head of an adult whooping crane. These important steps are taken so that the chicks don’t become tame, but remain wild birds.

At around 45 days old, the young birds are taken to Wisconsin to be trained to follow the ultralight aircraft that they consider to be their parents.

Once the birds learn to fly, they are given daily exercises to build their strength and loyalty to the aircraft. By early October, the cranes are strong enough to be led on their first migration south to Florida.

In early spring the following year, the young adult cranes return to Wisconsin on their own. They remain there until some inner trigger tells them it is time to migrate south. This time, they make the migration all on their own.

Read the article below. Then number the pictures in order.

Thank you to the team at Operation Migration for its assistance with this page. To learn more about Operation Migration, visit www.operationmigration.org

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