Toronto Kids June 2016

June 2016

Animal Dads: Facts Just

in Time for Father’s Day

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The Great Octo-Escape

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June Events

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Waves and Tides

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AnimAl DADsMost animals never even see their parents! Insects, fish, amphibians and other animals that hatch from eggs often start life completely alone.

A lot of animals are raised by their mothers. But in some surprising cases, it is the dads who are in charge.

Open Wide!

Darwin Frog

Sea Cat�sh

Stickleback Fish

Some dads give more than lip service to the job of rearing their

young – they give their whole mouths to the job! To find out which dad does what, add up the numbers next to each dad tale and match it to

the number next to each dad.

12-7+5+6=This father keeps his eggs in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He does not eat until his young are born, which takes several weeks.

7+2+4-6=This father hatches eggs in a pouch in his mouth.

He can eat and go about his life while the tadpoles grow and grow. His babies stay in the

pouch until they become tiny frogs and jump out of his mouth!

6+7+3-4=These dads are very active fathers. They

build nests, guard eggs and even find food for their babies. If danger comes along, dad simply opens his mouth and the babies swim inside and wait until

danger has passed.

It’s hard to believe, but there are two animal dads

that give birth. Both the seahorse and pipefish

moms put their eggs in a pouch in the father’s belly.

Inside this special pouch, the eggs hatch and the

babies grow. When the babies are big enough to

survive

on their own, the father

shoots them out of his belly.

Find the seahorse twins.

There are five sets.

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THE GREAT OCTO-ESCAPEThanks, but no tanks!NEW ZEALAND – One night in April, Inky the octopus slipped silently out of his tank at New Zealand’s National Aquarium.

The aquarium staff followed his little suction cup prints to discover that Inky had escaped through a small gap at the top of his tank.

Once out of the tank, Inky slid across the fl oor to a six-inch-wide drain. He squeezed his football-sized body through the drain which took him into the Pacifi c Ocean. And nobody has seen Inky since that night!

Shape ShiftersAn octopus has a soft body and can squeeze it’s body

into very small spaces. In the sea, they like to live alone in small caves, spaces under rocks or even in pottery that falls from passing ships.

Inky was added to the aquarium in 2014. He had been in-jured when he was caught in a crayfi sh pot.

Keep and octopus occupied

Octopuses are very diffi cult to keep in aquariums. If they get bored, they start to take things apart. In 2009, an octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in Cali-fornia took apart a valve and caused a fl ood. Another octopus took apart a little robot submarine that was in its tank.

What do you get when you cross a werewolf

with an octopus?

Why won’t most � sh take an octopus very seriously?

What do you call a squid that can transform itself

into a robot?

EIGHT ARMS OR LEGS?An octopus has eight arms … or are they legs? Scientists think two of the limbs act as legs, and the rest more like arms.

These limbs are called tentacles. Each tentacle has two rows of suckers that sense taste. If an octopus loses a tentacle, it can grow a new one!

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One of the beachballs on this page is different from all the

others. Can you find it?

Make a list of

everything that you know comes

from milk.National Dairy

Month

Write a poem on the topic of

“Wishes for My Dad.” Make the day special for a man in your life.

Find a local activity that is

happening in your neighborhood and volunteer to help.

Father’sDay

The United Nations designated

this as World Environment

Day. Celebrate the day by cleaning up litter around your

school.

Tune to music radio and dance along for some fun exercise.Radio was patented on this day in 1896.

Riverside’s Queen Street East will be

lined with local eats, live jazz, blues and

children’s music and a kids tent for the 4th

annual festival!

24 teams will converge in France to

play “the beautiful game,” each team

hoping to take home the Henri Delaunay

Cup. The tournament starts today!

This day is the anniversary of the first U.S.

Space walk by Ed White in 1965. Write a paragraph about what it must be like

to walk in space.

Can you find a pond or lake somewhere, take a parent and feed the ducks.

Ask your parents what happened on the day you

were born. Then ask them if they

know what happened on the day they were

born.

Make this a day without using the

car. Walk to school if you can

or ride a bike.

Take your kites out on a hillside, park or beach.

Have a friend run with the kite as you hold the

string. Take turns flying your kite.

Find a baseball game happening in your community and cheer on a

local team.

Have a family sleepover, watch movies, eat pizza and sleep on the

floor.

Take a field trip to a museum with a family member today. First plan your day, your

lunch and which exhibits you

particularly would like to see.

Take three bean bags or balls and

see if you can learn to juggle today.

LEON Day—that’s NOEL

spelled backwards. It’s 6 months from

this day until Christmas. Write down 3 goals to achieve before

Christmas.

Close your eyes and listen carefully and in silence for at

least 3 minutes. Then discuss what

you could hear.

Riverside Eats & Beats Streetfest

Lakeshore Village BIA hosts the first Grilled Cheese Challenge at

Lake Shore and Islington.

Stop by for tasty food, live music, kids’ events

and shopping!Grilled Cheese

ChallengeUEFA Euro 2016Donald Duck’s

Birthday

Fly a Kite Day

Little Italy’s biggest street festival takes place this weekend. Enjoy enjoy live music , crafts &

artisans and FOOD!

Bloor Street is transformed into a

block party between Bathurst

and Spadina!Food, music and

more!

Plan a summer picnic today. Who will you invite?

What food will you need? Where will

you hold your picnic?

Annex Festival on Bloor

Taste of LIttle Italy

Magic Lanterns Theatre presents a

weekend of the best movies adapted

from Roal Dahl’s beloved kids’

books!Roal Dahl

Film Festival

See a new musical take on The Little

Mermaid June 11 to June 26!

Ages 3-10

Enjoy daily theatre performances at the

George Ignatieff Theatre for children ages 3-12 as part of the Fringe Festival.June 29 - July 10

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Kick off summer at Etobicoke’s

Centennial Park! Carnival rides, live

music, midway, pony rides and

plenty of ribs all weekend!

Toronto Ribfest

Plan a visit to a zoo or an

aquarium today and help make a

difference for wildlife.Zoo and

Aquarium Month

Helen Keller’sbirthday

Find a way to stay cool without air condition-ing. Make a fan or a

gentle water spray.

Try something you have never done before or

explore somewhere

you have never visited before.

Make a list of things you would

like to do during your Summer Vacation.

and cheer on a and cheer on a local team.

Have a friend run and cheer on a local team.with the kite as

you hold the string. Take turns flying your kite.Fly a Kite Day

with the kite as

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and cheer on a local team.

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.



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Ocean Overviewvideo.nationalgeographic.com/video/oceans-narrated-by-sylvia-earle/oceans-overviewThis beautifully fi lmed video de-scribes what we know about oceans and ocean life and shows that our knowledge is far outstripped by our impact on it.

Explorium: Ocean For Kidspuppetlife.com/explorium-space-for-kids.htmlThis is a learn and play app where kids can dive with Alex and Alice into the ocean to fi nd the lost city of Atlantis. Along the way they will learn fun facts about the underwater world

NASA’s Eyes on the Earthclimatekids.nasa.gov/menu/ocean/The Ocean section of NASA’S Cli-mate Kids site has sections listed as: 10 Interesting things about Eco-systems, 10 Interesting Things About Earth, Play Climate Trivia, What is happening in the ocean?, 10 Inter-esting Things About Water, Paper or plastic? Play Bingo! and Gallery of Oceans.

Science in Seconds at the BeachJean PotterOver 100 quick and easy activities un-lock some of the mysteries of oceans and beaches such as how fi sh swim, how to clean water with sand, why you hear the ocean in a shell, do snails all coil in the same way and why do they hide from the sun?

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Five-Letter Trivia1. THINK2. CURVE3. BLEND4. DADDY5. THIRD6. VOICE7. ROOTS8. SPILL

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Find the se horse twins.Add the numbers to � nd the dad


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