Kid scoop jan 2014

A KID-TESTED PUBLICATION OF THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS

To celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. we encourage all to make the holiday a day “on” and not a day “off.”

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Games, Puzzles and JokesJanuary Calendar of ActivitiesSmart Ideas for Teachers

Look carefully: Can you find the two identical

snowflakes?

Why is blood red? What is plasma? How much blood is in your body? Will you ever run out of

blood? Get the answers inside this issue!

Captain Alfred Stormalong was an American folk hero said to be a sailor

and a giant, some 30 feet tall!

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News: Batkid to the Rescue! ............................ 3Character Spotlight: MLK .............................. 4-5Biography: Ben Franklin ................................ 6-7Health: The State of You ............................... 8-9Health: Blood ........................................... 10-11Puzzles ........................................................ 12Calendar ...................................................... 13Biography: Clara Barton ............................ 14-15Legend: Alfred Bulltop Stormalong ............. 16-17Early Learners: letter M & number 4 ............... 18Book & Web Picks ........................................ 19Free Online Games ........................................ 20Animals: Orca Opera ...................................... 21Try This At Home .......................................... 22Lesson Idea of the Month ............................... 23Answers ...................................................... 24

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News: Batkid to the Rescue! ............................ 3Character Spotlight: MLK .............................. 4-5Biography: Ben Franklin ................................ 6-7Health: The State of You ............................... 8-9Health: Blood ........................................... 10-11Puzzles ........................................................ 12Calendar ...................................................... 13Biography: Clara Barton ............................ 14-15Legend: Alfred Bulltop Stormalong ............. 16-17Early Learners: letter M & number 4 ............... 18Book & Web Picks ........................................ 19Free Online Games ........................................ 20Animals: Orca Opera ...................................... 21Try This At Home .......................................... 22Lesson Idea of the Month ............................... 23Answers ...................................................... 24

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On November 15, 2013, San Francisco, CA became Gotham City for a day. All to make a wish come true for Miles Scott, a 5-year-old boy battling leukemia.

Dressed in a Batman costume, the young superhero-for-a-day was called into service by real life Police Chief Greg Suhr. He zoomed from one “crime scene” to another in a black Batmobile. He rescued a damsel in distress from cable car tracks, captured the Riddler as he robbed a bank and saved the San Francisco Giants mascot – Lou Seal – from the clutches of arch villain Penguin.

The wish-come-true for Miles was organized by the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Thousands of people came to San Francisco that day to be part of the adventure. Millions more watched the action unfold on social media.

The San Francisco Chronicle created a special front page

for the day.

Miles “Batkid” Scott

Below: San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee with Batkid and Batman at City Hall.

Left: Grateful citizens of Gotham City cheer for Batkid.

At the end of the day, Miles received a chocolate key to the city from Mayor, Ed Lee.

“Miles has been �ghting leukemia since he was 18 months old,” said his father. He is now in remission and it looks like that battle will also have a happy ending!

“Science solves problems,” says 12-year-old Peyton. “That’s why I like it!” His parents taught him that he could use math and science to fix problems.

During Superstorm Sandy, Peyton observed problems with sand bags.

“Super-storm Sandy really got me concerned about how people can prepare,” Peyton told NBC News.

A common form of flood protection is the sand bag. Sand bags help block rising waters. But the bulky 40-pound bags are hard to move around.

Peyton invented a new kind of flood protection bag, stuffed with polymers and salt instead of sand. When dry, his bags are thin, easy to carry and weigh only about 4 pounds. But, when wet, the polymers swell up to hold back flood waters.

“After the flood, you let the water evaporate and the polymer and salt return to their dry state and the bags are reusable.”

His Sandless Operational Sandbag (SOS) earned him the title of “America’s 2013 Top Young Scientist” after winning the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. He received $25,000 and a trip to Costa Rica for winning the Scientist Challenge.

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CHARACTER SPOTLIGHTCHARACTER SPOTLIGHT

Many communities have an organization that helps volunteers find places to help others. Write the letter that comes after each letter of the alphabet on the spaces below to find a place you can call to see how you can be of service to your community.

Standards Link: History: Understand how Martin Luther King worked to achieve the liberties and equalities promised in the principles of American democracy.

T Justin and Dustin volunteered to help pick up litter at the playground. Justin drew a map to help Dustin find the meeting point, but it’s pretty confusing. Can you help?

Offer to walk a neighbor’s dog.

Read Kid Scoop News to a child younger than you.

Offer to help a neighbor with yard work.

Here are a few ideas of things you could do to make Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday a day of service. Can you add more?•

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– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Standards Link: Civics: Students understand why civic responsibility is important.

his year’s Martin Luther King holiday marks 46 years since Dr. King’s assassination. To honor Dr. King’s message of positive change, this milestone is the perfect opportunity to honor Dr. King’s legacy through service. MLK Day of Service empowers invididuals, strengthens communities, bridges barriers and creates solutions to social problems.

Kid Scoop News has ideas on how you can celebrate the Martin Luther King Day of Service by making a difference for someone in your community.

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BIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHY

In 1733 Ben started publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack. At that time almanacs were books printed every year that contained things like weather reports and recipes. Franklin published his almanac under the name Richard Saunders, a poor man who needed money to take care of his wife. Franklin’s lively writing style made his almanac a little different from others and it soon became very popular.

In the almanac Ben Franklin wrote one-sentence hints to tell people how to live better. These are called proverbs. One of his proverbs is hidden in the border of this page. To read it, start with the starred letter and copy every fourth letter as you move around the box clockwise. (We did the first one for you.)

Inventor, writer and patriot Benjamin Franklin was born on January 7, 1706. How old would Ben be if he were still alive today?

When Ben was 15, his brother James started a newspaper called The New England Courant which published local news, advertisements and opinions.

Ben wanted to write for the newspaper, but James wouldn’t let him. So Ben began writing letters to the newspaper and signed them Silence Dogood. Dogood was supposed to be a widow whose letters were filled with advice and criticism of how women were treated. Late at night, Ben slipped the letters under the print shop door. Readers loved the letters and finally, after 16 letters, Ben confessed that he was Dogood.

Because of Ben’s love of reading, Benjamin Franklin’s father _ _ _ _ e _ _ ic _ _ Ben to his brother James, who was a printer. At age 12, Ben helped his brother write _ _ _ ph _ _ _ _ and _ _ p _ _ _ _. After the pamphlets were completed, Ben would sell them in the streets.

pamphlet – a thin book with a paper cover, written to give information on a topic

typeset – to put letters mounted on wood or metal into the right order to make words and sentences for printing

apprenticed – to be placed in a job working for someone else to learn that person’s craft or skill

Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-level words correctly.

Some of the blocks of type for Ben’s printing press have fallen. Use the definitions of each word

to replace the missing letters. The letters look backwards

because they work like rubber stamps. Hold them up to a

mirror if you’re stuck.

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EARLY LEARNERS EARLY LEARNERS

M is for Mittens

Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter M. Say the letter as you trace it.

How many ?

Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the

questions. Touch and count to find the answers.

m is for mittens

How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the sound the letter M makes in the word mittens?

How many ?

marshmallows

mushrooms

How many ?muffins

Count how many mittens in each box and circle the number that matches.

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CHARACTER SPOTLIGHTCHARACTER SPOTLIGHT

Jim and Olivia go to different schools. One is a boy and one is a girl. These are just two reasons why Olivia and Jim might never have become friends. But, on the Martin Luther King Day of Service they each volunteered to visit the senior center. They found out that they both love to play cards! Now they are good friends.Standards Link: Life Skills: Students learn to work well with those from different ethnic groups, of different religious orientations and of cultures different from their own.

What things are the same about Jim and

Olivia?

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HEALTHHEALTH

lood is made up of tiny cells. Most of them are red, which is why blood looks red.

Red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of the body. A single drop of blood contains millions of red blood cells whichconstantly travel through your body delivering oxygen and removing waste. Blood is made up of other kinds of cells, too.

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that multicellular organisms have specialized cells to perform specialized functions.

• White blood cells battle germs that invade the body.• Platelets are cells that get sticky and thick when they come into contact with air. When you get a cut, the platelets get gooey and plug up the cut.

lasma is a yellowish liquid that carries nutrients, hormones, and proteins throughout the body. Plasma is mostly water, absorbed from the intestines from what you drink and eat, with the liver supplying important proteins.

White blood cell

Red blood cell

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If you weigh 50 pounds:

If you weigh 80 pounds: If you weigh

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Standards Link: Grammar: Recognize and use nouns and verbs in writing.

se the code to find out how much blood is in each of the kids at left. Which one is closest to your weight?

On Valentine’s Day, you’ll see lots of hearts – heart-shaped candy boxes, balloons and cards are everywhere. But your own heart is really something to love.

Your heart beats about 100,000times every day, pumping bloodthrough your body. Your blood contains red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma, each with different functions.

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HEALTHHEALTH CALENDARCALENDAR2014

Write out your list of 10 long-term goals for the New Year.New Year’s Day

This is a day off school when you can serve your

community. For ideas visit

www.mlkday.gov

Dr. Martin LutherKing, Jr. Day

Choose something new to make or do this month. Start

collecting the materials you’ll need for a new

hobby.National Hobby

Month

Chart how many hours of sleep

you get per night. Between 10 and

11 should be your target.

Festival of SleepDay

Write down three trivia questions and quiz your parents or friends. Then have them ask you three

trivia questions.

Trivia Day

Wrap up warm and go for a walk today.

See how many different kinds of

birds you can spot.National Bird

Day

Today would be a good day to write thank you letters

for all your Christmas gifts.

National ThankYou Month

Put together a family calendar for

the entire year. Mark everyone’s birthday, school

holidays, anniversaries and

special days.

Fill five or six glasses with different

amounts of water. Make a tune tapping them lightly with a

wooden spoon.

Which is the most cluttered part of your room? Get

containers together and organize the clutter, label the

containers and throw away or recycle

unwanted pieces.

30 minutes of walking can boost your brainpower.

Start walking with some friends daily.

Why is milk important? Discuss the different ways

you consume milk? What is your favorite

milk product?

Find a chore to do at home or ask a parent to allocate a chore. Give it an

extra effort and see if you can accomplish

something today.Work Harder Day

Make a map today of your

home and yard, as if you are

looking down on it from above. Use color to

show different elements.

Sprint from one end of a basketball court

to the other. How many times can you go back and forth in

10 minutes?

Look through a page in the

newspaper and find a word you do not understand. Look up the meaning in

a dictionary.

Discuss frost today in class. What does it look like and feel like? How does it form? Or make a fruity frost treat at home by mixing

different fruit juices and freezing them.

Ben Franklin was born on this day in 1706. Discuss his accomplishments and inventions. Why are these important to us

all today?

Invite some friends over or gather the

family together for

Family GameNight

Lewis Carroll was born on this

day on 1832. Make a drawing

of one of the characters from

Alice in Wonderland.

Get a group together. Choose a tune you all enjoy

and play your kazoos together.

Kazoo Day

Find a puzzle in Kid Scoop News and work with a friend to find the

solution.

National PuzzleDay

What did you do this month to stay healthy? What will you carry forward

to stay healthy next month?

National StayingHealthy Month

Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919. He was a great all

round sportsman. Participate in a sport today in

honor of Jackie Robinson.

Save up for something special!

Start a jar or a piggy bank and put

in change whenever you can.

For tonight’s movie, rent a movie

with a winter theme. Make a

big bowl of popcorn and enjoy

the show.Family

Movie Night

Help a parent make a big bowl of soup for dinner tonight.

National SoupMonth

Make a January scrapbook. Include

photos of all the family and

memorabilia from special events and

excursions this month.

Write a one paragraph

description of your favorite pie, what is in it and why it is your favorite.

National Pie Day

Try to say as many nice things

to people as possible today.

NationalCompliment Day

How many different

“opposites” can you think of today.

Make a list and add to it throughout

the day.Opposites Day

It is said that no two snowflakes are exactly alike, but on this page, all the snowflakes are the same except for one. Can you find it?

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Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was called Stormy for short, but there was nothing short about this legendary tall tale character!

How many of these words can you find on this page?

One day, in the early 1800s, a tidal wave washed a giant baby onto a Cape Cod beach. The baby boy was

three fathoms tall!

Local villagers carried the baby to the meeting house and fed him barrels and barrels of milk. It took ten people to burp him, and when he finally burped, it

nearly blew the roof off the meeting house!

When Stormy turned 12, he was six fathoms tall. He didn’t fit into the school house and was too tall to work in a store. They sent him to Boston because it was a lot bigger than Cape Cod.

Sadly, in Boston he found an even sadder sight. While Boston was a bigger city, the houses and buildings were just as small. He walked to Boston Harbor and headed for the largest clipper ship. The captain welcomed him aboard and Stormy started work as a cabin boy.

While Stormy loved the sea, the clipper ship was not big enough for him. It nearly tipped over when he stood near the rail. He heard that the plains of the Midwest stretched for miles like a sea of land and he headed west to try his hand at farming.

Read about baby Stormy and complete this picture.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Students know the defining characteristics of a variety of literary forms.

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BOOK & WEB PICKSBOOK & WEB PICKS

See Inside Your Bodyby Katie Daynes, illustrated by Colin King

With over 50 flaps to lift in this book, it allows children to discover the inner workings of their bodies in a gentle way. Color illustrations and diagrams display major organs and are accompanied by witty, clear and informative facts. This book is both educational and enjoyable.

Kids Discoverkidsdiscover.com/shop/issues/learning-about-blood/What do your blood and the city of Venice have in common? They both operate the same way. Kids Discover have a great book that tells you all about blood.

How Blood Worksscience.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/blood.htmWe take our blood for granted but there are some amazing things to learn about this incredible fluid.

MagicBoxyoutube.com/watch?v=CgkcBuXrT3wThis short animated movie explains what’s in your blood and how it moves around your body through your arteries and veins.

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hen the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers flooded in 1884, a group of six children put on a play, raised money and sent it to Clara Barton’s Red Cross organization. The money helped a family that suffered greatly from the flood.

To find out how much money the children raised, add up all of the even numbers on the red crosses below.

Standards Link: Math: Compute sums to 100.

ANSWER: $50.

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PUZZLE PAGEPUZZLE PAGE

Pepper caught two

more �sh than Petula but one less than Pedro.

Standards Link: Number Sense: Use logic and mathematical reasoning to solve word problems.

Read the clues under each penguin. Then color in the number of �sh each penguin caught. Which penguin ended up with the most �sh?

This polar bear doesn’t feel like swimming today. Only the even-numbered pieces of ice can support his weight. Help him by doing the math and crossing out the odd-numbered pieces of ice with a red crayon.

Perry caught twice as

many �sh as Pedro but one �sh got

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Pike caught four more �sh than Pepper.

Petula caught four �sh, but two

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VALLEYSVALLEYS PUZZLE PAGEPUZZLE PAGE

Orcas use echolocationWith clear click-like soundsThat bounce off of fish or Whatever’s around.

Sometimes orcas breachAnd then land with a splashThey spyhop to size up A place in a flash.

On its back is a saddle,A small patch of gray.Its tail’s called a flukeUsed for swimming away!

Sing the song below to the tune of “On Top of Old Smoky.” Then complete the diagram of the orca to show

what you learned from the song!*

Let’s sing about orca,Big black and white whaleBeyond twenty feet fromIts rostrum to tail.

An orca’s a mammalJust like you and me,But it is adaptedTo live in the sea.

It has a small blowhole,A nose on its head,No dive suit to warm it,There’s blubber instead.

Two pectoral fins letThe orca whale steer, And one dorsal finKeeps it stable, that’s clear.

Twenty-five miles an hourIs how fast it can swim,And for more than ten minutesCan hold its breath in!

A pod is its familyTogether for life,From five whales to fortyThrough sickness and strife.

Orcas are powerful predators. They eat fish, seals, sharks and even other whales. Sailors who witnessed

their attacks on larger marine animals called them “whale killers.” After a while, the words got

switched to killer whales.

Males can reach up to 30 feet long and weigh as much as 7 tons or 14,000 pounds. That’s

nearly as big as a:

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*Adapted from an educational song created by Six Flags

Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, CA

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