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What a Life!
As you grow up, you get taller and bigger. But as a butterfly grows up, its body changes completely. This amazing journey is called metamorphosis. A monarch butterfly always lays her eggs on a milkweed plant. A caterpillar hatches from the monarch eg
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Ella’s Baby Album
Here I am at one day old. I’m already three feet tall and weigh 250 pounds. Can you see the hair covering my body? Most elephant calves are born with hair. It falls off as we grow. I was able to stand just 15 minutes after I was born. I was walking a
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A Nest on My Porch
Journal date April 15 Grandma gave me this cool nature notebook for my birthday. I’m going to write about all the animals I see. This morning a robin with grass in its beak flew to a post on our front porch. Another robin sang in the maple tree. I wa
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Porcupette Explores the Night
The full moon is rising over rocky mountain peaks. It shines down into a canyon. Under the roots of an old pine tree, there is scuffling and snuffling. A young porcupine, called a porcupette, comes out of the den where she spent the day resting. Her
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Grow, Bug, Grow!
Each of the four illustrated strips below tells a different story about insect life cycles. To put the stories together, cut out the strips carefully on the dotted lines, twist each strip once, and tape the two ends of each strip together. You will f
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READERS Of The Month
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Yo Wants to Know
“These shoes are getting too small,” says Mom. “Shoes don’t get small,” says Yo. “Feet get big.” “They sure do,” says Mom. “When you were born, your feet were tiny, just like the rest of you.” “But I grew fast,” says Yo. “In this picture I’m bigger,”
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Carry Me!
When you were a baby, you couldn’t walk on your own. Someone had to carry you in their arms, in a baby carrier, or in a stroller until you grew bigger and stronger. Some animal parents carry their babies too. How do they do it? Cats of all kinds pick
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Sharing the Caring
Do you have a babysitter? Meerkats do! These southern African animals live together in groups of up to 40. When a mom and dad have pups, the whole group helps out! They work together and take turns watching over the babies, bringing them food, and te
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The Ohio River Sweep
Hi! I’m a paddlefish. I swim in the Ohio River, along with more than 160 different kinds of fish. Birds, beavers, otters, frogs, and turtles use the river too. The Ohio River isn’t only in Ohio. It runs through or along six states. It’s a great plac
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Recycled Art
Can you tell what this big fish is made from? Plastic bottles! More than a billion plastic bottles are sold each day, and a lot of them end up littering beaches and oceans. Artists picked up these bottles and used them to build a fish to remind us th
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Don’t Throw It Away!
Paper, plastic, glass, and cans Don’t belong in the garbage can. If you can’t use them once again, Toss ’em in the recycling bin. Batteries, medicine, some cans that spray Should not be just thrown away. They’re what’s known as hazardous waste And mu
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READERS Of The Month
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Where Does It Go?
Do you know where this trash should go? Follow the paths to see. Don’t flush used tissues down the toilet. Shredded newspaper and cardboard can be composted. But there’s a better place for large pieces. You don’t need to scrub empty cans clean, but r
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Flush!
Andy’s little sister grabbed a piece of toilet paper and dropped it into the water. She leaned over the bowl and flushed, watching the paper disappear. Then she reached for more toilet paper. “Mom,” Andy yelled, while holding his sister’s hand. “Lizz
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Here Comes the Garbage Truck
Every Thursday a big green garbage truck slowly rumbles down my street. The driver stops the truck in front of a house, and a worker jumps off. He grabs the trash bin sitting on the curb and empties it into the hopper, where the garbage is collected.
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Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children
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Garbage Day
It’s recycling, yard waste, and trash pickup day. Who will get the job done first? Carefully remove the takeout pages. Cut out the truck markers on the dotted lines, then fold each marker along the solid lines so the truck will stand. Each player cho
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Yo Wants to Know
“I love my new fleece vest,” exclaims Yo. “You’re supposed to be helping,” saysDad. “You know, that fleece of yours is made from bottles like those.” “That’s silly,” says Yo. “No,” says Dad, “it’s recycling.Factories buy plastic, chop it up, melt it,
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Upcycle!
When plastic or metal or paper gets recycled, it gets smashed and chopped into little pieces. Those pieces are then used to make new plastic or metal or paper. That’s good, but the quality of the new stuff may not be high. Upcycling is when you turn
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Waiting For The Sun To Disappear
Jeff pushed his nose against the window, waiting for his cousin Liz to arrive. Liz and Aunt Molly were coming to stay at his house. Jeff couldn’t wait to play at the park with them. He planned to show Liz the backyard fort that he and Dad had built.
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Watching the Moon
If you look at the moon every night for 29 days or so, you’ll see how it changes shape, and you’ll see all the phases of the moon yourself! So, every night for about a month, go outside and look at the moon. Then go inside and draw how the moon looks
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A Visit to the Cincinnati Observatory
An observatory is a place where people look up at the sky through telescopes to learn about outer space. The bigger the telescope, the farther out into space you can see! Click visited his friend Natalia Tooley at the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincin
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Yo Wants to Know
“The moon is so big and bright!” exclaims Yo. “It’s bigger than my basketball.” “Yes, the moon is bigger than that,” says Dad. “Bigger than our car?” asks Yo. “Bigger, Yo.” “Bigger than our house?” “Bigger, Yo. Bigger than all the houses in the world
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Make A Solar Eclipse Mask
Regular sunglasses are not enough to safely watch an eclipse. You need special eclipse glasses. But you can make a mask to go with them! All you need is half of a paper plate, markers or crayons, scissors, and your grown-ups’ help, plus solar eclipse
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