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Just For Kids!Just For Kids!Kids’ World News www.kidsworldnews.net Volume 7, Issue 12, April 2015

We Welcome You to Check Out 0ur Website www.kidsworldnews.net

April 2015Eaton County

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For Kids To Enjoy!

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Hi Kids!It’s A Great Day

At Kids’ World

April is such a busy month! First we had holidays andthen we had Spring Break! What a fun beginning! Spend-ing time with family and friends is a wonderful opportunity.It gives us time to catch up on the news, have quality timewith people we care about and do some activities.Kids’ World News would like to thank all those who par-

ticipated in the coloring contest. We had some incredibleentries. Can’t wait until next year!April is also Kids’ World News Sponsor Appreciation

Month. We are very thankful for our sponsors continuoussupport of this newspaper. They sponsor Kids’ World Newsbecause they believe in supporting the youth of our com-munity and in encouraging all young people to read. Read-ing is so important because it is something we do the restof our lives in all walks of life. Since they sponsor our paper,that means it comes to you without charge. We would en-courage all people to call our sponsors and thank them forbeing a part of Kids’ World News!

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What Is Gravity?The Earth tries to pull everything down towards its center. This pull is

called the force of gravity (the invisible force). When you lift things up youhave to pull against gravity. If you drop a pencil, gravity pulls it to Earth. Ifyou rest the pencil’s mid-point on your finger, gravity will pull down equallyon both sides of the pencil and it will balance in the air.Did you know that there is no gravity in space? This is why astronauts

float around in their spaceships. Did you know that there is gravity on theMoon? The gravity on the Moon is much weaker than the gravity that wehave here on Earth. This is why moon walking for astromauts is very dif-ficult. Gravity or gravitational forces happen when one object attracts another.

When the molecules of one object pull on the molecules of another object,that is gravity. It's like the Earth pulling on you and keeping you on theground. That pull is gravity at work.Every object in the universe that has mass has a gravitational pull or a

gravitational force. Even you have gravity, but when you compare yourmass to the mass of the Earth, your gravitational pull isn't very big. Whenthe Earth spins and gravity pulls on the clouds, weather can be affected.The Earth's gravity even holds the atmosphere close to our surface.Smaller planets that have low gravity or no magnetic field cannot maintainan atmosphere.Obviously, gravity is very important on Earth. The Earth's gravity keeps

our planet orbiting the Sun, and the Sun's gravity pulls on us. The gravityof other planets also have an affect our orbit. The moon's gravity pulls onthe Earth and makes the tides rise and fall every day. As the moon passesover the ocean, there is a swell in the sea level. As the moon passes tothe other side of the planet, the swell occurs there. The Earth always has the same pull on every object. If you drop an

acorn or a piano, they will fall at the same speed. The Earth's gravity ac-celerates objects when they fall. It constantly pulls and objects constantlyspeed up.But what keeps the Moon from falling into the Earth if all of this gravity

is so strong? The answer is that the moon is revolving around the Earth.Those revolutions (about once a month) create a force that makes theMoon want to spin off into space. The Earth's gravity holds it in orbit. Thinkabout holding a ball on a string and spinning in a circle. If you were to cutthat string, the ball would fly off. That string is like the Earth's gravity.

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Steps:1. Place the ball on top of the table2. Place the jar over the ball so that the ball is inside the mouth of the canningjar.3. Start spinning the jar around in a circular motion (keeping it on the table).4. Once the ball starts spinning inside the jar lift it from the table top.5. The ball is lifted from the table and will continue to spin inside the jar until itloses is speed.This works because the ball spinning inside the jar is trying to escape but the

jar itself forces the ball to stay inside the wall of the jar. Due to the force of thespin or speed the ball will continue to spin until it loses its speed and gravity willpull it back to earth and the ball will fall from the jar.

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Cheese Bread1 egg1 1/2 cut milk3 3/4 cups baking mix (such as Bisquick)1 1/2 teaspoon salt1 cup cheddar cheese, finely grated1 tablespoon onion, minced1 tablespoon poppy seed

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom of a 9x5x3 inchloaf pan. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the egg andmilk, blend well. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Beatvigorously for 1 minute. Pour batter into prepared pan andsprinkle top with poppy seeds. Bake 50 to 60 minutes. Placeon wire rack to cool 5 to 10 minutes before removing from pan.Slice and serve warm.

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In a small sauce pan, combine the butterscotch pieces andpeanut butter. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until but-terscotch pieces are melted. Remove from the heat. Peel thebanana. With a knife (and adult supervision), cut the bananainto 1 inch pieces. Dip each piece of banana into the butter-scotch mixture. Lift out with a fork. Roll in the chopped peanutsor almond brickle pieces to coat. Place on a wax paper linedplate. Chill for 2 hours.

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4 ounces sweetchocolate1/4 cup butter3/4 cup sugar2 eggs1/2 cup flour1/2 cup chopped walnuts(optional)1 teaspoon vanilla24 cake ice cream cones24 scoops ice cream of your choice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a sauce pan over low heat,melt chocolate and butter, stirring frequently. Have your parenthelp you with this. Cool slightly, and then pour into a bowl. Addsugar and eggs, mix well. Stir in flour, walnuts (if desired) andvanilla. Place ice cream cones in muffin cups, fill half full with bat-ter. Bake for 20-22 minutes or until brownies are set on top anda toothpick test comes almost clean. Cool completely. Just be-fore serving, top each cone with a scoop of ice cream! Makes 24

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The surface of your nails, helps to protect the tips of your fingersand toes! Plus they help you scratch and pick things up! Did youknow that babies have fingernails and toenails before they areborn? Well groomed nails also help a person look their best. Let’slearn about what nails are.Nails are made of keratin. This is the same thing your body uses

to create hair and the top layer of your skin. Nails grow where youhave a U shaped cuticle on your fingers and toes. The cuticle’s jobis to help protect the new nail as it grows out from the nail root.Hidden under the cuticle is the nail root. When the cells at the rootof the nail grow, the new nail cells push out the old nail cells. Theold cells flatten and harden because of the keratin - a protein thatis made by these cells. The nail slides along the nail bed which isthe flat surface below the nail. The nail bed sits on top of tiny blood

Did you know that yournails have a job to do?

vessels that feed it and that’s what gives your nails their pink color.Nails grow very slowly. They grow about one tenth of an inch

each month so it can take 3 to 6 months to completely replace anail.You may need an adult to help you trim your fingernails and toe-

nails. Fingernails should be trimmed straight across and slightlyrounded at the top. Toenails don’t grow as fast as fingernails sothey don’t need to be trimmed as often. They should also betrimmed straight across. Having well groomed nails can keep youfrom biting or picking at them - which can lead to infections. Not agood habit to get into! When you go to the doctor for a check up, they often take a look

at your nails during your checkup. Fingernails provide good cluesto your health. When the doctor presses your nails, they arechecking your blood circulation. The doctor may find changes as-sociated with skin problems, lung disease, anemia and other med-ical conditions.A good tip is to regularly use hand lotion to help moisturize your

nails. Your fingernails and toenails need moisturizer too! Whenthey dry out it can cause cracking, breaking and peeling. We canprevent that from happening in most cases.

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Do You Know TheseFacts About The

Sun?The Sun is the source of energy for the Solar System, which

makes life possible on Earth. All the objects in the Solar System re-volve around it. The Sun is actually a star found at the center of theSolar System. It is estimated to be about 4 1/2 billion years old.The Romans called the Sun Sol, which in English means sun. Inancient Greece, the Sun was called Helios.• The Sun is over 300,000 times larger than the Earth. At around865,000 miles wide, the Sun’s diameter is about 110 times widerthan the earths.• Around 74% of the Sun’s mass is made up of hydrogen. Heliummakes up around 24%. Heavier elements such as oxygen, carbon,

iron and neon make up theremaining 2%.• Light from the Sunreaches the Earth in around8 minutes. The Sun ap-pears small to us on earthbecause it is 93 millionmiles away! • The Sun’s surface temper-ature is around 9,941 de-grees Fahrenheit. TheSun’s core is around24,480,032 degreesFahrenheit!• The Sun generates HUGEamounts of energy by com-bining hydrogen nuclei intohelium. This process iscalled nuclear fusion.• Without the Sun’s warmth,life on Earth would not exist.

Everything would be frozen.• There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy. From the Earth, onlyabout 6,000 of these stars can be seen by the naked eye, and theSun is one of them. • Unlike the planets, the Sun is great big sphere of hydrogen gas.Because of this, different parts of the Sun rotate at different speeds.You can see how fast the surface is rotating by tracking the move-ment of sunspots across the surface. Regions at the equator take25 days to complete one rotation, while features at the poles cantake 36 days. And the inside of the Sun seems to take about 27days.• The Sun produces a solar wind which contains charged particlessuch as electrons and protons. Planets with strong magnetic fieldssuch as the Earth manage to deflect most of these charged parti-cles as they approach. The solar wind can have a wide range of ef-fects on the Earth, such as power line surges, radio interference,and the beautiful aurora borealis. The solar wind also has large ef-fects on the tails of comets and the trajectories of spacecraft. • A solar eclipse happens when the Moon is between the Sun andthe Earth.• Many early cultures saw the Sun as a deity or god. For example,ancient Egyptians had a Sun God named Ra and the Aztecs had aSun God named Tonatiuh.

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At times the rain seemsto dampen our day, butthe beautiful peacockloves to dance in the rainwith its fabulous tailspread out behind it. Thepeacock is one of themost beautiful birds in theworld and has been lovedby many cultures over thelast 3000 years. In recenttimes, the peacock wasanointed as the nationalbird of India where it isthought to have comefrom.Have you ever heard the expression 'proud as a peacock’? We

say this when we see a person who seems to be strutting around asa peacock does; arrogant and self-centered.

Although the word peacock is usedfor both the male and the female bird,it is really only the name for the malepeafowl. The peacock is recognizedby his long, green iridescent tail thatit spreads out like a fan. The female,in contrast, is a dull brown and whiteand is called a peahen. The cutebaby peafowl is called a peachick. The peafowl are a very social bird

and like to be with their families. Inthe wild they can live to be 20 yearsold and up to 40 years old in captiv-

ity. They can fly, but usually stayclose to the ground which makes iteasy to watch and enjoy the beau-tiful peacock.

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Step 7 - To finish the beautiful tail, add circles by trac-ing a small cap or hand draw them. The circles arestacked by two and three in a row. Draw a connect-ing line between the stacked circles to create a longfeather. Add a smaller circle in each larger circle tomake what is known as the “eyes” on the feathers.Now color in your peacock with crayons, coloredpencils, markers or paint.

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Step 2 - The body is along “U” shape. Draw asshown.

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Kickball has been a fun game to play for many years! It can be played mostanywhere! All you need is a playground ball that’s around 8 to 10 inches indiameter. Choose a lightweight one for smaller children and a heavier one forbigger kids. You will also need something to serve as the 4 bases. A largeyard, playground or park is the perfect place for kickball. The ball will roll bat-ter on a hard surface. Grass is more kid-friendly. It’s easy to play and a greatway to pass the time with your friends. A kickball game is played by two teams of 9 players each who try to score

more runs than their opponent by rounding the bases and crossing homeplate as many times as possible. Playing AreaThe kickball field is laid out similar to a baseball diamond with 4 bases, a pitching

rubber, an infield and an outfield. The dimensions of the field can vary depending onthe age of the players.Starting PlayThe visiting team kicks first while the home team starts out in the field. The field-

ers line up in one of 9 positions. The first kicker steps up to the plate to kick. A gamelasts 6 innings. Each inning is divided into a top and bottom half with each team hav-ing a turn to kick. An inning is completed when the kicking team gets 3 outs. A teamscores a point every time a player rounds all of the bases and crosses home plate.Pitching• The ball must roll on the ground when crossing over the plate.• The pitcher has to stay behind the pitching rubber until the ball is kicked. Failure todo this results in a "ball."• The strike zone is 1 foot inside and outside of home plate.Runners• Runners have to stay in the baselines.• Sliding into the base or running into fielders is not allowed. The runner is out if heruns into the fielder. The runner is safe if the fielder initiated the contact.• Fielders must stay out of the baseline. Unless they are making an active play for theball, if they interfere with a runner, the runner is safe at the base they are running to-ward.• No runners may lead off or steal. They can only run after the ball is kicked. A run-ner who is off the base before the ball is kicked is out.• Runners have to tag up after a fly ball is caught before they can advance to the nextbase.• Runners may overrun 1st base, but they must turn toward foul territory once theypass the base. If they overrun any other base, they may be tagged out by a defender

with the ball.• If the ball is overthrown, the runner may advance only one base.• If a runner overtakes and passes a runner on the bases ahead ofhim, he is out.• When the pitcher has control of the ball and is standing on themound, all of the runners must stop advancing.A batter is out if:• He/she kicks the ball, and it’s caught in the air (even if it’s in foulterritory).• He/she gets 3 strikes, 3 fouls, or 2 strikes + a foul.• He/she bunts the ball (doesn't take a full swing of the leg in an at-tempt to kick the ball a short distance).A runner is out if:• She is hit by a kicked ball while off base.• A fielder tags her with the ball while she’s not on a base.• He/she runs out of the baseline.• A fielder throws the ball and hits him below the shoulders whilehe’s off the base. (Runners hit in the head or neck aren’t out unlessthey were ducking to dodge the ball.)• He/she is tagged by a fielder before reaching the base she isforced to run to or if a fielder with a ball touches the base beforeshe gets there.• He/she leaves the base before the ball is kicked.• He/she runs past a runner in front of her.

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JellyfishJellyfish are also known as jellies! The English term, jellyfish,

was first used in 1796, Even though they are called jellyfish, theyare not fish! Jellyfish lives in the ocean all over the world. Somealso live in fresh water. Some of the jellyfish are deadly, but mostof the time they don’t want to harm humans! But they have beenknown to sting humans and even cause death.

Jellyfish don’t exactly have brains. Instead they have somethingcalled a “nerve net”! A nerve net is a collection of neurons that actlike a brain, by sensing changes in the water and the environment.Jellyfish can also tell if they have passed an animal or if they arefacing up or down thanks to their nerve net.

The underside of the dome-shaped or bell-shaped body of the jel-lyfish is the mouth that is surrounded by the tentacles. They haveno blood or nervous system!

Jellyfish come in all different colors, shapes, and sizes! They canbe transparent (see-through). All jellyfish are in the classification

called Cnidaria, which contains over 10,000 species! Some jellyfishare bigger than a human and others are as small as a pinhead.Their tentacles are much longer.

Jellyfish go through different phases. The most recognizablephase is the medusa. A medusa is an adult jellyfish. The jellyfishgo through a larva phase first, then develop into a form called apolyp, before finally becoming a medusa. It’s a long journey overtheir lives, ranging from just a few hours to a few months. Theirlifespan is approximately six months.

Populations of jellyfish have been rising recently, due to manyfactors such as overfishing, abundance of food, and changes inwater temperature.

Did You Know?• Jellyfish are composed of over 90% water.• Jellyfish have been on Earth for millions of years, even before di-nosaurs. • Jellyfish usually eat plankton! Jellyfish are eaten by several ma-rine animals- as well as humans! • A group of jellyfish is called a “smack,” bloom or swarm. Somegroups reach up to 100,000 strong.

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The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland), is the European part ofthe Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Nether-lands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba. The Netherlands is aUnitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy, located in West-ern Europe. It is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west,Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east. The Netherlands has a maximum dimension of 190 miles by

160 miles - about twice the size of New Jersey. It is low and flatexcept in Limburg in the southeast, where some of the hills rise upto 1056 feet! About half the country’s area is below sea level,making famous the Dutch dikes. Reclamation of land from thesea through dikes has continued through recent times.The Netherlands is often called Holland. This is technically in-

correct, as North and South Holland in the western Netherlandsare only two of the country's twelve provinces.It is popularly known for its windmills, cheese, clogs (wooden

shoes), delftware and gouda pottery, dikes, tulips, bicycles, andsocial tolerance. The Netherlands has an international outlook; among other af-

filiations, the country is a member of the European Union (EU),and NATO. The Hague is the administrative capital which housesthe Europol - the European Union’s criminal intelligence agency.The Netherlands declared their neutrality during World War I, but

in World War II the same approach failed. Germany invaded with

The Netherlandsvery little resistance, Rotterdamwas bombed, the royal family fledto the United Kingdom, and thepersecution of the Jews began.One brave, young Jewish girlnamed Anne Frank would come topersonify that terrible time inhuman history in a diary.

In February of 1953, a hugestorm caused the collapse of sev-eral dikes, and almost 2,000drowned in the resulting tidalsurges. So began the Delta Proj-ect, a project that included a hugeseries of outer sea-dikes, and innercanal and river dikes built to pro-tect this fragile land from disas-trous flooding brought on by the constant pressures applied to it bythe North Sea.Today nearly 50% of the land here remains just above sea level.

The massive and costly Delta Project and other engineering mar-vels have to date prevented the North Sea from doing any signifi-cant (additional) damage. However, climate change and risingwaters could prove daunting to the Netherlands in the future.

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1. How many groups of 2 can you make? _____

2. How many groups of 3 can you make? _____

3. How many groups of 5 can you make? _____

4. How many groups of 8 can you make? _____

5. How many groups of 10 can you make? _____

6. How many groups of 14 can you make? _____7. How many butterflies will you have to add to makea total of 50? _____

8. How many butterflies will you have to add to makea total of 73? _____

9. How many butterflies will you have to add to makea total of 85? _____

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3. 21 of the 42 butterflies _____

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