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The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 6

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The Post-Crescenti
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Appleton, Wisconsin
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6
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KID SCOOP www.postcrescent.com Saturday, August 16, 2008 A-6 The Post-Crescent, Appleton-Fox Cities, Wis. Corner Puzzle answers, games, opinion polls and much more cool stuff at: www.postcrescent.comkidscoop 2008 by Vicki Whilinq. Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 24 No 36 Summer Laughs According to Asian historians, toys similar to yo-yos that date to about 1000 B.C. have been found in China.

These take the form of twq sculpted ivory disks connected by central peg and suspended from a silk cord. The yo-yo is the world's second oldest toy only dolls are older. It more than two I thousand years old. the yo-yo is the world second oldest toy. The yo-yo 's ML I i Vi.

'V 1 I popularity, like the I 1 6 i 1 I AVhich yo-yo I QV-QZ" I belongs to I "fo 1 each doll? I fi toy itself, has gone up and down. Who Invented the Yo-Yo? There are varied opinions about which culture invented the yo-yo. Some people think that different cultures may have come up with it independently of each other at about the same time in history. Standards Link: Reading: Students use reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts. Egyptian Yo-Yo Drawings of yo-yo shaped objects have been found in ancient Here are some of your favorite summer jokes and riddles.

What did the man get when he fell on his lawn? Eyegrasses! Dan, 4th grade What do you call a monkey who eats chips? Chipmunk! Max. 2nd grade What do astronauts wear to keep warm? Apollo-neck sweaters! Caitlin, 2nd grade How do you catch a runaway dog? Hide behind a tree and sound like a bone! Melissa, 4th grade Who succeeded the first President of the United States? The second one. Jordan, 4th grade What's yellow on the outside and gray on the inside? An elephant disguised as a banana! Spencer, 6th grade What do you say when you meet a two-headed dinosaur? Hello, hello! Kayla, 5th grade What would you get if you crossed a chicken and a cement mixer? A bricklayer! Mia, 5th grade What do you get if you cross a parrot and a shark? A bird that talks your ear off! Tory, 2nd grade Why does a flamingo stand on one leg? If it lifted that leg, it would fall down! Cole, 2nd grade How do penguins make pancakes? With their flippers! Josh, 2nd grade Why wouldn't the burglar break into the library? He was afraid he'd get a long sentence! Lily, 6th grade Where do horses live? In neigh-borhoods! Jacqueline, 6th grade What's Uncle Sam's favorite snack? Egyptian temples. Hold this paragraph up to a mirror to read it. Iwod ioaiD A mori Y.od gJaiqob jteib rftiw gniBfq bm aril no gnilgnxb lo 6 Du Standards Link: Renting Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Yo-Yo. Eighteen months later, he had three factories employing 600 workers who produced 300,000 yo-yos daily. The name and the toy were a hit! Standards Link: History: Understand similarities between Philippines Some historians say 16th century hunters in the Philippines used the yo-yo as a weapon. A hunter would fling the disk at his prey and use the string to pull back the disk. Others say this isn't true and believe the yo-yo was just used as a toy as in other countries.

We do know that the person who made yo-yos popular in the modern era was a young man from the Philippines named Pedro Flores. He was a yo-yo expert who could do amazing tricks. He started his yo-yo company in 1928 with 12 copies of the handmade toy he called the Flores cultures past and present. Firecrackers! Michael, 6th grade What goes thousands of miles and Use the code to find the missing vowels. A 7 4 1 2 0 6 5 never moves? A highway! Dylan, 5th grade What do you call a snowman in a Remove the Vowels With a partner select an article in today's newspaper.

One of you inks out all of the vowels in the article and then gives it to the other person to read. Can you read it without the rainforest? A puddle! Emily, 2nd grade Which astronaut brought a yo-yo onto the flight of the space shuttle Atlantis in 1992? ANSWER: JFFRY It HFFMH (zEz) What did zero say to the eight? Who introduced the first plastic yo-yo and the looped slip-string, which allows yo-yos to "sleep" or spin in place? Nice belt! Jacob, 6th grade Teacher: If you had $10 in one pocket and $5 in the other, what would you have? Kid: Someone else's pants! 6 7 vowels? Can you figure out which vowels are missing? ANSWER: DNLD 6 7 DNCN 5 7 What does the word yo-yo mean in the Philippines? ANSWER: CM-CM 6 4 6 4 Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-level appropriate words correctly. Standards Link: Reading: Use a variety of context clues to decode unknown words. Villi Every student that submits an entry for the Write On! topic will also be entered to win $50 for classroom supplies courtesy of Huntington Learning Center. One winner will be selected each month, so make sure to include your school and grade.

Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week's Kid Scoop stories and activities. The world's largest yo-yo is located in the National Yo-Yo Museum in Chico, California. It is in the Guinness Book of World Records because it actually works. People have made larger yo-yos, but they don't work. How big is the world's largest yo-yo? Do the CULTURE TEMPLES HUNTER SLEEP EGYPT EVIDENCE STRING SCULPTED DEPICTS IVORY TOYS WEAPON DISK FLORES PEG SFEDYROVIS ELVHESYOTC NOI SUPCRUK ORDEPNILOS PEELENTCL I ASNPGUNETD EDCMROELRS WDEETPYGEE SDETPLUCST math to find out! The giant wooden yo-yo's diameter is: 100 36 14 inches.

It weighs: It si) 1 3 -A me NewsparTsJnJEfucation AT 50x4 25 25 6 pounds. (SEE the world's largest yo-yo in action! Visit www.postcrescent.comfcidscoop Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Standards Link: Number Sense: Use the correct order of operations with multiplication, addition and subtraction to solve problems. Costume Ideas Come up with an idea for a Halloween costume and give directions on how to make it. Can you come up with a plan that doesn't cost money? Use your imagination. Deadline: Sept. 14,2008 Published: Week of Oct.

12, 2008 Send your story to: The Post-Crescent, Attn: ME P.O. Boi 54912 OR niefo postcrescent.com Please include your schiml and grade. What goes up but never comes down? www.postcrescenl.comkidscoop Slang and Jargon Slang words and jargon often find their way into the dictionary. Make a list of some of these words. Then create a newspaper ad for a product other students might buy using the slang and jargon words from your list.

a6e jiioa Standards Link: Listening and Speaking: Students use new vocabulary to describe feelings, experiences and observations. A hv I'M- Hi-' Hit 5 I i.

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