SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2018 | 5B
© 2018 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
Vol. 34, No. 52
Reindeer Fitness
A science project that also makes a great holiday gift!
Put on your lab coat and some Christmas
music, work with an adult helper and
make a crystal tree grow!
STUFF YOU’LL NEED:
Comet Kicks
STUFF YOU’LL NEED:
drop of
glycerin
a shallow dish
plastic figure or
decoration
small enough
to fit in jar
6 tbsp salt
6 tbsp laundry
bluing
Kick your legs
up as high as
you can! (Make sure
you have plenty of space!)
clear
epoxy
glue
a jar with
a tight lid
distilled water
6 tbsp water
glitter
1 tbsp ammonia
sponge
Blitzen Bend
INSTRUCTIONS
Stand with your feet slightly
apart. Raise your arms over
your head and then slowly bend
backward as far as you can.
1. In the shallow dish, mix together the
water, salt, bluing liquid and ammonia.
Stir until the salt dissolves.
2. Cut a sponge into the
shape of a Christmas tree
and set in the
shallow dish.
3. Depending
on the
temperature
and humidity, ,
d
crystals should
lization)
grow (crystallization)
over the next 10 to 12
ryer the air the better. You can top up
hours—the dryer
o keep your tree growing.
the solution to
1. Glue your ornament or
figure to the inside surface
of your lid. Allow it to dry.
How many
snowflakes can
you find on
this page?
2. Fill the jar to the top with distilled water.
Add glitter and a drop of glycerin. The
glycerin will keep the glitter from falling
too quickly.
Dancer Twist
3. Screw on the lid. Be careful not to
dislodge your ornament.
Holiday
Scavenger
Hunt
Standards Link: Science Investigation: Conduct simple experiments.
4. Turn it over and watch it snow!
What
happened?
Put these
sentences in
order!
Play one of your favorite
songs and do the twist!
Look through the
newspaper to find
something:
sweet
made from
crystals
about trees
about Santa
about winter
weather
Standards Link: Research:
use the newspaper to locate
information.
Dasher Dash
Run in place for one to two
minutes.
Mrs. Claus is decorating her Christmas tree.
She knows just where she wants each
ornament to go. Do the math and then
draw a line from each ornament
to its place.
GLITTERING
CRYSTALS
DISSOLVE
GLYCERIN
GROWING
SPONGE
SCREW
SWEET
WATCH
SNOW
DISH
GLUE
TREE
JAR
MIX
C G L Y C E R
G H H R T G
I
N C M A L N J
I
N H
S T S
S L
I
This week’s word:
I T G U B O R A O D
W A E X S
O W D
I
P T W R
I
S S O L V E
R O N M Y S W E E T
G N I
R E T T
I
L G
G S C R E W T R E E
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
DISSOLVE
The verb dissolve means to
become absorbed in a liquid.
The sugar dissolved in
the hot cup of coffee.
Try to use the word
dissolve in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
Winter
Poems
News Talk
Look through the newspaper for different
ways to start sentences. Find examples of
startling statements, quotations,
prepositional phrases, questions and more.
ANSWER: The ones going on vacation.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Use reading skills
and strategies to interpret informational text.
Standards Link: Physical Education: Use a
variety of basic and advanced movement forms.
Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
How does winter feel?
Smell? Sound? Taste? Look?
Use these thoughts to write
a poem about winter.
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