12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 27, 2016
© 2016 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 32, No. 33
While the 2016 Olympics
are called the
Summer Games,
it is actually winter in
Brazil where the games
are being held.
Most of Brazil is located south
of the equator. Because the earth
rotates around the sun on a small tilt,
seasons are
different north
and south of
the equator.
Brazilian
Summer:
Tilted
toward
the sun
Brazilian
Winter:
Tilted
away from
the sun
the sun, but because where it is
summer, the planet is tilted towards
the sun.
In Brazil, June, July and August are the
winter months, while summer is in
December, January and February.
Summer is the warmest time of the
year. Not because the planet is closer to
The land around the Amazon and
its tributaries make up the largest
rainforest in the world. Like its
name says, it rains a lot there.
The western Amazon region
gets about 160 inches (400 cm)
per year. Add up the numbers on
this tree to find out how much
New York City gets on average.
inches (107 cm)
Amazonian Indians were the first people
to make rubber. They found a tree in the
rainforest with a white sap that could be
used as an insect repellent and they
made their feather robes waterproof.
The Indians learned that when heated
over a fire, the sap thickened to make
rubber. They used this rubber to
make shoes and balls.
25% of
the world’s
medicine
comes
from the
rainforest!
Brazil’s forests have millions of insects. The leaf-cutter ants
cu leaves into tiny pieces and carry them back to their underground
cut
colonies. There they chew the leaves into a mush that they
feed to a fungus that they then eat.
Look through the
newspaper for signs
of summer. Cut
them out and make
a “Summer Where
I Live” poster.
Unscramble the letters on the leaves to
discover the name of a rainforest snake that
can grow up to 40 feet (12m) long.
The green on Brazil’s
flag stands for its forests
and fields. Yellow is for
the country’s rich
deposits of gold. The
blue circle represents
the night sky and its
twenty-seven stars are
for Brazil’s 26 states.
The stars are arranged in the constellations that were visible the
day Brazil became independent from Portugal. The phrase
ORDEM E PROGRESSO is also on the Brazilian flag.
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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
Describe Brazil
After reading today’s Kid Scoop page, look
through the newspaper for five or more
adjectives that describe Brazil. Cut them
out, paste them on a piece of construction
paper you have cut into the shape of Brazil.
Standards Link: Language Arts: Identify adjectives.
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to locate
information.
WATERPROOF
OLYMPICS
EQUATOR
WINTER
PLANET
BRAZIL
TILTED
FUNGUS
RUBBER
AMAZON
LEAVES
SHOES
RAINS
FIRE
SAP
E W A D E T L I
M Q W P
I
T R
I N W S T
A R U L Z E
I R C F
M U R A I N S S
I
S
A B R N T A E R P U
Z B G E P O E A M G
O E R T H M R E Y N
N R S S E V A E L U
W A T E R P R O O F
Make a
Difference
Tell how you make a
difference in someone’s life
within your family, your
school, or in your community.
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