12A • COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • AUGUST 15, 2018
© 2018 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
Vol. 34, No. 36
This trick takes
few times until a little practice. Do it a
yo
perform it for yo u can do it well. Then,
ur friends and fa
mily!
Most of the ocean doesn’t
freeze. Why? Salt water
freezes at a lower temperature
than fresh water.
ice cubes
thread
salt
scissors
small
glass
clear plastic
lid
Tab
Perform
the trick
Prepare your props
Place the glass upside down on the
plastic lid. Trace around the glass
to make a circle, drawing a little
tab as shown. Cut just outside the
circle to make it a little bit larger
than the mouth of the glass. Be
sure to cut out the tab.
Put down the pitcher and cover
the mouth of the glass with the hand
hiding the plastic circle. Secretly place
the circle over the mouth of the glass,
covering the entire top.
pitcher of
water
1. Soak your thread in some
water then lay it on top of
an ice cube.
Pour water
from the pitcher into
the glass, until it
begins to overflow.
Say “I can tip this
glass of water over
my head and keep
it from pouring
out.”MM
Place your pitcher
and glass on a
table. Hide the
plastic circle in
the hand you
won’t use to pour.
Pick up the glass
with your other
hand and turn it over
quickly, but gently.
Slowly remove the hand
holding the top of the
glass. If done right,
the circle will stick to
the glass and the water
won’t spill out.
Lift the glass over
your head and say
“Magic tricks are hot
work. I think I’ll oo
cool off.” Then ooo
gently push on the
tab. The plastic circle
will come off and the
water will fall on you!
2. Sprinkle a tiny bit of salt
along the thread and wait
about 30 seconds.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple-step directions with accuracy.
Question: How can you make an egg float in a
bowl of water?
Hypothesis*:
3. Lift the thread. Does the
ice cube cling to the thread
and get lifted as well?
*Note: a hypothesis means a thoughtful guess.
a large bowl
warm water
an egg
salt
spoon
North Pole
Expedition
You have $1,000
to spend on things
for a trip to the
North Pole.
Look through
today’s newspaper
and “buy” what
you’ll need. Can
you spend exactly
$1,000 without
going over?
Standards Link:
Mathematics: Number
Sense: Students estimate
and solve problems using
money amounts.
97% of the world’s
water is in oceans.
The remaining 3% is
fresh water. That 3%
of fresh water
divides into
77% contained
in icecaps and
glaciers, 22% in
groundwater
aquifers
(drinking
water) and
1% in lakes
and streams.
1. Fill your bowl with warm water.
2. Gently place the egg in the water. What happens?
1. Remove the egg and stir at least one cup of salt into the
water. Stir until you can’t see any grains of salt.
2. The water will look cloudy.
Place the egg in the salty water. What happens?
Quick! Before it
melts! Solve the
puzzle frozen in
my ice cubes and you
will have good luck!
Fill in the blank
squares with numbers
to make the sum of
each side and each
diagonal add up to 15.
Standards Link: Mathematics: Number Sense: Adding sums to 15.
Find the Question
Read an article in today’s newspaper and
find a quote from a person being
interviewed. What question do you think
the interviewer asked?
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Understand and
interpret quotations in expository text.
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is proud to sponsor the
2018 Summer Reading page
Explanation: The salt
melts the surface of the ice.
The coldness of the ice
then refreezes this water,
trapping the thread and
freezing it to the ice.
The Dead Sea in Israel is the
saltiest body of water in the
world. You could float on
top of the water and read
Kid Scoop!
Did the egg float? Adding salt to water makes it heavier.
In salty water the amount of water the egg displaces
weighs more than the egg and the egg floats.
QUESTION
PRESSURE
PRACTICE
SCIENCE
SURFACE
MAGIC
FLOAT
WATER
TRICK
TRACE
SALT
BOWL
HIDE
HEAD
EGG
Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
K C I
R T M T H E M
P A S U R F A C E G
R F H
D E S G
I
C
E S L A T C G E
I
T
I
S M E O
I
I
Complete the grid by using all the letters
in the word MAGIC in each vertical and
horizontal row. Each letter should only
be used once in each row. Some spaces
have been filled in for you.
A G R L C
S H D E A R E A I
U I N O
Standards Link: Science/Investigation:
Conduct simple experiments.
N
T S E U Q
R C P R A C T
I
C E
E T L W O B R
I
C K
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Silly Campfire
Story
Combine these three elements
and create a silly campfire
story—a campfire, a scream
and a marshmallow.
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in part, by the Cottage Grove Sentinel,
and the
Cottage Grove
Public Library
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