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A12 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021 © 2021 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 37, No. 11 Most of the clouds you see fall into one of three groups. Make some clouds with newspaper! Cirrus clouds are high clouds. They look like thin, wispy streamers. Cirrus clouds are usually white and predict fair to pleasant weather. Cumulus clouds are the puffy white clouds that look like floating cotton balls. They usually mean good weather is coming. But if the cumulus cloud starts to get taller and taller, they can become thunderstorm clouds. Stratus clouds are grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky like a big blanket. They make for dark, sometimes drizzly weather. Here are three facts about clouds and one statement that is NOT true. Use a red crayon to cross out the false statement. Look outside today to find shapes in the clouds! What do you see in these clouds? Rain, sleet, snow and hail falling from clouds is called precipitation. Clouds form when water evaporates into the sky and condenses high up in the cooler air. If you move slowly and carefully, you can sit on a cloud. How many clouds can you find on this page? Paint some pages of the newspaper white and let them dry. Then cut out shapes to make the different kinds of clouds. Make two matching shapes for each kind of cloud. Staple the matching shapes together. Leave a space to stuff some crumpled newspaper inside then staple the cloud closed. Fly high to discover if this statement is true or false: FOG IS A CLOUD. F Lupé DeLoops is flying her plane through this big cloud. The letters along the correct path will reveal if the above statement about fog is true or false. U A cloud is a large group of water droplets that we can see in the air. E S T R S A Don’t get dizzy! T L E CLOUD COMPUTING: Have you heard about cloud computing? Or have you ever stored a photo or a file in “the cloud”? The cloud is a name that has been given to large warehouses full of computers that connect to the internet. When you need computer space or apps, you can get those by plugging into the internet which will connect you with the computing cloud. The sum of every row, column and diagonal must be the same. 8 1 9 7 PLEASANT COMPUTER CUMULUS PREDICT WEATHER STRATUS CLOUDS CIRRUS WISPY PUFFY SLEET HAIL SNOW SKY FOG Weather News Look through the newspaper for your local weather ther forecast. Based d on the forecast, what clothes will you need to wear outside tside this coming week? eek? Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information. Hang your cloud from the ceiling. What kind of cloud did you make? Children are born curious. From their earliest days, sensory exploration brings delight and wonder. New discoveries expand their minds. When they unlock the joy of reading, their world widens further. Magic happens. Kid Scoop opens the doors of discovery for elementary school children by providing interactive, engaging and relevant age-appropriate materials designed to awaken the magic of reading at school, at home, and throughout their lives. For more information about our literacy non-profit, visit kidscoopnews.org P I S T R A T U S R C T R E H T A E W E This week’s word: U P R E D I C T I T PREDICT C L U R E U L W S U The verb predict means to guess or estimate something that may happen in the future. T I I F M G O F P P E A R U F N U N Y M E H L R S Y D T H O L U E S U K S K Y C S Y T N A S A E L P Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. The dark clouds helped us predict that it would rain the afternoon of our family picnic. Try to use the word predict in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members. Environment Quiz Look through the newspaper for articles about the environment and weather. Create a 10-question quiz from these articles to test other students’ knowledge of these issues. ANSWER: Thunderwear! Standards Link: Writing Applications: Students write phrases that describe concepts. If you were a bird, what kind of bird would you be? Why?