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February 22, 2022
Winter Issue #13
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Weekly activities and lessons to keep your child thinking and progressing throughout the school year. |
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Happy Tuesday,
I hope you are enjoying your President's Week. This is one of my favorite weeks of the year. However you are spending this week, be safe and stay healthy.
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Mr. McManus :-)
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Britfield & the Lost Crown
by C. R. Stewart
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The first novel of a promising series, Britfield and the Lost Crown is a fun novel to read! Tom and his best friend Sarah flee the orphanage, where they have been trapped and abused for the past several years. While trying to find the truth about Tom's parents, they get caught up in a dangerous conspiracy that could cost them their lives! This is a far-flung adventure story that will readily interest the most reluctant of readers. The author writes in a clear descriptive style which integrates clever details harkening back to an earlier era. This effect creates an element of timelessness to the storytelling. Britfield is a perfect mixture of fast-paced excitement, heart-stopping surprises, fascinating history, and endearing characters with historical references scattered along the way. The witty narrative will draw the reader into the story and it won't let them go till the end! Enjoy! |
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How to Make See Through Eggs... Oh, my! |
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Spring into science with this fascinating eggs-periment! If you like to watch chemistry in action, hop into the kitchen for this fun activity!
Using materials you probably already have, you can discover new changes in a several-day long experiment and more.
GATHER THIS:
- 5 eggs
- Several glasses
- Vinegar
- Liquid watercolor
- Distilled water
- Karo syrup
THEN DO THIS:
- Carefully lower one egg into each of 4 glasses.
- Fill three of the glasses with vinegar and one glass with distilled water. There should be just enough liquid to cover the eggs. Add a drop or two of liquid food coloring to each glass. Continue to observe the eggs – what is happening? Is the same thing happening in all the glasses? What do they smell like?
- Leave the glasses of eggs out on the counter for several days, observing the eggs each day. You can gently touch the eggs each day, just be careful not to pop them! Keep one egg in the fridge for comparison.
- Carefully pour off the liquid from the glasses, rinse the eggs and return them to the glasses. Gently touch and observe the eggs, including the one that was kept in the fridge. How have they changed? Are they all the same?
- Pour Karo syrup over one vinegar treated egg, distilled water over another, finally, pour something else (your choice) from your kitchen over the third.
- After several more days of observation, pour off the liquid and rinse the eggs again. Now touch, explore, and compare all of the eggs, including the one kept in the fridge. After taking some time to notice, even encourage them to pop the eggs with their fingers and get a little messy!
ASK THIS:
- What do you notice – what do the eggs look, smell, and feel like?
- How have the eggs changed? Have they all changed in the same way? How do they compare to the egg that we kept in the fridge?
- Why might eggs have shells?
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
The acidic vinegar dissolves the calcium-based hard shell of the egg, but the membrane below the shell remains intact and toughens. This layer is a semi-permeable membrane which water can pass through. When molecules can move through a membrane, they tend to distribute in a way that equals out the concentration of those molecules on each side of the membrane. This is called osmosis!
When placed in the Karo syrup (a hypertonic/saturated solution with a higher concentration of molecules outside of the egg), the water inside of the egg distributes out of the egg into the Karo syrup and the egg shrinks. If the egg was in dye, the dye should pass out of the egg and create a layer of color in the syrup. Because distilled water is nothing but water (a hypotonic solution with a lower concentration of molecules outside of the egg), the egg should swell as the water distributes into it.
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If you feel your child might benefit from a group or individual tutoring program to prepare them for the next phase of their education, please contact McManus Tutoring.
Programs are structured so that students learn independence, accountability, and self-possession. They will develop a repeatable structure that can be used to build success in the future.
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Three Writing Prompts and a Riddle
These prompts and questions will help jump-start your daily writing. Just as it's important to read for at least 30 minutes each day, you should also write for 30 minutes a day. Don't worry about your organization or spelling, just write!
"She put her arm around me as the sun began to set..."
"It was a year before I heard from him again..."
"Sitting on the swing, we decided to..."
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You have two strings of different lengths and a book of matches. If you place a lit match on the end of the longer string, it will burn for exactly 10 minutes. The shorter string on the other hand, will burn for exactly 1 minute.
How can you measure exactly 5 minutes 30 seconds using the matches and the strings?
A couple of rules/restrictions:
1. You may not use scissors.
2. The string is too rigid to be folded in half completely.
3. You can not tell by eye where the half way point of the string is.
answer in next week's issue :-)
Last week's answer... Use two cuts to divide the cake into four equal pieces (quarters). For the third cut, cut the cake in half, horizontally. Some pieces may not have any icing, but their size will be equal.
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