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Break out the virtual sunscreen for a Kid Scoop adventure to the beach. Let’s begin by learning about high and low tides and how their ebb and flow leaves behind magical tide pools teeming with life! Play an informative matching memory card game to discover fascinating facts about tide pool inhabitants who call the beach their home. Discover a crab with a 12 foot leg span, a clam that weighs a quarter of a ton and how the clever sea cucumber gets itself out of a pickle! Identify symmetrical patterns so often repeated in nature and brush up your skills on some unusual starfish math.
Ahoy, mateys! Let’s head to the shore!
In this issue young marine biologists will:
- read expository text about life at the seashore
- play the Tide Pool Memory game
- calculate sums and differences to solve starfish problems
- identify symmetrical creatures and patterns
- use the newspaper to pair up objects and scout for multiples of two
- write a creative story about a tide pool treasure hunt
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