Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2017 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Kelly sat on the sofa in Grandma’s office. Grandma had said Kelly could look around but shouldn’t leave the room; she’d be right back. Kelly loved visiting Grandma, but she didn’t like the skeleton standing in Grandma’s office. Kelly lay down and closed her eyes, so she couldn’t see those scary bones. She might have just started to doze a little when she heard a rattling sound. Who’s there? It’s me. Over here in the corner. I’m Skully. The skeleton? Talking? Am I dreaming? Maybe. I’m an expert on bones, not dreams. Who are you? I’m Kelly, and this is my grandma’s office. Oh, I know your grandma. She named me after her favorite teacher, Professor Skully. And for my beautiful skull, of course. Don’t you think it’s one of…

Turn this pile of bones into a skeleton! First cut out all the bones along the black lines. Use a hole punch or the point of a brass fastener to make a hole through the black dots in each bone. The holes show where bones will be connected. Arrange the bones so that they make a full skeleton. The holes where two bones connect should line up. Now use brass fasteners to connect the bones. Or thread a short piece of yarn through two holes and tie the bones together.…

Yum, it’s time for lunch. Joe and his dad are having pizza with salad and milk. What about you? Finally, all that’s left is . . . That was poo. What about pee? As your blood travels around your body delivering food and oxygen, it also picks up unwanted wastes. The blood gets cleaned when it passes through your kidneys, which remove the wastes and any extra water. The wet waste mix flows through thin tubes into your bladder, where it’s stored until, well, you know. The chewed food travels down a tube called the esophagus. Strong muscles in the esophagus squeeze and push the food along until it reaches your stomach. A stomach is like a stretchy sack. It holds all the food you swallowed, but the food doesn’t…

Shine a flashlight in a dark room, and cover the light with your fingers. Do you see red? That’s me! Well, me and a gazillion other RBCs. That’s short for red blood cells. We give your blood its color, but you can’t really see one of us without a microscope. We’re so tiny that millions of us fit in a single small drop of blood. We need to be small to squeeze—sometimes single file!—through skinny blood vessels, or tubes, called capillaries. We travel to every part of your body through those capillaries and other, wider blood tubes called veins and arteries. It can be a long trip. If you laid all the blood vessels in a human body end to end, they’d go around the world twice! They’re like roads…

My sister Daphne and I were swinging in the backyard when we got the idea to fly like butterflies. The air felt so good rushing past that it seemed like it ought to hold us up when we jumped off and away from the swings. I landed on my side with my arm twisted under me. “Oops!” I said. And then, “Ouch!” Daphne was jumping up and laughing, and I tried to do the same. But my arm felt strange. It ached deep inside. I didn’t want to move it. Daphne stopped laughing when she saw how I was holding my arm. “Oh, Ella, maybe it’s broken!” she said. “Let’s find Mom.” In the kitchen, Daphne explained about the butterfly accident, and Mom took me on her lap. “Daphne, get…

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