Innholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2017 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Mercury 88 days Venus 225 days Earth 365 days Mars 687 days (almost 2 Earth years) Jupiter 4,333 days (almost 12 Earth years) Saturn 10,759 days (about 29 Earth years) Uranus 30,685 days (about 84 Earth years) Neptune 60,189 days (almost 165 Earth years) When it’s your birthday, you add another year to your age. Another Earth year, that is. Earth is one of eight planets that circle around and around the sun. Each planet travels along its own path, called its orbit. The time it takes for a planet to complete one whole orbit is the length of its year. Earth takes about 365 days to make one orbit, so our year is 365 days long. But the planets all move at different speeds, and some planets need to…

cake song piñata long noodles ear pulling fairy bread birthday crown seaweed soup birthday candle ring flag cake Ancient Greeks might have made the very first birthday cake. The round, moon-shaped cake was for Artemis, the goddess of the moon, and decorated with lit candles so it would shine like the moon. fairy bread Fairy bread is buttered white bread covered in colorful candy sprinkles. It’s often served as a birthday treat in Australia. long noodles Chinese people eat birthday noodles. The long noodles symbolize long life and are considered lucky. ear pulling In Russia, friends might pull your ears up on your birthday to help you grow—one pull for every year of your life and an extra to grow on. piñata Children at parties in Mexico and many other…

A second goes by pretty quickly. In fact, several have passed since you started reading this sentence. But a lot can happen in a second. In One Second . . . A vulture in flight flaps its wings once. A hummingbird beats its wings 50 times. A bumblebee beats its wings 200 times. A peregrine falcon in a dive, or stoop, plunges more than 300 feet. A cheetah sprinting flat out travels 100 feet. A very fast human can run 39 feet. A human can blink seven times. In One Minute . . . A charging grizzly bear gallops one half-mile. A common snail glides about one foot on its slimy track. A very chilly crocodile’s heart may slow to just one beat. A giant tortoise lumbers about 15 feet.…

What you need Paper Glue Scissors Crayons What you Do 1 . Fold a piece of paper in half, and draw two straight lines from the folded edge. The lines should be the same length, between one and two inches long, and an inch or two apart. 2 . Cut along the lines, and fold the tab you have made back and forth. Then unfold the tab so it lies flat. 3 . Open your piece of paper so one half lies flat and the other stands up. Now lift and crease the tab so it pops up like a stair step. 4 . Glue or tape a picture or shape to the pop-up tab. The bottom of the picture should line up with the bottom of the tab. If…

Nina bit into a chocolate mouse. The brown outside cracked and red cherry juice ran down her chin. Her sister Scarlett took a mouse by the tail and popped it into her mouth too. Nina had already blown out five candles. She had opened her presents—her favorite was a bright blue bicycle! Eating the mice was the last part of her birthday celebration. “They’re so cute,” Nina said. “Let’s make more!” “We’ll make the mice again on your next birthday,” Mom answered. “Oh, good,” said Nina. “I hope it’s soon!” “Nina, it’s a whole year before you turn six,” said Grandma. “A year is a long time.” “How long?” asked Nina. “Long enough to lose your wiggly tooth and get a new one,” said Mom. “Long enough to learn to…