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W KA L N e w s
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T HE S COOP AT K ALEIDOSCOPE
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Smell Test
2
Counting Books
3
Optical Illusions
5
Hummus Recipe
5
10
Beautiful Bird Portraits
Special points of interest:
• Backstage pass to Musical
Theater’s Aesop’s Fables
• How to make fine jewelry
from household items
• Enjoying France from the
kitchen
• How to have fun with
Eric Carle
Kaleidoscope’s
2013 Dates:
Session I: July 8th—July
12th
Session II: July 15th—
July 19th
Session III: July 22th—
July 26th
KITE: July 29th—
August 2nd
Get Ready to Rock n' Roll!
Camping Palooza
Jillian Schuck
Grace Hauser
Your soft fingers glide across
the strings of an electric guitar, booming out a hard-core melody. Another
fellow musician to your left jams on
his set of drums. Honestly, how does
the music-packed course Rock Band
not sound like a blast? Of course, the
excitement isn't
the only thing
blasting with joy.
All around the
VIP room where
four amazing superstars practice
their classic rock
songs, such as "The Riff," rest several
speakers that are sure to bring the
sound of your instruments (which
some artists call "ax") to all your fans!
Instructor Joe Wright has kept his four
band members busy rehearsing perfectly in time to the beat on their
drums, keyboards and so much more !
Get ready to rock n' roll in Rock Band!
Grab your backpack because
we're going camping! In the Kaleidoscope course Off to Camp, these campers are having fun outside. They have
been making leaf rubbings, leaf paintings and nature bags. They will collect
sticks to make a tipi and even play
camping bingo! Also, the little campers will make s'mores using the sun as
a microwave oven and put up a tent! If
you're looking for a course full of adventure, come to Off to Camp!
How to make a leaf rubbing:
Step 1: Go on a trip in the woods to find
some leaves.
Step 2: Pick out some colorful crayons
and get some paper.
Step 3: Put the leaf under the paper and
rub the paper with the crayon.
You will now have a colorful leaf rubbing!
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS A KALEIDOSCOPE
T- S H I R T ? ― W K A L N E W S S T A F F
www.kaleidoscopekids.com
Are you planning your
next fun-filled family vacation? Don't forget to pack
your Kaleidoscope t-shirt!
Snap a picture of yourself
wearing a Kaleidoscope tshirt and send it to
mypopcorn2@aol.com. The to see where the Kaleidoscope t-shirt has been. Say
Grand Canyon, Niagara
"Cheese!"
Falls, the Empire State
Building or the Great Wall of
China; wherever you visit,
snap a photo! Watch our
website at
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their adventure journal. Some activities they do include a jellybean
Illustrators in Action!
taste test, which
Stephanie Henrick
is a way to test
your taste skills.
Enter Eric Carle Author
They also watch
Study and watch these creative illustrators in action! Their day starts raisins dance in a
magical mixture
with a read-aloud of some of Eric
that they learned
Carle's best books, including his
famous title The Very Hungry Cat- to make. Learn about camouflage
as you attempt to take the challenge
erpillar. After the book is shared,
these artists create a craft based on scavenger hunt. Here is how to crethe book. From baking pretzels and ate a smell test for a friend:
celebrating Walter the Baker to
making a colored star and capturing Step 1: Take a couple jars and put a
different food in each (cinnamon or
Draw Me a Star, these illustrators
honey, for example).
are busy at work. If you want to
Step 2: Cover the jar with tin foil so
create this same star project, here
they cannot see what's inside.
are the steps:
Step 3: Poke a little hole in the top and
Step 1: Draw a large outline of a star.
Step 2: Tear different colored pieces
of tissue paper.
Step 3: Using a paint brush, dip the
brush in glue and paint the star.
Step 4: Glue the small pieces of tissue
paper on to cover the star.
Emma Keamy and Cate Brooks
Are you four, five or six
years old? Do you love to dance? If
so, then you are Moovin' and
Groovin' material! In Moovin' and
Groovin', these superstar dancers
perform a variety of different songs
and dances and make loads of
crafts. Moovin' and Groovin' has
eleven dancers, but the instructors
still keep them in the groove. We
talked to some of the talented dancers. "The class is awesome!" said
one of the stars. This course is so
good that eight kids from last year
came back again for more dance
see if they can guess which food it is. fun. At the end of this week, they
will have a fantastic show. Keep on
Don't miss out on the adventures in Moovin' and Groovin' next year for
fun activities!
Magic School Bus Adventures!
Welcome to Cyberspace
Shane Henrick and Vincent Fan
With Eric Carle's great books and
some craft materials, you can become an amazing illustrator, too!
Stop, Drop and DANCE!
Kids are making great web
pages in Website Design! The first
day, kids practice coding in a program called TextWrangler. After
these creative kids have a blast codAll Aboard!
ing, they quickly progress to using
Diya Desai
KompoZer, a website design appliDo you know which course cation. By Tuesday, these computer
at Kaleidoscope goes on adventures kids have already designed their
every day? Magic School Bus Ad- home pages using a colored background they chose from Decemventures, of course! They travel
with Ms. Frizzle and learn about all ber.com. Next, they select their font
from many fancy choices. After
sorts of interesting things. These
that, the web designers link other
creative learners learn about
weather and camouflage. Exciting pages they made to their home
page. After a week of hard work,
crafts such as cloud art are only
some of the amazing, fantastic and these students are able to access
super things they do. They are also their own pages on the web. So
grab the mouse and get ready to
fabulous writers. Each adventurer
writes notes about their journey in surf!
Welcome to the Kingdom
Emma Greaves
These royal kings and
queens in Castle Adventures are
making dazzling necklaces out of
sparkly pasta, buttons, beads and
more. Also, they paint wooden cutouts―such as hearts, ducks, stars, a
flower and even an elephant―to
make special coats of armor. They
are also making and designing castles from
construction
paper. These
royals also
used berry
containers, scissors and blue
sparkly paint. All the kings and
queens entertained themselves by
simply playing in the castle, mak-
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ing jewelry and a couple more royal Yummy, Yummy Numbers!
options. Also, they made gorgeous Tessa Barcelo
crowns and you can learn how. Just
follow these steps:
Look out teachers! These
junior mathematicians sure have
Step 1: Gather materials like sticky
brains. In Number Soup, these
foam stickers and a pre-cut crown.
'souper' smart kids have been learnStep 2: Stick them as fancily as you
ing numbers and geometry in fun
want and you are finished!
ways. They are making number
books, painting shapes with
Have fun being as royal as you can!
sponges and glitter, making symmetrical butterflies and so much
more! In addition, the creative kids
Seuss on the Loose
in Number Soup this year are makAnthony Uberti
ing counting books. Here's how:
At Kaleidoscope in Andover, Massachusetts, there is a fantastic course called Seuss on the
Loose. All week, these little
Seusses have been enjoying some
of Dr. Seuss' best titles, including
Green Eggs and Ham. To celebrate
this magical fiction story, these
little artists made
wonderful placemats with green
eggs and ham,
forks, knives and
spoons. If you
want to learn how to make these
magnificent placemats, here's how:
Materials: 10 sheets of blank paper,
pencil, markers or crayons, stapler
Step 1: On each page, write a number
from 0-9.
Step 2: Decorate each number.
Step 3: Staple the sheets together.
Congratulations, you've done it!
Suggest this to your teacher or
make some copies for your baby
cousin or sibling. Good luck!
The Quizzes
Surviving with Water
Patrick Fragala and Declan
Woodring
The first rule of survival is
to find water. In Extreme Survivor,
these young survivalists are doing
just that. Once they've found water,
however, they need
to make it safe to
drink and these
young outdoorsmen
have learned many
ways to do just that.
Also, they built shelters to survive in
from of nothing but
the materials they found around
them! Here's the patented Extreme
Survivor method for finding water
in the desert:
Step 1: Get a plastic bag.
Step 2: Find a branch with the biggest,
greenest leaves on it. Make sure it is
also in the sun.
Step 3: Tie the bag tightly onto the
branch.
Step 4: Wait 24 hours and voila! You
will have water to purify.
Jessica Bresnick
Grab your calculator! This
week in Math Challenge, these
Step 1: Color them with some vivid
young students in 2nd, 3rd and 4th
colors.
grade have been doing multiplicaStep 2: Glue green construction paper tion, making math games and learnto the back.
ing brand new concepts every day.
Step 3: Laminate the placemat.
They also spend their time reading
math stories and looking at data.
Last but not least, you should hang They have even built robots out of
the placemat on the wall. These in- blocks. Do you want to improve
telligent learners know how to
your math skills? Then go to Math
make colorful placemats and now
Challenge at Kaleidoscope.
you know how, too. I think making
placemats is a blast, don't you?
Fiesta Fun!
Elizabeth Boucher
¡Hola, amigos! In Spanish,
these young linguists, ages four
through seven, learn fun new songs
in Spanish every day! Today, they
learned the song "Juanito Cuando
Baila." In English, that’s
"When Johnny
Dances." It is
about body
parts like rodillas, manos and la cabeza. After,
these linguists will make a poster
with all the body parts they learned
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from the song. Here are some body Toy Fun
parts they learned:
Nicole Zhou and Olivia Adelabu
Deditos=Fingers
Cadera=Hips
Codo=Elbow
Hombros=Shoulders
Come and check out the
best and coolest handmade toys.
This week in
Toy Making,
these young
Tomorrow, these linguists will
creators made
learn more fun songs and dances!
fish tic-tac-toe,
¡Adiós!
kaleidoscopes
and much more! They'll even be
using their crafts to put on a puppet
Calling All Young Chefs!
show! Do you want to know how to
Katie Nam and Anna Fijnvandraat make the kaleidoscopes? Read the
following directions to find out
In the mouthwatering course how:
Young Chefs, creative kids between
Materials: Plastic gems, a circular
the ages of three and four get to
make amazing food masterpieces. piece of plastic, a piece of cardboard
These talented chefs not only make with 3 slots, a small cup with a hole in
the food, but at the same time get to it and a second cup without a hole
learn fun facts about the food, too! Step 1: Roll the cardboard into a tube
shape.
For example,
Step 2: Put the plastic gems into the
did you know
mini cup without a hole.
that the averStep 3: Tape the circular piece of plasage person eats
tic to the top of this cup.
more than 28
Step 4: Put that cup on the end of the
pounds of bacardboard tube.
Step 5: Put the cup with the hole in it
nanas each
on the other end of tube.
year? We were
Step 6: Look through the hole to see
lucky enough to get a banana recall the amazing designs!
ipe. Here it is:
Ingredients:
-2 slices of whole wheat bread, crusts
removed
-1 banana
-1/2 cup or less of peanut butter or soy
butter
Instructions:
Roll out both pieces of bread. Let them
overlap and press the seam together.
Spread the peanut butter, put the banana down and roll up the bread. Slice
in one inch slices. Fun to share with a
friend!
Flashy, Funky, Glittery
Goods
Therese Pelletier and Maitri Naik
Do you want to be able to
fill a Tiffany Box? Well, these designers have just the right gems for
you. In Jewelry Making, they've
been busy making their very own
jewelry boxes to fill with their stunning pieces. These include jewelry
stands to show off their pins,
friendship bracelets and necklaces.
One of the
necklaces is a
fashionable
paperclip necklace. If you
want to be a
future jewelry designer, this is the
course for you!
How to make a paperclip necklace:
Materials: 16 large size paperclips
Step 1: Put one paperclip through the
loop of another.
Step 2: Repeat this to make a paperclip chain out of all 16 paperclips.
Step 3: Connect the two ends of the
chain.
Step 4: Wrap duct tape or contact paper around each paperclip to make
beads.
The Triple Threats of Kaleidoscope
Jillian Schuck and Brianna JeanLaurent
Boom, boom, boom! As the
director, Jan Peters, bangs on her
faded wooden drum, the young actors and actresses of Adventure
Theater march around to the low,
tempered beat. Two days into the
production, these triple threats were
growing, shrinking and swaying to
the soft tone of the rain stick. These
energetic drama experts even got a
hand in playing the instruments for
themselves. That's a wrap!
Not Your Average Gourmet
Sabrina Osborn and Ipsita Kadam
Have you ever wanted to
make recipes from all over the
world? Well, that's exactly what
happens in International Young
Chefs. These artists and cooks
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make a craft and a meal from each
country that they study. Some of
the countries include China, Israel,
Italy, India and Mexico. For China,
they made elegant paper fans and
cooked noodles. For India, they
made lassi. For Israel they made
hamsa necklaces and hummus.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
-1 16 oz can of chick peas or garbanzo
beans, reserve 14 cup liquid
-3-5 tablespoons lemon juice
-1 1/2 tablespoons tahini
-2 cloves garlic, crushed
-1/2 teaspoon salt
-2 tablespoons olive oil
Instructions:
Drain chick peas and set aside liquid.
Combine remaining ingredients in
blender or food processor. Add 1/4 of
liquid from chickpeas. Blend for 3-5
minutes on low until mixed and
smooth. Place in serving bowl and create a shallow well in the center of the
hummus. Add olive oil to the well.
Refrigerate for 3 hours. Serve with pita
bread or veggies.
Don't be surprised if these cooks
will open their own gourmet restaurants one day!
Science Adventures
Maiah Echavarria
Get ready for scientific adventures! The scientists in Adventures in Science went on plenty of
adventures this past week. They
went on a trip to
observe a beaver
dam in Baker's
Meadow. These
scientists also
explored ponds in
Great Brook
Farm State Park. They also went to
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a beach to explore tide pools. These have been observing
scientists are also going on a walk objects in new ways.
along some nature trails.
These scientists have
also been creating their
own optical illusions.
This is amazing! I
Strike!
never thought the wall
Patrick Fragala
had stars. I might think about taking
this course next year. Here’s how to
Have you ever wondered
what it is like to bowl with remote make your hand look like it has
swirls:
control cars? If so, then come on
down to Remote Control. Today,
the kids learned Newton's 2nd Law Step 1: Cut out a circle and decorate it
like the design above.
of Motion. Also, they each practiced bowling with remote control Step 2: Glue it to a piece of cardboard
that is the same shape and size.
cars. To see which one worked
Step 3: Spin the circle and stare at it
best, they tried big cars, little cars, for 30 seconds while spinning it.
and really small cars. After a lot of Step 5: Look at the back of your hand.
testing,
Step 6: You will see swirls on your
they found
hand.
out that
bigger cars
Have fun watching your eyes play
knocked
tricks on you!
down the
most pins.
They also tried different ramps to
Lights, Camera, Action!
see if that would help. Afterwards, Emma Greaves and Olivia Adelabu
they discussed new techniques to
knock down more pins. Which one
These actors are dancing
worked best? Come find out in Re- and singing their way to stardom by
mote Control!
taking the course Musical Theater.
This year's production is Aesop's
Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare
Spinning Sensations!
and The Lion and the Mouse. Some
Rachel Gealow
of the main characters are played
by Somin, Alexis, Audry and
Wait, I never knew my hand Jennifer. The musical contains five
had swirls! These magicians have
songs and is forty minutes long. It
been doing lots of optical illusions starts at 2:45 on Friday and has a $5
in Optical Illusions and Visual Ef- fee to see the show. This course has
fects. When you stare at a spinning been around for four years. There
circle for 30 seconds and then look are twelve actors and six of them
at the back of your hand, it looks
are returning. The performers are
like your hand has swirls. The same ages eight through twelve, but all
is true when you look at stars on a ages can see it. As they might say
flag and then look at the wall. It
in the theater, "Break a leg!"
will look like there are stars on the
wall. All week, these creative kids
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Work it Circuits!
Grace Hauser and Juliann Alpert
Have you ever wondered
what's inside a rotten log? To find
out the answer, sign up for Science
Sampler. Science
Sampler is a course
where the little scientists in it find out
about electric circuits and magnets.
Also, they make
their own volcanoes that erupt.
They also go on a fun nature walk.
Finally, the scientists discover
what's inside a rotten log. Science
Sampler is really fun!
Abracadabra...Wow!
Katie Nam and Nicole Zhou
Calling all scientists and
wizards! Join this fun-filled course
to make crystal gardens, whirly
toys and lots more. Every day is
filled with exciting experiments,
sculptures, magic gumdrops and
kaleidoscopes. Not to mention that
lots of jokes get told and fun activities go on while they work. For instance, they have bubble and egg
days. Egg-tastic! Last, but not least,
another thing they did was create
flute straws. Here is how you make
it:
Materials: Straw, scissors
Step 1: Take a straw.
Step 2: Flatten the end.
Step 3: Cut two times so the end is
shaped like a triangle.
Step 4: Now blow! And you have a
flute.
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-500 ml de lait
Mélangez la farine, le sucre et le sel.
Anthony Uberti and Diya Desai
Puis, ajoutez les œufs, et ajoutez doucement le lait. Ensuite, ajoutez une
After a magnificent day of cuillerée à soupe d'huile. Puis, mettez
shoe shopping, what can you do
le goût de votre choix, comme du zest
with all the empty boxes? Instead
de citron.
of throwing them away, you could La cuisson:
use these boxes to create an elegant, Huilez la poêle et laissez-la faire
jaw dropping mansion! You could chauffer. Puis, prenez une louche de
pâte à crêpes et versez-la sur la poêle.
even build your very own dream
house! At Kaleidoscope, there is a Attendez jusqu'au les bords deviennent
wonderful course that you can take marron clair. Puis, retournez-la et laissez la cuir de l'autre côté. Huilez la
called House and
poêle toutes les 2 crêpes.
Building Design.
Architects at Work
From making hot
tubs to kitchens,
these intelligent,
creative little architects build and design different items
to add to their fabulous buildings.
Sandra, the instructor, has been collecting shoeboxes for more than
five years. You can tell that these
houses are going to be a dazzling
success, don't you think?
Bonjour!
Anna Fijnvandraat
Ingredients:
-250 g of flour (approx. 2 cups)
-1 tablespoon of sugar
-1/2 teaspoon of salt (at the most)
-3 eggs
-500 ml of milk
Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl.
Then, whisk in the eggs and slowly
add in the milk while whisking. Put in
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and then
add a flavor of your choice, such as
lemon zest.
The cooking:
Oil a pan and let it heat up. Then, take
a ladle of the batter and pour it into the
pan. Let it spread and cook until the
edges turn golden-brown. Then, flip it
over and let the other side cook. Re-oil
the pan every 2 crêpes if needed.
In this exciting French
course, you will be learning a lot
more French words than just hello
and goodbye. These future French Bon appétit! Enjoy a taste of
experts learn about French culture, France!
what type of foods they eat and
much more! On Wednesday, they
got a taste of France when they
made soft, warm, yummy crêpes.
These students in French play fun
games that also keep them learning
the language. Here is a family recipe for les crêpes:
Les ingrédients:
-250 grammes de farine
The shorter the straw is the higher -1 cuillerée à soupe de sucre
the pitch is and the longer the straw -1/2 cuillerée à soupe de sel ou moins
is the lower the pitch is.
-3 œufs
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Report, Write, Action!
Read, Read, Read
Click, Click, Click
Maitri Naik
Rachel Gealow
Elizabeth Boucher
If you like to write, report
and be on a news show, Mass Media Blast is here for you. Each reporter observes
a course, takes
notes and writes
interesting and
informative articles. Later in the
week when the
newspaper goes to print, these writers pen scripts for their WKAL
News broadcast. WKAL News also
features funny commercial breaks
about slush, popcorn and t-shirts.
Try out for anchors and you might
be lucky enough to start the show.
Future reporters, report on!
Enter a world of reading
when you walk into Kids' Book
Club. These young readers have
been reading a lot of stories this
week. They have also been doing
crafts. Each day they have a new
theme. Monday was frogs and
Tuesday was dinosaurs. I wonder
what Wednesday will be. These
little readers have made frog masks,
dinosaur feet, dinosaur land and
played with LEGO® bricks and
Play-Doh. If you want a place
where you can read tons of stories
and do lots of crafts, come to Kids'
Book Club.
Do you like playing computer games? If so, then come down
to Computer Capers! In Computer
Capers, young gamers play the
most fun games around. One cool
game is called Water Works. The
object of the game is to get little
balls into a
bucket. The
levels get a
little more
complicated as
you continue. These gamers also played
games where they fix train tracks.
They also made name signs and
learned internet safety. So grab
your laptops and get ready to play
some games!
Move Over, Michelangelo!
Vincent Fan
Dogs, Cats, Hamsters
Oh My!
Stephanie Henrick
Welcome to the animal
Have you ever made a paper kingdom! These pet experts have
-mache mask before or worn a
'pet-tastic' ideas! Pets and Pet Care
mask made out of gauze? These
is a wonderful opportunity for kids
future sculptors have been making to learn about pets. I interviewed a
fantastic creations in the course
few of these 'pet-tastic' people. Lily
Sculpture. First, they made paper- told me it was, "Fun, fun." Jamie
mache masks that vary in shape
said, "It's the best time ever."
from clowns with sphere shaped
Benjamin replied, "Really fun."
noses to cats with long whiskers
They were making cat toys and
and donkeys with flat noses. Next, wanted to share how to do it. Just
they made Pariscraft masks with a follow these steps:
special kind of gauze. When this
gauze is soaked and then rubbed in Step 1: Put catnip in a sock.
water, it shapes into a mask. Then, Step 2: Tie string around the end of
they made oaxacan wooden sculp- the sock.
tures. Lastly, they made fish out of Step 3: Tie the other end of the string
to a stick.
recycled bottles! There will be a
display of their awesome work on Step 4: Get a little more string and put
bell and feathers on the string.
Friday morning until 11:00am.
Voila! You're done. Have fun!
Caution! Kids at Work!
Brianna Jean-Laurent
Bang! Crash! Boom! These
imaginative builders have gone to
work with their sugary gumdrop
towers and vivid wooden trains.
Their strategic minds were working
hard for their boss, constructor-inchief, Robin Harrold. Her workers
worked on a big project called
"Crane Tag." You better stay behind the caution tape because things
could get messy in Construction
Zone.
How to play Crane Tag:
Step 1: Make two lines 15 feet apart.
Step 2: Pick one person to be the
crane.
Step 3: The other players start behind
one of the lines.
Step 4: The crane yells, "Cross if you
can." Everyone tries to run over with-
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out getting tagged by the crane.
Step 5: If you get tagged by the crane,
you become a crane and try to tag
other people, too.
Step 6: The last person who isn't
tagged wins.
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nations to make their own story
lines. Later in the week, their action
packed videos will air on YouTube.
Enter the doors of their classroom,
grab a LEGO® brick and let the
action begin!
Lift Off!
Emma Keamy
Ready to launch? These astronauts are! In Rocket Launch,
these young astronauts are ready for
the countdown to launch! They're
working on
Flower Frenzy
Future Stars!
building rockTherese Pelletier
Sabrina Osborn and Maiah Echaets that will
varria
actually soar
Grab your gloves and
through
spades and get ready to garden! In
Do you think quickly, have space! They
Garden Party, these young gardengreat acting talent and make hilari- also worked
ers have been making beautiful
ous comments? Well, that's what
on wooden
flower bouquets. They've also been
these actors and actresses need for rockets, extreme dot-to-dots and
painting pretty picture frames. They
Improv Theater. This course plays cool touches to their highflying
picked tasty
fun games that put their skills to the rockets. I talked to some of the
tomatoes,
test. Here are the instructions for
soon-to-be-astronauts. David told
crunchy carThe Letter Game:
me the course was very fun. But I
rots and great
think everyone would agree that it's
green beans. Step 1: Start having a conversation
just plain awesome. Time for lift
Some of their about a specific topic with as many
off! In 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…
favorite gar- people as you want.
BLAST OFF!
den stories to read out loud include Step 2: Take turns saying sentences
Jack's Garden by Henry Cole and
that begin with the alphabet, alphabetiMy Garden by Kevin Henkes. Are cally.
Fun Math
you ready to test your green thumb? Step 3: Try to stay on topic!
Vincent Fan
Here are the steps to make a fun
If you love acting, this is the course
flower craft:
Have you ever imagined
for you. Don't forget to look on the
that
math
could be fun? The mathecovers of the latest movies to see if
Step 1: Pick some flowers.
maticians in Math Fun are learning
Step 2: Decorate a wipes container.
any of these students are in them!
their math facts as fast as a 100 m
Step 3: Fill it with water.
dash champion. Every morning,
Step 4: Put the flowers in.
these kids have a blast playing eduGoing to the Masters!
cational games. These include ringTessa Barcelo and Declan
toss, where they have to add up the
Lights, Camera, LEGO®
Woodring
points; gone fishing, where they
Action!
Declan Woodring and Shane HenWatch out Woods, Couples must scramble for the white fish,
rick
and Curtis! These pros are on their blue fish, red fish and black fish;
and sparkle, where they count in
way to the Masters. During the
Can you imagine using
week, these pros have been work- twos, threes, fives and tens. Then,
the instructors read them books
LEGO® bricks to create a short
ing on swinging, grip and hitting.
stop-motion animation video? In
On Friday, they will go to a driving such as How BIG are They?, Jim
and the Beanstalk, How Tall, How
Stop-Motion Movie Making, these range to mini golf. By the end of
movie directors built characters and the week, these guys will be in the Short, How far Away and more!
They also learn their numbers, size
designed sets out of LEGO®
Masters. Catch you later in The
and length fractions! During the
bricks. They also used their imagi- Scoop at Kaleidoscope.
T he S c o o p a t K a l e i d o s c o p e
session, they also make a number of
projects such as inchworm rulers,
geometric visors and wishing stars.
So come and follow these brainy
kids as they enter the world of numbers.
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with their roaring voices! They end
every week with a lovely show that
features their puppets and new
songs! Enjoy the performance!
that interesting course. This week,
these intelligent inventors are taking ordinary inventions apart and
using the pieces to invent objects
that have never been invented!
These inventors are taking apart
inventions
Intelligent and Unique Kids
like printers,
Ipsita Kadam
VCR's, music
Strum to the Beat
players,
Cate Brooks
Have you ever seen creative
DVD players
kids reading stories and doing crafts
and so much
Do you love guitar, but can't and dances? Well, this actually hapmore!
After
the
inventors
take the
find a good class? Well, you're
pens in Never-Ending Stories. The
item apart, they'll create their own
reading the right article! In the
books they read include The
inventions to make life a little eascourse Guitar and More, you can
Grouchy Ladybug, If You Give a
ier! Who knows what these clever
unleash your inner musician. With Mouse a Cookie, Where the Wild
inventors will create next. I want to
instructor Bill Jacobson, you can be Things Are, Rain and Caps for
in a quiet, peaceful room while
Sale. These storytellers have been find out what they'll be inventing
next, don’t you?
learning new songs like "Ode to
making their stories come to life
Joy," "Row Your Boat," "London
with arts and crafts, such as making
Bridge," and
ladybug puppets and their own
"Skip to my
books! In this Kaleidoscope course, Better Watch Out, King
Lou." But
creativity never ends!
Kong!
why am I tellPatrick Fragala
ing you what
you could do?
Players in Action!
Have you ever wondered
Instead, here's
Stephanie Henrick
what it is like to knock down a
what this
tower of dominoes by climbing up
course is doing now. These musiIf you want to become a fa- it like King Kong? If so, then this
cians have already learned eight
mous basketball player, take Hoop course is for you. In Domino Physsongs in two short days! Plus,
Stars. You can play basketball or
ics, these young physicists use hunthey're planning to learn more!
kickball. I asked Anthony if this is dreds of dominoes to build towers
Even Sally, the aide, learned lots of a super fun course. He said, "Yes."
at least as tall as
the new musical tunes! Skip like
I also asked Brady. He said, "The
themselves. AfLou on down and start strumming! best course ever!" These future
ter they do that,
NBA greats learn drills and how to
they can use
dribble, pass and shoot! Hoop Stars
many methods of
Singing in the Zoo!
is for you!
demolition to
Katie Nam and Olivia Adelabu
knock down their
towers. They can
Attention all singers and
run into their towers, use bowling
Discovering Inventions
artists! Join the amazing zoo to cre- Anthony Uberti
balls, send Barbie cars into them
ate never-ending surprises. In the
and drop rocks on them. Later, they
course Markers and Melodies, these
Do you ever wonder what is are going to build a massive tower
busy young creators make unique
going on these days in the Invention and play Jenga with it!
kinds of masks, all representing zoo Convention course offered at Kaleianimals. Not only do they make
doscope in Andover, Massachuoutstanding animals, but they sing setts? I know what is going on in
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ferent colored backgrounds and so
much more! Digital Photography
Sabrina Osborn
gives you a chance to stop motion
and bring it to life by using the
Do you love animals, drawThe Inside Scoop on Outside fabulous camera that stands on top
ing, painting and coloring? Then
of a tripod. Move over, Ansel Adsign up for Animals and the Box
ams! These creative kids are now
Art! This week, these
Diya Desai
famous photographers!
animal loving artists
have created birds, fish
Are you a creative and
and even underwater
imaginative person? If the answer
Discovering the Past
animals! A love for ani- is, "Of course!" then Outside the
mals and skill in art are Box is the course for you. First of
Jessica Bresnick
definitely nurtured in
all, what's more awesome than
this course. Here are the making clowns from cut paper?
The dinosaurs are still alive
instructions for a beautiful bird por- NOTHING! In this course, you
at Kaleidoscope! This week in Distrait:
make abstract art and make totally covering Dinosaurs, these paleonunique masterpieces. Dance to the tologists have been doing many arts
Step 1: Draw a bird of your choice.
and crafts. For example, the have
Philadelphia Chickens and celeStep 2: Outline the bird in black felt
made T. rex masks, dinosaur hats
brate Blue Day. If you can handle
marker.
and stegosaurus hats. They also
being creative, then this is where
Step 3: Color your bird using colored
read books about different kinds of
you should be headed.
pencil or oil pastel.
prehistoric creatures and dressed up
Step 4: Cut it out and put it aside.
as dinosaurs. Later in the week,
Step 5: Get a sponge brush and choose
light or dark colors to paint the sky on Flashy Photographers of Ka- they will even uncover fossils from
dinosaur pits. If you ever wanted to
a white piece of paper.
leidoscope
travel back in time, go to DiscoverStep 6: Paste your bird onto the paper Jillian Schuck and Brianna Jeaning Dinosaurs at Kaleidoscope.
once it's dry.
Laurent
Animal Artists
Find the animal inside you and
draw!
This course is truly a fabric and
foam fantasy!
Say cheese! As you squish
your finger against prophotographer Nancy Stewart's ebony camera, the start of all of the
Pass the Glue Quickly!
amazing, vivid and fun-filled photo
Emma Greaves and Anna Fijnvan-taking floods your mind! In the
draat
wonderful course Digital Photography, each photojournalist in grades
These young crafters are
three, four and
busy at work in this exciting Kaleifive learns how
doscope course! On Monday, in
to take pictures
Fabric and Foam Fantasies, these
of the lightest
crafters made tropical Hawaiian
rainfall, freshest
hula skirts, Hawaiian floral leis and
fruit and the
craft boxes to keep their craft supmost spectacuplies in. On Tuesday, these crafters
lar portraits, fit
made beautiful, tiny dolls out of
for a gallery. Aside from snapping
foam. On Wednesday, these creaphotos, the skilled photographers
tive crafters made mermaid
discuss how their camera functions,
fishbowls out of foam and paper.
hang photographs mounted on dif-
Lab Rats!
Nicole Zhou and Shane Henrick
Calling all scientists to the
kitchen! In Kitchen Chemistry,
these young scientists experimented
with raisins, lemon-lime soda, elbow macaroni, lentils and cups.
They also experimented with peppers, water, dish soap, large bowls
and did lots more experiments. Not
to mention, they also did an experiment with lemon juice, baking
soda, and cups. Eventually, after
they poured the baking soda into
the lemon juice, it exploded!
T he S c o o p a t K a l e i d o s c o p e
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Ipsita Kadam
Tessa Barcelo and Olivia Adelabu
Have you ever wondered
what would happen if you dropped
an egg on a wooden board? These
young scientists in Fun
Physics are
testing this
out. This past
week, these
physicists
have been
constructing
and performing experiments and
learning Newton's Laws of Motion.
They've also been making bridges
with 100 popsicle sticks and designing wooden cars made out of
string, tape and paint. What were
the results? Find out in Fun Physics!
Who goes mad for t-shirts?
We do! The artists in T-Shirt Madness have been decorating t-shirts
in many different ways, such as tiedying and painting with stencils.
We interviewed a few of these fantastic artists to see what their favorite activity was. Amazingly, Maiah,
Hayley, Sadie and Julie all said tiedying! Wow! They also made bags
using stencils and fabric paints.
One day, these designers' t-shirts
will be on runways around the
world!
A Little Bug's Life
Juliann Alpert
Have you ever wondered
about the world of bugs? If so,
come to Butterflies, Bugs and Beyond at Kaleidoscope. This week,
Imagine That!
these little scientists have been
Jillian Schuck
learning about bugs through lots of
creative activities. From painting
Crayons? Blocks? In Desticolorful
nation Imagination Warm-Up, any
wind chimes
material resting on the rug in front
and making
of these twelve crafty creators will
beaded
go from a vision to an imaginative
bracelets to
creation! In this course, each
playing with
'imagineer' has kept his or her mind
plastic bugs,
full and focused on crafting excit- these explorers have been learning
ing games in a matter of only an
about different insects. Enter this
unbelievable five minutes and de- classroom and explore nature
signing animal masks with bags full through arts and crafts.
of various objects―all with supportive teammates, of course! With all
of the fun-filled challenges completed by these imaginative builders, they'll be well-prepared for future Destination Imagination contests. They might even get a whopping 1st place! If these youthful
crafters think it, they'll make it!
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Diya Desai
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the use of
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Anna Fijnvandraat
Patrick Fragala
Rachel Gealow
Emma Greaves
Grace Hauser
Shane Henrick
Stephanie Henrick
Brianna Jean-Laurent
Ipsita Kadam
Emma Keamy
Maitri Naik
Katie Nam
Sabrina Osborn
Therese Pelletier
Jillian Schuck
Anthony Uberti
Declan Woodring
Nicole Zhou
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