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Color me!
Rock Paperweight
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
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What You Need:
• Smooth rock
• Paint
• Paint brush
Instructions:
1. Find a good rock that is heavy enough to hold down a
sheet of paper on a breezy day, but not too heavy to carry
around. The rock should also be smooth so it won’t damage
your paper.
2. Paint the rock. You can paint it as a creature, or paint
designs on it.
3. Once the paint is dry, your paperweight is ready to use.
Take your crafts or homework outside, and use the paperweight to keep any loose papers from blowing away!
Tip:
You can glue felt to the bottom of the paperweight to keep
it from scratching your desk.
The Lighthouse of
Alexandria
T
he Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes
called the Pharos of Alexandria a lighthouse
built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom between
280 and 247 BC which was between 393 and 450 ft
(120 and 137 m) tall. One of the Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World , it was one of the tallest manmade structures in the world for many centuries.
Badly damaged by three earthquakes between AD
956 and 1323, it then became an abandoned ruin. It
was the third longest surviving ancient wonder (after
the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the extant
Great Pyramid of Giza) until 1480, when the last of its
remnant stones were used to build the Citadel of
Qaitbay on the site. In 1994, French archaeologists
discovered some remains of the lighthouse on the
floor of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour. The Ministry of
State of Antiquities in Egypt has planned, as of late
2015, to turn submerged ruins of ancient Alexandria,
including those of the Pharos, into an underwater
museum.
ORGIN
Pharos was a small island located on the western
edge of the Nile Delta. In 332 BC Alexander the Great
founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite to Pharos. Alexandria and Pharos were later connected by a mole spanning more than three-quarters
of a mile, which was called the Heptastadion ("seven
stadia"—a stadium was a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m). The east side of the
mole became the Great Harbour, now an open bay;
on the west side lay the port of Eunostos, with its
inner basin Kibotos, now vastly enlarged to form the
modern harbour. Today's city development lying
between the present Grand Square and the modern
Ras al-Tiin quarter is built on the silt which gradually
widened and obliterated this mole, and Ras al-Tiin
represents all that is left of the island of Pharos, the
site of the lighthouse at its eastern point having been
weathered away by the sea.
DESTRUCTION
The lighthouse was badly damaged in the earthquake of 956, and then again in 1303 and 1323.
Finally the stubby remnant disappeared in 1480,
when the then-Sultan of Egypt, Qaitbay, built a
medieval fort on the larger platform of the lighthouse site using some of the fallen stone.
Jokes!
Q: Why did Venus have to get an air conditioner?
A: Because Mercury moved in.
Q: What do you call a loony spaceman?
A: An astronaut.
Q: What did the alien say to the cat?
A: Take me to your litter.
Q: What did the alien say when he was out of room?
A: I’m all spaced out!
Q: Why did Mickey Mouse go to outer space?
A: He was looking for Pluto.
Q: What do aliens on the metric system say?
A: Take me to your liter.
SUDOKU
1) The language of a society changes
slowly but steadily with the result
that an educated person will not be
able to read or understand words in
his language written 500 years ago.
2) Do you feel like you can’t talk to your
parents? Maybe it’s because you
belong to the Niger-Congo family.
More than 1,400 languages are spoken by different members of this
family from Africa.
3) It has been estimated that the number of actively spoken languages in
the world today is about 6,000.
4) There is no word that rhymes with
orange.
5) Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
6) The most common letters in English
are R S T L N E.
7) There is no word that rhymes with
purple.
8) There was only one code during
World War II that was never broken
by the enemy and was used by the
US Army. Navajo soldiers, called
Codetalkers, developed a radio code
based on their native language. It
was the only way US soldiers on the
battlefield could be sure that messages were from there own side and
not from Japanese imitators.
KIDS RECIPES
DID YOU KNOW?
Oat Bites!
Ingredients
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 1/2 cup sultanas
• 1/3 cup cranberries
• 1 tsp marmalade or orange peel (optional)
• 1/2 cup apple sauce
Steps
• Throw it all into a bowl and mix well.
• Roll into small balls
• Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown (180C or
356F)
About Jupiter
J
upiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest
in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass
one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half
times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is a gas giant, along with Saturn. (Uranus
and Neptune are ice giants.) Jupiter was known to
astronomers of ancient times. The Romans named it after
their god Jupiter. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can
reach an apparent magnitude of -2.94, bright enough for
its reflected light to cast shadows, and making it on average the third-brightest object in the night sky after the
Moon and Venus.
Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium, though helium comprises
only about a tenth of the number of molecules. It may also
have a rocky core of heavier elements, but like the other
giant planets, Jupiter lacks a well-defined solid surface.
Because of its rapid rotation, the planet’s shape is that of
an oblate spheroid (it has a slight but noticeable bulge
around the equator).
The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several
bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and
storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent
result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to
have existed since at least the 17th century when it was
first seen by telescope. Surrounding Jupiter is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. Jupiter
has at least 67 moons, including the four large Galilean
moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede,
the largest of these, has a diameter greater than that of the
planet Mercury.
Jupiter has been explored on several occasions by
robotic spacecraft, most notably during the early Pioneer
and Voyager flyby missions and later by the Galileo orbiter.
Jupiter was most recently visited by a probe in late
February 2007, when New Horizons used Jupiter’s gravity
to increase its speed and bend its trajectory en route to
Pluto. The next probe to visit the planet will be Juno, which
is expected to arrive in July 2016. Future targets for exploration in the Jupiter system include the probable ice-covered liquid ocean of its moon Europa.
How many moons does Jupiter have?
Jupiter has 67 natural satellites. Of these, 51 are less
than 10 kilometers in diameter and have only been discovered since 1975. The four largest moons, visible from Earth
with binoculars on a clear night, known as the “Galilean
moons”, are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Inner moons. These orbit the closest to Jupiter and
are sometimes called the Amalthea group. The names of
the inner moons of Jupiter are Metis, Adrastea,
Amalthea, and Thebe.
Galilean moons. These are largest of Jupiter’s moons
and were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 - Io, Europa,
Ganymede and Callisto.
Outer moons. These moons are much smaller and fur-
ther away from Jupiter. They also have irregular, elliptical
orbit paths and many are captured asteroids.
Facts on Jupiter
Named after the Roman king of the gods, Jupiter is fitting of its name. With a mass of 1.90 x 1027kg and a mean
diameter of 139,822 km, Jupiter is easily the largest and
most massive planet in the Solar System. To put this in perspective, it would take 11Earths lined up next to each other to stretch from one side of Jupiter to the other and it
would take 317 Earths to equal the mass of Jupiter.
The first recorded sighting of Jupiter were by the
ancient Babylonians in around 7th or 8th BC. It is named
for Jupiter, the king of the Roman gods and god of the Sky.
The Greek equivalent is Zeus, god of thunder. For the
Mesopotamians, he was the god Marduk and patron of the
city of Babylon. Germanic tribes saw the planet as Donar,
also known as Thor.
When Galileo discovered the four moons of Jupiter in
1610 this was the first proof of celestial bodies orbiting something other than Earth. The discovery also provided further
evidence of Copernicus’ Sun-centered solar system model.
Jupiter has the shortest day of the eight planets. The
planet rotates very Jupiter rotates very quickly, turning on
its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes. This rapid rotation is also what causes the flattening effect of the planet,
which is why it has an oblate shape.
One orbit of the Sun takes Jupiter 11.86 Earth years.
This means that when viewed from Earth, the planet
appears to move very slowly in the sky. It takes months for
Jupiter to move from one constellation to the next.
Jupiter has a faint ring system around it. Its ring is mostly comprised of dust particles from some of Jupiter’s
moons during impacts from comets and asteroids. The ring
system begins about 92,000 km above Jupiter’s clouds and
reaches more than 225,000 km from the planet. The rings
are somewhere between 2,000-12,500 km thick.
Jupiter has at least 67 moons in satellite around the planet. This includes the four large moons called the Galilean
moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.
The largest of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede is the largest
moon in the solar system. The moons are sometimes called
the Jovian satellites and the largest of them are Ganymede,
Callisto,Io and Europa. Ganymede is larger than the planet
Mercury with a diameter of around 5,268 km.