The cheese in your sandwich is orange. The tomato is bright red. The lettuce is green. The light brown bread has a dark brown crust. You would be surprised if your sandwich had red cheese, a brown...
Shell sculpture
Materials - cotton - foil pan or jar lid - glue (white) - sea shells - tiny white buttons (optional) - toothpick - varnish (optional) Sea shells grow in many different sizes, shapes, and...
CLIFFS OF CHALK
Anyone could see that Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong's clipper ship couldn't squeeze through the narrow passage of water. "We'll get stuck, ' shouted the crew. But old Captain Stormy, as he was...
HOW THE LONGEST RIVERS GOT THEIR NAMES
The longest river in the world has more than one part and more than one name---the Nile, the Bine Nile, and the White Nile. One part of the river, called the Blue Nile, starts at Lake Tana in...
NAMING THE WHITE HOUSE
George Washington chose the place where the house of the President of the United States was built in Washington, D.C. From time to time, this famous house has been repaired and rebuilt. Even though...
Nigeria celebrates
> With a rat-a-tat-tat of drums and a blare of bugles, rows of soldiers > march smartly down the street. Overhead, there is a roar as a > formation of warplanes rushes through the sky. Later, there...
The Stars and Stripes
Flag Day June 14 Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! from The Flag Goes By by Henry...
Color and decorate your own Easter eggs
To make colored eggs, start with white hard- cooked eggs. Ask a grown-up to cook them for you. Then cover your work space with a pad of newspaper. To make the dye solution, add a teaspoonful of...
Twilight
And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea from Twilight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The cushion plant
> cushion plant In New Zealand, there grows a plant that looks like a cushion made of white sheep's wool. It's called a cushion plant. And sometimes it's called a vegetable sheep. A cushion plant...
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