Sports and Seasons
This sport is considered a winter sport, and it involves ice, big sticks, and sometimes huge fights!
(ice) Hockey
These large animals are 30 times more likely to get struck by lightning than people, according to BBC Science Focus!
Giraffes
The inventor of Pringles, Fredric Baur, asked to be put into this after he died. His family granted his last wish, and his ashes were saved in it!
A Pringles can!!!
I have keys but cannot unlock a single door. What am I???
It's hard being a kid! Between a mischievous older brother, school awkwardness, and a best friend that is kind of oblivious, Greg Heffley sure knows how tough it is to survive childhood and the teen years in this book series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
In the Spring, these kinds of teams travel to warm places in the country to do Spring Training for the upcoming season, which ends with the World Series in October
Baseball teams
_____ water will freeze quicker than cold water, believe it or not, in certain conditions, and this is called the Mpemba effect!
Hot!
Since 2004, an orchestra in Boston has been creating musical arrangements using these old school writing machines! Songs of their songs include "At the Staff Meeting" and the "QWERTY Waltz"
Typewriters
What is always in front of you, but can't be seen?
The future
This inspiring book about a boy named August Pullman reminds us all not to focus on what makes us all so different and to focus instead on kindness and empathy after he starts 5th grade at Beecher Prep and kids can't get over the way his face has looked since he was born
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The season of this sport starts in the fall and ends in early February, and includes positions like tight end, wide receiver, and kicker
Football (American football, not to be confused with soccer!)
On gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, _______ fall like rain! Too bad we can't go collect all of them and sell them!!!
Diamonds
If they consume nectar that has fermented (gone bad) from trees or flowers, these creatures can actually get drunk (like your uncle at the Super Bowl party lol)!!!
Bees!
What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
A map!
This classic book about a tree that just keeps giving everything she has to her friend until she is nothing but an old stump reminds us to appreciate what we have, take the time to enjoy the simple things in life like nature, and enjoy life while we can is known to be a real tear-jerker
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
This wet sport is one of the biggest events of the Summer Olympics every 4 years, and athletes like Katie Ledecky and Michael Phelps have helped the USA to win 266 gold medals since records were kept!
Swimming
A ______ can weigh up to 1.1 million pounds, even though we think of these as being light and fluffy!
Cloud
A ______ will actually float on water, while a lime will sink!
Lemon
What has many ears but cannot hear at all?
A corn field
This wildly popular book has recently been turned into an equally-successful film, and focuses on a mechanical being getting stranded in a remote area with wildlife, where she helps a young orphaned animal learn to use his natural abilities
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
This sport involves having several canines pull a human on a sled in a race across large areas, but can only be performed when it is snowy
Dog Sledding
Astronauts will grow ______ in space, because the lack of gravity allows their spinal disks to expand
Taller
French author Georges Perec wrote the novel La Disparition entirely without using this letter of the alphabet; hint: little kids like to play a prank every April Fool's Day using a brown version of this letter
E
This famous riddle from the classic book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is recited by Bilbo Baggins: "What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?"
A mountain
This book is about an insect who just can't seem to get enough to eat!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle